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Show UTAH ANDjiTAHNS! The smumer kindergarten at the University (,f Utah will begin this year on June 10 and continue for six weeks. The alfalfa weevil has already checked the growth of this valuable crop in a great many fields in Salt Lake county. Sugar beets are in good condition In Davis, Weber, Boxelder and Cache counties, according to J. B. Walker, state crop pest commissioner. One Utah youth, Lloyd Burt Haight of Trenton, Cache county, gave up his life for his country when the transport President Lincoln was torpedoed, May 31. The big June draft, which will send 500 Utah men to Camp Lewis and 453 to the University of Utah for special training, takes 143 from Salt Lake Cify for each call. A new public market, designed on a scale of even greater magnitude than any of the large public markets In other western cities, was opened in Salt Lake Juno 5. The body of a man who registered 1 as A. Ostran, and whose home is thought to be at Winuemucca, Nev., was found dead in bed in his room at a rooming house in Salt Lake. June IS is the date set by the state public utilities for holding a hearing on the petition of the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph company for permission to revise upward its toll schedules. Showing that the state had on hand on June 1 cash to the amount of $1,-213,75.1.10, $1,-213,75.1.10, State Treasurer Larson has issued his monthly report. On May 1 there was In the state treasury $1,334,505.10. Salt Lake county chapter, American Bed Cross, closed the month of May Willi the record-breaking production and shipment of 102 standard cases of finished articles. The highest previous previ-ous record was 100 cases. The Ogden Iiotary club will join with the Salt Lake club in entertaining the delegates of the San Francisco Rotary club on their way to the annual an-nual meeting at Kansas City, who are to be in Salt Lake on June 21. -William McVey, convicted of murder in the first degree, on a charge of having hav-ing killed William Sandercock at Garfield Gar-field about six years ago, has made application ap-plication to the state board of pardons par-dons for commutation of his life sentence. sen-tence. II. W. Jarvis was arrested at Salt Lake by federal officers on the charge of conspiracy to defraud by advertising adver-tising Indian lands for sale in a portion por-tion of southeastern Oklahoma, where it is said there are no unoccupied lands. With a splendid stock of goods, artistically artis-tically displayed, Salt Lake county chapter, American Red Cross, has opened its shop in Salt Lake City, where goods' collected from citizens are sold for the benefit of the Red Cross-fund. A "clean bill of health," has' been given by the state auditor to the state board of health, of which Dr. T. B. Beatty Is in charge, in respect of the careful method of making expenditure in accomplishing the most good in Utah and the excellent accounting kept. The body of Lavon Young, the 9-year-okl son of William Young, Indian post trader, who was drowned by falling fall-ing from a boat while crossing the the San Juan river below Bluff, was recovered ten days later on a sand bar, some miles below the scene of the accident. Clarence Livingston is on trial at Salt Lake, charged with murder In the second degree for the killing of Arthur T. Hyde -last Christmas night. The Hyde youth, who was but 16 years of age, was' shot by Livingston as he was running away from the Livingston Livings-ton premises. James Dowdell, 4(5 years old, one of the most prominent farmers' of Utah county, suddenly dropped dead of heart failure at his home at Springville, June 3. He had apparently been in the best of health and had come in from his work for his lunch when his dim Hi occurred. Poolroom men and cigar store proprietors pro-prietors expect to till the vacancies caused in their ranks by enlistments', either in the army or industrial service, serv-ice, with persons outside the pale of the draft, either younger or older, and the same rule doubtless will govern hotels and stores. Further evidence that the people of Utah will likely suffer from a potato shortage next, winter, unless a special effort is made to plant all suitable land in potatoes within the next few days has been furnished in a report received from the Utah Agricultural college at Logan. Children's welfare work came in for a large share of attention at the meeting meet-ing of the executive committee, state of Utah council of defense, at Salt Lake last week, and so favorable was a report received from G. V. I. awry, special investigator appointed to study the matter, that the committee appropriated appro-priated $1,000 toward the expense of the campaign la Utah. Investment In stocks of corporations engaged in industries or enterprises not directly i-r indirectly contributing lo winning tb- war is discouraged hy the Fiali commercial economy board. In a statemer.t issued last week by Commissioner W. F. Jensen. Wiih the hope of pulling all disloyal dis-loyal Americans behind the bars where j they will no longer be able to do any j ! harm, officers of the Salt Lake iuves- 1 'ligation office for the department of jusiice, have begun a rigorous cam- ' '.laign for the enforcement of the new Sedition law. |