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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Edward Boyd, who escaped from Uie pest house at Ogden with a well developed case of smallpox, is still at large. Births in Rait Eake during the week totaled sixty-five, against t .venty-eight deaths, according to the report of the health department. Waldo Steven Johnson is the first victim of the measles epidemic at Provo. lie died Saturday morning. He was 5 years old. J. W. Bowman, a laborer, was fatal-; fatal-; y injured at the Muray smelters, falling fall-ing on a sharpened joist, which penetrated pene-trated his abadomen. ; Plans to make Washington's birth day one of the memorable events in the history of Epliraim, are being formulated for-mulated by the local militia. Hans Larson, 85 years of age, a native na-tive of DenmarK, who came to Salt Lake in 1S77, died at his residence in Grant ward, Murray, last week of old age. Said to have betrayed himself by boasting in a saloon about having killed a man in Vale, Ore., Dan Dau-cen, Dau-cen, 24 years of age, was arrested In Salt Lake. A new bank will be opened at Logan February 20 under the name of Farmers Farm-ers & Merchants Savings bank. The capital stock of the new organization will be $30,000. 1 (A comimittee of land owners from around Utah lake met at Provo last week to devise some plan of getting the waters of Utah lake drained down below the present point. Officers of the grand council of the Native Sons of Utah were installed install-ed for the ensuing year at the first annual ibanquet of the organization held in Salt Lake last week. Efforts are being made by relatives of Mrs. Caleb Inlow to raise a (bond of $5,000 to secure the release of Mrs. Inlow, who as now in the Bait Lake county jail, charged with murder. More than eight hundred residents of the intermountain district took advantage ad-vantage of excursions over the Salt Lake Route and W'estern Pacific to the Pacific coast on February 1. Arvie Moulton, 13 years old, was fatally wounded at Lewiston by the accidental discharge of a rifle which he was carrying. The boy died fifteen , minutes after the bullet entered his stomach. - John Shields, a prominent grocer of Park City, committed suicide at 'his home by shooting himself with a revolver. re-volver. The :bullet entered his head and he was dead when his wife found him a few moments later. Charles W. Penrose, meniber of the first presidency of the Mormon church, and Mrs. Lizzie Penrose, last week celebrated the fiftieth anniversary annivers-ary of their wedding, which took place on January 31, 1863. Suffering from almost complete paralysis par-alysis as the result of an injurV received re-ceived a few weeks ago when she was struck by a street car, in Ogden, Mrs. Kate Clenny has 'been taken to the state mental hospital at Provo. It is -probable that Juab county will receive a considerable number of the elk to be turned over to the state fish and game warden by the United States government. The government will give Utah ninety of the animals this spring. . As a result of reported overproduction overproduc-tion of both cane and beet sugar in nearly all sugar producing countries, sugar prices are now the lowest in several years. In Salt Lake today Ibeet sugar retails at $5.40 and cane eugar at $3.60. I Believed to have become hopelessly despondent through his failure to battle bat-tle successfully against his craving for drink, Paul Cadrotte, 32 years of age. assistant manager of the Chespeake cafe, Salt Lake, committed suicide by drinking wood alcohol. F. E. Grant, a convict, regarded as a desperate criminal, escaped from the convict road building camp at Echo in Washington county on Saturday. Grant answered roll call at midnight, but failed to respond when his name was called at 7 o'clock in the morning. morn-ing. Nearly twenty menbers of the Utah Canners' association, the largest delegation dele-gation in the history of the organization, organiza-tion, left Ogden on Tuesday to attend at-tend the national convention at Louisville, Louis-ville, Ky. Utah will have the largest representation of all the distant states. More than a quarter of a million dollars was collected by the state land board during January on land sales in various parts of the state. This enormous collection includes part payment of principal and interest due to date on state lands disposed of for agricultural purposes. Business was suspended in Ephraim on the 1st, on account of the rabbit hunt which took jlace between that city and Spring City. The people of Chester, Moroni, Spring City and Wales all took part in the sport and killed more tnan 3,000 rabbits. Prof. L. A. Merrill, secretary of the Utah conservation commission, declares de-clares that irrigated lands in seml-arid seml-arid climates do not "wear out," on the contrary, they increase In fertility fer-tility from year to year through the sediment carried in the water and deposited on the laud. |