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Show THE UTAH BUDGET A now building is to be erc,.ed on the campus of the Granite high school at a cost of $40,000. Farmers in the Cache valley arc all astir over the prospect of discovery discov-ery of oil in their lands. The twenty-second annual encamp. "H'l.t of the Utah and Wasatch Indian ar veterans opened at Spanish Fork on the 17th. Thomas Dunn. a 12-year-old Salt Lake boy, received a slight concussion concus-sion of the brain when lie fell from a tree near his home. The brljrham federal building is nearing completion and the contractors contrac-tors will have the building finished be tore the specified time allowed in the contract. Reaches for distribution on feach day at Brigham City will be picked when the Elberta harvest is at its best and placed in cold storage until Peach day. With SO per cent of the water from the new artesian wells at Huntsville in use and the two city reservoirs almost al-most full, fears of a water shortage in Ogden have been allayed. A grasshopper war with modern ap pliances is being waged by the farm-em farm-em in the vicinity of Deseret, Millard country. The pests are being killed by thousands with poison. William Doxy of Bountiful was elected president of the Utah State Firemen's association at the closing se.-sion at Spanish Fork of the annu al convention of the organization. Weevil and signs of Mediterannean moth have been observed in samples of flour collected in Salt Lake gro ceries, declares Heber C. Smith, state dairy and food commissioner. Plans for an invasion on the Uintah basin during the early part of September Sep-tember by an army of Salt Lake business busi-ness men and boosters are being formulated for-mulated by the Salt Lake Commercial Commer-cial club. Fred A. E. Meyer, one of Salt Lake's veteran business men, who for thirty-seven thirty-seven years was buyer for the clothing cloth-ing department of Z. C. M. I., died August Au-gust 19 at the family residence in Salt Lake. Bankers in Utah and all parts of the west have been appealed to by police authorities to assist in stamping stamp-ing out the well-organized gang of bunco men which has been reaping a harvest during recent months. The establishment of more military academies, including one in the far west, was urged by former President William Howard Taft, during his Salt Lake visit, as one of the best methods of strengthening our national defense. Randolph Churchill, author, Journal; ist, lecturer and cousin of Winston Churchill, noted author, who attended the trial of Leo M. Frank, commenting at Salt Lake on the lynching of Frank, said that he thought Frank without a doubt was guilty of the murder mur-der of Mary Phagan. Application has been filed with the interstate commerce commission by the American National Live Stock is-sociation is-sociation and the National Woolgrow-ers' Woolgrow-ers' association for a lower freight rate on live stock, especially on sheep and hogs, from points in Utah and Idaho to California. After evading arrest for three weeks, during which time he is said to have spent $1,600 in riotous pleasure, pleas-ure, Leonard Webster Asher, aged 24 years, until recently a trusted express messenger for the American Express company in the Salt Lake district, is now in Jail in El Centre Cal. A special train was arranged to carry a number of the members of the American Bar association and other distinguished visitors to Bingham Bing-ham on Thursday to see the mines of the Utah Copper company. On the trip the smelter at Garfield and the mills at Magna and Arthur were visited. Efforts are being made by the members mem-bers of the Mormon Battalion Monument Monu-ment commission of Utah to gain the consent of the family of the late Maj. Gen. St. George Cooke to have his body brought west from its resting place in Michigan and be placed under un-der the proposed monument to the Mormon battalion to be erected on the capitol grounds. It has been proposed recently to bring several thousand head of first-class first-class dairy cows into Utah to foster and at once encourage the dairy business busi-ness As good dairy cows are worth $75 to $150 each, the promise of 20,000 would mean a great thing for the state, the ranchers feel. With the signing up of contracts calling for the erection of two new $500 000 sugar plants for Utah in time for the 1916 beet season, a notable not-able commercial event was consummated consum-mated last week. One factory will be erected at Spanish Fork and tho other in the south end of Salt Lake county. It is estimated there are about 100 000 cows now In Utah, but dairymen dairy-men believe that the state might just is well have five times that number, "he 1914 production of dairy products mounted to close to $4,000,000. |