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Show ! UTAH J5UD GET The following report has been made bv officials of state mental hospital at p'rovo: The superintendent reported the following finances for the nioinli ot June: Fees for pay patients and receipts rec-eipts for sale of farm products. S7;m.7i- current expenses, SImAW, salaries, S.-.41H); repairs and renewals, .1.-.:7.VI: furnishings. $:!!.T0; 'um.se-n.ent 'um.se-n.ent Sltj. The superintendent further fur-ther reported that the tVuirlh had been celebrated in an appropriate manner. Professor Karl Pardee of the Briglnim Young university erected a stao " the lawn and a play was given, much to Hie entertainment of the inmates and the attendants of the institution. Cache county will extend the official offi-cial home to its soldiers, sailors and marines on Angus 20, which will be a "red letter day" iu the city ot Logan this vear. The Commercial club, headed head-ed bv Luther M. Howell, president, is taking the most active part in the preparations in connection with the War Camp Community service. Mrs. Anna K. Widtsoe, mother of John A. Didtsoc, president of the University of Utah, and of J. P. Os-born Os-born Widtsoe, head of the English department de-partment at that institution, died last week at her home, 310 Wall street, Salt Lake, after an illness of several months. Michael Gionopolis, charged with murder iu the first degree for the fatal fa-tal shooting of Dr. M. B. Shipp on June 9, a Salt Lake, was botuul over to stand trial in the Third district court at the conclusion of preliminary hearing before City Judge Henry C. Lund. .Crop conditions in Utah despite drouth are not seriously below normal. nor-mal. And there is no cause for alarm. Such are the encouraging statements uiude by Jtuaes W. Jones, one of the best posted agriculturists in the inter-mountain inter-mountain country. The Kiekhefer Box company of Milwaukee Mil-waukee will build a box factory in Ogden Og-den immediately, according to the announcement an-nouncement made in that city by local canners who are said to have signed contracts for boxes of this fall's production. Word has just been received at the L. D. S. church offices that Rulon J. Parry, a missionary, who was in the Netherlands during the war, has secured se-cured passage to return home, and will, in the near future, arrive in Salt Lake. George C. Odekirk was given an indeterminate in-determinate sentence of not to exceed three years in the state penitentiary by Judge A. B. Morgan, at Provo. The sentence was given on conviction of Odekirk for a statutory offense. Frank Elmer Flandro, three and one-half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. B E. Flandro, Salt Lake, was killed last week when struck by an automobile automo-bile driven by W. H. Penner, 33S East Second South Street. One hundred and eight war prisoners prison-ers arrived over the Oregon Short Line railroad last Saturday from Fort iTort Leavenworth, Kan., and iirtme-dlately iirtme-dlately were taken to the prison camp at Fort Douglas. Iu the water bond election in Orem last week the bonds carried by a vote of 104 to 51. The money will be used in the installation of a new water storage stor-age and distributing system. Andrew R. Anderson, former mayor and city councilman of Lehi, died las week of pneumonia. He was born in Denmark in 1844 and came to Utah in 1862. The National Workmen's Compensation Compensa-tion Service bureau, to which all the? stock companies carrying on a workmen's work-men's compensation insurance business in Utah, except one, belong, has filed with the state industrial commission a rate of $9.50 per $1000 of payroll for carrying risks in coal mines. The for mer rate was $7.81, the increase being necessitated, it is claimed, by the increased in-creased benefits allowed under the Utah law as amended by the last legislature. leg-islature. To discuss the feasibility of putting in a pumping project somewhere between be-tween Beck's Hot Springs and North Salt Lake on the Pordan river, for the purpose' of watering more than 5000 acres of land in Davis county, sixty farmers, representing one-fourth of the proposed acreage to be put under irrigation, met recently in Bountiful. The proposed undertaking will have two canal units, one with a pumping lift of 140 feet, the other with 100-foot lift. The Uintah Canning compmiy of Vernal, with an authorized capital stock of $50,000 in $50 shares and with a list of about 100 stockholders, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Directors are E. D Samuels, president; Clayborn Brim! hall, vice president ; C. A. Cawley, secretary sec-retary ; Leslie Ashton, treasurer' and W. H. Col tha rp. Utah will give a reception din-in-state fair week to soldiers, sailors anil marines who participated in ihe .,i,i war. The Thirteenth Legislature made Claude T. Barnes, lawyer and naturalist nat-uralist of Salt Lake, has been notified from Washington. D. ('., of his election elec-tion as a charter member of the newly organized American Society of Mani-umlogists. Mani-umlogists. This society has only' recently re-cently been formed and deals exclusively exclus-ively with mammals, or the prehistoric animals which occupied the carih in antediluvian days, or the period Ion-before Ion-before the flood. " The Boxehler board of education will construct additional rooms t0 the Fi-p. ham nty high schoo, in the a,o,!t |