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Show I THE UTAH BUDGET Weber county canners estimate their tomato output this season at 800,000 cases, or newly 20,000,000 cans. Mrs. Elua Jensrn, aged 75 years, was found dead at her home in Mt. Pleasant by her daughter. Heart failure fail-ure was the cause of death. Mrs. Agnes Miller Moore, 86 years of age, and one of the pioneers who walked across the plains, died at Og- , den last week of general debility. Leonard Sheppard, aged 15, of Sit iawe, was accidentally snot through the right lung by a companion while hunting. It is believed he will recover. re-cover. The three clays' celebration by the Wards of the Wizard of the Wasatch at Salt Lake last week was atteuded by thousands of people from all Tver the state. Ivy Rowland, aged 12, died at Salt Lake as the result of burns sustained when a can of turpentine caught fire and was spilled on her by a boy who threw the can from a garage. August 29 marked the golden wedding wed-ding anniversary of Bishop George Romney and Margaret A. Thomas Romney, the couple having been married mar-ried in Salt . Lake fifty years ago. Joseph Jeremy, aged 45, narrowly escaped death near Salt Lake City, when an automobile he was driving overturned ana pinned him in a pool of water. It required all his strength for two hours to keep his head in a position to breathe, until help came. George Maynes, sheep owner, whose flocks have been grazing on the Tim-panogos Tim-panogos ranges of the Wasatch national na-tional forest, sold lambs last weeek weighing seventy-one pounds each. This is considered unusually good weight for lambs at this sseasoi of the year. Lightning struck the barn of Rrum, Fuhritaan at Logan, the barn and contents con-tents being burned. All schools in Payson will begin active ac-tive work September 8. The buildings are being renovated and repaired. Brigham City will probably have a municipal telephone system to add to her already extensive public utilities. Crops in Box Elder county never were better, except for one cutting of hay that was spoiled by an untimely rain. A new fish hatchery, the fourth under un-der state supervision, will be established estab-lished in Uinta county, according to the state fish and game commissioner. The people of Park valley are planning plan-ning to hold a big fair on September 20 and 21 for the purpose of exploit- ing that rich section of Box Elder county. The past week has been one o? much anxiety to tie people of Gunnl. son, as three cases of smallpox have broken out and the entire town has been exposed. The big ditching machine at Corinne is helping to put tht and into condition to bloom, since the ditches are being tiled and alkali is being eradicated. Florence Thomas and Albert Osborne, Os-borne, narrowly escaped dea for serious injury at Murray when the rooming house in which they were sleeping was destroyed by fire. Members of the ISormon church in Mexico are no longer molested, according ac-cording to a message received at the first presidency from Ray L. Pratt, president of the Mexican mission. Brigham City will probably be chosen as the distributing plant for a large eastern lumber company that is contemplating establishing wholes. 'Me and retail . lumber yards in Utah and Idaho. Following an illness of three months, Isaac U Clark, head of the I. L. Clark & Sons company and pioneer merchant of Ogden, died August Au-gust 2G. Mr. Clark was born in Ogden in 1853. Joseph Gt?rr was seriously wounded and F. A. Wade and Miss Patsy Mease slightly wounded in a shooting affray which took place in the lobby of the Orpheus theater at Vernal. Gurr began be-gan the shooting. Nick Foco, a bartender in a Bingham Bing-ham saloon, took four shots at Percy Cornford as the latter ran from the saloon. None of the bullets did any damage. It is said Cornford attacked Foco, who then fired at him. John Sparchevich, resident of Bins-ham Bins-ham for only three months, was shot and mortally wounded in the Copper King saloon Thursday. Eli Churvich, owner of a boarding house at Highland High-land Boy, is in jail, charged with the crime. Lewis Maraniro, a Mexican miner, was probably fatally stabbed in a fight at the Dennis boarding house at Bingham. The name of his assailant is not known. He escaped, although it is said that he was also severely wounded. Norman Wold of Morgan county was fined $100 on a charge of dynamiting dynamit-ing fish by Samuel Francis, justice of the peace, last week. Wold was arrested ar-rested by a warden in Morgan county. This is the first sentence under the new fish and game law. The Uintah basin .fair this fall, to be held at Fort Duchesne September 18, 19 and 20, will excel the extensive i exhi'bits of last year, and the sports ind other attractions will be bigger and better than ever before in connection connec-tion with a fair in that basin. I i |