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Show UTAH AlMS A bounteous crop of fruit is predicted pre-dicted for Utah this season if proper precautions with regard to spraying to keep down pests are observed. C. L. Smith, the first auto driver arrested ar-rested in Salt Lake fur speeding within the last four weeks, was sentenced to serve ten days in the city jail with no alternative of a fine. Every Salt Lake boy registered in the boys' working reserve and junior boys' working reserve must be examined exam-ined by a doctor before being sent out in camps for summer's work. The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company shortly will file in the office of the state public utilities commission an application for the increase in-crease of its toll rates on certain lines. The counties in Utah In 1017 paid into the state treasury u total of $2,-864,355. $2,-864,355. S4 in taxes, as shown in a table issued by State Auditor Joseph Ririe in preparation for his biennial report. At a meeting of the directors and stockholders of the Knight Sugar company, com-pany, held in Salt Lake, a dividend of 3 per cent on the stock, or a total of .$30,000, was declared for the last quarter. A net increase of fifty-five in the population of Salt Lake is shown by the weekly report of the city board of health, just issued, which shows only thirty deaths as against eighty-five births for the "week. Defects in muster rolls of several companies of Utah Indian war veterans vet-erans are likely to result in rejection of their claims for federal pensions, according to a letter from G. M. Saltz-gaber, Saltz-gaber, commissioner at Washington. An unidentified man was walking along one of the tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad at Soldier Summit Sum-mit and stepped onto another track, on. which a single engine was coming, being be-ing struck by the engine and killed. To repair the break in the Salt Lake & Utah canal near Bluffdale, Salt Lake county, the Utah Copper company engineering en-gineering department has constructed, in the record time of four days, a 100-foot 100-foot stretch of the largest flume in the state. Unless the contracting companies can be held under their contract and bond for repair of the aerial tramway at the county silica beds near the mouth, of Keifs canyon, it will probably prob-ably be abandoned and sold for what can be realized. Cadet students at the Utah agricul-trual agricul-trual college who qualify for entrance Into tile fourth series of officers' training train-ing camps, will be trained in a special school to be conducted at the Presidio, at San Francisco, according to information infor-mation just received. Arthur Clapier of Ogden won the ten-mile handicap bicycle road race over the course to the Utah Hot Springs from Ogden on Sunday. He not only crossed the tape first and won the first place, but he also took the second time prize. Protesting the "unmitigated" high cost of living, the Metal Trades union of Salt Lake sent a petition to the Salt Lake Federation of Labor for the convocation of a mass meeting to consider con-sider ways and means of allevatiug living conditions in the capital city. Carl Larson, accused of having violated vio-lated the espionage act by giving utterance utter-ance to sentiments disloyal and unpatriotic un-patriotic with a view to defeating the purposes of the selective draft law, was held for the action of the federal grand jury, following a hearing at Salt Lake. The report of the third Liberty loan committee shows that 77,001. Utahns subscribed for the bonds and that there is a bond in every family in tho state. Emery county won the distinction of being the first to exceed its allotment and Leaver was the first city to oversubscribe. over-subscribe. A general increase in rates is asked by the Blue Mountain Irrigation company, com-pany, which lias filed a petition with the slate public utilities commission. commis-sion. The concern supplies the town of Monticello, San Juan county, with irrigation and domestic water and with electric light. Plan's for the new quarter system have been decided upon by the authorities author-ities of the University of Utah. School the year round is the idea. Tho new calendar will go into effect at the opening of the 191S summer session, which begins this year on June 10 and ends August 30. The largest American flag in the world, which was lost en route to Salt Lake to be used in the big patriotic demonstration to be held on May IS under the auspices of the local lodge, Loyal -Order of Moose,' has been located lo-cated .at Xew Orleans, having been shipped there by mistake. Logan and Provo citizens have selected se-lected committees to arrange details for the war conferences to be held there Salurdav, May IS. Citizens of communities contiguous to (.'ache and Utah counties are planning to attend these war conferences. Claims of seventy-two Utah Indian war veterans and seventy-three widows if the pioneer defenders of the com-nonwealth com-nonwealth were approved last week by the state board of examiners. These veterans and widows are declared entitled enti-tled to compensation under he S25.0O0 appropriation made by the last Utah legislature for their relief. Letting a contract for 15.700 feet of concrete road work in Weber county to the Utah Portland Cement company indicates that the slate road commission commis-sion is not yet ready to abandon cement ce-ment concrete in favor of biihulithie. |