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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Scarcity of men h, (he Cameron coal mines is reported. IMnta county will will have about $14,(100 this year to spend on state roads. Charles Barnum of Green River suffered suf-fered three broken ribs when he fell on the railroad track. Two dogs, believed to have been suffering from rabies, were killed last week in Salt Lake county. Much improvement on roads in Carbon Car-bon county has been accomplished l his year, $:tO,Ono having been spent on stale roads. Grand county commissioners have allowed the Green River Telephone company rights to run lines to Emery in Grand county. Albert Wood, a farmer living near Murray, and his 12-year-old son were injured when a team drawing a load o hay ran away. Twenty-five thousand acres of state lands in Emery county will be offered for sale at public auction in Castle Dale on September 15. Charles Baxter of Boise, Idaho, has been lodged in the Ogden jail, charged with victimizing Ogdenites out of about $150 in bogus checks. L. Bills -of Salt Lake was injured when some one threw a rock at a dog. The rock struck the man on the right leg, causing a compound fracture. The school, population of Provo has increased but twelve in number over that of last year, according to the report re-port of this year's school census. The first annual session of the inter-mountain inter-mountain conference of Seventh-day Adventists is being held at Salt Lake, tents being used to accommodate the visitors. John Jovich has been arrested at Murray, which is in "dry" territory, 2harged with having been caught in the act of delivering six cases of beer to a boarding house. Starethan Mazroethis, an employe of the Garfield smelter, had his right foot cut off when alighting from a moving train in Salt Lake City, and Is in a serious condition. The city commissioners of Murray are considering the proposition of calling a bond election for the purpose pur-pose of issuing $150,000 bonds with which to install a new water system. Ashby Snow Thatcher and eleven other heirs of the late Moses Thatcher Thatch-er have filed suit in the district court against Lettie A. Farr Thatcher to recover possession of the Moses Thatcher home In Logan. More than 100 men and about twenty twen-ty teams were used in rebuilding City park at Brigham City on Wednesday of last week, the work all being donated do-nated to the city in an endeavor to make the park more attractive. The Brigham City Commercial club, the fruitgrowers of Box Elder county and the Oregon Short Line railroad have perfected arrangements for the annua? Box Elder county fete day at Brigham City on September 13. At the special election held at Vernal Ver-nal for the deciding of the question of extending the present city water system, the question was voted 41 to 20 to extend the system and $23,-500 $23,-500 was authorized for this purpose. A Salt Laker who desired to get rid of undesirable tenants of a shack belonging to him, set fire to the shack, and now faces a charge of malicious mischief. The fire was extinguished before much damage had been done. Jose Gonzales, the Mexican who was shot through the head in Salt Lake in a battle between Mexicans and officers, of-ficers, the fight resulting in the death of one Mexican and the fatal wounding wound-ing of another, is now expected to re-cove re-cove je Frencano, Aquino Arcantz and Feiainand Rodriquez, who entered Into the limelight in an attempted robbery rob-bery of the Highland Boy store In Bingham Canyon last week, have been bound over to the district court on a charge of robbery. The proposal to change the name of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad company to the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad company com-pany was ratified by unanimous vote at a special meeting of the stockholders stockhold-ers held in Salt Lake. " An hour each day has been set aside for traffic officers of the Salt Lake police force in which they will ride on street cars and watch for violations of the city ordinance which forbids an automobile to pass a car as it stops to take on passengers. William H. Eastman, 32 years of age, chief electrician at the Wilkes theater, Salt Lake, died August 16 from injuries received June 7 as the result of an automobile accident, when his fiancee, Miss Minnie Hatch, -was killed, their auto being struck by a car. The highest peak north of the Max-field Max-field mine, which towers above Big Cottonwood canyon to an elevation of iu,60u feet, has been' named in honor 3f Miss Flora S. Godfrey of Washington, Washing-ton, Iowa, who last week climbed tc he summit of the mountain unassisted. |