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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The new pea canning factory ai Ephraim has begun operations. The Scandinavian reunion held al Ephraim June 18 and 14 was a sue cess in every way. The city council of Brigham City Is spending a large sum of money al present in repairing Main street. At the meeting of the Utah IMn Iters' It-ers' association at Price, Oii.:ia S Burton of Salt Lake was chosen presi dent of the association. The government fish hatchery is tc be located near Springville, Utah ; county, where a site has been purchased pur-chased at a cost of 510,900. j Failing to intimidate his young wife into a suicide pact with him, John Horace McFate; a miner, 45 years of j age, ended his life in Salt Lake hotel. I Isaac Shea, 67 years of age, and for forty years an employee of the Union Pacific Railroad company, di'.iU at his home in Salt Lake of genera) debility. The nineteenth annual conference of the Young Men's and Young Women's Wo-men's Mutual Improvement associations associa-tions of the Mormon church was held In Salt Lake last week. Christopher Wilburn, 69 years of ige, an expressman, of Salt Lake, was accidentally killed when thrown from the driver's seat of his wagon. Hia neck was broken by the fall. "a11 of the Elks in the state of Utp.b and some from other states, including a big Nevada contingent, will hold their annual celebration of Purple day at Lagoon on Tuesday, June 30. Pleasant Grove entertained the old folks of the Alpine stake on Wednesday. Wednes-day. They were feasted on strawberries straw-berries and cream, besides being given giv-en a regular banquet at the noon hour. Thomas Steadman has been convicted con-victed at Logan of bootlegging. He was convicted upon the testimony of two Salt Lake detectives, who operated oper-ated in several of the towns of the county. Major J. Keeler, manager of the Midvale branch of the Utah Light & Power company, was electrocuted June 12 while attempting to put a new fuse in the transformer at the sub-Btation. sub-Btation. With the election of officers for the ensuing year and the naming of Billings, Bill-ings, Mont., as the meeting place in 1915, the business of the U. C. T. grand council was completed at Provo Jme 12. A big celebration of July 4 is being planned in Brigham City hy the Military Mili-tary band and the B. C. fire department. depart-ment. The celebration will be conducted con-ducted by those organizations and an all-day program has been outlined. Mining machinery invented by Salt Lakers and manufactured in Salt Lake is now in use in all parts of the world. From the far north and the far south orders have been received in Salt Lake during the last few days for Salt Lake inventions. Samuel Harrison Bailey Smith, grand-nephew of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church, died at his residence in Salt Lake June 12, of dropsy. He had been ill for several sev-eral days. Mr. Smith was born in Nauvoo, 111., August 1, 1S38. Wm. Bingley, a game warden of Salt Lake county, may lose his remaining arm from blood poisoning as a resu't of defending himself from a foreigner he was endeavoring to arrest. Bingley Bing-ley lost one arm and a leg in a mine accident when he was a boy. iMayor G. A. "Bading of Milwaukee and sixty-eight business men of that city spent a few hours in Salt Lake on June 12 on their big western trade excursion. The Milwaukee men were on their way home after visiting the northwest in their elegant special train. . The Brigham City Fruitgrowers' association as-sociation has just signed up a contract con-tract with an eastern fruit firm to furnish it with sixty-two cars of peaches at 55 cents a bushel. The peaches are to be packed in bushel baskets to be furnished by the purchasers. pur-chasers. 1 The Utah Fruit Growers' association associa-tion in Davis and Weber counties expects ex-pects to be able to ship a carload' of small fruit daily from Ogden from now on. For the next week or ten days the shipments will be mixed, consisting consist-ing of cherries, gooseberries, raspberries rasp-berries and strawberries. Lorenzo I). (.-eel, United States agent for Indians in Utah, is planning to assist the Indians of Skull valley with a fair which they plan to give this summer. Specimens of agricultural agricul-tural products and stock and various Indian wares, such as beads, hatbands and blankets, will be shown. Karl Keeler, who has just returned to Provo from Ann Arbor, . Mich., where he has been taking a course in engineering, has invented an automatic auto-matic headgate for the purpose uf regulating the flow of water from reservoirs, res-ervoirs, canals and lateral ditches, or from any source whatever in which the water surface rises or falls. The Phillip Dern Decorating company com-pany of Salt Lake, the only Utah decorating dec-orating firm which submitted bids for making the interior decorations of the capitol, has been awarded the contract con-tract by the capitol commission. Tne consideration for the work is $40,000. The interstate commerce commission has set July 20 as the date for the hearing of the protest entered by the Salt Lane Commercial Club Traffic bureau against the proposed raise in rates on 300 commodities and classes from the Missouri river to Utah points. |