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Show THE UTAH BUDGET1 ' ' I The Peach day festival at Brlgham1 j City will bo held September 14. ( Salt Lako will probably bo the1 j scene of the 1918 mooting of the natlonnl na-tlonnl tax conference. Box Elder county Mill havo a coun- ty agent to look after tho agricultural Interests of the county. 1 Lcela Hyland, aged 9, was killed by J a train on tho Utah Coppr company's tracks nt Bingham. Her body was completely severed. , j Crop and range conditions In tho OflP southern and southeastern part of tho lj t stato are In better condition titan they f -havo been for a number of years. Three hundred men, women nnd In working on the public Bwlmmlng pool, leveling nod excavating for tho ' children spent 'Labor day at Richfield pool. ( James H. Wallls of Salt Lake City I; has been employed by the stato board of health to score the clean town con- l! test boing conducted In Utah this " B year. I Harvesting of Brlgham Clty'B peach crop is now In full swing and every available man nnd boy In the city Is engaged In tho big task of gathering the crop. Tho Iron county fair this year will bo held In Cedar City. An entirely new race courso has been constructed. Tho fair will bo hold September 12, 13 and 14. An lncrenso of 441 In registration on tho first day of school was recorded record-ed in the public schools of Salt Lake, as compared with tho first day of school a year ago. ; Charges that her husband mado her plow, pitch hay and do other manual labor on tho farm, contrary to her wishes and desires, are mado In n dl- 1 vorco suit filed by a Salt Lake woman. Mrs. Bertha Ryndcrs, Mrs. Vcrna. Lovo and Ernest Love, tho three persons per-sons shot by Tony De Bocco, an Ital- ' Ion, who ran amuck at Salt Lake, aro , reported to bo recovering from tholr Injuries. , Eric Carlson, 38 years of age, Is at a Salt Lake hospital suffering from concussion of tho brain received when the team which ho was driving whllo returning from a funeral in Bingham ran away. Lorenzo Ilopla, of Mnplcton, took a. shotgun from tho house and placed tho muzzle against his forehead and i pulled tho trigger. Both barrels wero' i discharged and the top ot tlio man's- i head blown completely off. Upon being refused a drink Fred I Dalton, nged 30 years, son ot Mrs. Doll Dalton of Salt Lako, shot him- 1 self In tho washroom of a saloon at ' I Ogden, death resulting beforo medical ' j attention could bo summoned. - ' ' v To reduce tho running tlmo of trains an average of fifteen minutes between j i Ogden and Preston, tho Ogden, Logan 4 j & Idaho interurban has constructed a cut-off between Hot Springs nnd Brlgham Brlg-ham City at a cost of approximately $300,000. To assist in tho development ot southern Utah and In making Little ZIon valley accessible to tourists, tho federal government has appropriated $15,000 toward tho construction of a highway through Mukuntuweap national na-tional monument of which Little Zion valley Is a part. Holding certificates for discharge under tho dependent family act six troopers ot tho Utah cavalry In serv-Ico serv-Ico on tho Mexican border roported nt Fort Douglas last week to Lieut. Eu- i geno Santschl, chief mustering officer, for formal releases. Harry Allen, a young car Inspector for the Salt Lako Routo, lost in n i thrilling race on a railway voloclpedo t with the Los Angeles limited train be- , - tweon Boulter and Lynndyl, and is now reported In a dying condition at ! a Salt Lako hospital. ' Young Peter Jackson, negro prlzo fighter, and E. J. Goodman, havo been j released from custody at Salt Lake; n coroner's jury having decided that Richard O'Donnoll fell from n window to his death, Instead of being mur- ' dered by tho two men. Mlllcis of Salt Lake and Utah are facing a shortage of wheat and sharp advnnces In tho price of Hour aro predicted pre-dicted unless tho market in Chicago goes lower, preventing tho farmers , und tho elevators in the lntormountnln country from shipping to tho east and to seaports on tho west. A "watermelon bust" was ono of tho g features of tho Labor day celebration I held ut tho llermitago In Ogden can yon, under tho auspices of tho Ogden Og-den Trades and Labor nssombly. I Plans for opening fnr western headquarters head-quarters at Salt Lako with Senntor Smoot In charge are now under consideration con-sideration by the Republican national committee, according to information received at Salt Lako. A verltablo ,vlld man of tho hills was taken into custody by doputlca from tho sheriff's office whou tho stranger woe dlucovorod by North . ! Ogden young men in tho foothills 9Jb ' near that place. Tho min, who Is be- -""J" Heved to be lnsano, is ubout 50 years of ago and a foreigner, probably Italian. Making a survoy among tho convicts con-victs at tho slate orison to determine conditions with rclnt'on to feeble-mindoduos.i, feeble-mindoduos.i, has been begun by Miss Sadlo Meyers, field worker temporarily tempor-arily In ehargo of tho survey for the state. Buck Storllng and J. S. Ilendorson havo boon arrostod at Vernal, chargod with bronklng Into a house In Lin-wood Lin-wood and stoallugi gun and twe watches. Thoy confessed to the crlmo, which was committed August 12. They clalmod thnt thoy broke into the House to sufuro some food. ! |