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Show ITHE UTAH BUDGET i A barn owned by .1. V. Facer at Brigliam City was struck by lightning and totally destroyed. Edward Green, aged 10, of Tooele fell thirty feet from the branches ol a tree, suffering a fractured hip anc two broken arms. The commencement exercises of the Brigham Young college at Logan were neld June 4, and seventy-seven graduates grad-uates were given their certificates. A fire in the operating room of the Alta theatre at Brigham City caused a loss of more- than $500 when twr films of motion pictures were de stroyed. Although a systematic search ha; been conducted by the police thej have not been able to find a trace ot Joseph J. Oborn, an Ogden man whe disappeared from his home last April While christening his little grandchild, grand-child, Edward M. McClellan of Salt Lake, dropped back into the arms oi friends and died half an hour later, having been stricken with apoplexy. trank Wright, aged 2i, was arrested in 'Salt Lake Sunday afternoon, on 8 charge of picking the pockets of M. L. Pean. state horticultural inspector of Montana, as the latter stepped from a Bamberger car. The trial of Joseph Hillstrom, accused ac-cused of the murder of J. G. .Morrison and his son, J.i Arlin Morrison, in a holdup of the Morrison grocery store in Salt Lake, January 10 last, will Degin during the week. Miss Alice Ludingham, of Salt Lake aarrowly escaped serious injury when she was thrown from a motorcycle ibout three miles below Sandy on the State road, when the machine struck a, bump in the road. Steel is being laid on the new double track of the D. & R. G. from the Springville yards east to Mapleton. Grading work on the double track from Springville to Provo will be started in the near future. The Church Teachers' college summer sum-mer school has opened at Provo. It will consist of two six-week terms June 9 to July 17, and July 17 to August Au-gust 2S. The school provides a comprehensive com-prehensive variety of courses. Lightning struck a tree near James Ollorton's house at Parowan. The shock stunned Mrs. Ollorton and Mrs Sadie Bayles. The shock also knock-ad knock-ad Mrs. Rhoda jensen down and paralyzed par-alyzed her right side for a time. Mrs. T. H. Parsons of Park City met with a painful accident while standing stand-ing on an upstairs porch in the rear Df her home. The porch gave way and Parsons fell a distance of twelve feet. Forunately, no bones were broken. Impressive and heartfelt tribute to the 130 members of the Salvation Army who were among the 849 vic: tims of the Empress of Ireland ais-ister, ais-ister, was paid Sunday evening in the memorial services held by the Salt Lake branch of the army. Mary, the 10-year-old daughter of Mrs. R. H. Windsor,' suffered painful and perhaps serious injuries when she fell from the second balcony of the Covey apartments at Salt Lake, ind crashed through the glass cancpy over the entrance to the sidewalk. I Thomas H., Fredericks, years of ige, a brakeman employed on the workings of the Utah Copper company, fell from the train on Boston Con. hill at Bingham. His head struck the steel rail anl the skull was, fractured. Fredericks died within a shot timei Something original in the line of evading capture was sprung 'by thre? youths who stole an automobile belonging be-longing to E. Knudson of Ogden, when they abandoned the car and escaped an bicycles which they had previously tied onto the spare tire rack of the 2ar. Mrs. Susana Margetts celebrated the ainety-second anniversary of her birth it the home of Mrs. James R. Iane In Sandy during the past week. Mrs. Margetts was born in Lestershire, England, on June 2. 1822. On Janu-iry Janu-iry 6, 1851, she left Liverpool for Jtah. The recent decibion by Judge Loof-jcurow Loof-jcurow respecting the alleged unconstitutionality uncon-stitutionality of the poll tax law had Its effect in Ogden, when Al. G. Harris, the local collector, gave up his ffice, declaring that the decision left jim without authority to makeTurLher jollections. ( In the interests of sanitation and lublic health the county health authorities author-ities have closed down several slaugh-:er slaugh-:er houses in Salt Lake county oir.side-t oir.side-t Salt Lake City. They will be kept :losed until the premises have been ;leaned up and the regulations gov-;rning gov-;rning such places rigidly observed. "Dave'' Edwards, who achieved notoriety no-toriety in his single-handed attempt to capture the blackmailers who were terrorizing Ogden S3veral months ago. and came near dying of 'wounds suffered suf-fered at their hands when he was shot with steel ball bearings fired from shotguns, had a narrow escapt from death when struck by an auto "Mobile in Salt Lake a few days a;c |