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Show THE UTAH BUDGET It cost ?1,143.S.'iS.22 to operate the public school system of Salt Lake during the school year ending June iO. lien B. Kinninghani, 2o years of age, was killed when caught under caving ground while at work iu a sewer trench at Salt Lake. Official announcement that tho annual an-nual encampment of the national guard of I'lah will be held at Brig-ham Brig-ham City, July 18 to HO, is made. A full city ticket will be placed in the field by the Logan Betterment league next fall, according to a decision de-cision reached by members of this body. Mrs. Rose A. Layton, 72 years of age, a pioneer of Davis county, a resident res-ident of Layton, the town named after af-ter her late husband, Christopher Layton, died July 13. An earthquake shock, caused scientists scien-tists say, by crustal displacement, was felt throughout Salt Lake, Bear River and Utah valleys at 2 o'clock Thursday Thurs-day afternoon, July 15. . Tourist travel to the intermountain country, to the expositions and the coast from, all eastern points is unprecedented. un-precedented. There were over 4,000 visitors from the middle and eastern states in Salt Lake one day last week. Run over by the wagon on which he had been riding, when the team attached at-tached thereto ran away, Eugene Pax ton, 4',2 years old, son of Eugene Pax ton of Taylorsville, received injuries which resulted in his death. An order from Australia for $41,-250 $41,-250 worth of butter was received last week by a Salt Lake creamery. The order calls for 2,500 cubes of sixty-six pounds of butter, each at a price oi 25 cents a pound f. o. b. Salt Lake. The city commission of Provo has passed an ordinance creating street paving district No. 1, comprising Center Cen-ter street from Academy avenue to Fifth West Btreet. The estimated cost of the improvement is $20,016.48. A shipment of 200 pounds of late cherries has been sent to San Diego by J. Edward Taylor, secretary of the state horticultural commission and di rector of the horticultural exhibits In the Utah buildings at San Diego and at San Francisco. Three diamond rings, representing a total value of $1,000, were stolen from a jewelry store on Main street in Salt Lake, in broad daylight, by a man who was examining them on pretense pre-tense that he intended to purchase one. He made good his escape. An aged bootlegger at Logan who has been operating for some years past, was nabbed by the police at Logan recently and sentenced to pay a fine of $299 and to serve ninety days in jail. It is the stiffest sentence sen-tence ever given there for that sort of an offense. No bond issue for road purposes will be attempted by Salt Lake county coun-ty this year. Instead a general levy of 2 to 3 mills will be added to the county tax levy this year, and the money thus derived will be devoted to the improvement of state highways high-ways within the county. The Salt Lake high school cadets were a conspicuous feature of the floral pageant at Los Angeles on July 14. They led the marching division divi-sion of several excellent organizations, organiza-tions, and their number and appearance appear-ance won great applause. Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of the state board of health and president of the state humane society, has received re-ceived a report from Dr. Vance that there is a case of anthrax in Pleasant Grove. A child of a butcher there was recently infected by a fly bite and the child will probably die. All work has been stopped at the Midvale and Salt Lake finishing plants and at the Little Cottonwood quarries of the Utah Consolidated Stone company, by a strike among its 200 workmen. The company says its contract with the men calls for settlement settle-ment of differences by arbitration. George C. Johnston of Salt Lake for many years a guard at the state prison, died July 10 at the age of 49 years. Mr. Johnston was a brothel of Sergeant J. Henry Johnston of the police department, who was killed the night of July 4, 1911, by Elmer L Dewey. About 125 girls and boys from Tooele were able to see the Liberty bell at Salt Lake Sunday as a resull of the kindness of business and pro fessional men of the city, who are the owners of automobiles and who were willing to use them to give the young sters a good time. More than three times as manj births as deaths occurred in Salt Lake during the past week, according to the weekly report of the city board ol health. There were 49 births againsl 14 deaths. A crowd estimated at 25,000 to 35, 000 people viewed the Liberty bei: during its stop an hour and sixteer minutes at Ogden. |
