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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Five hundred people were present, at the dedication of Vernnl's new city and county park on Arbor day. The grand lodge of the I. O. O. of the state of Utah held its forty-fifth forty-fifth annual conclave at Salt Lake last week. April 19 was observed as a holiday-by holiday-by the citizens of Kphraim and was. devoted to a cleanup of the streets oE the city. The material for the extens'on of the Oreni line from Provo to Spring-ville Spring-ville is arriving and the work of laying lay-ing the ties and rails will be begun, within the week. Harvey Jeppson of Bear River City died at the Brigham General hospital from injuries received when he was kicked in the pit of the. stomach by a fractious borse. Leonidas G. Skliris, who was shot and seriously wounded by Cregorios Pologeorgi at Salt Lake on April 5, is slowly recovering from the effects, of the bullet wound. Committees appointed to arrange for the Ephraim homecoming celebration, which is to be held in that city May 21-22, are busy arranging for the various va-rious entertainment features and program. pro-gram. The body of William A. Bills, S years of age, a prominent resident of Rlverton who disappeared from his home there eighteen days previous,. was found in the Jordan river on. April 20. The fish census of Washington, county has been increased by 80,000 the past week. Thia number of tiny-rainbow tiny-rainbow trout, each about two inches in length, were taken south from tha state hatchery at Murray. During a severe electric storm at Hyrum the barn of Mayor Jensen in. the southern part of town was struck, and half of it was demolished. Many of the boards were set on fire. Cattle Cat-tle in the yard near were uninjured.. That Charles Vaughn came to his death by a gunshot wound feloniously felonious-ly inflicted by Anderson Kyle was the verdict of a coroner's jury following; an inquest held in connection with the-shooting the-shooting in a colored club at Ogdea- That the inherent right of a widow-to widow-to one-third of her husband's property is not subject to an inheritance tax in Utah, providing the property is located lo-cated in Utah, is the gist of an opinion opin-ion handed down by the supreme court. Dr. f. Moormeister and Dr. Theo M. H. Hotopp, physicians of Salt Lake, have been arrested on warrants charg ing them with involuntary manslaughter manslaught-er in connection with the death of Mrs. Eula B. Smith Tattershall, aged 19 years. Nick Ellas, who is said to be Nick Charetopoulos, suspected of the murder mur-der of Mrs. Sophia Bourazanis, the aged mother of the Rev. Dorotheas Bonrazanis, pastor of the Salt Lake Gree Orthodox church, has been arrested ar-rested in Minneapolis. News has been received of the death, accidentally, at Breckenridge, Colo.,, of James Walch of Price, but formerly; of Aspen, Colo. Death was due to. coming in contact with a live wire, while working for the lighting comJ pany in the Colorado city. A dark brown cap found in the rear of the home of G. E. Sheldon, at Salt Lake, is the only clue to the identity of the man who fired the bullet through a window in the Sheldon home late Saturday night. April 17, seriously serious-ly w:ounding Mrs. Sheldon. That the coal and coke trade oC Carbon county is steadily improving is evidenced by the fact that at this( time 600 ovens are going at full blast at Sunnyside, while the reserve coke stored at that point, and amounting to several thousands of tons, is eow exhausted. Governor Spry announces that he and members of the road commission and board of corrections are willing to place convicts on the Salt Lake-Los Angeles highway as soon as the enthusiasts enthu-siasts can determine where the prin-cipl prin-cipl auto route out of Saltr Lake to the west will be. Even though stockmen hold national nation-al forest grazing permits specifying they may graze in forests in either Utah or Wyoming, L. F. Kneipp, district dis-trict forester of this district, says they must obey the quarantine proclamations proc-lamations issued by Governor William Wil-liam Spry and the Wyoming governor. gov-ernor. The Park City council and the Commercial Com-mercial club have formed an alliance in their determination to make Park City a cleaner city and they have asked that all citizens pledge themselves them-selves to swat the fly, clean streets and alleys, eliminate weeds, beautify their yards and paint their houses, garages, barns and fences. Leo R. Freshwater, former postmaster post-master of Robinson, was found guilty in the United States district court at Salt Lake for embezzlement of $2,-40.1.91 $2,-40.1.91 of government money during his incumbency between the dates of May 21, 1913. and May 11, 1914. The verdict included a recommendation of mercy. Mrs. Lulu Sheldon, wife of a Salt Lake barber, was shot and seriously wounded as she was bending over a bed tucking the covers around her youngest child. It is not known who fired the shot, which came through a window and struck Mrs. Sheldon in the back. The big brother movement, which has been of incalculable help to thousands thou-sands of boys in the east, Is to be inaugurated in-augurated in Salt Lake within the next few weeks. The movement Is designed as an auxiliary work of the Young Men's CurlstUn nntioiatiort. |