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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The Uintah basin fair -?;ill be held at Fort Duchesne on September 18, 19 and 20. Price, the hustling capital of Carbon Car-bon county is soon to have an independent inde-pendent Western Union telegraph of-:3ce. of-:3ce. Salt Lake may have one of the best automobile race tracks in the country added to its attractions in the near future. The forty-third session of the Utah mission conference of the Methodist Episcopal chu..h will convene in Salt Lake from August 21 to 24. With taxable property valued at approximately $20,000,000, Weber County will collect a totai of $684,- 519.87 in taxes for the year 1913. Seventeen pounds was the weight' of the first parcel post package to be sent out from Ogden under the new twenty-pound ruling, which went into effect August 15. John Sullivan, aged 60, was run down by an automobile on Main street in Salt Lake on Sunday, his left leg being broken and he received severe cuts and 'bruises. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the barn of Charles Carlson, who resides re-sides on the state road in Midvale. The building, twenty-five tons of hay and a new buggy were a total loss. A total of 118 districts in the state, Wasatch county reading with twelve districts, reported no deaths during the month of July, according to the bulletin issued by the state board of health. At the reunion of former and pre ent residents of Coalville held last week in Salt Lake, it was decided to make the affair annual. Meetings will be held on the second Tuesday in each August. Storrs is to have a new hotel erected erect-ed from tie native stone, which proves to he fine building material. The masons ma-sons have already begun on the stone work and are rapidly pushing the work to completion. A colonist rate of $23 is to be offered of-fered from Atchison, Leavenworth, St. Joseph and Kansas City to Salt Lake City. Ogden and ther Utah common points, and a similar reduction will be made from -St. Louis. Hollo I. Jack, aged 47, of Salt Lake City, was fatally injured at Bingham on Sunday, when he was strucX by a flying rock from a blast Mr. Jack, with a party of friends, had gone to Bingham on an excursion. County Physician E. G. Hughes has reported twelve cases of typhoid, including in-cluding three deaths, in a construction camp at Media (Soldier Summit.) fie has investigated the situation and taken means to prevent the spread of the disease. Construction gangs employed by the Western Union Telegraph com-pany com-pany in reconstructing its linea around the north end of the lake from Ogden to Umbria Junction hava been increased until there are now eighty men employed. The body of Mrs, Maria Quist, a widow 71 years old, was found in a canal about a half-mile from het home at Midvale. The -coroner decided de-cided that an inquest was not neces-sary, neces-sary, expressing the opinion that it was a case of suicide. Joseph Anderson has received hia commission as postmaster for Lehi, signed by Woodrow Wilson, and assumed as-sumed active control of the office Monday. Thus ends one of the most prolonged and bitter contests for a federal plum in the history of the state. Palling from the cross-arms or a high telephone pole at the Garfield smelters, Nathan Freaerick Newell, 47 years of age, of Salt Lake, was instantly killed. His skull was fractured, frac-tured, the spine was hroken and an arm and leg were badly bruised In the fall. J. Edward Taylor, state horticulturist, horticultur-ist, who was sent to- Montana by thf governor of Utah to investigate matters mat-ters pertaining to the quarantine of that state against Utah alfalfa, has reported that the Montana officials aro inclined to do the fair thing by Utah alfalfa. Denying a published statement to the effect that sin ir beets would he harvested from only 5,000 acres of the 7,000 acres originally contracted for the Odgen factory, Field Superintendent Superin-tendent Pingree of the Amalgamated Sugar company declares that 6,500 acres of beets are growing. Teachers who secure positions as instructors at the University of Utah from now on will not only have to have teachers' certificates, but they must be armed with health certificates certifi-cates showing that they are free from diseases, such as tuberculosis, which students might contract. J. C. Murdock of the Wasatch academy acad-emy of Mount Pleasant is the winner of the prize essay contest on "Why Come to Utah," conducted by the Utah Development league. His reward is a scholarship in either the University of Utah or the Agricultural college. The advisability of experimenting with the new village mail delivery at Lehi is being consered. At the last sesson of congres $100,000 was appropriated ap-propriated for the purpose of trying out the plan of village mail delivery and Lehi is the first village in Utah to be considered for the experiment. Of the ninety-six Utah Agricultural college graduates of last June, prac- j tically all, aside from a few who will engage in agricultural pursuits or pursue pur-sue their studies further, have been appointed to positions as farm ex perts in state and federal service. |