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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Superintendents of tho stnto public tchool districts will meet In annual convention In Salt Lako City, JUno 11 4nd 12. t 'Farmors in Salt Lako county aro experiencing ex-periencing loss trouble from tho alfalfa al-falfa wcovll this year thnn in tho past two years. Millard county Is $1,439 richer In nB-sosscd nB-sosscd property valuations than last year, according to tho report of tho county assessor. Deaf peoplo of Utnh aro to meet Juno 9 to 12 at tho stnto school for tho deaf and tho blind at Ogdon for the anual reunion, Chris i alios, agod 2G years, a smcl tcrman, wns struck and Instantly killed kill-ed by a passenger train whllo ho was walking along tho track in Murray. Tse-Na-Gat, Pluto Indian, who wnB arrested In San Juan county by Brigadier Briga-dier Gonoral Hugh L. Scott, 1b reported report-ed seriously HI of tuberculosis In Don-vor. Don-vor. Of twenty-nine applicants for Btn'to barbers' certificates In tho examination examina-tion hold In Salt Lako last week by tho state board of barber examiners, twcnly-Hovcn woro successful. Utah shows a notably low mortality rato among children from measles for last year, according to tho 1914 mortality mor-tality bulletin glvon out by tho secretary secre-tary of tho stato board of health. John James, stato lnsurnnco commissioner, com-missioner, Is planning a reunion of pas-Bongers pas-Bongers of tho steamship "Wisconsin," which Balled from Liverpool Juno 20, 1885, to bo held In Salt Lako July 8. Prohibition forces of Logan aro gutting gut-ting ready for tho coming election. Temporary organization of a betterment better-ment leaguo has been formed, and It is Intended to mako this organization permanent. Fred Fostcnnn, a farmer of Bertram, Ber-tram, Neb., complained to tho pollco at Salt Lako of having been mulcted out of $145 and a check for $1,000 by confidence) men operating on tho stato capltol grounds. Ono of tho most enthusiastic civic improvement flays in tho history of Mantl was held ono day last week when fully 700 shouldorod picks, shovels, shov-els, rakes and hoes nnd mado a clean ewcop of tho streets. Desortod by her husband, Mrs. Ethel Cassldy, aged 19, attempted suicide at Salt Lako by tho asphyxiation route, but was discovered in time, nnd has penitently promised to not again at-tompt at-tompt to end her llfo. Aftor ho had refused to reiuBtnto Frank Bltrakl, a minor whom ho had discharged, John Seltz, aged 41 yoars, a shift foreman, was shot to death at Bingham by Bltrakl, who was captured shortly after tho shooting. Twenty-nlno and four-tenths acres of land located In West Jordan has been purchased for a new factory site by tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Work on tho now plant will toogln in tlmo to tako caro of tho 191G crop. Tho farmers around American Fork are beginning to complain of too much rnln, claiming that It is holding tho crops back, tho soil becoming too wet, theroby causing tho potatoes and other root crops to rot in tho ground. Peter Dupalr, an Italian, 2G years of age, who sayB ho is a graduato physician phy-sician and surogon and lays claim to royal Uncago, was arrested at Salt Lake on u chargo of forgory, it being charged ttiat ho had passed a number of checks. Owing to tho increased contagion of Rocky mountain fovor, Infection from which comes from a bito of a tick and trachoma, a disease of tho eyes, stato health officials will tako stringent steps to minimize tho possibility for spread of tho diseases In tho stato. Between 300 and 400 students of tho Brigham Young university at Provo, augmented by a largo number of boy scouts, last week built tho first lap of tho pony "Y" trail from tho foot of the mountain under the big "Y" to tho cliffs under Maplo flat, a distance of nearly two miles. Financial worries of tho Ogden Tabernacle Tab-ernacle choir woro practically ended last week with tho announcement of the first presidency of tho Mormon church that a contribution of $2,500 will bo forthcoming to assist tho choir in making a concert tour to tho California Cali-fornia expositions in July. William Squires of Hyrum got a so-vore so-vore electrical shock which rendered him unconscious for some time, nearly resulting in his death. Tho cuubo was the falling of a live wire with which a. calf becamo entangled, Ho wont to got It out, and as soon as be touched the calf ho was knocked down. Salt Lako has been Included In tho nation-wide seurch on tho part of Europoan belligerents for ammunition-making ammunition-making machinery. Tho Galigher Machinery Ma-chinery company has received an urgent ur-gent tolegram from a Now York firm of tool manufacturers requesting a ro-port ro-port on the available machinery In tho Rocky mountain territory. I Having fashioned n pair of suspenders suspend-ers into a hangman's nooso Georgo Moore, aged '.U years, attempted eul-ctdo eul-ctdo nt his home In Salt i.ako, hut was rescued from his perilous post-tlon post-tlon by a 13-your-old boy. Upon tho request of prominent Man-1 Man-1 tua residents tho county commission-i commission-i ers havo passed a resolution establish-' establish-' ing a speed limit for automobllos and ' othor conveyances while passing I through Boxelder canyon. Ten mllos an hour is the speed that must horo-j, horo-j, after be ndoptod. 1 Vernon Spencer, ngod 21, employed at Salt Lako. but whoso homo was at ' Centorvllo, wob struck and thrown from his motorcyclo In a head-on collision col-lision with an automobile, iilno miles from Salt Lake, and died from his in-Juries in-Juries a few hours later. |