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Show mmmmmt PHHHHMHnHHMniiinaHMHMM THE UTAH BUDGET Dr. Marshall, on trial at Salt Lako for tho murder of bis wife, was acquitted ac-quitted by tho Jury. Reports from orchard districts ot Weber county nro that the recent cold snap caused no damage. Tho young beet planta also escaped Injury. John A. Sharp, wldoly known throughout this section of tho west ns j a sheepman and ranch owner, died at Ak. his home in Salt Lake, April 27. From injuries sustained when ho was run over by a rear wheel of n wagon loaded with flour, Wllinrd Tribe, aged G, of Ogdon, died April 25. It Is estimated that 1,000 farmers and their wives visited tho demonstration demonstra-tion train of tho Utah Agricultural collcgo extension department at Mur-ray. Mur-ray. i An official call has been Issued by tho Congressional Unlou for Womon'a Suffrage fortho conference or voting women to beheld In Salt Lako May 11 nnd 12. Tentative decision to hold tho formal for-mal opening of tho stnto capltol Juno l 8, 9 or 10, was reached at n special meeting of tho capltol commission Inst week. Tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company announces an-nounces that It has contracted for 82,000 acres of beets in Utah and Idaho, an increaso of 20,000 acres over last year. Louis F. Mocnch, aged C9 years, tho first principal ot tho Weber academy of Ogden, and ono of tho men actively engaged In the establishment of other Mormon church schools, died April 25 at his homo In Ogden. Judge Johnson of tho United States court holds that Salt Lake county has the right to examine tho books of tho Utah Copper company to lenrn tho amount of property on which taxes should bo collected. Sending to tho University ot Utah tho heads of all coyotes and doga killed under circumstances which lead to the belief that they woro Infected with rabies is urged by Dr. T. B. Beatty, secretary of tho Btato board of health. After nn unsuccessful attempt to end his llfo by severing tho radial arteries ar-teries in his wrists, .Henry W. Pin-kerton, Pin-kerton, 59 years of age, toro open tho wounds In his wrists at tho county hospital nt Salt Lako and died from loss of blood. A. Walter Koehler, cashier of tho Coppcrfleld bank at Bingham canyon,-who canyon,-who claimed that ho hud been over- ( I powered and bound and gagged in tho ' bank Mondny noon by a robber -who 1 took $3,800, is in Jail and may. bo I charged with embezzlement. I Emll Olsen of Hyrum was drowned ' In tho Httlo Bear (or Muddy) river, which runs through that place. Olsen owned land lying along tho stream j and was working at repairing tho 1 bank when ho drovo his team so near j the water that tho bank' caved in. I A. P. Brown and E. F. Shupo, nr- j rested In Pocatcllo, Idaho, for attempt- lng to Jump their ball in a grand lar- ceny case, confessed upon their nr- rival in Ogden that thoy entered tho 1 Kern' confectionery store Tuesday fi night and stole about 20 in change. jf Peter Williams, aged 35, a minor if from Promontory point, took a drink n out of a doped bottlo with a stranger jl behind a bill board In Ogden nnd woke up minus $100 and with his I shoes filled with tacks, placed therp, I apparently, to provent rapid running jl to the police. I Moro than $1,500,000 Is to bo ex- ponded this summer by tho Denver & m Rio Grande in changing grades on tho i mnln lino west of Tennessee Pass, II bettering tho roadbed, building spurs 9 In tho Utah coal fields, and purchaa- H litg motlvo power and equipment for H tho Utah grand division. 1 Orvlllo Eugeno Hartwell, aged G4 years, contractor and builder, known throughout tho stale, died at Salt Lako of ptomaino poisoning contracted contract-ed two days provious and attributed to Bomo oysters which ho ato at a rest aurant. Virtually all of tho sugar beet aero ago for tho Ogden factory has been plowed and planted. Moro than 10,000 acres of beets have been contracted for the season and approximately two-thirds two-thirds of this total has already been planted. Fredorlck W. Francis, socrotary, I treasurer and general manager of tho Calaway, Hooek & Francis compnny, died at Salt Lako following an operation opera-tion performed Aprjl 18 for acuto Btomach trouble. Mr. Francis was Gl years of age. Forty-flvo prisoners from tho Utah Btato prison woro taken to Ogden Mon day morning to augment tho forco at tho road camp three miles south o Ogden, making a total of sixty men who will push tho work oh thq concrete con-crete highway. ' . . On tho thlrty-ono national forests of ' ' f southern Idaho, southwestern Wyo t mlng, Novnda and Utah, tho range la used by nearly 12,000 stockmen, jjroz- lng a total ot 45G,4G0 cattlo and horses, and 2,257,350 sheep. Work on tho extension of tho Orom lines into Payson will bo comploted shortly and it is expected that cars will bo running to terminals within a few weeks. Tho lino is in operation to Salem for both freight and passenger passen-ger service and only a mllo of track Is to bo laid to Payson. Leonldos Garcia, 24 years of age, a Mexican minor formerly employed at tho Highland Boy mlno of Blnghnm, . was. fatally wounded, Ip a running, fight with Bort'll. Seafeer, marshal of Phoenix, Bingham canyon. Garcia , was resisting arrest, |