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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The annual convention of the Utah Christian Endeavor was held at Salt Lake last week. While attempting to swallow a peanut pea-nut kernel given to it by the mother, he 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. rson Anderson of Uinta choked to leath. Jess Gesas, driver of the automobile automo-bile which caused the death of Edward Ed-ward A. Davies and Gladys Mitchell-, it Salt Lake, is to be prosecuted on 1 charge of involuntary manslaughter. With her face buried in a pillow under a table, Mrs. Alice Miller, 33 -years of age, was found dead on the aoor of her home at Salt Lake. It is believed she had taken . poison with suicidal intent. William Keenan, aged 27, fireman tor the Oregon Short Line, was slashed about the face by Aleck Ge-ros, Ge-ros, who conducts a restaurant at Salt Lake, foUowing a dispute over the price of a meal. At the conclusion of a three days' examination for barbers, held by the state board of examiners of barbers at the secretary's office, there were twenty-six applicants, of which eighteen revived re-vived certificates. Articles of incorporation of the Southern Utah Sugar company, a million-dollar sugar corporation which proposes to operate in the Delta district dis-trict of Utah, have -been filed with the secretary of state. Death by slow poisoning may tie the fate of Mrs. Le Roy J. Stone of Og-; Og-; den, as the result of swallowing a quantity of disinfecting fluid at her home. Relatives assert that she took the fluid by mistake. Michael Maher, 40 years of age, section sec-tion foreman for the Denver & Rio Grande at Soldier Summit, was instantly in-stantly killed when he stepped in Eront of a passenger train in getting Dut of the way of a freight train. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company distributed dis-tributed among farmers of Spanish Fork and vicinity approximately $200,-000 $200,-000 last week, as the first payment for the 1915 crop of 'beets. The largest larg-est pay day last year was $150,000. Salt Lake's chief of police has issued is-sued an order to patrolmen, detective and traffic policemen to arrest all persons per-sons who violate any provisions ol the traffic ordinance, and as a result cmerous arrests have been made of late. William Bowen, aged 58, local manager man-ager of the Crane company, vice-president of the Commercial club, president presi-dent of the Y. M. C. A., and otherwise prominent in business circles in Salt Lake City, died November 16 from acute indigestion. Utah is among the states having the highest reported number of scarlet- ever-ftad -t-ypkoid casoswPMt it, has the lowest reported rate of deaths from typhoid fever and Is among the three lowest In the rate of deaths from scarlet fever. Weir Reid, the Utah industrial school student who recently committed commit-ted a series of depredations following his escape from the institution, has been sentenced to serve an indeterminate indeter-minate term of from one to ten years in the state prison. Utah probably will have to carry to the supreme court of the United States her fight for title to coal and mineral bearing lands contained in the school grants provided for by the enabling act passed by congress wher the state was created. The officers of Brigham City confls cated a large quantity of whiskj found in a cache near the Oregor Short Line depot, and the man wh( admitted ownership of the wet goods W. W. Wymen, who gave his addres; as Poc'atello, Idaho, was fined $50. To Green River goes the credit o shipping the latest car of watermel ons that has -been shipped in the in termountain section in years. A. E Lewis of Green River sent a carloai of fine melons, untouched by frost to Helper last week for distribution. Several shipments of goods froc Paris and Japan went through th Salt Lake custom house one day las week, and duties amounting to $50 were assessed against them. Th largest item was a shipment of glove from France for a Salt Lake retailei The Salt Lake Route will start nex 1 spring a detailed survey and invest gation of the feasibility of construe ing a branch line into the Uintah -b: ' sin. Such is the statement made b ' former United States Senator W. 1 ' Clark of Montana, president of tin ' road. An unusual accident took place i Lake Shore. Two young men, To: Asbby and Dell Thomas, brothers-!: ' law, were moving the porch of a nous ' when a portion of the structure gav ' way and both were caught by fal ing timbers. Both suffered fracture collar bones. ' An area of some 80-0 acres on tl east side of Mount Timpanogos. hi been closed to grazing, the object -b ing to preserve its scenic beautie The Timpanogos trail leads to tl ' only glacier in Utah, and it is claiow that the finest view in the state c; 3 be obtained from the top of Timpan 1 gos mountain. Rev. Dr. S. E. Wishard. long a rei " dent of this state and prominent 3 the work of the Presbyterian churc ' died suddenly of heart disease at tl " home of his daughter, Miss Hatt e Wishard, at Los Angeles. He on 1 lacked a little more than a month " being 90 years of age. Weir Reed, 20 years of age, the caped student of the Utah Industri -chool who was arrested at Garfle as not only confessed to the theft ! a horse and buggy from Lawren ' Brown, but also to the robbery of t "jTun store at Pleasant View. |