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Show UTAH BUDGET ( There are 30.000.0(H) acres of hind Still open to settlement in Utah. A Salt Lake "masher" was last week assessed a line of $HK) fur accosting a girl on the street. Shooting himself thrmr 'i the bend, J. K. McLeod, aged Ti l, a nartender of Salt Lake, ended his life. - Prizes have been offered for the best crops grown by I'aysnn children and already the competition for them is keen. The Elks' lodge of I'rovo .ioined with other lodges of that order in the purchase pur-chase of $7500 worth of Liberty bonds. The directors of the Sevier County Fair association are considering the advisability of holding the annual fair this year. George AV. Kaul, cashier of the Commercial Rank of Tooele, was found dead in a basement vault of the bank at Tooele, he having suicided by shooting. German prisoners at the Fort Douglas Doug-las prison camp may be used to build one of the country's most picturesque automobile highways through Emigration Emigra-tion canyon. The tomato crop is the only one being be-ing retarded seriously because of the cool weather, according to in formation forma-tion brought to the farm bureau headquarters head-quarters at Ogden. Tlie Utah county strawberry crop will be a big one this year and the growers are getting nervous over securing se-curing enough pickets to take care of the fruit as it ripens. The Utah Druggists' association will hold its annual convention in Salt Lake City June 20 and 21 at which it is expected 200 members from all over the state will be in attendance. Salt Lake has 1S.4G5 male citizens of military age, according to the military census recently taken under the provision pro-vision of the state law allowing of conscription in the national guard service. ser-vice. Four hundred thousand acres of Vernal district land is to be auctioned by the government June IS and on June 15 and 20 tracts on the Strawberry Straw-berry irrigation project are to be allotted al-lotted by drawing. Fully 200 men in Ogden must change their occupation when the saloons close August 1, and efforts will be put forth to get them to work on the farms until they obtain permanent positions po-sitions elsewhere. That the storage capacity of grain of the Relief society of the Mormon church may be increased materially, a steel reinforced concrete elevator capable cap-able of holding 50,000 bushels of grain is being erected at Logan. The regiment of forest engineers in which members of the Utah forestry service are enlisted, will see early service ser-vice in France, according to information informa-tion received from the war department depart-ment by the district forester at Ogden. Og-den. All attention of the Fayson people is turned to beet thinning and every morning at 7 boys and girls of the town meet and go to the fields near town. More than 100 children are now engaged in the work under the supervision of farmers. Because the county will not pay less than $1 in bounty, several persons who have been trapping, shooting or poisoning squirrels and gophers in Weber county have been disappointed when their returns did not amount to enough to make a claim for sfl. Erick Hogeland came into Salt Lake last week from a ranch near AYend-over AYend-over and for the first time heard of the declaration of war between the United States and Germany. AVheii he told his story to the proper officials he was granted permission to register for service. The state industrial commission has informally adopted the Industrial compensation com-pensation rating schedule, known in insurance circles as the merit system of premium fixing. The rating schedule sche-dule will apply on to premiums of $50 or more and will not apply to the mining min-ing industry. The articles of agreement for the vork on the Ephraim-Orangeville road nave bgeu signed by the state road commission and the representatives of the office of roads and have been sent, for the signature of the secretary of agriculture. .$60,000 is to be spent ou the project this year. The farmers of Emery county are severely troubled and bothered by prairie dogs, as many of the crops are being damaged by the pestiferous rodent. ro-dent. Another fact discovered was that the prairie dog towns are growing much faster than the human towns. As a result the county offered a 3-cent bounty for the pest. The Farmers Protective association of Salt Lake county, which was instrumental in-strumental in securing in the state fish and game law a provision making it a misdemeanor for fishermen to trespass on privately owned lands bordering bor-dering the Wasatch canyon streams, has announced that it intends to seo that this restriction is rigidly enforced. en-forced. The citizens of Provo are getting ready for one of the greatest patriotic demonstrations ever held in that part of the state on Jul 4. Business men have announced that they will spare no efforts in preparing patriotic floats und that they will expend whatever money is needed. ' Young men of the Mormon church were urged to show preference for (lie national guard of Utah in selecting their service for the world war, in a powerful address which was liclhered Sunday at Salt Lake by President Joseph F. Smith. |