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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Employees in the Utah-Idaho sugar factory gave a ball Wednesday at the Payso-i pavilion. Franklin D. Steed, a prominent farmer and dairy man, of Farmington, died suddenly of apoplexy. Mrs. Bertha Davis,, aged 38, a former for-mer resident of Logan, suicided at Ogden, taking carbolic acid. The total receipts from timber sales from the Wasatch national forest for-est this year will reach $60,000, in the opinion of Supervisor Bruins. As a safeguard against shoplifting during the rush previous to Christmas, Christ-mas, several Ogden department stores have employed special detectives. Fifty more men are to be put to work on' the beet sugar factory, which is being 'built by the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company at West Jordan. At a municipal election held at Kamas, the bond issue of $15,000 for the construction of a modern, sanitary sani-tary water plant was favorably voted, 59 to 34. Children playing with matches set fire to the barn and warehouse of Benjamin O. Carlston at Ephraim. The fire completely destroyed the building build-ing and contents. With the re-election of J. C: Knud-ion Knud-ion of Brigham City as president for another year, the annual convention of the Utah State Horticultural society so-ciety was concluded at Ogden. There are fewer deaths in Utah in proportion to the population than in any other state in the Union except Kansas, according to statistics compil- ' ed by the United States census bureau. The 6-week-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Boyns of Eureka was found dead in her cradle Thursday by the mother after she had nursed the baby and had gone about her work. Thomas Canfield, 23 years of age, a master mechanic of .the Utah Co per company at Bingham, was brought to St. Mark's hospital suffering from a broken ankle, caused toy an accidental acci-dental fall. J. Harward of Springville "was arrested ar-rested by Deputy Sheriff C. H. Clark for Sheriff J. S. Corless of Salt Lake, who wants Harward for passing checks that were not ipaid because of no funds. Experts for the Utah-Idaho (Sugar company are in the Uintah 'basin making mak-ing an examination and analyses- the soils of that part of the state to determine pcssibilities of growing sugar beets there. Samuel E. Diston, a coal miner, was killed in the workings of the Union Fuel company's mine at Grass Creek when the roof of an underground under-ground chamber fell in and a pile ot rocks showered down. Crosbie Pickering, 31 years of age, a lineman employed hy the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph com-pany, com-pany, sustained serious, hut not fatal, injuries when he fell twenty-five feet from the top of a pole. John Hasalone, 51 years of age, proprietor pro-prietor of a barber shop in Bingham, died Monday of inhalation pneumonia, induced by injury to his lungs whea he came near drowning in a swimming swim-ming pool at Salt Lake. On request of the Pocatello, Idaho, authorities, iSheriff John S. Corless has arrested W. M. Crowther, who is wanted in Pocatello on a grand larceny lar-ceny charge. He is alleged to have stolen a team of horses and brought it to Salt Lake. Charging that in the past two years the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway company com-pany has killed two cows and several pigs that strayed upon the right of way, near Layton, A.' J. Morgan of Ogden hrought suit against the company com-pany for the recovery of about $225, "vVUiile all arrangements have 'been made by the local committee whichis raising money to keep open the XJ!tah building at the San Diego exposition the coming year, the. campaign for funds will not be pushed until the Utah expositions commission decides what shall he done with the building. As the law creating the commission says that at the end of the exposition year the building shall revert to the state of Utah, the commission has asked the advice of Attorney General A. R. Barnes as to whether it is permissible per-missible to sell the building to the local committee for a nominal sum. There were filed with the county recorder , of Provo, fifty applications made to the United States reclamation reclama-tion commission for water from thef Strawberry valley reclamation project. pro-ject. The applications are from Lake Shore farmers. Henry Jones of Provo got two falls from Butch Atkin of Idaho in a fast mat bout Thursday night.- Jones won the first in 34 'minutes, Atkins the second in 15 minutes and Jones the third in 8 minutes. Goddard and Spencer, both of Provo, wrestled to a drawk in a preliminary. Offert heat Cliff in a four-round boxing match. Claude Murdock was the referee in wrestling and Mel Cox in 'boxing. |