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Show THE UTAH BUDGET; Suffering from eancer, Joseph A. Jensen, of Frovo, shot himself, firing two bullets into his brain. Citizens of Monh are planning tho organization of a ban., which it Is con, teniplated to be ready for business by May 15. '; A 'basement lire ln the T. U. Roberta iblock at Logan did several thousand dollars damage to stock and burned the floor of the ibuilding badly. Gladys Hyan, aged two years, was painfully injured by being knocked down by a runaway horse near tho family residence at Park City. Practically all or the federal offices, in Salt Lake were closed April 15 in observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the date of Lincoln's death. ' While attempting to arrest Clara Bragg, a women with a police record, Frank Glenn, city detective of Salt Lake, was stubbed twice in the throao with a pocket knife. The public schools of Ogden were closed on April 15 and 16, to allow students to observe Arbor day with tree planting and the cleaning of yards and grounds at their homes. The jitney bus, so far as that name applies to a five-cent passenger ve-. hide, is a matter of history In Ogden. The city commissioners refused .to grant licenses to the automobile owners. own-ers. Clifford Murphy, five and one-half years of age, son of Hyrum Murphy, a farmer of Mill Creek, was fatally injured when struck by an automobile automo-bile driven by Mrs. V. M. O'Brien of Salt Lake. The Kaysville Commercial club warj reorganized at an enthusiastic meeting meet-ing held last week. A membership campaign will be immediately waged, and a membership of at least 100 Is expected ex-pected within a month. County Commissioners P. J. Fen-nell Fen-nell and Perry B. Fuller were victims of a serious accident while on their way from Eureka to Nephi, the steering steer-ing rod of their automobile breaking, the machine going into the ditch. Search for the body of William A. Bills, 80 years of age, who has been missing from his home in Riverton fori over two weeks, and who is believed, to have fallen Into the Jordan .river; has been stopped by the high water in' the river. James O'Nell, who says he is a rep: resentative of the Hotel Gazette Pub- lishing company, was sentenced by Judge Reed at Ogden to serve thirty days in the city jail on the charge of obtaining hotel accommodations onl false pretenses. Apportionment of $315,433.90 state school money, now in the state treasury, was made at the office of the state superintendent of public instruct tlon last week. The division was made per capita on a basis of a school population popu-lation of 121,411. James Taylor, 22 years of age. thought to be a resident of Dubuque, Iowa, and a companion, about 23 years of age, whose name is not known, were struck and instantly killed by a passenger train near West Weber. Both men had gone to sleep on the track. Word has been received by United States Marshal Aquila Nebeker that a man answering to the description of William Morgan, who escaped five years ago while toeing taken from Salt Lake to the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, is under arrest at Rocky Mount, Va. Two important changes in the official offi-cial roster of the Oregon Short Line were announced last week when P. L. Williams, general counsel, and C. J. McNitt, auditor, were retired on pension. Mr. Williams will be succeeded suc-ceeded by George H. Smith, assistant general' counsel, and Mr. McNitt by L. R. Wood, assistant auditor. O. A. Kennedy of Ogden is to represent rep-resent the department of commerce, bureau of the census of the United States, in the counties of Weber, Davis, Da-vis, Boxelder, Cache, Rich and Morgan. Mor-gan. The duties of the deputy are to collect data and statistics pertain-, to the manufacturing institutions located lo-cated in the six counties of northern Utah. Broken-hearted after a quarrel with her older sister, and frieving over subsequent punishment from her mother, Nellie Spratling, 9-year-old. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Spratling of West Jordan, drank two teaspoonfuls of carbolic acid and died an hour later. Under the widow pension fund act, 250 widows received checks from Salt Lake county last week. This is the largest number to receive county aid in any one month since the pension fund was created. Each widow on the list receives $10 a month as long as the fund lasts. John Douglas, a state convict serving serv-ing a life sentence for the murder of his wife in Ogden about eighteen years ago, and one of the oldest prisoners pris-oners in point of servitude, became insane while working at the state oad camp in Washington county. He nU probably be sent to the asylum. |