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Show UTAH AND UTAHNS . r of Furekn ity huve vol-from vol-from Tintie for the 1 ll-''1 ' ,e. ? tnuounred that at least 400 .. of war are expected to be Su. convention of the Ulah .state Federation of Labor was held in Salt like City. May 14 to 1G, 400 delegates dele-gates being present. There were forty-nine b rtl.s m SaU Lake during the week ending May 11, as against fifty-five during the corresponding cor-responding week last year. Intimation has been received at the office of the governor of Ltah that the state militia n.ny be called mto federal service at an., moment. Increase of more than a half million dollars iu assessed valuation is reported re-ported bv Duchesne county, as compared com-pared with the valuation of last year. That Utah ranks first of all the states in the Union in the cultivation this year of previously uncultivated ground, is the claim of Governor Bamberger. Bam-berger. William Blood, 7S years old, the oldest old-est resident of Kaysville, whose parents par-ents were among the earliest pioneers into the slate, died May 13 after a prolonged pro-longed illness. Banks situated in those sections of the state in which sheepmen are most numerous, have plenty of ready money according to William E. Evans, state bank examiner. Utah established an enviable record by becoming the first state to completely com-pletely furnish its quota of men for the regular army under the present call for service. The people of Silver City held a rousing patriotic celebration at that place on May 11, and raised a flag, 12 by 16 feet, at the top of the Utah Ore &' Sampling mill. The quarterly report of the state board of health shows thnt during the three months ended April 1, there were reported 10,873 cases of measles, with sixty-four deaths in the state. The reported increase of 10,000 acres to Utah's 1917 sugar beet acreage infers in-fers an addition of about 150,000 added tons of beets, which at $8 a ton would bring the prosperous Utah farmers $1,-200,000 $1,-200,000 gross. An opinion handed down by Dan B. Shields, attorney general, at the request re-quest of the state board of equalization, equaliza-tion, states that the board has the power to levy taxes on the cash reserves re-serves of mining companies. . As the result of a dispute over a card game at Tooele, George Pnracino hurried to his rooming house and secured se-cured a gun, with which he shot Joe Marino as he and a party of friends were crossing the raih-oad track. The jury in the case of the state against George Panos, charged with murder in the first degree, in connection connec-tion with the death of James Sklevenis at Bingham. January 27, returned a verdict of second degree murder. By adoption of a resolution at their meeting held at Salt Lake last week, the stockholders of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company provided for an increase in-crease in the capitalization of the company com-pany from $10,000,000 to $30,000,000. The South Cottonwood ward meetinghouse, meet-inghouse, which was built in the early fifties by the pioneers of Murray anil one of the oldest ward meetinghouses in the county, has been remodeled and turned into one of the best ward houses in the state. From a four-years' test of the ten best varieties of beans, conducted bv the experiment station of the Utah Agricultural college, an average yield of thirty-two bushels to the acre was I"-8' prices this would mean !j-JS8 per acre. Mrs. Caroline Banks, who had the distinction of being next to the oldest inhabitant of Spanish Fork, died last week of old age and general debilitv. She was born in England and was in VZ- . to Governor Bamberger has announced ssup o? m1'1'0 Mn ?'-WH) bond tue to bmld cement roads while (he war situation lasts, but that o merest of conservation the sla e wi , ww-rr Utah coal mine operators will be re-It re-It is reported that the Sheen Shear "uvular- - s 'W.rds Sa t ,1- ' "U'"1" V'1"11' a little Zy nt Xu ,fr ,U'rwwl"H""K tacked Ml, e F, K,i""' Hl,1,,1"s U, I, ',lr" McConnell, aged "HMn torward a llm,. t ,. al;,iUi"t ".. eiun1,!:,1;;1'1-1- they l ave ,, e r'UVe rm,,U" "'" l th Sh. ,K'r ''"'H hernial Nvl " ' Mh ''1 7!) f''-f'e preccl I, , ' "," "v"'- cent, S U u v,' was D2 per |