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Show THE UTAH BUDGET At Farmiugton eight Salt Lake couples obtained marriage licenses during the last week. Salt Lake will not be represented in the balloon race to be held at Portland Port-land in connection with the rose carnival. car-nival. D. P. Atkins, serving thirteen years for robbery committed in Salt Lake in 1911. escaped from the convict camp at Bellview, Washington county. On June 23 the Scottish clans and organizations' of Utah will celebrate the six hundredth anniversary of the battle of Banonckburn at Lagoon. The Union Pacific system has just issued a new folder in which a double page advertisement has been given gratuitously to Salt Lake and Utah. Since May, 1913. Salt Lake's population popula-tion has jumped 7,000, estimates Emil S. Lund, building inspector. Tills estimate es-timate is based on his building records rec-ords for the twelve months. Resolutions have been adopted by the state dairy and food bureau authorizing the launching of a vigorous vigor-ous campaign to obtain 16-ounce packages pack-ages of butter for the consumer. During the convention, June 11, 12 and 13, at Price of the Utah Bankers' Bank-ers' association, the city of Price, prqudly called "the biggest little city on earth," will entertain its guests lavishly. The eightieth anniversary of the birth of Patriarch Angus M. Cannon was celebrated last week at his home in Forest Dale. More than 200 descendants de-scendants of Mr. Cannon attended the celebration. Mrs. Elizabeth Bonnemort, known as "Utah's sheep queen.." died at her home in Salt Lake, May 15, following an illness of two days Mrs. Bonnemort Bonne-mort was a prominent uocial leader and art patron. While returning to Heber City from his farm, J. H. Mahoney was in. Jured when his horse ran away. He was thrown from the buggy, landing about thirty feet away. All the ribs on his left side were broken. Joseph H. Young of Salt Lake, formerly for-merly general manager of the bank lines of the Northern Pacific, has been elected president and general manager of the Norfolk Southern, with headquarters in Norfolk, Va. Following an investigation of two months it developed last week that Herman Wils, a civil war veteran and pioneer prospector in Utah, died six weeks ago at the county hospital and that his body now fills a pauper's grave. Delegates from Provo, Springville, Lehi, American Fork, Payson, Benjamin Benja-min and Eureka met at Spanish Fork, May 1G, in the semi-annual district convention of the Utah, Juab and Wasatch Wa-satch county denominational Sunday schools. While on their way from the assembly as-sembly hall to the girls' dormitory, following an entertainment, Sadie Hitesman, 18 years of age, and Fern MarkJiamj 16 years of age, made their escape from the State Industrial school at Ogdefl. i Peace day services under the auspices aus-pices of the Utah Peace society" were held in the tabernacle at Salt Lake on May 17, with Governor Spry presiding presid-ing and speakerB representing different dif-ferent religious denominations addressing ad-dressing the congregation. The B. Y. U. at Provo has opened an exhibit of the work of Provo artists. art-ists. 'Many beautiful paintings are displayed and the exhibit is being admired ad-mired by art lovers daily. It will remain re-main open the remainder of the school year and possibly longer. The state flag of Utah will fly at the main entrance of the Anglo-American exposition at Shepherd's Bush, London, on September 29, Utah day at the big exposition. The flag will fly all summer from one of the buildings in the American section ot the exposition. The first definite steps toward the possible payment of the reward offered of-fered for the capture and conviction of the Ogden blackmailers have been taken by Governor Spry and other state officials in calling a conference with regard to the state's reward of $5,500 for May 22. H. A. Strong, 21 years of age, has been arrested in Salt Lake on a charge of threatening to kill. It is alleged that Strong made threats to kill a young man whom he found seated at a table in a cafeteria with a young woman, whose hand he is said to have sought. Mrs. Sadie Wilkins, '40 years of age, wife of John T. Wilkins, a teamster of Salt Lake, died as the result of .injuries .in-juries sustained when she fell or w'as thrown from an automobile. George Moore, driver of the auto, has been held and may be charged with causing caus-ing the woman's death. Clifford Larson, 13 years of age, of Murrsy, sustained a fractured skull and possible internal injuries when the saddle on a horse he was riding turned and he was thrown to th3 ground. His foot caught in a stirrup and he was dragged about forty feet before the horse stopped. "All Mexicans, whether they be rebels, federals or bandits, have the same feeling toward Americans hatred," said W. C. Holding of Salt Lake, who has just returned after five years spent in Mexico, during which time he says he had many narrow nar-row escapes from death. Utah products will fill the larders of the dinig cars which will be attached at-tached to.i.ie Commercial club trade extension train when it leaves for northern Utah and southern Idaho the lat'er part of this month for a I week s b i. s:!ng trip. |