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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The annual convention of the Utah ?hristian Endeavor was held at Salt '.ake last week. While attempting to swallow a pea-tut pea-tut kernel given to it by the mother, he 2-year-old child of Mr. and .Mrs. rson Anderson of Uinta choked to '.eath. Jess Gesas, driver of the automo-lile. automo-lile. which caused the death of Ed-yard Ed-yard A. Davies and Gladys Mitchell, t Salt Lake, is to be prosecuted on i charge of involuntary manslaughter. With her face buried in a pillow inder a table, Mrs. Alice Miller, 33 years of age, was found dead on the loor of her home at Salt Lake. It is 'telieved she had taken poison with uicidal intent. William Keenan, aged 27, fireman or the Oregon Short Line, was clashed about the face by Aleck Ge-ros, Ge-ros, who conducts a restaurant at Salt Lke, following a.lispute over the jrice of a meal. At the conclusion of a three days' axamination for barbers, held by the state board of examiners of barbers at the secretary's office, there were twenty-six applicants, of which eighteen received re-ceived certificates. . Articles of incorporation of the Southern Utah Sugar company,' a million-dollar sugar corporation which proposes to operate in the Delta district dis-trict of Utah, have been filed with the secretary of state. Death by slow poisoning may be the fate of Mrs. Le Roy J. Stone of Og-den, Og-den, as the result of swallowing a quantity of disinfecting fluid at her home. Relatives assert that she took the fluid by mistake. Michael Maher, 40 years of age, section sec-tion foreman for the Denver & Rio Grande at Soldier Sumimit, was instantly in-stantly killed when he stepped itT front of a passenger train in getting out of the way of a freight train. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company distributed dis-tributed among farmers of Spanish Fork and vicinity approximately $200,-000 $200,-000 last week, as the first payment for the 1915 crop of beets. The largest larg-est pay day last year was $150,000. Salt Lake's chief of police has issued is-sued an order to patrolmen, detectives and traffic policemen to arrest all persons per-sons who violate any provisions 6f the traffic ordinance, and as a result numerous arrests have been made of late. William Bowen, aged 58, local manager man-ager of the Crane company, vice-president of the Commercial club, president presi-dent of the Y. M. C. A., and otherwise prominent in business circles in Salt Lake City, died November 16 from acute indigestion. Utah is among the states having the highest reported number of scarlet scar-let fever and typhoid cases, but it has the lowest reported rate of deaths from typhoid fever and is among the three lowest in the rate of deaths from scarlet fever. Weir Reid, the Utah industrial school student who recently committed commit-ted a series of depredations following his escape from the institution, has been sentenced to serve an .-indeterminate term of from one to ten years in the state prison. Utah probably will have to carry to the supreme court of the United States her fight for title to coal and mineral bearing lands contained in the school grants provided for by the enabling act passed by congress when the state was created. The officers of Brigham City confiscated confis-cated a large quantity of whisky found in a cache near the, Oregon Short Line depot, and the man who admitted ownership of the wet goods, W. W. Wymen, who gave his address as Pocatello, Idaho, was fined $50. To Green River goes the credit of shipping tiie latest car of watermelons watermel-ons that has been shipped in tie in-termountain in-termountain section in years. A. D. Lewis of Green River sent a carload of fine melons, untouched by frost, to Helper last week for distribution. Several shipments of goods from Paris and Japan went through the Salt Lake custom house one day last week, and duties amounting to $50C were assessed against them. The largest item was a shipment of gloves from France for a Salt Lake retailer. The Salt Lake Route will start next spring a detailed survey and investigation investi-gation of the feasibility of construct ing a branch line into the Uintah ba 6in. Such is the statement made bj former United States Senator W. A Clark of Montana, president of that road. An unusual accident took place at Lake Shore. Two young men, Torr. Ashby and Dell Thomas, brothers-in-law, were moving the porch of a house when a portion of the structure gave way and both were caught by falling fall-ing timbers. Both suffered fractured collar bones. An area of some 800 acres on the east side of Mount Timpanogos has been closed to grazing, the object being be-ing to preserve its scenic beauties. The Timpanogos trail leads to the only glacier in Utah, and it is claimed that the finest view in the state can be obtained from the top of Timpano eob mountain. |