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Show THE UTAHBUDGET A number of Weber county farmers aro contemplating planting sudan grass, which is becoming a popular forngo crop. Contracts havo been lot to grade tho ilte at SL Joseph, near Salt Lake, for tho yardB of the Salt Lako Union Stock Yards company. Th first shipment of stool for tho , new pugar factory of tho Utah-Idahcj .&l Sugar "company, being erected lriV Drlgham City, arrived last week. n i Jako Nylund, a business man of Eu- reka, was struck on tho head by n ! highwayman, near tho main business district, anil rolloved of $400 in cash. f A Grcok laborqr fell Into Ogdcn rivor, at Ogdcn, whllo engaged with other workmen In clearing debris J- from tho railroad tracks, and waa jj drowned. r Tho Rotary club of Salt Lako will ! Bend a representative to Washington to present tho arguments to tho vnrl- ' ous congressional commltteos in fnvor of making a brlgado pos"t and army Bupply station at Fort Douglas. By correspondence nnd by personal ! visits mado by C. Frank Emery, stato I health inspector, tho stato health do- 'i partment Is attempting to socuro tho formation of a Better Babies' lcaguo j. In overy county in tho stato. k Fifty families woro driven from their homes in Ogdcn as a result of tho Ogden river overflowing, causing a great amount of damage Tho county coun-ty will suffer a loss of $15,000 as a ro- suit of brldgCB boiug washed out. John A. Sliver, master mechanic for ; tho Silver Brothors Iron Works com- ; pany and ono of tho pioneers In tho Iron Industry in tho wost, died at his homo in Salt Lako City, March 22, j from a complication of diseases. Stricken with heart failure after attending' at-tending' a vaudevlllo show at Ogden, ii Gcorgo E. Rowland, aged 52, toppolcd r ovor In the theater lobby nnd died ',' a fow minutes later, whllo tho audi- 1 onco was appaludlng a trio on tho fi stuge. Attorney General Barnes has ruled II that whero real estate has been left off tho tax rolls of a county after pat- J cnt has issued from tho government 1 tho county Is entitled to collect taxes J. for all tho years Blnco patent has Is- sued. ' Tho largest snowBlldo recorded there In years camo off the south sldo of Logan canyon near tho Logan mu- i nlclpal electric power dam In tho can- h yon on March 21,. and ro? soveral R hours tho Logan rivor was 'omplotely jjj shut off. a That tho Salt Lako postofflco ro- h celves more monoy orders than any I other city of Us size is' shown In a I list recontly compiled by tho post- orflco dopartmonL Tho Salt Lako JPi City offlco paid out $560,003.75 during tho past year. y A proclamation hac been received I, from President Wilson embracing tliroo natural bridges in tho southern part of tho stato and withdrawing ', forty acres of land surrounding each I bridge. Tho bridges are tho Slpapu, ' Kachlno and Owachoma. Forty of tho business men and leading lead-ing citizens of American Fork hold a banquet at tho "Y" cafo on March 22 and adopted tho by-laws and charter , of the old American Fork Commercial " i club and will rovlvo tho spirit of tho old club a hundredfold. Efforts on tho part of insurance companies to rnlso the rato on school , Insuranco from CO cents to $1.52 por $1,000 may result In tho board of education edu-cation of Salt Lake taking action to n abolish Insuranco on tho proporty and jj creato Its own Insuranco fund. If California borry Bhlppors aro to bo notified by Jle-ber C. Smith, stato food and dnlry Inspector, that they cannot market In Utah berries in somo of tho baskots they uso in other states, tho reason being that these particular baskotB aro not up to the Utah standard. stand-ard. David O. McKay -of Ogdcn, un apostle apos-tle of tho Mormon church, drovo hla automobllo against tho ropo barriendo at tho mouth of Ogden canyon and suffered a fmctured upper jaw, lost sovoral lover teeth, was badly cut about tho Uxo and received r -wronch-cd back. Miss Edna Ilndflold, deputy city ro-corder ro-corder at Ogden, waB tho victim of a painful accident when her right eyo waa burned by a hot curling Iron. Miss Hadflold was curling her hnlr when sho dropped tho ltiKtrument, tho hot portion of tho bar striking her oyo and burning tho oyoball. Many aged persons who could not havo othorwlso attended woro taken to tho rovlvnl tabomaclo at Ogden Og-den in automobiles on March 22 for tho speoial services that wero planned as a "tribute to tho aged." Tho tabor-naclo tabor-naclo was filled with flowers, which after tho services woro sont to sick lt- persons and to tho hospital wards of tho city Tho comptroller of tho curroncy.hna rocolvod an application for a charter for tho First National bank of Moab, Utah, with a capital Btock of ,$50,000. With his mustacho shaved off and travollng under tho namo of Potprson, N. P. Stnthakos, tho'Grcok bunker wanted nt Salt Lako 'on a chargo ot ecolvlng deposits whon ho know that lis firm was Insolvent, sailed from fow Orleans for Havana, Cuba, ao-ordlng ao-ordlng to word recolvcd at Salt Lako, Whllo engaged with fellow students In jecurlng sand for tholr tenuis court it school, J. Vincent Wlntor, aged 17, was almost Instantly killed by tho laving of a sand bank at Salt Lake. Two othor Btudonta wero allshtly Uv ired. . a |