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Show THE UTAH BUDGET A number of Weber county farmers are contemplating planting Sudan grass, which is becoming a popular forage crop. Contracts have been let to grade the site at St. Joseph, near Salt Lake, for the yards of the Salt Lake Union Stock Yards company. The first shipment of steel for the new sugar factory of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, being erected in Brigham City, arrived last week. Jake Nylund, a business man of Eureka, Eu-reka, was struck on the head by a highwayman, near the main business district, and relieved of $400 in cash. A Greek laborer fell into Ogden river, at Ogden, while engaged with other workmen in clearing debris from the railroad tracks, and was drowned. The Rotary club of Salt Lake will send a representative to Washington to present the arguments to the various vari-ous congressional committees in favor of making a brigade post and army supply station at Fort Douglas. By correspondence and by personal visits made by C. Frank Emery, state health inspector, the state health department de-partment is attempting to secure the formation of a Better Babies' league in every county in the state. Fifty families were driven from their homes in Ogden as a result of the Ogden river overflowing, causing a great amount of damage. The county coun-ty will suffer a loss of $15,000 as a result re-sult of bridges heing washed out. John A. Silver, masterr mechanic for the Silver Brothers Iron Works company com-pany and one of the pioneers in the iron industry in the west, died at his home in Salt Lake City, March 22, from a complication of diseases. Stricken with heart failure after attending at-tending a vaudeville show at Ogden, George E. Rowland, aged 52, toppeled over in the theater lobby and died a few minutes later, while the audience audi-ence was appaludlng a trio on the stage. Attorney General Barnes has ruled that where real estate has been left off the tax rolls of a county after patent pat-ent has issued from the government the county is entitled to collect taxes for all the years since patent has issued. is-sued. The largest snowslide recorded there in years came off the south side of Logan canyon near the Logan municipal mu-nicipal electric power dam in the canyon can-yon on March 21, and rov several hours the Logan river was 'wrnpletely shut off. That the Salt Lake postoffice receives re-ceives more money orders than any other city of its size is shown in a list recently compiled -by the post-office post-office department. The Salt Lake City office paid out $560,003.75 during the past year. A proclamation has 'been received from President Wilson embracing three natural (bridges in the southern part of the state and withdrawing forty acres of land surrounding each bridge. The 'bridges are the Sipapu, Kachine and Owachoma. Forty of the business men and leading lead-ing citizens of American Fork held a banquet at the "Y" cafe on March 22 and adopted the 'by-laws and charter of the old American Fork Commercial club and will revive the spirit of the old club a hundredfold. Efforts on the part of insurance companies to raise the rate on school insurance from 60 cents tos $1.52 per $1,000 may result in the board of education edu-cation of Salt Lake taking action to abolish insurance on the property and create its own insurance fund. California berry shippers are to foe notified by Heber C. Smith, state food and dairy inspector, that they cannot market in Utah berries in some of the baskets they use in other states, the reason being that these particular baskets are not up to the Utah standard. stand-ard. David O. McKay of Ogden, un apostle apos-tle of the Mormon church, drove his automobile against the rope barricade at the mouth of Ogden canyon and suffered a fractured upper jaw, lost several lover teeth, was badly cut about the fi.ee and received wrenched wrench-ed back. Miss Edna Hadfield, deputy city recorder re-corder at Ogden, was the victim of a painful accident when her right eye was 'burned ty a hot curling iron. Miss Hadfield was curling her hair when she dropped the instrument, the hot portion of the bar striking her eye and burning the eyeball. Many aged persons who could not have otherwise attended were taken to the revival tabernacle at Ogden Og-den in automobiles on March 22 for the special services that were planned as a "tribute to the aged." The tabernacle taber-nacle was filled with flowers, which after the services were sent to sick persons and to the hospital wards of the city. The comptroller of the currency has received an application for a charter for the First National bank of Moab, Utah, with a capital stock of $50,000. With his mustache shaved off and traveling under the name of Peterson, N P. Stathakos. the Greek banker wanted at Salt Lake on a charge of receiving deposits when he knew that his firm was insolvent, sailed from w Orleans for Havana, Cuba, according ac-cording to word received at Salt Lake. While engaged with fellow students in 3ccuring sand for their tennis court it school, J. Vincent Winter, aged 17. was almost instantly killed by the -aving of a sand bank at Salt Lake-Two Lake-Two other students were slightly in- j ared. |