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Show m UTAH BUDGET The women of Murray are planning Ae organization of a civic club. . Peach day activities are already un-ler un-ler way hy the Box Elder Commercial Jlub. Weber county's assessed valuation for 1917 will exceed its valuation for 1916 by several thousand dollars. Insurance premiums in Utah to be paid by employers under the workmen's work-men's compensation act, effective July 1, will amount to more than $2,600,000 annually. In line with its plans to make Og-den Og-den a central distributing point, the Continental Oil company has put men at work constructing two of the seven 60.000 gallon tanks. Weber county farm 'bureau officers have completed the distribution of seventy-two blooded Duroc sows to farmers in the county, who will pay for the brood stock next season. Glenwood municipal park at Ogden is to be put in such shape this spring that it will be the playgrounds for old and young residents every day and night throughout the summer months. One hundred valuable dogs have; been killed toy the city dog tax collector col-lector at Salt Lake during the last month as a result of an ill-founded belief that rabies was rampant in Salt Lake. Proposal to reclaim by drainage Bore than 8,000 acres of land within six miles of Salt Lake is made by E. P. Epperson of Kansas City and O. R. Dibblee and other owners of land on the west fiats. Brigham H. Roberts, president of the state board of equalization and one of the best known Democrats of the state, has been appointed chaplain chap-lain on Governor Bamberger's staff with the rank of major. The fact that Utah will soon go dry has led to the introduction of a pe ition into the district court of Carbon county by a number of Helper residents resi-dents asking that their property be no longer included within the cty limits. An overdose of headache tablets taken in an effort to cure violent pains in her head, which, later proved to be neuralgic pains, was a contributing cause of the death of Edith Pitman Knowles, 18 years of age, at iSalt Lake. Elimination of the entire program of surveys of public lands which this year would have been the most extensive exten-sive in the history of the state may take place in the event that the United Unit-ed States declares war on the central powers. Pierced through the head toy a hayfork, hay-fork, Adarn E. Peterson, aged 25 years, was killed near Alberta, Canada, ac cording to information reaching his mother, Mts. Emma Peterson of Huntsville, where Peterson formerly resided. Having fallen face downward in a flume carrying less than five inches of water, Robinson Swinn was found dead at Bingham. From bruises on his head it was apparent that he struck a cross bar in falling and became be-came unconscious. W. T. Goslen, one of the largest sheep and cattle owners in Utah and Colorado, has announced the completion comple-tion of a deal whereby he sold 11,000 head of sheep and a number of head of cattle in Grand and iSan Juan counties coun-ties to southern Utah' interests for $12-2,000. Sixty marriages have been legalized legal-ized in Salt Lake county within the last four weeks as the result of the activity of John Halverson, deputy county clerk in charge of the marriage mar-riage license department. Some of these marriages were performed many years ago. Starting a campaign to boost the exposition ex-position to be held in Ogden in 1919, theGreeters of America in Utah propose pro-pose to enlighten the east regarding the driving of the golden spike which joined the east and west together toy rail. To that end thousands of copies of booklets are to tie distributed. Bruised limbs and aching heads are being nursed toy a large faction of Indians In-dians on the Uintah reservation at White Rocks, while another faction is proudly boasting of the capture 'of a balf a bushel of peyote buttons and of having taught peyote devotees a lesson les-son which they long will rememiber. All the dentists and oral surgeons of Ogden have given notice to the lo-al lo-al recruiting stations that they will reat free of charge those persons who are rejected as recruits ty reason of defective teeth or bad conditions in the month, with a view to enabling the applicant to meet the physical requirements re-quirements for enlistment. lUtaE breweries have already turned turn-ed their attention to the making of ar rangements to keep the properties gd Ing after the advent of state-wide prohibition pro-hibition on August 1. The majority have decided to turn the breweries into cold storage warehouses, alcohol iistilleries, where both grain and denatured de-natured alcohol will be made, and into Ice plants. |