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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Utah bankers will hold their stato invention In Ogden Juno 3 and 21. It Is announced that a sugar factory Is to bo built near Ix3un, in tho Ben- jou waul. Two thousand dollars will bo spent upon tho Improvements of tho road through Parley's canyon this year. Formal opening of tho now cnpltol will tnko placo Tuesday, Juno 28, tho Bocond day of tho national conference of governors, to be luW In Salt Lako this year. Thomas K. Williams, 27 years of ngo, night car Inspector for tho Sali Lako Routo nt Lynndyl, was caught and crushed to death between a switch, engine nnd a coach. To commemorate tho completion of tho Strawberry valloy Irrigation pro-Joct pro-Joct nnd tho coming of tho lntorurlmu, a big Joint celebration will bo hold at Payson May 20 and 27. William Magulro, aged 52, was choked to death by James Burke In tho city Jail nt Ogdon, whero tho two men had been placed in a coll. The two men wero Intoxicated. Charles Kcefo, a vetoran bartondcr of Annconda, Ib in a iinddcd coll In Salt Lake, having become unmnnago ablo whllo stopping nt a local hotel. Ho will bo sent back to .Montana. Tho mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon can-yon has practically boon decided upon by Fred W. Chambers, Btato llsh and game commissioner, as tho location loca-tion for a Salt Lako county game sanctuary. sanc-tuary. Tho potash plant which Is being built nt Grants for tho Diamond Match company is rapidly noanng completion. comple-tion. Tho walla for tho largo .buildings .build-ings aro up and tho roofs aro bolng placed. Tho assessed valuation of Brighnm City, under tho now mothod of full valuation on proporty, is f2.222.490. This is asldo from public utilities, which aro taxed by tho stato board of equalization. Nearly 18 per cont of tho lumbor used In Utah, southorn Idaho and In Lincoln and Uinta countleB, Wyo., In 1915 was cut from timber growing loyally, lo-yally, according to tho Ogdon branch of tho forest Bcrvlco. RailroadB centorlng lu and nrovnd Salt Lako City aro planning to oxpond 510,000,000 In improvements this year to facllltato tho handling of business, according to Ballard Dunn ot Chicago, m export on railroad problems. G. II. Jack, a Utah artlBt, Is undor-nkinc undor-nkinc tho modeling' of a statuo ot braham Lincoln to bo placod at tho 'apltol grounds. It Is tho hopo of Mr. Jnck to havo tho pleco or eculpturo endy for tho dodlcatloa or tho state house. A cavo Jong and nanow, full ot ishes In which wero many bones, and In tho mldBt of all n skeloton of a child wrapped in cedar bark In an-"lent an-"lent Indian fnshion, aro tho ilndB on .ho farm of John W. Wolst, eight miles 'rom Vernal. Dr. C. F. Ogood, aged 48, ono of Og-len's Og-len's wealthy residents nnd a woll nown physician and Burgeon, was mot threo times nnd killed as ho Bat In his automobile Ills raurdoror, Hu-)or Hu-)or Burch, aged 44, a farmer, is bo-loved bo-loved to bo lnuano. Within tho next fow weeks a site an tho capltol grounds at Salt Lako 'or tho monument to tho Mormon bnt allon will bo Bolected. Tho solectlon will bo mado Jointly "by tho Mormon battalion monument commlttco and tho capltol commission. Embezzlement of ?3.831 of tho funds of tho Coppor Stato bank of Cop-porfleld Cop-porfleld Is charged against A. Walter ICoohlor, cashier of tho bank, in n complnlnt issued a fow days ago. Kooh-lor Kooh-lor clalmB ho was robbed of tho amount by n iono nanuu. Dr. Charles Poplin Harvlollo, assistant assist-ant county physician ot Salt Lako county, died May 2 In Denver from an affection of tho throat, nftor a long Illness. Dr. Harvlollo was ono of the best known men In tho west and had been actively Interested In outdoor sports. James Lynch, who on Jnnuary 1 was paroled from tho Utah Btato ponlten lary nfter having served Bovonteon yoars for thij murdor of Colonel Gcorgo Prowse In 1899, has, In tho estimation es-timation of tho pollco, brokon his pa-rolo pa-rolo and Is theroby a fugitive from Justice. A comparatively low rato of increase in-crease in tho assessed valuation ot Washington county for 191C as compared com-pared with 1915 is Bhown by tho ro-port ro-port of tho assessor for that county filed with tho stato board ot equaliza tion. Tho valuation for 1910 is $2,-000,915 $2,-000,915 na compared with $1,199,900 for 1915. Plans aro being mado to covert tho Ivo companies of infantry of the Utah National Guard Into cavalry roops, aupplementlng troop A, nnd to orgnnlzo two more cavalry troops, giving tho stato militia two comploto battalions of cavalry. Antono Leta, tho Italian lopor confined con-fined at tho Salt Lako county hospital, Is Improving. A strike wns declared by seventy Granite high school students when tho principal refused to grant n holi day aftor tho Btudont body had do-tlared do-tlared In favor ot a holiday. Threats if abolition of tho Btudont body gov-ornmont gov-ornmont aro mado ns a rosult o! tho tlon ot tho students. "Whllo attempting to arrest a man namod Williams near Richfield, Hans Borg wns shot twico, ono bullot taking tak-ing effect in tho right groin and the othor in tho loft wrist Williams is In Jail, and Borg In tho hospital, with excellent chances of recovery. i |