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Show UTAH ANDJITAHHS- Leo Han l'oy, a Chinese cook, who was struck by an automobile driven by Andrew Read, at Ogden, is dead from his injuries. Official advices have been received from the war department to the effect that Henry li. Kramer of Spanish Fork had been killed In action in France. Hyrum Shulsen of West Jordan, officially of-ficially reported by the war department depart-ment as having been killed in action August 4 on the Frennh battlefront. is still alive. Trained steam engineers will have an opportunity to enter the officers' training school of the United Slates navy, according to announcements made at Salt Lake last week. Federal positions ,vith a salary of $1100 per year will he open to women applicants who desife t: become, railway rail-way mall clerks. This announcement was made at Salt Lake last week. An S. O. S. call is being sent out for school teachers by the state board of education. The new instructors will be asked to report for duty after the Christmas vacation if they have one. That the government may conduct an investigation into the alleged activity ac-tivity of the police in "protecting" bootlegging in Ugden was a report circulated cir-culated in that city last week in semiofficial semi-official circles. The local chapter of the Red Cross has asked the stores of Ogden to request re-quest the men and women in their employ, em-ploy, who can, to act as volunteer nurses to care for families stricken with influenza. Parents and relatives of five Salt Lake soldiers, one each from Murray, St. John, Utah, and Ephraim, have been notified that the men have suffered suf-fered casualties cjuring recent fighting on the western front in Europe. . Finns for an extension of the work over Utah are being made by the Salt Lake committee f the Fatherless Children of France. The local committee com-mittee already has provided for 2S,") French orphans and hones to care for 500. Pinned beneath the car when it ran over an embankment and turned turtle, about four miles west of Morgan. C. F. Maddox, of Salt Lake, was instantly killed, and his companion, the owner of the machine, Daniel Dougherty, was badly bruised. The work of the draft boards of. the nation in classifying the nation's man power will be carried through to completion, com-pletion, is the opinion- expressed by Capt. Gordon Snow. Utah draft executive execu-tive officer, in a bulletin addressed to local draft boards of the state. The temporary hospital in the Tintic high school building for the care of'in-fluenza of'in-fluenza patients who have no other place to go was opened one day last week and by night eleven persons suffering suf-fering from' the disease were being given needed attention by trained nurses. Butter is inclined to be high because be-cause of the alleged shortage of feed for dairy herds. At present the price a pound ranges from 57 cents to 05 cents a pound for country or creamery butter. A month ago the price aver aged nearly 10 cents a pound less than at present. Utah coal has passed, with a high percentage, a rigid test made by the United States fuel administration. This information is contained in a report re-port from the fuel administration. Washington. The Utah product is re-fytrded re-fytrded as among the high grades of the country. Carrying out a death pact between the two, Bert Walker a boilerniaker, 24 years of age, residing at Magna, shot and killed 15-year-old Glemlu Til-comb Til-comb Smith, a war bride, and then, turning the weapon on himself, inflicted in-flicted a wound from which he died eight hours later. An auction sale of confiscated firearms fire-arms brought more than $200 into Ihe treasury of the stale fisli and game commission. The guns were taken from foreigners at Bingham and brought to the capital under the law prohibiting aliens to have firearms or ammunition in the" possession. Utah shippers, through Manager II. W. Prickett of the Traffic Association of Utah, will protest to the railroad administration anil before the inter-stale inter-stale commerce commission, if a hearing hear-ing is held in western territory, against the class freight rate proposed by ihe railroad administration. The Red Cross canteen at Ihe Union depot at Ogden has had a telephone tele-phone installed to meet the demands of the soldiers and sailors passing through the city. who. having a few-minutes' few-minutes' time there and desiring to communicate with relatives and friends, have been unable to do so. t the request of the commanding officer of Camp Lewis. Captain Cordon Snow. Utah draft executive, has requested re-quested all Utah local draft hoards to order the men they send to the camp in the five-day period beginning November No-vember 11 to wear gauze masks as a preventive against Influenza. Composition of the irrigation waters of Utah is the title of a bulletin issued is-sued by the Utah Agricultural experiment experi-ment station, tbe analysis being made by Drs. Graves and Professor Hirst. Two hundred and fifty-four analyses were made. With a view to usinc the Sacred Heart academy at Ogden as an emergency emer-gency hospital, officials of the institution insti-tution have let a contract to remodel Vbe upper . portion of the structure. It Is to be used to care for students of the institution who may become ill vhile attending school. |