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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The Peach day festival at Brigham City will be held September 14. Salt Lake will probably be the scene of the 191S meeting of the national na-tional tax conference. ' Box Elder county will have a county coun-ty agent to look. after the agricultural Interests of the county. I Leela Hyland, aged 9, wis killed by a train on the Utah Copper company's tracks at Bingham. Her body was Completely severed. Crop and range conditions in the I southern and southeastern part of the state are in better condition than they have been for a number of years. Three hundred men, women and In working on the public swimming pool, leveling and excavating for the ' children spent Labor day at Richfield pool. James H. Wallis of Salt Lake City has been employed by the state board of health to score the clean town contest con-test being conducted in Utah this year. Harvesting of Brigham City's peach crop is now in full swing and evey available man and boy in the city is engaged in the big task of gathering the crop. The Iron county fair this year will be held in Cedar City. An entirely new race course has been constructed. The fair will be held September 12, 13 and 14. An increase of 441 in registration on the first day of school was recorded record-ed in the public schools of Salt Lake, as compared with the first day of school a year ago. Charges that her husband made her plow, pitch hay and do other manual labor on the farm, contrary to her -wishes and desires, are made in a divorce di-vorce suit filed by a Salt Lake woman. Mrs. Bertha Rynders, Mrs. Verna Love and Ernest Love, "Jie three persons per-sons shot by Tony De Bocco, an Ital-ion, Ital-ion, who ran amuck aPSalt Lake, are .reported to be recovering from their injuries. Eric Carlson, 3S years of age, is at a Salt Lake hospital suffering from concussion of the brain received when fhe team which he was driving while returning from a funeral in Bingham ran away. Lorenzo Hopla, of Mapleton, took a shotgun from the house and placed the muzzle against his forehead and pulled the trigger. Both barrels were discharged and the top of the man's head blown completely off. Upon being refused a drink Fred Dalton, aged 30 years, son of Mrs. Dell Dalton of Salt Lake, shot himself him-self in the washroom of a saloon at Ogden, death resulting before medical attention could be summoned. To reduce the running time of trains an average of fifteen minutes between Ogden and Preston, the Ogden, Logan & Idaho interurban has constructed a cut-off between Hot Springs and Brigham Brig-ham City at a cost of approximately $300,000. To assist in the development of southern Utah and in making Little Zion valley accessible to tourists, the federal government has appropriated $15,000 toward the construction of a highway through Mukuntuweap national na-tional monument of which Little Zion valley is a part. Holding certificates for discharge under the dependent family act six troopers of the Utah cavalry in service serv-ice on the Mexican border reported at Fort Douglas last week to Lieut. Eu-. Eu-. gene Santschi, chief mustering officer, for formal releases. Harry Allen, a young car inspector for the Salt Lake Route, lost in a thrilling race on a railway velocipede with the Los Angeles limited train between be-tween Boulter and Lynndyl, and is now reported in a dying condition at a Salt Lake hospital. Young Peter Jackson, negro prize fighter, and E. J. Goodman, have been released from custody at Salt Lake, a coroner's jury having decided that Richard O'Donnell fell from a window to his death, instead of being mur- dered by the two men. Millers of Salt Lake and Utah are facing a shortage of wheat and sharp advances in the price of flour are predicted pre-dicted unless the market in Chicago goes lower, preventing the farmers and the elevators in the intermountain country from shipping to the east and to seaports on the west. A "watermelon bust" was one of the features of the Labor day celebration held at the Hermitage in Ogden canyon, can-yon, under the auspices of the Ogden Og-den Trades and Labor assembly. Plans for opening far western headquarters head-quarters at Salt Lake with Senator Smoot in charge are now under consideration con-sideration by the Republican national committee, according to information received at Salt Lake. A veritable .vild man of the hills was taken into custody by deputies from the sheriff's office when the stranger wae discovered by North Ogden young men in the foothilla Bear that place. The man, who is believed be-lieved to be insane, is about 50 years of age and a foreigner, probably Itaiian. |