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Show THE UTAHJBUDGET The tolal assessed valuation of Summit county for 1916 is $6,005,040, compared with ?2,912,500 for 1915. A 15-year-old Indian boy who was iccidontally shot by a companion near Uintah, died from his injuries. Herman Johnson, aged 17, of Og-don, Og-don, suffered the amputation of his right hand as the result of an accident acci-dent at a brick plant. George A. Eaton, supervising principal prin-cipal of high schools of the Salt Lake public schools, has been re-employed by the board of education at a salary of $4,000 a year. Tom Davis and Frank Scott, convicted con-victed at Salt Lake on charges of malicious ma-licious mischief for cutting an electrical electric-al wire, were sentenced to serve each 120 days in the county jail. Worried by the possibility that their daughter was bitten by a rabid coyote, coy-ote, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rose of Kel-ton Kel-ton brought Sybil, their 8-year-old daughter to Ogden for treatment.' Governors William Spry of Utah and Moses Alexander of Idaho will be two of the speakers at the .convention of the Intermountain Good Roads association as-sociation to be held in Ogden June 13 and 14. Frost which proved general in the fruit belts of central and northern Utah on May 10, has caused extensive exten-sive damage not only to fruit blossoms, blos-soms, but to garden products, including includ-ing tomatoes and sugar beets. Men returning from the mountains near Provo report that coyotes have been acting strangely and it is believed be-lieved they are afflicted with rabies. Parents have been warned to keep their boys and girls out of the hills. Directors of the Manufacturers' Association As-sociation of Utah have declared in favor fa-vor of a larger land and sea force for the national defense and recommended recommend-ed that the making of war munitions be entrusted to private manufacturers. Discovery of what is said to be an immense bed of potash in the mountains moun-tains east and southeast of Parowan has led to the locating of all land lying ly-ing between the head of Main canyon, north to Order canyon, a distance of twelve miles. Predatory animals have been causing caus-ing so much trouble in the Asnley national forest this year that the forestry for-estry service at Ogden has appointed Morgan Walker of Heber to enter upon a systematic campaign for their extermination. The rug purchased by the capitol commission for the state reception room was received at the capitol last week. It was made in Scotland and cost $3,000, plus $500 duty and express ex-press charges. It weighs 1,300 pounds. In color it is light purple. During the first four months of 1916 Weber county has spent $5,171.81 on county highways as against $10,-227.05 $10,-227.05 during the corresponding period pe-riod a year ago. Extensive improvements improve-ments planned will increase expenditures expendi-tures during the ensuing months. Good roads day is to be celebrated by the Rotary club of Salt Lake, and ; it was voted at a luncheon of the organization to start a state-wide movement to have every county in the state do something towards placing the county roads in better condition. In Uintah basin, 3,900 sheep have been sold at record high prices. Wallace Wal-lace and John Siddoway sold 1,400 head at an estimated price of $11 per head, Eph Rasmussen sold S00 for about the same price and Snell Johnson John-son disposed of 1,700 at $12.50 per head. Because the annual round-up of farmers and housekeepers held at Logan Lo-gan and under the auspices of the Utah Agricultural college has become so large that Logan does not have the facilities to handle all the visitors, visi-tors, Ogden has been invited to become be-come the round-up city. After electing officers with D. F. Lewis of the Brewery Drivers' unioD of Salt Lake as president for anothei year, and naming Salt Lake as the meeting place for the meeting the first Monday in May, 1907, the Utah Fed eration of Labor adjourned its annual meeting at Eureka on May 10. Protesting against alleged improper pictures that are placed on billboards if the city and also reputed realities of these pictures that may be found in the theaters, the Ogden Ministerial association has written to the city commission asking that action be taken to suppress the reported evils With a notice clutched in her hand saying that her husband had been granted an interlocutory decree of divorce di-vorce on the ground of desertion, Mrs Eleanor Huntington, 20 years old, was found lying across the bed m hei room at a Salt Lake hotel, having taken tak-en poison. It is believed she will re cover. The hundreds of men now camping on the gilsonite claims between Wat Fon and Ouray are doomed to disap pointment if the news that Senate. Don B Cn'tnn brings back from Wash ington is correct. Since he has re urned scores of the men have given up their squatting on the valuable claims, |