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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Willard Done, state insurance coin- j missioner, has tendered his residua- tion to the governor, effective June 3o. Elsie Schneider Anderson, wife of I former United States Marshal James' H. Anderson, was buried at Salt Lake last Sunday. The Civic Improvement club of Brig-ham Brig-ham City has inaugurated a fly killing campaign and has offered prizes for the killing of the most flies. Mrs.Mary Ann Greening Till died at b.er home in Provo of old age. She passed away while sitting in a chair, and was found with her hands clasped, clasp-ed, and as if asleep. Efficiency in church work was one of the principal topics of discussion at a religious education conference of the Baptist church which opened in Salt Lake on Sunday. A company of volunteers' that will form the nucleus of the large force that Salt Lake and Utah will send to the front if the call for volunteers comes, was organized Sunday at Salt Lake. The success of the Ogden-to-Reno automobile booster excursion in June seems assured, judging by the large number of replies received by the the committee from the announcement cards which were sent out. April 24 was clean-up day at Spanish Span-ish Fork. Rakes and hoes were the honor badges and streets and yards were vigorously attacked. The schools were closed to allow the children to participate in the renovation. Alvaro Bushman. 14 years of age, was instantly killed at Lehi and his body badly mangled, when he was run over by a Salt Lake & Utah car leaving leav-ing for American Fork. The boy jumped from the car as it "was moving. mov-ing. Benjamin Foreman, who attempted suicide in the Weber county jail a few minutes, before he was to have been sentenced for grand larceny, is recovering rapidly. Foreman hacked and slashed his throat with an old penknife. The college council of the Utah Agricultural college at Logan has announced an-nounced that seventy-nine members of the senior clasu have their work bo well in hand that there is practically practi-cally no doubt as to their graduation this spring. The Ogden fire department will be well represented in the United States navy if war comes with Mexico. Seven Are fighters of the Junction City have placed their names on the ready-for-service list, and all are former for-mer navy men. For the death of her husband, Bertha Ber-tha Oliver has filed suit against the Bingham Mines company for $50,000 damages. , Oliver was motorman on an ore train in one of the company's mines and was killed in a cave-in in one of the tunnels. Efforts of Juab county to have the state board of equalization make a readjustment re-adjustment of taxes from the Iron Blossom Mining company failed when the supreme court rendered an opinion opin-ion refusing to issue a writ of mandate man-date against the board. J. J. Tanner, wanted in Ogden to face the charge that he forged his wife's name to four receipts for money drawn from her account in the Ogden Savings bank, escaped from the Buckthorn, Buck-thorn, Nev., authorities who were tc have delivered him to an Ogden officer. of-ficer. As a result of rowny inquiries, Salt Lake life insurance agents have ait nounced that enlistments in the armv and navy would not invalidate policies poli-cies now in force and until furthei notice policies would continue to 1)6 issued without restriction of any such service. Arrested and identified as one of the smoothest crooks that has operated oper-ated in Ogden and Salt Lake, a man going under the name of G. Muller shot himself through the head as he was being searched in the city police station at Ogden, his death occurring a short time later. The jury which found Caleb A. In-low In-low guilty of murder in the second degree for killing Thomas E. White, might well have returned a verdict ol first degree morder, says the supreme court of Utah in an opinion handed down affirming judgment of couvic tion, and denying a new trial. The supreme court has decided thai no contempt of court was committed by Chief of Police Grant of Salt Lake in ordering the arrest of employes ol E. W. Allen for selling liquor without a license after Allen had appealed tc the supreme court from the judgment by which his license was revoked. The prospects for a big fruit cror. in Utah county were never better and the growers feel confident of the big gest crop ever harvested, as the danger dan-ger from frost is believed to lie past. Comparatively little orchard heating has been done this season, on account ac-count of the exceptionally mild spring. A campaign of education for the creamery and dairymen of Utah, in which stereopticon views of actual conditions, both good and bad. will feature the lectures, is planned by the United States western dairy invetiga tion division of the department of ag riculture. Investigation into the death at Salt Lake, on April 9, of the infant daughter of Lester and Florence Athey resulted iu a coroner's jury rendering ren-dering a verdict of death by accident from suffocation. It was at first thought the child had been strangled |