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Show UTAH BUDGET Hans ChriHtlan Hansen, who conducted con-ducted a eportliiK goods eBtablishment at Ogden for yours, died July 4. William Olson was Hcriously injured when he fell from the roof of a sugar factory on which he was working at Cornish. Otto Youngberg, aged 14, was run . down and killed by a At reel car in Salt Lake on July -I, being struck by the car while riding his bicycle. Utah has spent $2,032,410,110 on road Improvement from the time of the organization or-ganization of t lie state road commission commis-sion in 1009 to -May SI of this year. Breaking all records of previous years by nearly 50 per cent, 101 cases were treated during June, 1017, at the Kmergeucy hospital in Salt Lake City. ' Bert Turner, who is in charge of the predatory animal extermination work In San Juan county, has found it necessary nec-essary to employ two assistants to aid hhu in the work. One of the features of the Independence Independ-ence day celebration at Salt Lake. was the collision of two large engines, a large crowd of people paying to witness wit-ness the spectacle. The state road supervisor has been working ou the roads between Monti-cello Monti-cello and Verdure repairing them so that they will be in good condition 'for the heavy summer travel. James YV. Jones, in charge of sugar beet investigation locally for the federal fed-eral government, says that Utah now is recognized as the third largest beet sugar producing state in the Union. The first silo in Iron county has just been completed by Charles Bryant of Cedar City. The Branch Agricultural college is also erecting a silo, and many others are planning to do likewise. like-wise. Mrs. Edwin F. Holmes, known throughout the United States as the "Silver Queen," practically has decided de-cided to use Utah stone in the magnificent mag-nificent villa which she is to erect near Los Angeles. Two former Salt Lakers, Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum K. Davies, and their 4-..year-old sou were drowned in the Minidoka Min-idoka project canal near Kupert, Idaho, when their automobile plunged over an embankment. Jlrs. Bessie Vanderschuit was held not guilty of the murder of her husband, hus-band, Bareu Vanderschuit, by a jury at Price. Vanderschuit was shot during dur-ing a struggle with his wife over the possession of a revolver. . Latest discoveries in the science of embalming, sanitation and disinfection will be explained in Ogden, July 20, 27 and 28, at a summer school to be conducted con-ducted under the auspices of the Utah Funeral Directors' association. Following a trip to Salt Lake, during dur-ing which each brought new clothing, Mrs. Lena Van Konieu, aged 25, and Frank Delauey, aged 35, were arrested at Ogden and charged with the theft of $105 and a gold watch from Frank Agaard. The Utah State highway commission will spend $55,000 on the road between Garden City, ou the Bear lake shore, to Logan this season, and this was already al-ready considered a good mountain highway, and noted for beautiful scenery. It is probable that private detectives will be employed to ferret out a probable prob-able plot of dynamiting or the use of some other explosive in an alleged wrecking of the Mammoth dam, which caused the washing out of the D. & It. G. tracks. Before the largest gathering that ever assembled iu Liberty park, Salt Lake, during its more than thirty-live years as a public park, eighteen new cititzens, representing eight European countries, received their final citizenship citizen-ship papers ou July 4. The Utah Calipers' association, comprising the factories of Utah which puck food products and which are about thirty-two in number, is of the opinion that the labor situation -this packing season Is going to be the hard- est problem which it will have to meet. The traffic service bureau of Utah, representing the- Cameron Coal company, com-pany, the independent Coal & Coke company, the Spring Canyon Coal Company and the Standard Coal company, com-pany, has filed an application with the state public utilities commission for a reduction of 25 cents per ton in co.ll rates. A. T. Wallace of the Millard county farm bureau, is making a canvass of Utah county to secure boys for work in the beet fields of Millard. He reports re-ports that there are still 30,000 acres of. beets that need thinning and that the farmers can use more than 100 men and boys to good advantage. Assuming that the present crop con-' ditlons continue favorable throughout the harvest season, more than 100,000 cases of Utah tomatoes will be turned over to the government for army ami navy use during the coining winter.. When F. Bennett attempted lo rub a bank at Sail Lake, he entered a class by himself as the meanest of bank robbers. rob-bers. He tried to get away willi the brass nameplate of the cashier's cage. Utah county has now passed the $40,000,000 and the valuation now stands al $40,1S1.42S, the highest figure ' by $S00,(HK) ever reached in the county. coun-ty. The development of new Industries iu the county will materially increase that amount for next year. To capture with his hands a coyote which had bitten ills neighbor, Frank Lawler, and was supposed' lo have the. rabies, and help kill It, was the experience experi-ence of A. G. Turner, a rancher in ilu southern part of Garfield county. Turner Tur-ner was not even scratched in the ea-fouuler. |