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Show THE UTAH BUDGET - i I W. W. Barton of Salt Lake lost his I left foot as the result of the acci-I acci-I dential discharge of a shotgun when he was hunting rats. ' According to the report sent In by. Morgan Park, ranger in the vicinity of Kamas, four cows died last week from eating dynamite. The stamp sales in the Provo post-office post-office for the fiscal year ended June 20, amounted to $27,938,24. which was an incerase of $1,944.44 over the previous pre-vious year. Of the tewenty-one men who took the examination for the practice of dentistry at the regular semi-annual examination at Salt Lake, June 21, 22 and 23, seventeen passed. Colonel E. B. Tatlock, state statis . tical agent of the United States department de-partment of agriculture, bureau ol statistics, with offices in the Salt Lake federal building, has resigned. Salt Lake has a new addition to he jobbing houses, as Pingree Brother! company of Ogden, a wholesale shoe qtiH hot- Vmsinpca have mnvprt thpif entire stock of merchandise to Sail Lake. Tents are being raised, weeds aro being mowed and Glenwood park is, being given a scouring .n anticipation of the opening of the fourth annual Utah Chautaqua assembly at Ogden, July 11 to 19. The three-day carnival held at Bingham Bing-ham July 3, 4 and 6, was such a success suc-cess that many of Bingham's leading citizens are intending to repeat the, three-day schedule, beginning with Labor day. Between thirty and forty of the State Industrial school at Ogden are . being given vacations at their homes by Superintendent E. G. Gowans, who says he has found the honor plan to be a success. Word has reached Salt Lake that Glenn Scott, about twenty-five years of age and who formerly worked in that city, was struck by a train and instantly killed on the Wabash railroad rail-road at St. Charles, Mo. ,, Sebsr Russell, 32 years of age-, was instantly killed by an freight train at Price, when he attempted to board the train,' on which he had a stockman's -pass. He leaves a widow and four children, all under seven years of age. The fly-swatting contest for motion-picture motion-picture theater tickets has not lost interest for the children of Ogden, according ac-cording to Inspector George Shorten, who will be able to report a total of 8,000,000 dead flies within the next few days. Contending that there was illegal voting and. other fatal irregularities in connection with the recent "wet and dry" election In Murray, the "wet" faction is making investigations with a view to contesting the election in the court. Final preparations are being mad 3 at the Sarah Daft Home for Aged Women at Salt Lake for the opening to inmates, which probably will be cn July 10, although the 'ormal opening and public reception will not be heM until July 14. A total of twenty-six applications for clemency, the largest number, ever heard at one time by the state pardon board during the last five years, will be taken up by the board at a meeting scheduled for the morning morn-ing of July 18 at the state prison. A Hawaiian, thought to have been a member of a Hawaiian musical Mub which recently played at Salt Lake, was killed by a Bamberger train, one mile north of Lagoon. He was walking walk-ing in the middle of the track and did not see the train which came around a curve. Enraged over a beating he had received re-ceived at the hands of Henry Mc-Cullough, Mc-Cullough, residing at Ilarrisville, Wade Miles is alleged to have battered batter-ed down the door of the McCullough home and fired two shots from a shotgun. shot-gun. Nobody was injured as a result of the gun play. About a month ago Nathan T. Col-vey, Col-vey, who was proprietor of a motion, picture theater at Ephraim, collided with a chair and bruised his foot slightly. Ten days later blood poison set in and soon permeated his entire system. He died in a Salt Lake hospital hos-pital July 5. Cgden's third annual Fashion show to be held this fall is to be given wide publicity in Salt Lake through several floats and other features which will be entered in the list of events which will comprise the celebration in honor of the coming of the Wizard of the Wasatch Wa-satch to Salt Lake. Captain Charles R. Berry, 80 year of age, who led K company of the famous Seventeenth Il'inois Infantry it the battle of Gettysburg and through many other important engagements of the civil war. died at Salt Lake, July 4. Captain Merry was the oldest Odd Fellow in the state. The Weber county coin missionerB have appointed five delegates to the annual convention of the Intennoun-taiu Intennoun-taiu Good Road association at Butte, Mont., July 21, 22 and 2.'!. After the animal had attacked and bitten one man and drove two others to cover when they attempted to capture cap-ture it, a vicious bulldog belonging to an unknown Japanese was not dispatched dis-patched until a sawed-oil shotgun was brought into play by an Ogden officer. The Utah Fruitgrowers' association has commenced the erection in Provo Pro-vo of what will be one of the largest Packing houses in the state. Another An-other packing house will be built at j urem oi? the new interurlian line fn time fc; the fall shipment of fruit. |