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Show ratals ' A bounteous crop of fruit Is pre dieted for Utah this season If prope.-precautions prope.-precautions with regard to spraying tn keep down pests are observed. C. L. Smith, the first a?.to driver arrested ar-rested in Salt Lake for speeding within the last four weeks, was sentenced to serve ten days in the city jail with no alternative of a fine. . Every Salt Lake boy registered In the boys' working reserve and junior boys' working reserve must be examined exam-ined by a doctor before being sent ou' In camps for summer's work. The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company shortly will file In the office of the state public utilities commission an application for the increase in-crease of its toll rates on certain lines. The counties in Utah in 1917 paid Into thestate treasury a total' of $2,-804,355.84 $2,-804,355.84 in taxes, as shown in a table issued by State Auditor Joseph Illrie In preparation for his biennial report. At a meeting of the directors and stockholders of the Knight Sugar company, com-pany, held in Salt Lake, a dividend of 3 per cent on the stock, or a total of $30,000, was declared for the last quarter. 1 A net Increase of fifty-five In the population, of Salt Lake is shown by the weekly report of the city board of health, Just Issued, which shows only thirty deaths as against eighty-five births for the week. Defects in muster rolls of several companies of Utah Indian war veterans vet-erans are likely to result In rejection of their claims for federal pensions, according to a letter from G. M. Saltz; gnber, commissioner at Washington. An unidentified man was walking along one of the tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad at Soldier Summit Sum-mit and stepped onto another track, on j which a single engine was coining, be- Ing struck by the engine and killed, To repair the break In the Salt Luke & Utah canal near Bluff dale, Suit Lake county, the Utah Cojper company engineering en-gineering department has constructed, ! In the record time of four days, a 1(M-foot 1(M-foot stretch of the largest flume In the stiite. Unless the contracting companies can be held under their contract and bond for repair of the aerial tramway t the county silica beds near the mouth of Neff's canyon, It will probably prob-ably be abandoned and sold for what can be realized. Cadet students at the Utah agrlcul-trual agrlcul-trual college who qualify for entrance Into the fourth series of officers' training train-ing camps, will be trained In a special school to be conducted at the Presidio, at San Francisco, according to Information Infor-mation Just received. Arthur Clapler of -Ogden won the ten-mile handicap bicycle road ruoe over the course to the Utah Hot Springs from Ogden on Sunday. He not only crossed the tape first and won the first place, but he also took the second time prize. Protesting the "unmitigated" high cost of living, the Metal Trades union of Suit Lake sent a petition to the Salt Lake Federation of Labor for the convocation of a muss meeting to consider con-sider ways and means of allevuting living conditions In the capital city. Carl Larson accused of having violated vio-lated the espionage aet by giving utterance utter-ance to sentiments disloyal mid unpatriotic un-patriotic with a view to defeating the purposes of the selective draft law, was lield for the aetlon of the federal grand Jury, following a hearing at Salt Lake. The report of the third Liberty loan committee shows that 77.001 Utuhns subscribed for the bonds and that there Is n bond In every family in the slate. Emery county won the distinction of being the first to exceed Its allotment and P.enver was the first city to oversubscribe. over-subscribe. A general Increase In rates Is asked by the Blue Mountain Irrigation company, com-pany, which has Hied petition with the suite public utilities commission. commis-sion. The concern supplies the town of Montleello, Sad Juan connty. with Irrigation and domestic water and with electric liirht. Plans for the new quarter system have been decided ummi by the authorities author-ities of the University of Utah. School the year ronnd Is the Idea. The new calendar will go Into effect at the opening of the 1918, sunmjer session, which begins this year on June 10 and end'. August 30. ' . The largest American flag In the world, which was lost en route to Salt Lake tn be used in Hie big1 patriotic demonstration to be held on May 18 under the auspices of the local lodge, Ioyal Order of Moose, has been located lo-cated at New Orleans, having been sliipped 'there by mistake. I-ogsn and Provo citizens have selected se-lected committees to arrange details for the war conferences to be held there Saturday, May 18. Citizens of communities contiguous to Cliche and Utilh counties are planning to attend these war conferences. Cliiliux of seventy-two Utah Indian war veterans and seventy-three widows of the pioneer defenders of the com-iiiiiiiwcsillh com-iiiiiiiwcsillh were approved last week by the stale board of examiners. These veterans and widows are declared entitled enti-tled to compensation under the fJ.,tsN"i upproprhition made by the Inst Utah iek'isliilure for their relief. Letting ii contract fur 15.700 feet of (!ti'ivt ro-id work in Weber county in i lie I'tiili Portland Cement cumuuy !i!dicni" th:t the "state road coinmis-simi coinmis-simi Is ii'it yet ready to abandon cement ce-ment coticretH in fuvor of blUiulltlilij |
