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Show THE UTAH BUDGET i iis-fuiir marriage licenses were by i he county clerk at Ogden luril;fT !. lllOlllh Of JlllKi. Tliv nt...U: ),;tnl of equali.ution has mtutouvvi It uxHttHHiur-nt for Utah w.iM-g u). niurts Mian $1,000,000. U.'ifr AiV-rj, aitd 20, of Huntsvillo, 1i H i . horse and sustained frac-f frac-f '.irvH of i.-.n an klu and of a 'bone in l.i t It report! that the sugar beet cro;v uf liU.fi comity will not be more Chan: onc-joaSf ad large as it was last Ojh- li'.ivulivtil thousand dollars is the ; ima.) 'J J.iinage from flood waters rhn.t H-.vi-ji? down the valley of the Ashley river lu II In tali county. Tb". women's clubs of Ogden have .skwJ the city commission to appoint a. h'iuiwu probation officer lo co-operate with Ihn police department. let 1311-12 the number of children of Hehnoi a.nii in the state was 111,331, ol whom 9',1:!'J were enrolled in the pub-tic. pub-tic. i-htx!.s, and 3,217 were attending private schools. Th Klork was busy in Salt Lake last week, according to the report of thk; bounl of health, and 53 births vera nvorded. Of these 33 were males ami 2(i females. Five Jails were seriously hurt at rarfc. City, two so badly that death may r'.M-'tjit, as the result ot an esca-paiiu esca-paiiu with a box of dynamite caps h;:h fbi-y claim they found. (vastk 11. Rowland, 55 years of age, who l'?!l liom the roof of his house in Salt La.k while attempting to saw off the- lin:li of a tree, died at the county liospitiil from his injuries. Tim Utah Fruitgrowers association, wl.lr.h vvns recently organized, reports that tuore than 200 contracts have already al-ready Uvvn signed by fruitgrowers, rcpivarntiiig 100,000 bearing trees. Alfred Swinyard, aged 80, of Logan, died at Ogden while on his way to attend at-tend th old folks celebration. Mr. Swin.rarii located in Logan in 1885, whore he conducted a blacksmith and farriage bunding shop. 1'ran.W Knox, president of the National Na-tional I5a.nk of the Republic of Salt Lake, wns chosen president of the Utiik SUito Bankers association at the concluding session of the .fifth, annual contention held at Heber City. With a school population of more tbaii 23.000 and an average daily at-tend&nce at-tend&nce of u'hout IS, 500, only 198 cases o truency were discovered in the entire school system of Salt Lake during; the- school year of 1912-13. .A a. result ot a "play" duel with wooden swords with one of his play-mutes. play-mutes. Leo Rulou Jensen, 8 yekrs old, of SaJt Lake, received injuries to his right eyo which it is believed will cause the boy to lose sight of the eye. Cla-rpni-e Nixon, aged 14, of Price, was oadly "burned about the leg by a jrasoline fire. He was taking -gctsoline from a tank when some of it spilled onto a lantern near by and caught Are Instantly. While painfully burned the lad will recover. Lo Gardner of Salem, who was seriously seri-ously injured at Spanish Fork when haypole struck him on the head, frjunuriris; the skull and causing concussion con-cussion of the brain, is now so much Improved that he has been taken to bis home at Salem. Only fourteen states have a higher rate of school attendance according to choc4 population than Utah. There is a compulsory education law which ichls parents responsible for the proper educational opportunities that bould be afforded to children. Reports from all parts of Davis county Indicate that the rains that fell almost continuously during four days last wk have done incalculable good to ail kinds of crops, and farmeds generally gen-erally are bow expecting to harvest ncreased yields of grain and hay. Discussion of plans for a state-wide campaign to arouse more interest in development work through the Commercial Com-mercial clubs of the state was the principal business at a meeting of the board of governors of the Utah Development De-velopment league held at Salt Lake last week, Lou D. Sweet ot Denver and Car-fcosdale, Car-fcosdale, Colo., will give an extra prize in the state potato growing cor test conducted by Prof. J. C. Hogen-soa Hogen-soa of the extension division of the Utah. Agricultural college to the boy who succeeds in getting first prize at the coming state fair. Can pat by the descending weight ol the elevator at the Moxum hotel at Salt Lake while he was in the 6haft tightening cable bolts, Joseph Patrick Gavin, 17 years of age, son of Thomas Gavia. proprietor of the hotel, suffered suf-fered a fracture at the base of the skull, which may prove fatal. Utah paid $34.11 per capita of ths school population in the school year 1911-13, making the total expenditure for elementary and secondary education educa-tion $3,702,363.63. In 1912 the per capita cost for teaching the young Ides, how to shoot had risen to $35.88. K. VV. Bruner, a . brakeman employed em-ployed on the Denver & Rio Grande, was Instantly killed at the Leh! But;a.r works, when he was struck by , a passenger train, running at about-forty about-forty miles an hour. Bruner had ete-pped upon the main tcack and did ; ior R?e the approaching train. j |