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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Farmers in the vicinity of Delta and Nephi are expecting to harvest record crops this year. Irvin Booth, aged 19, of American Fork, was killed at Biackfoot, Idaho, while attempting to board a train. The 18-months-old son of Gilbert Cox of Provo was fatally injured when struck by a Denver & Rio Grande train. Thiras 'Magranios, a Greek, was struck by a train at Castilla, and fatally fa-tally injured. He had just stepped from a bunk car and did not see the approaching train. 'Struck by a pitched ball in a base ball game at 'Salt Lake, Chester Meyers, Mey-ers, aged 18 years, suffered a slight concussion of the brain, but is reported report-ed to have recovered. While repairing the roof of the meeting house in Harrisville, Weber county, Erick J. Hestbeck fell to the ground, his right hip being injured and several ribs fractured. Building operations are now well under way for the new moving picture pic-ture theater for Nephi. The new; show house is being built by a local company, and will cost $20,000. That large crops of virtually every sort of grain, grass and vegetables, indigenous to Utah, may be raised in the vicinity of Nada, Utah, has been demonstrated by the experimental farm at that place. In the district court at Price, Theo-dones Theo-dones Movolus, a Greek, who killed a fellow countrymen in the mine at Sun-nyside Sun-nyside about a year ago, robbed his body and fled, pleaded guilty to murder mur-der in the first degree. One million flies have been exterminated exter-minated as the result of the theater-. ticket campaign inaugurated in the : fly-swatting contest ten day ago, ac- cording to the report of the city sanitary san-itary inspector at Ogden. Final figures given out by the state board of equalization on the 1914 assessment as-sessment of public utilities companies Bhow that this year's total assess ments amount to $53,864,079, as compared com-pared to $53,715,532 last year. Plans have been perfected for a monster celebration of the Fourth of : July at Bingham. The celebration will begin on the morning of July 3 and July 5 will be devoted to a gradual gradu-al return to normal conditions. Mrs. Edna Call came near meeting death by lightning when a crashing bolt shattered a tree within thirty feet of her as she was crossing the street at Bountiful. She was unconscious uncon-scious for more than an hour from the shock. The 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Runnels of Eureka had his hand badly mangled and two of his ribs broken when a giant cap exploded ex-ploded in his hand. The youngster was pounding the cap with a rock when it exploded. D. C. Miller, son of Alelvin M. Miller of Murray, and D. C. Davis, son of Clara Davis of Taylorsvllle, are being held pending an investigation investiga-tion into the death of Miss iFlorence Davis, 18 . years old, who was fatally injured in an automobile wreck near Salt (Lake. Industrial centers where courses in manual training and domestic science will be offered for children of the public schools who are without profitable pro-fitable employment during the summer sum-mer months have been opened in twelve of the public school buildings in Salt Lake. The courses will run for eight weeks. Claiming to ba General Emilio Aguinaldo's son, Guellermo Rodriguez Rod-riguez Aguinaldo, 24 years of age, enlisted in the United States navy ai Salt Lake last week. He says that his father is a millionaire. He will enter the service as a mess attendant, attend-ant, third class, receiving $16 per month and found. The county commissioners of Carbon Car-bon county have decided to assess all of the holdings of the mining companies compan-ies in the county used as residence ground at $1,000 an acre. Much of this ground, on which the business houses and residences of the camps have been erected, has been assessed as low as $2.50 per acre. The United States reclamation service has received assurances from the farmers of Payson, Salem and Sautaquin guaranteeing the cultivation cultiva-tion of enough land under the Strawberry Straw-berry valley project to warrant the government in the construction of a high line canal which will place a large acreage under irrigation. While Mrs. Fred Searle and three children were driving from their home at York, the horses ran away, throwing the occupants in the wagon about fifty feet, killing the little girl, 3 years old, breaking both arms of the S-year-old girl, and the boy, 12 years old, lay unconscious for several sev-eral hours. Mrs. Searl's back was injured in-jured and one rib broken. A. R. Mclnyre of Ogden was unanimously unan-imously elected president of the Utah Pharmaceutical association in convention conven-tion at salt Lake. A sociability automobile run from Colorado Springs to Salt Lake over the Pike's Peak international scenic highway will probably be arranged for August through the co-operation of the Colorado Springs chamber of commerce and the Salt Lake Commercial Com-mercial club. The board of county commissioners of Salt Lake county, by a vote of 2 to 1, voted to throw out the voting machines at the coming election in Salt Lake county and to return to the use of the old Australian system ol voting by paper ballot. |