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Show UTAH BUDGE! i ! Nearly lioo Ogden boys are working In the fields In the vicinity of Ogden. According to the board of equalization, equaliza-tion, Salt Lake county is ten million dollars richer than in l!)l(i, because ot Increased property valuations. The Cunnison Valley Sugar com- ' pany, incorporated last week for $1,-,S20.(N0. $1,-,S20.(N0. will erect "a beet sugar factory i near (lunnison in Sanpete county. It is reported that over 100 sheeu have died of rabies in Heaver county within the last few days, and 40 hogs have died of cholera in Millard county. The lied Cross fund for American Fork, was oversubscribed 08 per cent, according to the announcement made after the checking over by the committee. commit-tee. Grand county reports iiOO.OOO bushels of corn and Washington county 4(1 1,01)0 pounds of grapes. There are 1,128,000 pounds of hulk gnua in storage in Utah. Utah's crop production this year will be at least half again as large as its prop yield of 1J10, according to mi estimate esti-mate "carefully prepared during the past month by K V. Brown, state statistician. The state fish and game department has entered upon a campaign to exterminate exter-minate the sparrow in Utah, and is sending to all the county commissions of the state a poison formula guaranteed guaran-teed to be effective. It is announced that Carl Yrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, will deliver liu address In Salt Lake July 14 on the policy and program of the agricultural department as to food production pro-duction and conservation. Even though the demand for coal is slight now as compared to the demand last winter, Ogden is suffering from a coal famine and the dealers say the situation is caused by reason of the shortage of coal cars. Auditors who are working on the books of the Commercial hank of Tooele, following the suicide of George F. Kaul, cashier of the institution, have discovered a shortage which is, said to amount to $7000. Owing to the scarcity of male help, due to the drain which the recruiting offices have made through the rural districts, women are doing a great deal of work on the farms of Utah that formerly for-merly was done by men. It is expected that 5,753.600 bushels of potatoes and 5,335,123 bushels of wheat will be raised in Utah this year. The apple crop will total 1,191,585 bushels and the peach crop 1,265,162 bushels, according to the crop survey. The sum of $37,700.60 was apportioned appor-tioned among the high schools of the state last week by the department of public instruction. This is the final apportionment for the year. The total apportionment for the year comes to $102,028.55. Aside from all other Red Cross contributions con-tributions in Provo the students at the summer school of the Church Teachers college have contributed $168.25 in cash and a small additional amount has been pledged to the cause. There were 119 donors. Owing to washouts on the Denver & Kio Grande direct mail communication is being'-iiiade only as far us Colton, from which the regular distribution of all classes of mail matter is being made for Scofield, Winterquarters, Utah Mines and Bear Creek. The Ogden, Logan & Idaho Railway cCmpany has given up its fight to obtain ob-tain about 200 new freight curs for use on the interurban lines and will endeavor en-deavor to struggle along with the equipment on hand until manufacturers manufactur-ers are able to fill orders. Embonpoint and speedy growth rather rath-er than any willowy graces are the points most desired in Utah cattle nowadays, according to Prof. George B. Caine, dairy expert of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college. . He urges an increase in the supply as a patriotic duty. Walter Wells of Provo and Wallace Boyack of Spanish Fork are now 'in Camp Kelly in South San Antonio, where they are rapidly learning to fly. They will be in the aviation corps that will shortly go to France, according to a letter just received from the boys. After sending a note to Sheriff Peterson, Pe-terson, in which she inclosed .$15 foi burial expenses and made a request ai to where she should be buried, Miss Gertrude Topfer, aged 40 years, a native na-tive of Switzerland, went to the City cemetery in Ogden and fired a bullet through her brain. William Johnson, ticketed in notoriety noto-riety as the husband who made no effort ef-fort to prevent the body of his dead wife from going to the dissecting slab find the father who failed to provide for his five minor children, Is in custody cus-tody at Salt Lake, under suspicion of having made bogus coin. Peter Turloupis, a Greek cook, is charged with stabbing and killing Bruce Detnpsey, aged 16, at Salt Lake, The Greek, who is in jail, is said tc nave attacked the boy thinking t!at Oeuipsey was addressing him when he -vas shouting at a boy companion whiie on his way home from Saltair. More than 79,000 acres are planted to sugar beets in Utah this year. The average beet yield Is expected to be 13.64 tons per acre, and the total yield ' 1,080,000 tons, from which 208.054,500 ' pounds of sugar will be produced. The average per cent of sugar content is placed at 12.43. Utah leads the United Slates in the condition of her crops this spring, no cording to information that has reached the Utah Agricultural college from the bureau of crop estimates. United States department of agriculture. |