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Show THE UTAH BUDGET A contract has been given out by the city council of Bountiful for one-half one-half mile of sidewalk pavement. Kem Gregory, aged 10, was run down by an automobile while playing on the street in Salt Lake, his injuries injur-ies proving fatal. The Salt Lake County Poultry association as-sociation plans a state poultry hatchery hatch-ery at Murray to accommodate growers grow-ers in all parts of Utah. Indian war veterans of Utah will hold this year's camp fire at Heber City. The dates fixed for the camp fire were August 12, 13, 14 and 15. A number of Provo citizens met at .the Commercial club on Monday to organize an association to promote a liquor election in Provo in June. L. A. Jeffs of Salt Lake City has made application to the Park City council for a franchise to install and . operate an electric plant in that city. A coroner's jury has decided that the death of Samuel H. Whitmore, who was killed at Midvale in a street car accident, was due to the recklessness reckless-ness of a motorman. The explosion of forty sticks of dynamite dy-namite in the magazine of the Minnie mine at Bingham, caused the death of Emmett Hail, aged 26, and the serious injury of Frank Jones, aged 24. For the first time in the history of the city a woman has applied for naturalization nat-uralization papers at Ogden. She Is Inger Andersen, and gives her age , as 65, and her p'.ace of birth as Denmark. Den-mark. It is said that there were never so many bears in the history of the state as can now be found upon the Manti national forest, and the value of stock killed during the past year reaches into the thousands. Potatoes for eastern consumption are being shipped through Ogden at the rate of fifteen to twenty cars a day. In January 525 cars were handled; 750 cars in February and about 500 cars in March. Opposition to appointment of a woman on the regular police force in Salt Lake has developed among members mem-bers of the city commission and it is very uncertain whether any woman policeman will be named. L. J. Markham, serving a nineteen-year nineteen-year sectence in the Utab penitentiary, penitenti-ary, while working in a trusted capacity ca-pacity outside the walls of the prison Sunday, made an attempt to escape, i but was captured a few hours later. The church authorities of the Bear j River stake of Box Elder county have I been active during the past week mak- ; ing arrangements for the new $40,000 i stake tabernacle that the people of j that stake will erect during the sum- j mer. ' I Lowry Nelson of the Carbon conn- j ty high school of Price wa3 awarded j first place and "Wallace Brockbank of Spanish Fork high school second I place in the annual state public ad- dress contest at the University of J Utah. . I Guilty of murder in the first degree i with recommendtion for life impris- j onment was the verdict of the jury at i Salt Lake against J. A. Hill, charged ! with the murder of Night Marshal Frank A. Colclough at Midvale August 7 last. The agitation started last summer for the esf.aijshment of a detention home in Ozden has been revived again and provided the city and county get together and co-operate in the purchase pur-chase and maintenance, an emergency hospital will he established within a short time. As a sequel to the strike at Bingham Bing-ham and clashes between the union men and officers, E. G. Locke, secretary secre-tary of the Bingham local of tho Western Federation of Miners, lias fi'ed suit against Deputy Sheriff Theo. Schweitzer for $500 damages for alleg- j ed assault. i The unsettled weather Is responsible respon-sible for the late planting of the beet crop in Weber county this season. Farmers say that the crop should be in the ground at this date, but the weather has held them back. The fields at present are too wet for planting beets, Thomas G. Wakefield, one of the pioneers of Huntington and of Emery county, was found dead in the field by his son. He had seemed in his usual h:alt,h, but. when the son noticed hl.-i father's body hanging over the seat, of the plow, and the learn f.MlI in motion, mo-tion, he went, to his aid, but found him already dead. The public road from St. George, In Washington county, to the Nevada line, an important link In tho Kail, Lake (Ji'y-to-LoH Angeles highway, I , to he improved, a delegation from ,Va::hirigton county at'.klrig Inc slale road corr'ini;;;;r)ri to designate the I werity-siz-ic i f. gln-teh or road as a Ktate highway. bowrica :t over being discharged an ftt.criogra.iiier ;J. the Kalt Lake off Ire ; of Hi" Mliriob Centi i.l ia.il.vay, Many ! 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