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Show THE UTAH BUDGET I Tho Cncho county public schools H havo closed for tho summer vacation, H having completed a very successful H year's worl:. H Tho school children of Salt Lnko nro H taking nn active Interest In tho cam- H palgn launched In the schools toward H economy and saving of paper. H Tho l'nyson Commercial club has H Rent nn Invitation to President Wilson H to nttontl tho Strawberry valley pro- H Ject celebration on May 2G and 27. H Utah sheep aro now entirely freo H of scabies, so far as tho state board of H sheep commissioners knows, accord- H Ing to A. A. Cnlltflter, secretary of tho H board. Ix)uls Dcrobls, who shot and sort- H ously wounded James Bartolomco at B Ogden, February 25 Inst, lma been H convicted of assault with Intcht to H commit murdor. B Teaching road building, as part ot HJ ho high school study of practical HJ "Ivies, was Indorsed by tho stato board HJ if education, nt its regular monthly HJ neetlng nt tho capltol. HJ That Harry Fcnton, young miner HJ vho died from drug poisoning In tho HJ omorgency hospital at Salt Iike, wnu HJ murdered, Is tho belief of tho police. M Claud Smith is 'being held on bus- HJ ulclon. HI Tho wheat crop ot Utah on May 1, HJ according to roports submitted to tho HJ bureau of crop estimates of tho dopart- HJ mont of agriculture, was In hotter con- J dltlon than tho avorago ot other HJ states. M Tho body ot tho 3-year-old son ot HJ Fred Igarashl, a Japaneso farmer, wan HJ found In tho Itarrlsvllla canal nearly HJ thrco miles from tho place wljoro tho HJ little follow tumbled into tho water HJ whllo at play. HJ Tho thirty-third annual session of HJ tho grand lodgo ot tho Knights of HJ Pythias ot Utah was hold In Salt HJ Lake City last week, about seventy HJ llvo delegates, representing twenty-ono HJ lodges, being present HJ Tho total valuation for Juab county, HJ as shown by a report Mod with tho HJ state board of equalization, is $5,935,- HJ 93G for this year, aa compared with HJ $2,783,805 last year, nn Increase ot HJ moro than 100 por cent. HJ Plana for controlling tho waters ot HJ tho Colorado rlvor includo tho building HJ of a dam in San Juan county, just HJ above tno Grand canyon, to cost moro HJ than $10,000,000, which will givo water HJ to tho bench lands of eastern and HJ southern Utah. HJ A Salt Lako furnituro company was HJ awarded tho contract to furnish two Hj rugs at a cost ot $2,000 for the houso H of representative chambers at tho state capltCl during a mooting, last H week ot tho rug committee ot the HJ stato capltol commission. i Hj Tho Utah Chamber of Commerce HJ with Its exhibits of Utah products, re- H sources and potentialities, will, after H Juno 1, bo quartered on the ground H floor of tho now state capltol, where H all who enter tho beautiful sYato house H may glean an idea of tho proliflcness H of tho stato. a H Members of tho department of Utah, H Qrand Army of tho Ilopubllc, held H their annual encampment In Salt Lako H on May 17, and olectcd N. D.Corsor, H well known" Civil war voteran of Salt H Lako, department commander for tho H coming year. Tho votorans went on H record as bolng in favor of adequato H national proparedncos. - H Next year's auto license plates aro to bo pearl-gray affairs -with bluo lot- I toring. This was decided by the stato board of examiners when it awnrded to tho Wostorn Display company ot m St. Paul, Minn., tho contract for sup- plying tho 1917 tags. Tho contract I price 13 20 cents a pair and tho stato I will uso about 1G.000. I Tho Sperry & Hutchinson company I has forwarded a check for $11,196.30 to I David Mattson, socrolary of state, aa I special tax on 22,392,764 trading stamps which tho company haB used I In Utah since tho trading stamp law, I enacted by tho last session ot the leg- islaturo, became effective. I Tho Mammoth city council has I passed an ordinance giving tho Mam- I moth Mining company tho exclusive I right to oporato a water sstem iu I that city. Tho .Mammoth Mining com- I pany has operated a water system I thoro for years, but heretoforo there K was no franchise governing it. I Harry T. Cowburn, secretary of tho I Salt Lako flro department, former city councilman and well known I throughout tho stato, died at Salt 9 Lako May 13, following an operation W for appendicitis. U Frank G. Jannoy, manager ot mills R tor tho Utah Copper company and K. other propertloa controlled by tho Jackllng interests, died in Los An- 3 golea on May 12, following an opera- K tlon for appendicitis. John Wilkinson, a ranchor of Ophtr, waa severoly buruod on tho loft thigh r when his brother, James Wilkinson, E with whom ho was Bleeping In a ',' hotel at Salt Lake, fell to sleep with a clgarotto in his hand and set 'flro ' to tbo bed clothes. f- Kenneth Hathaway, arrosted at . J Cacho Junction a fow days ago on f tho chargo of failing to support his wlfo, was released from custody after ho had furnished bond in tho Bum ot 300 to contributo $20 por month to tho support of hiB wlfo for a period ot ono year. i Clarence D. Bills, aged 16, ot IUv jrton, won tho intormountain open con teBt for typists hold at Salt Laka uu lor tho auspices of tho Utah State Typewriters' association, -when be-wroto be-wroto an nverago of 120 words . ulnuto for a half hour. I |