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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The tax levy for Salt Lake for uv year has been fixed at 6.5 mills on th! dollar of assessed valuation. e Negotiations are pending betwei-eastern betwei-eastern capitalists and local men the establishment of a packing hotr' in Salt Lake. Eugene Hall, aged 19, was 8hot it the leg when he attempted to escan. from a policeman at Salt Lake, aftj being arrested. After considerable agitation atj discussion, the Salt Lake barfcer3 have decided not to raise the pnci, of haircuts and shaves. Branch recruiting offices for the Utah contingent of the National Guarj of the United States have teen es. tablished at Ogden and Murray. Utah troopers on the border celebrated cele-brated Pioneer day with a aeries of athletic events and "big eats," ac. cording to telegraphic advices frma Nogales. The Utah Products week win held this year from November 19 t() 25, according to a decision reached bj the manufacturers' association at meeting at Salt Lake. The frequent thunder showers occurring oc-curring throughout the state duritj the past two weeks have caused considerable con-siderable improvement in the condition condi-tion of crops and ranges. After more than a quarter of a century cen-tury of service as director of the Salt Lake tabernacle choir, Professor Evaa Stephens has tendered his resignation to the first presidency of the ilormca church. Millard county is asking the highway high-way commissioner to spend $8,000 on a road between Delta and Lynndyl, which will shorten the distance between be-tween Delta and Salt Lake by abou: fifty miles. William Fairborn, 35 years of age, a miner, fell out of a second-story window win-dow in a rooming house at Salt Laki while walking in his sleep, and e caped uninjured save for a sli';: wrench to his back. John Gosman, the irate parent who, in a fit of anger, struck his daughter when she became fagged in the load ing of a thirteenth wagonload 0' gravel, has been sentenced to thirty days in the Salt Lake county jail. If the country districts are to receive re-ceive benefit from the Ogden City fire department the county commissioners must agree to pay the city ?50 for each call answered, the Ogden cos-mission cos-mission decided at a recent meeting. The maximum state levy of 4.4 mills was authorized at the meeting of the 6tate board of equalization last week It is divided as follows: Two mills, state general fund; 2.2 mills, sta:6 school fund, and .2 of a mill, stare high school fund. Receipts from National Forests for the fiscal year 1916 reached the hip-water hip-water marked of approximately 820,000, according to figures just con-piled con-piled at Ogden. This is $341,000 above the 1915 total, which in turn exceeded exceed-ed any previous year. Fall wheat and. the first crop 0; alfalfa are now mostly cut, and the second crop of alfalfa is growing rapidly rap-idly and is in excellent condition, ex cept that damage by grasshoppers is reported from sections in Juab, Millard Mil-lard and Uintah counties. Work will be commenced at once on the construction of a gigantic reservoir reser-voir for the use of the Sunshine ranch, m?ar Jensen, so that lis crops can be irrigated during the biter bi-ter part of the summer when the water in the streams run low. Struck by lightning on his rifht side, his shirt and trousers torn w ribbons, his glove split in several places and a large hole cut in his shoe as it it were the work of a razor. Frank Fenstermaker, of Sandy, still lives to tell the tale. Two horses were killed at the time. A. Waiter Koehler, cashier of the Copperlield State bank at CopperSeld. charged with embezzlement, was dismissed dis-missed in the criminal division of th court at Salt Lake last week. Koehler Koeh-ler claims he was held ".p by a lone highwayman and $3.S00 of the bank's money taken from him. So successful is proving the combination com-bination sprinkling and road draggin? work being done by the county commissioners com-missioners and state road commission commis-sion in Utah county that tlie commissioners commis-sioners of Salt Lake county are contemplating con-templating inaugurating this work ia Salt Lake county at once. Levi Young, professor of America" history and head of the department of archaeology at the University of Ufa'1-reports Ufa'1-reports the discovery in a box can' yon in San Juan county of a pueblo containing seventeen rooms and five khivas, or ceremonial rooms, not Pre' viously visited, so far as is know"' by white men. Preliminary work on tlie Brigha City drainage district is progressinS as rapidly as the drainage law permit. The twenty-third annual reunion and campfire of Utah county War Veterans will be held at tie Utah lake resort, August 8 9, 10 II. |