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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Roger Peterson, the Ilvntsville man who swallowed poison with suicidal intern, is completely cut of danger. Crops are looking fine, cattle are rolling in fat and farmers are all wearing wear-ing smiles in southern Utah. A liquor election will be held in j Fannington on June 29, to decide whether the city, sha'l remain wet, or be dry. The students of the B. Y. U. are contemplating building a trail -to the big "Y'' on the mountain east of the University at Provo. May 28 was declared a holiday at Price, in order that the citizens might turn out in force to do much needed work on the Midland trail. The city of Ogden is made party to a claim for $10,300 damages for the death of Theodore Broadbent, the boy who was electrocuted on April 4. Pete Millick, aged 25, swallowed a silver dollar at 'Garfield, the coin lodging lodg-ing in his throat. A surgical operation opera-tion was necessary .to save the young man's life. William H. Stevens of Ogden is in the hospital, suffering from minor injuries in-juries as the result of being buried alive when the wall of an excavation fell on him. Domesticity in Rich and San Juan counties has proved 100 per ' cent peaceful in the past two years, no divorces being granted in either county coun-ty in either 1913 or 1914. During 1914 in the state of Utah there were 676 interlocutory decrees of divorce and 196 final decrees, as compared to 519 interlocutory decrees and 332 final decrees in 1913. Construction work on the two extensions ex-tensions of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho lines is going on at such a rate as to practically insure ihe completion of all grading before next fall. Fred M. Tout, proprietor of an Ogden Og-den saloon, who was convicted by a jury on the charge of violating the liquor ordinances, was sentenced to serve 150 days in the city jail or pay a fine of $200. rrhat Carbon county is to better its roads generally is shown 'by the sale of $31,000 in road bonds, recently voted at a special election, and bids for which are at this time being asked for Iby the county treasurer. Anderson Kyle, colored proprietor of the Majestic Social club at Ogden, who is accused of killing Charles Vaughn, also colored, in the club-rooms club-rooms on April 15, will be tried on a charge of first-degree murder. Latest figures concerning the national na-tional guard of Utah place this state in an advanced position among the other commonwealths of the western department, which is now being checked check-ed up in the matter of efficiency. Mornoi Heiner was painfully if not seriously injured when the steering knuckle on an automobile, driven by William MacLean, broke and the machine, ma-chine, beyond control, crashed into a ditch, about a mile from Farmington. Eugene (Peanuts) Sinclair, a former prize fighter who at one time wis in line for the world's lightweight championship, cham-pionship, is in jail at Salt Lake, facing fac-ing a charge of assault with intent to commit murder, preferred by his wife. A total of 5,289 marriage licenses were issued in the state of Utah in 1914, according to figures compiled by H. T. Haines, commissioner of immigration, immi-gration, labor and statistics. This ia an increase of 229 over the numbei issued in 1913. Robert S. Conner, former receiving teller of Walker Brothers bank, Salt Lake, and of recent years traveling auditor in California for an eastern business house, was instantly killed near Martinez, Cal., when an automobile automo-bile he was driving skidded on a slippery slip-pery road and overturned. Taking the stand that their organization organi-zation is sufficiently perfected to handle the 1915 fruit crop, the Utah Fruit Growers' association decided after a session with V. C. Talbert, representing rep-resenting the western Colorado fruit growers, not to combine in an interstate inter-state association for this year at least. Water was turned into the big syphon sy-phon of concrete and steel that dips across the Jordan Narrows, last week. The stream will make possible the reclamation rec-lamation of from 12,000 to 15,000 acres of land. The Utah County Jersey association held its fourth annual Jersey show at Provo last week and over 100 pure bred Jerseys with a small number of graded Jerseys and a herd of Hoi-steins Hoi-steins were entered. Directors of the Davis and Weber Counties Canal company have awarded the contract for building the large iam in East canyon, Morgan county, to the Utah Construction company. The dam will probably cost $150,000. It is estimated that 300,000 pounds of Utah wool were sold one day last week for prices ranging from 23 tc 6 cents. The 1915 clip from the nearly near-ly 2,000,000 head of sheep in the state is estimated at more than 13,000,000 pounds. Utah's new law, known as Senate bill No. 93, prohibiting the transportation transporta-tion of liquor into "dry" territory is sound, according to an opinion Issued from the offre of the attorney general. The law makes it unlawful to trans- port liquors to points within "dry" ter- ! ritory. j All activity of the Oregon Short j Line railroad system was suspended i .'or five minutes on April 24th. during he funeral services over the body C V. H. Bancroft. Every train wa ;topped, every telegraph iastrumen .vas silent for five minutes. |