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Show ' UTAH-STATE NEWS Fire, believed to have been of In-' cendiary origin, completely destroyed the unfinished residence of Charles Wall at Ogden. The Millard academy, established hardly six years, will have a grand jubilee Thanksgiving to celebrate its freedom from debt. Beaver county was perhaps the first county in the state to make its report to David A. Smith, chairman of the welfare fund committee. Red Cross Christmas stamps will be sold in Ogdeu this season under the direct supervision of the Ogden chapter chap-ter of the American Red Cross society. There is little disease among Utah herds at present, but the state authorities author-ities are constantly inoculating livestock live-stock where suspicious appearances have been noted. A rabid coyote was killed at rieasanc View last week. An investigation will be started to learn whether the ani- ' mal has bitten any stock in the sur-roundiug sur-roundiug country. Approximately 7200 tons of coal, or 2050 tons a mouth, are needed by the farmers of Weber county outside of Ogden city to overcome the fuel shortage short-age which now exists. William Weygint, who, on October 30 last, celebrated with his wife, So-phronia, So-phronia, the seventy-fifth aniversary of their wedding, died November l(i at his home in Salt Lake. The cost of raising Utah's draft quota amounted to less than $7 a man, according to F. V. Fitz Gerald, disbursing dis-bursing agent for the government under un-der the selective service law. Sheep, hogs, horses and cattle in Utah approximate a value of $49,317,-800. $49,317,-800. There are 2,500,000 sheep, 40S, 000 cattle, 140,000 horses and mules. 91,000 milch cows and 101,000 hogs. The coal dealers of Tooele county have decided that steps should be taken to prevent persons with a thirty days' coal supply from stocking up at the expense of those who have none. Last week another of Brigham's old andmarks was practically destroyed when fire consumed the biggest part of the opera house. The fire started among the scenery on the stage from an unknown cause. In stepping from a moving train at Salt Lake, Perry Blackmail, fell with his right hand upon the rail. Before he could remove his hand the wheels of the train had crushed the ends of the thumb and fingers to a pulp. Warning, to woolgrowers that they must be careful as to what persons they permit on their sheep ranges was sent out last week by C. B. Stewart, secretary of the Utah Woolgrowers' association, and a member of the state council of defense. Sheepmen are said to be panic-stricken panic-stricken by reports that German agents are trying to poison their Hocks or to inoculate them with disease. It is said an agreement has been reached to shoot to kill suspicious characters approaching stock. Shocked when she received a letter that three sons of her dearest friend laid jolued the army, Mrs. Sophia M. Loynd, an aged resident of Farming-ton, Farming-ton, dropped the letter from her hands, collapsed with a stroke of apoplexy and died a few hours later. The fact that eleven members of one family represented in Ogden are serving serv-ing in various brandies of the inilitar-service inilitar-service has been brought out by Mrs. Albert Webb, who had a brother, W. E. Croft, on one of the troop trains wrecked in Colorado several days ago. Germans interned at Fort Douglas and those at other internment camps J and prisons throughout the United States, will be put to work early in the year at buildings roads, if congress nets favorably on such a provision in the Chamberlain-Dent military highways bill. A double military funeral was held at Logan for the two young soldier boys, G. B. Alexander, bandmaster ciC the. Forty-second regiment band, anil Clayton 1'. Preston, first sergeant and drum major of the same regiment, who lost their lives in a recent railroad wreck in Colorado. The Liberty Fuel company has filed a complaint Willi the public utilities commission against paying an oxlru charge on coal shipped over the line of the Carbon Fuel company. The (barge of 10 cents a ton Is made by the line for coal hauled over it und taken on by the Denver & Rio Grande. Alleging thai bis wife, I.illie May Sliuplcy, 22 years of age. was rendered iii.sano as the result of injuries suffered suf-fered when she fell into a sewer exea-ation, exea-ation, Alfred V. Shapely, the 1ms-and 1ms-and and legal guardian, has stalled suit against Ogden city and the lleii-ser-Packard company of Salt Lake to recover .'25,2r,(i damages. Every boy seont ennneeied with I In-L In-L D. S. church seout organization must blossom out in the full panoply of the order by Christmas. The heads of the seout. movement have spoken, and from Ibis time forward "slackers" will not be endured. A new telephone line forty-five miles long is Hearing eoniplet ion between be-tween Stoekmore and Park City. The council of defense of Box Elder county was completely organized at a meeting hold at P.rigliain City last v.-eek. Farmers and boot growers in the districts dis-tricts traversed by ttie two branches of the Oregon Short Line, now in course of construction In Boxolder county have been disappointed. Tim roads probably will not be completed In time to handle any of this year's Tops. |