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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The dtes for the Brlghnm City Chautauqua have been fixed, and the vent will open June 12 and run until June 18. After an lllne lasting two weeks, resulting from a fall on an icy side walk, Mr; Harry A. Sims died at Salt Lake. Police are looking for a man who brutally assaulted Edith Coates, a telephone operator at Ogden, beating beat-ing the girl over the head with a club. Members of the Salt Lake trait, in ramp committee feel certain that Port Douglas will again be designated as a lite for a training camp, to be held this summer. Deer are so plentiful In Carbon coun ty that they get In the way of Denver ft Rio Grande trains and are killed, three having been killed by a freight train last week. Seven boys escaped from the state Industrial school at Ogden shortly after 7 o'clock Monday night. At mid night six of the boys had been re turned to the Institution. It Is announced that the Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed Sugar company is now the owner of the big new sugar refining factory at Brlgham City Just completed by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. The Commercial club has recom mended the purchase by Logan city of the northeast corner of the county court house property for the purpose of erecting a public library thereon. News has been received at Salt Lake that Joseph M. Bomney, who was spending the winter in Phoenix, Ariz., with his wife who was ill, brood ing over her condition, took his own ife. The golden wedding celebration In Jgden during 1919 to commemorate ho fiftieth anniversary of the Join ng of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads will be an intermoun-.un intermoun-.un exposition. Pleading guilty to carrying liquor nterstate between Salt Lake and Po-aieiln. Po-aieiln. Joseph C. Wilson, a brakeman employed by the Oregon Short Line, was fined $25 In the United State ourt at Salt Lake. That the Indian peyote users of the Uintah reservation aie fighting for what they believe to be their right to ase the narcotic, la the news brought o Salt Lake from the basin by Big Kagle, an Indian chief. Statistics taken from a bulletin Just ssued by Dr. T. B. Beatty, fetate lealth commissioner, show a marked reduction in deaths from infant diseases dis-eases and typ'.iold fever for 1916 as compared with former years. John Nebeker, a Salt Lake resident, Is to build an apartment house In Logan. Mr. Nebeker is in California j inlying the apartment house situation situa-tion there. This will be the first ui-to-date apartment house to be erected in Logan. Pledges to support vne movement to bring the 1918 convention of the In '.eraat.lonal Association of Rotary "lubs to Salt Lake are reported from Rotarians ot San Francisco, Los Angeles, An-geles, Oakland, Berkeley and other California cities. As the result of a shooting affray at Salt Lake, between two negroes, Abe Strong is dead and Clarence Ful bright is in the hospital, seriously wounded. Strong shot Fulbright and was himself shot down after a duel with two policemen. Such interest is being manifested in he coming live stock show at Salt i.ake, April 3, 4 and 6, that the man igement of the Intermountain Live Stock show has deemed It advisable 'jo increase the amount devoted to prizes from $700 to $1,500. Louis G. Marcus, president of the Notable Feature Film company, was fined $50 by Judge Tillman D. John Jon in the United States court at Salt (yake for failing to appear for duty as a member of the special federal grand jury which convened last week. Casual appearances on the premises prem-ises of the state armory at Salt Lake jf men seeming to be of foreign birth ind attired in the very latest of fash-Ions fash-Ions resulted last week In the closing clos-ing of the armory to all persons who ire not members of the National Juard of Utah. Two million dollars jer day was what the bank clearings of Salt Lake iggregeu during the twenty-two ,n in, s days of the month of Febru-try, Febru-try, as compared with $1,450,000 In February of last year, an Increase of more than $500,000 per day over the same period In 1916. Utah has practically an Inexhaustible Inexhausti-ble supply of trees from which white paper can be made, and the survey of 'he Utah Conservation commission which has just bora completed shows that the papermaking possibilities in Utah would create an industry second only to the mining Industry of tBe it ate. Miss Maud Jones of Price stepped iff a passenger train on the Denver & Rio Grande and her foot slipped under the car. Her foot was so badlj mangled man-gled that her big toe and a part of her left foot had to he amputated. The board of education of the Uinta ichool district is holding meetings all over the county in an effort to persuade per-suade citizens to vote the $1:10,000 ! bond at the election to he held on March 6 The bonds will be used to enlarge and Improve the school dis-trlcL dis-trlcL Transfer papers were signed In Salt lyake last week whereby the six canning can-ning factories controlled by Senator W. J Park r of Ogden will he taken over by the California Packing coryor-ition, coryor-ition, Die largest concern of l kind oa Luc Pacini: eii.ii.i |