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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Late fruits and vegetables are developing de-veloping rather slowly in Utah, owing to the cool weather, but they are in good or excellent condition. At American Fork, on August 21, the large tithing barn was destroyed by fire, enl.iiliug a loss of $1,000. It is not known how the fire started. A state-wide convention of club leaders lead-ers is to be held in I'rovo, September 3, 4, 5 and (, all the plans for the meeting having been completed last week. Continued ill health caused Mrs. Mary Wilson to attempt suicide at Salt Lake, taking a dose of poison, but. she was rushed to the hospital and her recovery re-covery seems probable. The Piute irrigation project in Sevier county is to be completed, ac-ocrding ac-ocrding to a decision of the state land board. The enterprise will involve the expenditure of about 250,000. A. II. Mess of Salt Lake was fatally fatal-ly injured when his automobile went over a fifteen-foot embankment. The lights of the machine went out on a-sharp a-sharp curve, causing the accident. George Laurence Morgan, the young farmer of Smitlii'ield Vho was found dead in his room in a Salt Lake hotel, died from apoplexy, and was not the victim of a gang of poisoners, as first reported. On August 21 the treasury department depart-ment authorized the Salt Lake assay office to pay 87 cents an ounce for silver. This is the highest price paid by the government for silver metal since 1873. The Utah Cereal Food company at Ogden is building six immense elevators ele-vators that will have a combined capacity of 300,000 bushels oi grain, it being expected they will be ready by October 1. While bathing in the Jordan river near Salt Lake, Henry Oberg, aged 25, was drowned. Diving from a bridge, he failed to return to the surface of the river. An undercurrent is believed to have carried the body away. According to newspaper accounts received re-ceived by Benjamin Goddard at the church bureau of information, more than a score of Mormon Maori students stu-dents from the agricultural school at Napier, New Zealand, are at the fighting fight-ing front According to a resolution passed by the Weber county board of commissioners, commis-sioners, property owners in Ogdeu will pay taxes this year under an increased in-creased tax levy, totalling 20.711 mills, this being .611 of a mill more than the levy of 1916. The state industrial commission, acting in its capacity as a board of arbitration and conciliation, last week handed down an award of 35 cents a day increase in the wages of Salt Lake machinists who were asking an advance ad-vance in wages. Farmers of Utah county are being urged to sell horses direct to the government gov-ernment instead of to agents. The government will pay 100 to $250 per head for horses to be used in the cavalry, light and heavy artillery and other branches of the service. In one particular at least Piute county leads every county in Utah. Last week it sent in its certified lists to the exemption board and not an exemption ex-emption was claimed, nor was any notice no-tice of appeal given. The quota of the county was ten men, but the board certified twelve men. Reports of wanton killing of sage hens iu certain portions of Summit county have been exaggerated, according accord-ing to R. H. Siddoway, state fish and game commissioner. In no part of tha county have game chickens been exterminated. ex-terminated. While there have been instances in-stances of ruthless killing, game is still plentiful. According to reports from Alpine, prohibition got a poor start in that section, "cider drunks" becoming prevalent since the state went "dry." The additional information is offered that the "cider drunk" is more lasting than the "beer drunk," the victims remaining re-maining in an Intoxicated condition . fdr days. The city officials of Bringham City have finally secured a w-ater supply for the waterworks system that will remove the water question from the calendar for many years to come. The city has just purchased one-third of the flow of Maple springs, located about three miles southeast of the cown of Mantua. According to the weekly crop summary sum-mary furnished by the weather bureau, a fair sized crop of tomatoes is assured. as-sured. Potatoes and other vegetables are progressing satisfactorily. Beets are growing well. Corn is in good condition. A large portion of the grain crop has been harvested and threshing is in progress. The second crop of alfalfa has yielded well, except in small areas where injured by weevils or grasshoppers, grass-hoppers, according to a report furnished fur-nished by J. Cecil Alter, meterologist. Pastures are reported poor in Emery county, and dry but holding out fairly fair-ly well in Juab, Tooele and Boxelder counties, elsewhere they are excellent. |