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Show UTAH BUDGET Coeds of the University of Utah started last week to cultivate a large plot of ground surrounding the gymnasium gym-nasium building. The Utah Chautauqua association of Ogden is making plans for the annual an-nual Chautauqua season to be held June 8 to 14, inclusive. Tony Lampas, about 32 yenrs of age, a workman at the smelter, was I Instantly killed at Tooele when a crane broke and fell upon his head. Weber county's consolidated schools want $72,535 from the tax money raised in the Weber county school district, dis-trict, or about the same amount asked for a year ago. Wheat and potatoes are being planted plant-ed to the neglect of beans, peas and tomatoes, and representatives of Utah canneries fear that the canneries may be forced to remain idle. Miss Belle Le Mar, 2G, eccentric dancer dan-cer in the Newhouse hotel cafe at Salt Lake, slipped on the marble floor as she was dancing, fell and was seriously, serious-ly, perhaps fatally injured. Joseph Becroft, a miner, was smothered to death when the timbering timber-ing on a tunnel in the Silver King Consolidated Con-solidated mine at Park City gave way. He was buried beneath the debris. Sandy is loyally assisting Uncle Sara to secure recruits for the army. During Dur-ing the past few weeks many citizens have given up their commercial duties to assume the responsibilities or army life. Truck farmers, gardeners, fruitgrowers fruit-growers and other producers of Utah county welcome the news that Salt Lake City will soon open its public market and that the growers will find a welcome in the metropolis. The Cache County Fair association has decided not to hold a fair in Logan this year, owing to the demand for increased in-creased acreage and production and the necessity for utilizing every spare moment in harvesting crops. The Farmers' Equity company of Midvale received two carloads of po-' tatoes one day last week, and within one hour the entire shipment was sold out to the various members of the organization or-ganization at reduced prices. During a quarrel, Jededlan Woodard, aged 60, shot and mortally wounded his son Alfred, aged 25, at the 'Woodard 'Wood-ard home in Salt Lake. The elder man claims he fired in order to scare his son after the son had struck him. The. state livestock commission is working out details of a war to be directed against animals that prey on flocks and herds, roison, traps and sharpshooting hunters are expected to play a part in the war of decimation. A complete canvass of the seed situation situ-ation in Utah county made during the past week show the following conditions: condi-tions: Wheat, 10S2 busnels surplus; oats, enough for demands; barley, 250 bushels surplus; potatoes, S00 bushels short. At a patriotic meeting held at the Murray city hall it was determined tnat Murray, Sandy, Midvale and the southern part of the county should combine in the organization of a cavalry cav-alry troop as a unit of the National Guard of Utah. Dog catchers in Murray have been running rife and making life miserable for people who own unmuzzled dogs. Several cases will be heard soon, in which citizens will complain against dog catchers taking dogs to the estray pound and killing them. Utah was given great praise at the conservation meeting at Washington as being the first state thoroughly to organize for the conservation and increased in-creased raising of food products and was not only mentioned on the floor, but was loudly applauded. Farmers of the Mosida project, on the southwest shore of Utah lake, are hopeful of weathering the storm of litigation with which their interests are encompassed and of beginning the work of planting the 2500. acres of soil they possess within a week or ten days. That his aged step-father, J. H. Caldwell, and his mother had been cruelly shot to death by a Russian ranch superintendent, whom they had be friended at their North Dakota ranch, was the information received by A. Mart Smith of Ogden last week. Such a heavy demand has been made lately upon the National Guard of Utah for discharge of men from that organization that they might enlist en-list in the army, navy or wiarnie corps, that orders have been issued to the recruiting officers of the guard not to issue any more discharges of this nature. na-ture. Hughie Coony, an 8-year-old schoolboy, school-boy, was run over by an automobile at Bingham. The child was playing in the street in front of the school building build-ing when struck by the machine. When picked up by his playmates it was found that he had suffered a broken leg. Carbolic acid was the poison which caused the death of George Sehmder at Salt Lake, according to the report of Herman Harms. Mate chemist, last week. Whether the poison was taken with suicidal intent or administered in disguised form by another has not yet been learned. While unloading some agricultural Implements from a wagon in the field near a farm he had recently taken charge of at Ibapah, Thomas J. Wei-mor, Wei-mor, 31 years of age, accident ally discharged dis-charged his rifle and fell dead from a i shot through the head. George Selander, 30 years of age, assayer by profession, was found dead I under peculiar circumstances In the , room of Mrs. Jean Alexander at Salt 1 Lake City, the police expressing the ; belief that Sehmder bad been poisoned, j Mrs. Alexander and Harry Robinson were arrested. |