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Show THE UTAH BUDGET i Kiiiir.ore is to h?ve a !:;'i:;o coiiiins Celebration on July "1 and ;.". Mrs. W". G. Jones was struck by a street car in Su't Luke and fatally injured. An attack of apoplexy, .-uperin Juc-rd Juc-rd ly il.e iu.it. caused the sudden ieath of Charles C Brown, at Oiulen. Logan is to celebrate Ju'.y -4 in royal style this year. It will be an affair of the Cache stake and all the onus in that stake will participate. John James, a widely-known insurance insur-ance man of Salt Lake, has lon up-pointed up-pointed state insurance commissioner commission-er by Governor Spry, to succeed Wil-lard Wil-lard Done, resigned. The I'eseret Association of Life Underwriters Un-derwriters was organized last week xl Salt Lake, as its name indicates, by those engaged in Utah in the profession pro-fession of life insurance. Jacob J. Greenewald, surveyor of customs, at Salt Lake, prominent Ma-sou Ma-sou and for many years a figure In U'ah politics, died suddenly of apoplexy apo-plexy at Saltair on July 11. In connection with the case against the men charged with killing Gene Allen in Bingham. Peter Holland has been arrested. The police say he is to be held merely as a witness. Fire losses In Utah for 1913, covered cover-ed by insurance, were $550,299.95, or an increase of over 50 per cent as compared to 1912, according to the annual report of the state Insurance department. Traced to Richfield through a handbill advertising a boxing contest, Jack Smith and Grover Poulsen were arrested on the charge of robbing a Chinese gardener in Ogden, taking $300 from the Chinaman. That the defendant acted in self-defense self-defense and that he was taunted repeatedly re-peatedly by Nick Kargis, his victim, will be the defense set up In the case of Peter Dementre, the Greek, who was placed on trial at Ogden. Clarence H. Nlelson, 9 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Nielson of Hunter, was fatally injured injur-ed when thrown from a horse and dragged for a quarter of a mile. He died later in the county hospital. A. C. Matheson, state superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction, was signally honored at the convention of the National Na-tional Education association in St. Paul, when he was elected a member of the national council of the organization. organi-zation. The employes of the Knight woolen mills at Provo, have been notified that in order to prevent the laying off entirely of a large number of the closing of the mills Indefinitely, they would be put on short shift five days a week. Jaren G. Tolman of Honeyville died at his home from injuries sustained in a baseball game on July 12. Tolman Tol-man played third base during the game and was at the bat when a ball struck him on the head just above the left ear. M. P. Ryan, an electrician of Salt Lake City, was killed by a street car on July 11. At the time he was struck Ryan was. lying face downward between be-tween the rails, supposedly asleep. His body w-as horribly mangled and his skull crushed. That the (Lincoln highway will be built south of the Salt Lake is now an assured fact. The county commissioners com-missioners of Tooele county have agreed to furnish their half of the money that will be needed to put this road in a perfect condition. More than 23,000 acres of land in Summit, San Juan, Washington and Kane counties will be open to homesteaders home-steaders on July 27. Of this more than 19,000 acres Is "resitent" land on which the homesteader is required requir-ed to make his permanent home. On the ground that the plaintiff had failed to prove his case, Judge Chrlstenson instructed the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty in the case where George N. Hill sought the removal of Sheriff Thomas Kel-ter Kel-ter of Carbon county for malfeasance malfeas-ance in office. One hundred barrels of whisky, most of it in Salt Lake, has been confiscated con-fiscated by the government on the ground that it is misbranded. The whisky is being held by the local officers of the internal revenue department de-partment pending orders from the treasury department. Leland Graehl, aged 12, was drowned drown-ed in the Sanitarium baths, Salt Lake City, Saturday afternoon, it being charged that a man threw him in the water beyond his depth, and that he could not swim. William McCand-land, McCand-land, a laborer, was arrested on suspicion, sus-picion, but released. Immediately after the close of sura mer school at the Agricultural college, col-lege, Professor J. C. Hogenson, state agent of Boys' and Girls' club work in Utah for the Agricultural college and the United States department ol agriculture, will spend two months visiting different parts of the state and will give practical demonstrations demon-strations of the work In canning fruits and vegetables. The Sarah Ann Daft home, for the aged, located in Salt Lake, was formally for-mally opened on July 13. The home, which was made possible by the late Mrs. Sarah Ann Daft, who bequeathed bequeath-ed $35,000 in money, some stock and a lot, ha3 been established about two years, but in rented houses. Frank De Pratto, who it is said has confessed the murder of Eugene Allen who was shot to death at the Highland High-land Boy store in Bingham on the night of April 15, has been brought back from Montana to Salt Lake, and will be placed on trial. |