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Show THE UTAH BUDGET A railroad to Moan, either Irom Thompsons or Cisco, is now a strong probability. It Is predicted that between -luu and fiOO carloads of peaches wi!l be (shipped from Utah county this year. Nicholas Leodalis, aged 28, a Greek miner, was instantly killed when he fell under a train at Bingham, being cut to pieces. Salt Lake City has been chosen a3 the next meeting place of the Pacific Coast -Freight Agents association, which has just closed its convention at Seattle. A prize baseball game, a quartette Hinging contest and a good program of sports will take place at the annual Labor day picnic of the iSalt Lake Federation of Labor. The fire reports from the southern forests is that they are having rain on the Fish lake and Powell forests, and that there is little danger of fire within the next week. Morris Pretwell, signal maintainer for the Southern Pacific at Ogden, was electrocuted by coming in contact with a high tension wire carrying 11,-000 11,-000 volts of electricity. Three Salt Lake young men, with jiacks on their backs, have started on a walking tour to San Francisco. They will get there whenthey have had all the tun along trie line tney can nnu. - Deputy Sheriff J. L. Hobson was shot, but not seriously wounded, and his assailant, August Bodh, aged 28, a machinist, 'received a bullet wound in the arm in a pistol duel in Ogden. Homesteaders on the South Myton bench may get water at last. After (seven years' waiting, contracts have been signed which assure raising sufficient suf-ficient capital to complete the project. The farmers of Utah are much ahead of Californians in the matter of adopting new reclamation ideas, according ac-cording to R A. Hart, supervisor of the United States drainage investigation. investiga-tion. Several cases of typhoid at Devils Slide have been reported to Dr. T. B. Beattie, secretary of the state board of health, and an investigation is being be-ing made by the state sanitary inspectors. in-spectors. Because his monkey wrench broke and a piece Qf the metal struck him In the left eye, rendering it sightless, Mortin 1? InhntinTi wnnra $3 39.0 HfiTn- ages from James J. Farrell, a Salt Lake plumber. After an illness of only a few days, Mrs. Leola Cella, aged 22 years, known to the public as "Dolleta, the doll woman," died suddenly at Ogden, where she was. appearing with a car-nival car-nival company. William A. Miller, 60 years of age, a pioneer resident of Springville, died last week from blood poisoning. He was sick about three weeks. Mr. Milter Mil-ter came to Utah with a handcart company when a small boy. ; A Salt Lake man is in possession of a peculiar animal,- which might be termed a cat-rabbit. Its front portion Is cat and rear portion rabbit. The forefeet are equipped with claws that look like they might scratch. George A. Whitaker, for more than twenty years a prominent cigar manufacturer man-ufacturer of Salt Lake and once a member of the county commission and of the state senate, died suddenly on July 28 of leakage of the heart. The officers of the Oneida, Benson, Cache and Hyrum stake Mutual Improvement Im-provement associations have announced announc-ed that the annual field day of the four stake mutuals will be held in Preston this year on the first day of Beptember. John W. Hill, 80 years of age, a resident res-ident of Utah since 1874 and well known in railroad circles, died July 87 In Chicago, of apoplexy. Mr. Hill formerly worked on the old Utah Central Cen-tral railroad and helped build the road from Lehi to Provo. W. B. Bywater, chief of the Salt Lake fire department, has been reinstated rein-stated after being suspended for some -rv,o Tnrlino- i n VP5 1 i p-n t inn following the running down and killing of a girl while he was on his way to a fire in en automobile. Another murder was committed in Salt Lake City last week, according to the verdict of a coroner's jury summoned sum-moned to investigate the cause of the death of the familiar police court character known as "Johnnie Bull,-who Bull,-who was beaten to death by unknown persons. Barricading himself in his room while deputy sheriffs were attempting to take him into custody, pending a hearing as to his sanity, T. H. Potthoff, Pot-thoff, a checker at the Denver & Rio Grande freight depot in "Salt Lake, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Conrad Gutter, 64 years of age. and a resident of Providence, was found (lead in his home last wee!;, lie is thought, to have died of heart trouble. Mr. Clutter was a bachelor, who made a r.ve!ihoi(l by peddling vegetables and fruits in Logan. In spite of a prediction by a Salt Lake woman that the tialtair pavilion would collapse I'ioneer day, the resort did not fall in. However, many persons per-sons who had planuel to spend the Say there were prevented from taking their outing at the lake, iiy the prediction. |