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Show UTAH ANDJTAliS The opera house at Iirigham City was destroyed by fire last week. Leonard Wilkes of Salt Lake, 24 years old. sustained a slight fracture of the skull when an automobile he was driving turned over. Several hundred phonograph records have been eolleeted in Utah, to be sent to the boys in training camps, on the transports and in the trenches. With the coal miners of the state mining on an average of 14.000 tons of coal every day, it is hardly possible that there should be a coal famine this winter. An attack of heart disease caused the death at Salt Lake of Mrs. l.enora Ulair Hammond, wife of .1. T. Hammond, Ham-mond, member of the state hoard of equalization. Carbon county stands at the top of nil the counties in the state in the fourth Liberty loan, the county doubling doub-ling its quota which was subscribed by 5,4!)!) persons. Guy Untton of Wendover. recently arrested by federal authorities lie-cause lie-cause he failed to show a registration card, has been unable to furnish bond and is in jail. The Knights of Columbus hut. to be erected at Fort Douglas, will be the equal of any in the west, and will probably prob-ably cost more than those at cantonments canton-ments on the Pacific coast. Fifty-six men o Salt Lake were in the puny of workers sent from that city Saturday to Sheffield, Ala., for employment in the new nitro plant being be-ing built by the government at Muscle Shoals. Ala. Game birds of this section are to be accorded the same measure of protection protec-tion hy federal game laws during the war as heretofore, according to advices received by W. W. Armstrong, Utah food administrator. Frederick S. Schmaltz, son of Mrs. Margaret Schmaltz of South AVeber, private in the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Fifty-seventh infantry, has been killed in action, according to a telegram received re-ceived by his mother. Canvassing of the residential districts dis-tricts of Ogden for the united war work campaign will be done by womens' committees and will begin November 11. The city has been divided into five districts. Elbert D. Thomas, associate professor profes-sor of oriental life and culture at the University of Utah, and formerly captain cap-tain of the Utah national guard, lias been appointed, a major in the inspector in-spector general's department. Four men were arrested and three automobiles confiscated, near Devil's Slide, the men being charged with bootlegging. boot-legging. In one of the machines was found 550 pint bottles of hiskey, which was being brought from Evan-ston. Evan-ston. Declaring that Salt Luke wholesale gasoline dealers have been charging exorbitant prices for gas, the Utah State Automobile association announces an-nounces it is prepared to establish filling fill-ing stations in the city to' compete with those operated by independent companies. com-panies. Governor Bamberger has appointed Prof. P. E. Peterson of the? Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural college a .member of the state board of accounting- He succeeds suc-ceeds D A. Swau, resigned. The state board of accountancy holds examinations examina-tions for those who desire- to become public accountants. Failure of m-iny Utah -newspapers which are printing political advertisements advertise-ments to file statements of their ownership own-ership with the secretary of state, under the corrupt practices act, may result In the attorney general ami secretary se-cretary of state taking steps to see that the law is complied with. Mrs.. Sarah Lanno, aged 53 years, who swallowed a lye potion and attempted at-tempted to drown herself in City Creek reservoir at Salt Lake, died at a local hospital- from the effects of the poison. Mrs. Latino's husband was a Spanish-American Spanish-American war veteran and was killed in a railroad accident several years ago. Boy scouts at Salt Lake pledged themselves', at a committee meeting held last week, to aid in the coming drive for the seven war work organizations organi-zations by advertising the campaign, delivering literature concerning it from house to house, raising $5 from each troop and collecting individual contributions. contri-butions. San Juan county is the first county in the stale to go over the top in the united war work campaign. AVilhin three days after Chairman Hanson had reported his organization complete, he sent word that his county bad raised its allotment and that it expected ex-pected to double til e amount before the end of the drive. Stirred by the action of a manager of an apartment house in Salt Lake in ejecting Mrs. C. C. Iiintz because her child was about to be born. City Commissioner Com-missioner Scheid has announced that he will introduce at once an ordinance ordi-nance which will seek to prohibit owners of apartment houses from placing plac-ing a ban on births therein. |