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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The Cache county fair, held at Lo gan, was a success in every way. Ogdon is now connected by rail foi an electric line with Preston, Idaho. Duo to careless waste of water, according ac-cording to water officials, Salt bake C'i;y is again facing a shortage of supply. Biplane (lights, horse races, ball games and exhibitions of farm prod nets were features of the fair held at Price last week. The farmers at Springviile who are now harvesting their beet crop are very much disappointed in the way the crop is turning out. James Hill, who died at Spanish Fork as the result of being kicked in the stomach by a wild colt, was buried on his twentieth birthday. In four minutes, at the Rotary club luncheon at Salt Lake on Tuesday, $2, fiOO was subscribed by members foi the automobile highway to Wendover Utah. For dynamiting fish in the headwat ers of the Provo river, Jed Prescott ol Francis, Summit county, has been fined $200 by Justice of the Peace Young at Coalville. Large attendance, manifest earnest ness and unbounded enthusiasm marked the thirty-second annual gath ering of the Utah Baptist state con vention at Salt Lake last week. The sugar factory at Layton will be completed and ready for operations October 1. Farmers are delivering beets and wiil have a big supply on hand when the $500,000 plant is ready. Five Voung men were injured, one seriously, in Murray in an automobile accident, and one of them, Henry Sanders, San-ders, the driver, is being held in the Murray jail on a charge of reckless driving. By reason of the fine delegation it had, Utah received much favorable mention and attention at the Panama-Pacific Panama-Pacific dental congress held at the San Francisco exposition, August 30 to September 9. Utah bankers who attended the American Bankers' association convention con-vention in Seattle have returned from he meeting enthusiastic over the success suc-cess of the convention and the hospitality hos-pitality of the Pacific northwest city. Because John B. Loftis, conductor, put Thomas Manning and Wiibert Lahey, alleged tramps, off a train at Midvale, they attached him. One stabbed him in the chest with a small knife, inflicting a painful but no; serious seri-ous wound. The first annual fair of the boys' and girls' clubs of the Hawthorne and Magna schools of the Granite district was held last week in these sch ol bouses, twenty-three winning first prizes for their agricultural and domestic do-mestic science exhibits. The body of Frank N. Herzog, bluejacket, blue-jacket, who went down with subma-ine subma-ine F-4 in Honolulu harbor in March, rrived in Salt Lake on September 23, after a journey which began at Honolulu Hono-lulu seventeen days previous. Herzog's home was in Salt Lake. Baited with a couple of small bets on a make-believe horse race a:id mred on by the seeming rich stakes held out. F. A. Beard, 59, a retired farmer from Ponca City, Okla., says he was buncoed out of $5,000 in cash by two men at Salt Lake. Solicitude for the t-afety of two young girls, who were walking along the Rio Grande tracks at Salt Lake, cost Hans C. Rasmussen, a watchman, his life. In warning the girls of their danger, he stepped upon the track and was run down by a train. Excavation work at the site of the new sugar factory to be built by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company at West Jordan has been started. The tracks to the beet storage bins have been laid and everything is being done to push the plant to completion. Negotiations to secure co-operation of United States forestry officials in handling campers and cattle on the watersheds of Big Cottonwood and other canyons have been taken up by the Salt Lake county physician with officials of the Wasatch forest reserve. re-serve. All objections to the distribution of the $7,000,000 estate of David Eccles as prayed for by David C. Eccles, the administrator, last March, are withdrawn with-drawn in a notice filed in the district court at Ogden, following the payment to the guardian of Albert Geddes Eccles of $150,000. William Baumgarten, 3 years of age, accidentally shot his grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Sickinger, at their home near the mouth of the canyon at Garfield. Gar-field. The child found a 22-calibre rifle and, pointing it at his grandmother, grand-mother, pulled the trigger. She is not dangerously injured. After October 1 all auditing of through passenger business of the Union Pacific system will be done in :he general offices of the company at Omaha, necessitating the charge in -ork of twenty-three men who have tandled the Oregon Short Line's pari )f these accounts in Salt Lake here-ofore. |