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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The Democratic state convention will be held August 18 in Ogden. A campaign has begun to put a stop to bootlegging in the dry districts of Salt Lake county. Figures furnished by the auditor for Grand county show that the valuation of all taxable property is now $4 -200,810. Concrete work being !one on the state highway near Riverdale, Weber county, will be completed within the next week. Benjamin E. Harker, physical director direc-tor of the Deseret gymnasium, at Salt Lake, died July 13 from injuries sustained sus-tained in a motorcycle accident. Sentence of Frank De Pretto, accomplice ac-complice of Harry Brewer, will be commuted from death to life imprisonment imprison-ment by the state board of pardons. Paul Mondervich, an Austrian, 20 years old, employed in the Highland Boy mine at Bingham, was instantly killed by a landslide in the mine shaft. Eighty:eight families were helped by the Charity Organization society of Salt Lake during the month of June, according to the report of the general secretary. Governor William Spry and Mayor W. Mont Ferry will welcome the master mas-ter bakers of the country to Salt Lake City when they open their annual convention con-vention August 7. Progressives of Utah will disband as a party and all members will be urged to enter the Republican conventions conven-tions in the state if the plans of the leaders are carried out. The estate left by Dr. Charles F. Osgood, who was murdered two months ago at Ogden by Heber Burch, is worth $195,074.24, according to the report of the county appraisers. Mrs. Lee Mackay was fatally burned at Eureka as the result of a gasoline explosion when she was cleaning clothes with gasolfne, the Mackay home being destroyed by the flames. Orazio Rapole has been bound over to the district court on the charge of mrudering Amos B. Neff, the crime having been committed at the Neff home in the East Mill Creek district on the night of June 26. Contract for the purchase by the state from Van Wagoner brothers of Midway, Wasatch county, of property once owned and operated by the Wasatch Wa-satch Trout company, to be used as a state fish hatchery, was completed last week. Interest in the proposed packing plant in Monticello is keen. The proposal pro-posal is to have a plant that will handle han-dle at least sixty hogs a week. A cold storage plant and ice-making outfit are included in tie list of probable appurtenances. ap-purtenances. Until the army assigned to guard the Mexican border is recruited to full war strength Fort Douglas may be converted con-verted into a big army training camp froiii which units of infantry and cavalry cav-alry may be dispatched to the border from week to week. Three months of servitude in the county jail was the sentence imposed upon Ezra Baker, aged 20 years, when he pleaded guilty in the juvenile juve-nile court to having induced a 14-year-old girl of Bingham to enter into a runaway marriage. It is reported that the Utah-Idaho Sugar company will build a sugar factory fac-tory in Emery county providing the Denver & Rio Grande railroad will construct a branch line from Price, twenty-eight miles south, to haul beets to the factory. Lieut. Charles Hines, connected with the marine corps of the western division of the war department and stationed at San Francisco, will be adjutant ad-jutant of the citizens' military training camp, to be helf at Fort Douglas from August 21 to September 16. The Salt Lake Commercial club has wired the Utah representatives in congress con-gress urging them to support the bill now before the house conferees, providing pro-viding for an appropriation of $9,640,-800 $9,640,-800 for organizing and maintaining twelve militia aero squadrons. Rock Channing, a prominent Utah mining engineer and president of the Utah Consolidated Mining company, ias been designated by Colonel Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt to raise a regiment of cavalry as a part of Colonel Roosevelt's Roose-velt's proposed division in case of war with Mexico. Shipment of hogs to slaughter tiouses from quarantined areas where iny trace of hog cholera has been found recently is not to be tolerated, except under strictest observance of nspection requirements, according to Heber C. Smith, state dairy and food ;ommissioner. The government crop report issued July 7 shows the greatest gain for Utah in potatoes. The July 1 forecast gives the state a crop of 3,030,000 Dushels as compared with last year's 3nal estimate of 2,500,000 bushels. Sixty Ute Indians have left the Ute eservation and are now in the south-;rn south-;rn part of the state below Monticel-o, Monticel-o, at Navajo Springs, where they will ;onduct the annual Ute Indian bud lance in the very near future. |