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Show THE UTAH BUDGET I'tah bankers will hold their state invention ill OgUen .In no 23 and 24. It is announced th;t a sugur factory j. tl, lie built near Logan, in the Benson Ben-son ard. Two thousand dollars will be spent u,,0n the improvements of the road tliroukli i'n'ic-y's eanyon this year. Formal opening of the ne'V cpj'iio! take place Tuesday, June 2S, the second day 01 luo na;ional eonl'ereuee governors, to bo held in Sail Lake Sis y,ar- Thomas K. Williams, years of pi!P night ear inspector lor the Salt Uke IUnite at Lynndyl, was caught sj J crushed to death between a switch elfine and a coach. To commemorate the completion . of lie Strawberry vi'Uey irrigation pro ject and the coining of the lnterurban. a big joint celebration will be held at fjyson May 2o and 27. William Maguire, aged r2, was choked to dealt, by .lames Burke in the city jail at Ogden, where the two men had been placed in a cell. The two men were intoxicated. Charles Keefe, a veteran bartender of Anaconda, is iu a padded cell in Salt Lake, having become uumanage-sMe uumanage-sMe while stopping at a local hotel. He will be sent back to Montana. The mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon can-yon has practically been decided urcn by Fred V. Chambers, state fish aad game commissioner, as the location loca-tion for a Salt Lake county game sanctuary. sanc-tuary. The potash plant which is being built at Grants for the Diamond Match company is rapidly nearing completion. comple-tion. The walls for tho large buildings build-ings are up and the ron's are being placed. The assessed valuation of Brigham City, under the new method of full Taluatiou on property, is $2,222,490. This is aside from public utilities, which are taxed by the state board of equalization. Nearly 18 per cent of the lumber tsed in Utah, southern Idaho and in Lincoln md Uinta counties, Wyo., in 1515 was cut from timber growing locally, lo-cally, according tc the Ogden branch of the forest service. Railroads centering in and around Salt Lake City are planning to expend SIO.OOO.OOO in Improvements this year to facilitate the handling of business, according to Ballard Dunn of Chicago, an expert on railroad problems. G. H. Jack, a Utah artist, is undertaking under-taking the modeling of a statue of A'jraham Lincoln to be placed at the capitol ground 3. It is the hope of IMr. Jack to have the piece or sculpture ready for the dedication of the state house. A cave' long and narrow, full of ashes in which were many bones, and in the midst of all a skeleton of a child wrapped in cedar bark in ancient an-cient Indian fashion, are the finds on tte farm of John W. Weist, eight miles from Vernal. Dr. C. F. Ogood, aged 48, one of Os-ien's Os-ien's wealthy residents and a well k-oan physician and surgeon, was shot three times and killed as he sat in his automobile. His murderer, Meter Me-ter Burch, aged 44, a farmer, is believed be-lieved to be insane. Within the next few weeks a site on the capitol grounds at Salt Lake for the monument to the Mormon battalion bat-talion will be selected. The selection 'ill be made jointly by the Mormon battalion monument committee and the capitol commission. Embezzlement of $3,831 of the finds of the Cx:er State bank of Cop-Perfield Cop-Perfield is charged against A. Walter Koehler, cashier f the bank, in a complaint issued a few days ago. Koehler Koeh-ler claims he was robbed of the amount by a lone bandit. Dr. Charles Poplin Harvieile, assistant assist-ant county physician of Salt Lake county, died May 2 in Denver from an affection of the throat, after a long Illness. Dr. Harvieile was one of the test known men in the west and had been actively Interested in outdoor sports. James Lynch, -who on January 1 was Paroled from the Utah state feniten-"ary feniten-"ary after having served seventeen years for the murder of Colonel George Prowse in 1899, has, in the estimation es-timation of the police, broken his parole pa-role and is thereby a fugitive from Justice. A comparatively low rate of increase in-crease in the assessed valuation of Washington county for 1916 as compared com-pared with 1915 is shown by the re-Port re-Port of the assessor for that eoutty c:ed with the state board of equr.iiza-,ion. equr.iiza-,ion. The valuation for 1916 is ?2,-6,9i5 ?2,-6,9i5 as compared with $1,199,900 r 1915. Plans are being made to covert the Bve companies of infantry of the Utah National Guard into cavalry troops, supplementing troop A, and to organize two more cavalry troops, &iv'ing the state militia two complete "attalions of cavalry. An'one Leta, the Italian leper con-"Ded con-"Ded at the Salt Lake county hospital, 18 improving. |