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Show UTAH ANDUTAHNS Caught with two ducks in his possession, posses-sion, shot out of season, Albert Gul-gen Gul-gen of Logan was arrested, tried and lined Slin. Salt Lake is rapidly becoming a model town from the standpoint of the law enforcement bureau of the war department commission on training camp activities. County clerks cannot appoint deputies depu-ties to take affidavits in bounty claims for gopher heads and rabbit ears, according ac-cording to an opinion handed down by the attorney general. Beaver City was the first city in the state to reach its quota in the third Liberty loan. Stockton was second ; Wattis, third; South Bountiful, 'fourth, and Woods Cross, fifth. Alleged to have littered pro-German remarks, Robert Schill, a German employed em-ployed at Garfield, was rescued from a mob of fellow employes who proposed to tar and feather him. At the recent district convention of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity held at Denver, Colo., the chapter at the University Uni-versity of Utah had the largest honor roll of any chapter represented. The annual encampment of the Daughters of the . Utah Indian War Veterans was held at Salt Lake, April 22. Reports of the work for the last two years were given, showing splendid splen-did progress. With the capture of three girls, 16 years of age, park authorities at Salt Lake believe they have in custody the perpetrators of more than a score of flower bed robberies that have occurred oc-curred during the past two weeks. Approximately 81,000 persons in Utah should subscribe to the third Liberty Lib-erty loan, is the estimate of the central cen-tral committee for Utah. The oversubscription over-subscription of Utah to date has been subscribed by about 45,000 individuals. In connection with the petition of Utah railroads for permission to make coal freight rates 15 cents a ton higher a printed brief of eighty-four pages was Sled last week with the state public utilities commission by the rail-' ways. Insisting that ids soul is spotless, despite de-spite his statement that he has not even washed his face in more than five months, Charles S. Grattan, 29 years old and colored, is held in the city jail at Salt Lake for observation as to his sanity. The value of the food production from the war gardens of Salt Lake for 1917 was estimated at $350,000; this year it should be more than $1,-000.000, $1,-000.000, if the food demand of the nation na-tion and her allies is to be maintained by Salt Lake. By the terms of the workmen's compensation com-pensation law, Mrs. J. D. Owens, whose husband was killed while in the employ em-ploy of the Garfield Smelting company, will receive $4436.34 in payments, the smelting company acknowledging liability lia-bility under the act. Utah will be doing well this year if its crop of peaches and early cherries produced amount to one-half of that of last year, according to reports received by J. Basil Walker, state crop pest commissioner, from several of the fruit growing sections of the state. As chairman of the tomato growers' committee of the Roy district, J. W. Jensen has indicted a letter of protest against the table of costs alleged to have been provided. W. W. Armstrong, national food and fuel administrator for Utah, by the AVeber County Farm bureau. County Commissioner Owen H. Barrus and State Koad Agent It. lt. Judd were injured in an automobile accident- near Grantsville. The two men were riding in Mr. Judd's car when the steering gear broke, and the car, which was running at a high rate of speed, turned over twice. M. S. Browning of Ogden, brother of the inventor of the famous Browning machine gun, declares his confidence in the United States winning the war. lie saiil upon his numerous trips to Washington, he had noted the moves being made by the government, and this pointed to America's success in the end. Val Browning, son of J. M. Browning of Ogden, inventor of the Browning machine guns which the war department depart-ment has designated as the official quick firer of the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces, has been commissioned a lieutenant in the ordnance corps and is assigned as instructor ia the operation oper-ation of the Browning machine guns at American training camps in France. A new angle has developed in the egal fight being waged by Mrs. Susan II. Finery Holmes for half of the fortune for-tune of $siRi,(IO left hy her adopted laughter. Grace Louise Finery Barns-ford, Barns-ford, to her husband, Wallace S. Braus-lord. Braus-lord. Mrs. Holmes is to contest t lie will of Mrs, BnuiM'oni which left the entire estate to Mr. Bransford and named him as sole executor without iioiid. The plant of the Fverfres' Food company at Ogden is being operated night and day, preparing evaporated potatoes for the army. The local plant is taking the storage potatoes and using us-ing them In the preparation of food for overseas shipment. Colonel liichard W. Young, commanding com-manding officer of the 145th field artillery ar-tillery (First Utah), is desirous of taking tak-ing his own horse into the military service with him. To accomplish this, the horse must pass a physical examination ex-amination and be purchased by the lovernmcnL |