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Show UTAH STATE NEWS There 1h sufficient alfalfa hay in Utah to supply the state needs until new grass, even If the winter curries fur beyond its wonted limits. Milton D. Price, well-known sheep and cattle niun, died at Eureka of pneumonia. He was 54 yeurs old. Mr. Price was born ln Goshen, Utah. Tremendous Increase Is shown ln farm flocks of sheep In Utah as the esult of the high wool prices, and a lesxer increase in sheep on ranges Is shown. . Officials of the Utah food administration, adminis-tration, made preparations last week for au active "cash und carry" campaign cam-paign and the revival of the old market mar-ket banket. . A plan for bonding Utah county for practically $1,000,000 to build permanent perma-nent concrete highways Is being dis-cusHed dis-cusHed by business men and furmers of Utah county. The state text book commission has approved and adopted text books under' un-der' seVenty-four , book titles. This adoption covers a period of five years, beginning July 1, 1918. During January the mines clustered about the terminus of the Utah Uall-wuy Uall-wuy company line produced and loaded lli),000 tons of coal, which was shipped to various parts of the lntermountaia region.' Frank De Pretto, convicted with Harry Brewer November 14, 1914, of the murder of Eugene Allen in Bingham, Bing-ham, has asked the state board of pur-dons pur-dons to consider a claim for termination termina-tion of sentence. Not a single death occurred in 1917 In the church membership of the Vernal Ver-nal Second wurd, which numbers 570, it bus Just been reveuled. The Vernal First ward, with a membership of 31"i, hud but one death. A partial exodus of women of the underworld is under way in Suit Lake since the announcement hus been given out thut the federal and udlitury authorities au-thorities plan to cleun up the city, police po-lice officials declare. More rediscountlng of paper by banks in Utuh Is certain to result from the call that 18 being mude to aid the government in Its prosecution of the war, ln the opinion of W. E. Evans, state bank commissioner. Claiming that salurles received are Inadequate, thirty-one school teachers employed In Utah have asked honorable honor-able discharges and release from fulfilling ful-filling the obligations contained ln their contract agreements. All classes of live stock In Utah are shown to have Increased in number in the nust year, according to an estimate compiled by the crop reporting board, bureau of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture. ' Aspeclal request for men of the 1918 graduating class of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college to aid the government this spring hus been made ; by the ITnlted States aeoloL'ical survey, ac- cording to information Just received at Logan. g Mrs. Ell Lee and her baby were , thrown from a buggy and narrowly I escaped death, near Vernal. The buby was uninjured, but Mrs. Lee dragged t twenty feet and Incurred a deep gush I In her face, where one of the wheels Fi passed oyer It. I' Earl , Herman, manager of a pool- room, at Ogden, was fined $100 by Judge Homer of the Juvenile court for I permitting minors to frequent . the U place.' Herman was convicted of . allowing al-lowing four boys under 18 years of age to remain In the poolhnll. Ephralm White. "Bo'xelde'r county horticultural inspector, speaks encouragingly encour-agingly of the prospects for good fruit crops this coming - season, butwarhs orchurdlsu to beware of tree pests and urges them to spray now for the cod-, ling moth, leaf roller and Sari Jose scale. . , -.,.... disbursements of state funds in January Jan-uary were $l,6H0,67t55, a record for a month's expenditures In Utah. .For the corresponding month a .year ago the expenditures amounted to $1,373,-8!5.33. $1,373,-8!5.33. Last December the disbursements disburse-ments were $1,400,834:24, a record to that time. ' . :, -. . ' As the, result of a campaign on the nse of cottage cheese as a substitute for meat on home tables which the government gov-ernment intends to Inaugurate in the immediate future, Salt Lake City la likely to become the cottage cheese manufacturing center of a large Inter-mountain Inter-mountain territory. The Utah soldiers at Camp Kearny, Cal., were nmde happy lust week when several cases arrived containing hundreds hun-dreds of glusaes of home-made preserves pre-serves and Jam. which were donated by women of Mllford. Utuh, and surrounding sur-rounding towns. The sweets were distributed dis-tributed among the organizations. Ileorgunl.Htlou of the stute fair board through amendments of the bylaws by-laws taking from the president all power to act except by the exprewn.il wish of u committee designated by 'other members of the board, has been 'initiated by board members with a ! I view of definitely Kettlintf eontrover-jsies eontrover-jsies that have prevailed in the direc-j direc-j toi-ate. J At a meeting last week of the board , of directors of the Utah -Idaho Suyiir i Company full' ratltU atlon was niven ; the agreement reached at the I .opto round-up between the Utah farm, bureau bu-reau and the sugar companies for a ' il:tt rate of f.) a ton for sugar In I'.HH. j Destitute and diHeouraed, Mm. Va-j Va-j rius K. I'ai-ry. of Salt Lake, curried ! btif olilest i htlil to the home of u lielgl)-ti lielgl)-ti .r ami. reiuniliig to her rooms, ilnitik j i i lnr;:i- iiiiimit.v of chloroform In iui j -.iv! pi end tier life. Her condition j ili-. i.wreil in time to present her ' i I |