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Show UTAH ANDJJTAHN5 The 1 1 i ;i 1 tax revenues of Salt Lake County for litis .should In; .",0!!.075.15, according to figures given out by the auditor. 'l'l.c luivn of Bingham has f uriiisht-l f').;7 recruii.s during the war, and xub-srrilicd xub-srrilicd over a mi 11 ion dollars to the d fl'went war finals. Leslie Thompson of Lrigham City, who was ol'lic-ially reported as missing in arid, in l-'raiirc on July IS, Is alive and being cared for in a bae ho.spltal. Ogdon is to have a new eduoa;ionnl Insiil ulion. lis initial cost will be not less than ::;io,0'H) and it probably will confer the decree ,,f bachelor of arts. A total of o.'lO youths who have heroine he-roine 21 years old since June 5 last roistered In the state of .'tali, 588 of whom were native borne and -12 aliens. After Ihe war America v. ill stand n the iicceiiled leader of all nations, h-.-hii'. d Henry A. I Uh Ii t i-l, former governor of Colorado, in an address delivered at .Salt hake. Intimation thai iiie state council of d"..i-) would Immediately consider the advNnbilily of an appeal for groat-, er use of L'tah products was made by ifll "inls of the state council last week. At the request of the medical section Tf the national defense council the volunteer vol-unteer incdleul service corps of Utah has been organized. All doctors In the stale, regardless of age or sex, are members. I''a rniers engaged in growing poaches In H'eber county have made an urgent appeal lo the business men of Ogden and Ihe public generally to aid them In .securing Ihe necessary help to save lh poach crop. Waller l. lieod, vice president of the old Salt hake railways, the lirst Ira. lion company of Utah, and for years u prominent Jiusiness man of l"!a!i, died August ) at Salt Lnk", at (he age of 71) years. .Mrs. have Murray of Eureka hns received re-ceived a telegram announcing I hat her br...hor, T. A. Sessions, also of Eureka, was severely woiindeil in nclion in the leceni allied drive. .Mr. Sessions was previously wounded in action iu July. I'rospiM-ily In Iiiolio. county is shown In (lie assessment of property figures, Just completed, irivintr the total as-S as-S 'sseil valuation of the county at $28,-1711.02!). $28,-1711.02!). This is mono lliau .'?,000.(HK) in excess of assessed valuations last J ear. Workmen are now busily engaged consiructing the fifty-foot tower which will be used (luring the firemen's convention con-vention in Urighum City September 9 n ml 10. The rower will be needed when a demonstration iu fire fighting Is staged i iinrsday, Seilomber 12, as n statewide, state-wide, holiday, will be proclaimed by hovernor Bamberger, as the first official of-ficial step of Ulnh draft officials to exploit continually (ho big registration day in every urban nml rural section of the state. Henry 0. Doon, firi years of age. veteran vet-eran engineer in the employ of the Southern Pacific company, died at an Ogden hospital August 31 s the result re-sult of tin; injuries, hp received August !', last, when he was scalded by escaping escap-ing steam in an engine. The officers' and crew of the Agamemnon, Aga-memnon, on which Delos he my Feay was killed on Ihe 21th by being accidentally acci-dentally scalded, have written a letter of sympathy to Mr. Peay's mother, at Provo d sent her a check for 304, representing contributions made by the officers and men. t Thle pay checks of nil employees of the Western Union Telegraph company com-pany in Utah, issued hist week, to all receiving less than $.1000 per year, included in-cluded a 10 per cent increase on salaries sal-aries for tile past two months, in accordance ac-cordance with the approval of Postmaster Post-master Burleson. Motors were burned out on eight street cars struck by lightning in Ihe electrical storm at Salt Lake Monday. Helweon fifteen and twenty oilier cars wroe damaged to a slight extent by currents that hit trolley wires and grounded through the car circuits. Xu one was injured. To fur. her and in saving the Weber county peach crop by aiding in the Icing of ears. Judge A. W. Agee of the Second judicial district court headed head-ed a delegation composed of the clerks and deputies in the courthouse which went to the dpot one night last week and aided in the iceing of 100 cars. With purchases of more than JfoOO,-000, JfoOO,-000, smashing all previous records, the annual ram sale of ihe National W?ol-growers' W?ol-growers' association closed at Salt hake, August "0. The sale surpassed nil expeditions as to number of animals ani-mals sold and prices received. Attendance At-tendance averaged more than 1000 for each of the three days of the session. The first woman in Utah, and probably prob-ably in the United States, to fake the army training course, including aviation, avia-tion, is Mrs. Mae Nonll of Salt hake and Carbon county, who has just returned, re-turned, after completing her work at the University of California and making mak-ing a tour iu the interest of community service. A yout'.g Sait haker, who is now decora dec-ora tied with seven gold stars for hazardous haz-ardous service on the water is Walter V. (Irow, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Crow. This youthful sailor has made M'M'ii trips across the Atlantic wit.l United States transports. old "Six-foot," an immense wolf, which has caused havoc among :. herds and flocks of live stock in rhe Monlicdl section for so long, ha.-iieen ha.-iieen captured in a trap by lleber I'hristensen and I'rnl Koy. The animal ani-mal mi --u red 7 feet -1 inches from Up- to tip. |