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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Salt Lake's commercial club has taken the initiative in the effort to get a military academy for the west. The Greeters of America, a hotel men's organization, in convention at Atlanta, Ga., selected Suit Lake City as the 1916 convention city. The body of Fritz N. Swahn. who was drowned near Pocatello, Idaho, June 6, while fishing, was brought to Salt Lake last week for burial. Mrs. Amanda McClure, aged 30, a colored woman, shot and killed her husband at Salt Lake, after she had opened a letter from another woman in which she addressed McClure as "dear husband." The deaf people of Utah and Idaho, many of them graduates of the Utah school for the deaf and the blind, assembled as-sembled at Ogden for the triennial reunion re-union held June 10, 11 and 12, at the state institution. Clarence Wilson, colored, was shot and killed by his wife at her home in Salt Lake on June S. Wilson was breaking into his wife's home, she having filed suit for divorce, and was shot through the heart E. J. Broadbent has brought suit against the Utah Power & Light company, com-pany, asking for $25,300 for the death of his son Theodore, 11 years of age, who was electrocuted in the foothills east of Ogden, April 4. ' Senator George Sutherland, who has represented Utah in the United States senate for ten years, announced last week that he was a candidate for re-election to succeed himself as United Unit-ed States senator for Utah. The state has no jurisdiction over subterranean waters like those tapped by Ogden City in developing its municipal mun-icipal well system, the city commissioners commis-sioners have been informed by a letter let-ter from W. D. Beers, state engineer. When Frank Paglusia, a Salt Lake saloon man, made up his cash and left the saloon one night recently, a lone robber made him return to the barroom bar-room ,open the safe and hand over $143, his gold watch and a chain and charm. Bonds of the Kaysville Irrigation company and the Kays Creek Irrigation Irriga-tion company, both of which companies com-panies propose to furnish water for the irrigation of 11,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Kaysville, have been placed. While Mrs. George Halverson of Ogdeu was searching in the basement for a pair of cast-off shoes to give to Joe Hartman, aged 19 years, who ap-. plied to her for assitance, the youth is said to have stolen a gold watch; valuo'd at $50, Six months in the county jail is the penalty that Anderson Kyle, colored.; must pay for killing Charles Vaughn, also colored, in a brawl at the Majestic Ma-jestic Social club .at Qgden last month; Kyle being ooiivtcted pf involuntary manslaughter. The county assessor's report from Duchesne county shows the assessed valuutlbn of real estate in the county as $1,065,069; improvements, $148,-453; $148,-453; live stock, $420,155, and personal property other than live stock, $146,-566; $146,-566; total, $1,780,243. While a rumor has been afloat for some time that the Knight interests were considering a proposition to erect a large grain elevator at the Knight dry farm northwest of Eureka, it is now an assured fact that the work will soon be under way. Notwithstanding the excitement that has been occasioned in Colorado by the crossing of Indians from the Uinta reservation into Rio Blanco county, Colorado, H. W. Dietz, superintendent super-intendent of Indian irrigation, say3 that not more than twenty-five Indians In-dians have crossed the line. At a mass meeting held at the Commercial Com-mercial club rooms at Spanish Fork, to arrange for a Fourth of July celebration, cele-bration, members of the Commercial club volunteered to relieve the citizens citi-zens of the responsibility of arranging for the celebration, and the matter was placed entirely in the hands or the Commercial club. The Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway company is building a power sub-station at Hot Springs to cost about $4,-0U0 $4,-0U0 and this building may also be used as a passenger depot at that point. Engineers of the company say the completion of the line between Ogden and Preston will necessitate additional relay power stations. With the adoption by the city commission com-mission of a traffic ordinance that complies with the new state traffic law, the police at Ogden have been instructed to enforce its provisions and to give special emphasis to that provision forbidding drivers of motor vehicles to pass any street car that Is stopped to take on or discharge passengers. pas-sengers. Taking the stand that to shorten the school term of the city schools two weeks or aii;' time (luring the next school year would be the most severe blow the school system of Salt Lake could receive, the Salt J,ake Teachers' association has ai-ked th;it the hoard reconsider its action and rprall all teachers' contracts that have the short term proviso in them. Lola Davis of Spanish Fork was badly cut in Beveral places on her face and arms by fragments of glass from an exploding bottle of root beer. She was In the act of placing the bottle upon ice while at work In her father's confectionery store when the explosion occurred. Lorenz von. Arnim, who waa arrested arrest-ed for the alleged theft at Salt Lake of a strorfg box belonging to the Maharajah Ma-harajah of Kapurthala, India, and containing con-taining letters of credit worth nearly halt a million dollars, ha3 been charged charg-ed with burglary in the th"!rd""dcgrea. |