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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Utah bankers will hold their state omentum in Ogden June 23 and 24. It is announced that a sugar factory s to be built near Logan, in the Ben-;on Ben-;on ward. Two thousand dollars will be spent ipon the improvements of the road :hrough Parley's canyon this year. Formal opening of the new capitoL will take place Tuesday, June 2S, the second day of the national conference jf governors, to be held in Salt Laku this year. Thomas E. Williams, 27 years of age, night car inspector for the Salt Lake Route at Lynndyl, was caught and crushed to death between a switch, engine and a coach. To commemorate the completion of the Strawberry valley irrigation project pro-ject and the coming of the interurbau, a big joint celebration will be held at Payson May 26 and 27. William Magulre, aged 52, was choked to death by James Burke in. the city jail at O&den, where the two-men two-men had been placed in a cell. The two men were intoxicated. Charles Keefe, a veteran bartender of Anaconda, is in a padded cell in Salt Lake, having become unmanageable unmanage-able while stopping at a local hotel. He will be sent back to Montana. The mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon can-yon has practically been decided upon by Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game commissioner, as the location loca-tion for a Salt Lake county game sanctuary. sanc-tuary. The potash plant which is being built at Grants for the Diamond Match company is rapidly nearing completion. comple-tion. The walls for the large buildings build-ings are up and the roofs are being placed. The assessed valuation of Brigham City, under the new method of full valuation on property, is $2,222,490. This is aside from public utilities, which are taxed by the state board of equalization. Nearly 18 per cent of the lumber used in Utah, southern Idaho and in Lincoln and Uinta counties, Wyo., in 1915 was cut from timber growing locally, lo-cally, according to the Ogden branch of the forest service. Railroads centering ha and around Salt Lake City are planning to expend $10,000,000 in improvements this year to facilitate the handling of business, according to Ballard Dunn of Chicago,, an expert on railroad problems. G. H. Jack, a Utah artist, is undertaking under-taking the modeling of a statue of Abraham Lincoln to be placed at the ' capitol grounds. It is the hope of Mr. Jack to have the t piece or sculpture-ready sculpture-ready for the dedication of the state house. A cave long and narrow, full of ashes in which were many bones, and In the midst of all a skeleton of a child wrapped in , cedar bark in ancient an-cient Indian fashion, are the finds on the farm of John W. Weist, eight miles from Vernal. Dr. C. F. Ogood, aged 48, one of Og-den's Og-den's wealthy residents and a well known physician and surgeon, was shot three times and killed as he sat in his automobile. His murderer, Hu-ber Hu-ber Burch, aged 44, a farmer, is be-'ieved be-'ieved to be insane. Within the next few weeks a slta on the capitol grounds at Salt Lake for the monument to the Mormon battalion bat-talion will be selected. The selection will be made jointly by -the Mormon battalion monument committee and the capitol commission. Embezzlement of $3,831 of the funds of the Copper State bank of Cop-perfield Cop-perfield is charged against A. Walter Koehler, cashier of the bank, in a complaint issued a few days ago. Koehler Koeh-ler claims he was robbed of the amount by a lone bandit. Dr. Charles Poplin Harvlelle, assistant assist-ant county physician of Salt Lake county, died May 2 in Denver from an affection of the throat, after a long illness. Dr. Harvielle was one of the best known men in the west and had been actively interested in outdoor sports. James Lynch, who on January 1 was paroled from the Utah state penitentiary peniten-tiary after having served seventeen years for the murder of Colonel George Prowse in 1899, has, in the estimation es-timation of the police, broken his parole pa-role and is thereby a fugitive from justice. A comparatively low rate of increase in-crease in the assessed valuation of Washington county for 1916 as compared com-pared with 1915 is shown by the report re-port of the assessor for that county filed with the state board of equalization. equaliza-tion. The valuation for 1916 is $2,-006,915 $2,-006,915 as compared with $1,199,900 for 1915. Plans are being made to covert the five companies of infantry of the Utah National Guard into cavalry troops, supplementing troop A, and to organize two more cavalry troops, giving the state militia two complete battalions of cavalry. Antone Leta, the Italian leper confined con-fined at the Salt Lake county hospital, is improving. A strike was declared by seventy Granite high school students when the principal refused to grant a holiday holi-day after the student body had de-ilared de-ilared in favor of a holiday. Threats of abolition of the student body government gov-ernment are made as a result of the tion of the students. While attempting to arrest a man named Williams near Richfield, Hans Borg was shot twice, one bullet taking tak-ing effect in the right groin and the other in the left wrist. Williams is In jail, and Horg in the hospital, with excellent chances of recovery. |