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Show WEEKLY REVIEW IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS. In the State, Nation And the World. Outlined for the Convenience of Busy Readers of the News. Salt Lake Police have runnins pistol fight with gamblers whose joint they raided; four men arrested. One officer shot twice but not seriously injured. State Capital is formally dedicated and opened on Monday. O. C. Thurber of Salt Lake, offers bet of $25,000 on election of Hughes. Miss Arlie Coldwater, aged 16 years, attacked by robbers in her father's granary, strung up to ceiling by wrists for four hours. State Progressives fail of having candidates names placed on ticket because of lack of sufficient numbers. Charles G. Eberhardt files suit against Western Union Telegraph Co. for $25,000 damages because of alleged failure of company to deliver telegram announcing his mother's death. State Agricultural College issues bulletin, showing Utahns lose $20,000 annually by bad eggs. State in General A rabid coyote bites several calves at American Fork. Utah Light & Power Co. has just completed an eighty-five miles electric power line from Provo into the Carbon county mining camps. The line has a capacity of 40.000 volts. The Salt Lake Route has just completed a new freight warehouse ware-house at Lund, to accommodate the large and increasing freight traffic at that point. Legislative committee drafting a workman's compensation law to present pre-sent to next legislature. Recent advance of 40 cents a ton on sugar beets will amount to $400,-000 $400,-000 for the farmers of Utah. Provo Onion patch owned by A. D. Johnson here raises $2,923 an acre. Tooele Contract let for $1,600 Catholic parsonage. Wasatch Wave opposes county bond issue for roads. Ephriam voted $15,000 bonds for water system. Salt Lake, Oct. 9. Taxable property prop-erty in Utah is valued at $530,000,- 000 according to state hoard o equalization. This property is subject sub-ject to the tax of 4.4 mills and provides pro-vides for various uses by the state the sum of $2,332,000. Of this amount the state is entitled to $1,-600,000 $1,-600,000 aside from the tax specifically specif-ically imposed for the support of public schools. The high school tax aggregates $ 1 60,000 and the general gen-eral school fund $1,16 0.0(10. Foreign. Kronstadt Transylvania stronghold, strong-hold, now in hands of Germans. French cruiser, Gallia, sunk by German Ger-man submarine. She curried 2.000 soldiers, of whom 1.362 were saved. Kalians are pressing on Triest, Austria's Aus-tria's chief Adriatic port. Six thousand thou-sand prisoners taken by French In opening attack. St. Thomas. Danish West Indies, swept by terrilic tornado, causing immense damage to .shipping and property; no casualties reported. I )oinest ic. German U-boat sinks four British, one Dutch and one Xorwegia n steamers, steam-ers, off the Atlantic coast, near Nantucket. Nan-tucket. Xo loss of life reported. Submarine is same boat that called call-ed at Xcwport few days aio. American Ameri-can chip held up hut released. The Ward line steamer, Antlllft, was brought into Hampton KoatU;, 1 V;i Sunday, cm tire and almost de-! de-! sertcd. Passengers am! ( r.--v.- took j ( Com inu'-d on Pa L'e 8 ) WEEKLY REVIEW. (Continued from Page 1) to the boats and were rescued. A Fresno, California, woman examines ex-amines rag doll, given her by' her mother, twenty years ago, and finds $180 concealed in the toy.' International Irrigation Congress opens today, in El Paso, Texas. Washington dispatches indicate that Ambassador Gerard, who is one his home from Germany, may be bearing proposals for intervention by this country, as between Germany and the Allies. |
