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Show THE UTAH BUDGET A contract has been given out by the city council of Bountiful for one-half one-half mile of sidewalk pavement. Kem Gregory, aged 10, waa run down by an automobile while playing on the street in Salt Lake, his Injuries Injur-ies proving fatal. Tbe Salt L&ke County Poultry eoclation plana a state poultry hatchery hatch-ery at Murray to accommodate growers grow-ers In all parts of Utah. Indian war veterans of Utah will hold tills year's camp fire at Heber City. Tbe dates fixed for tbe camp Sire were August 12, 13, 14 and IS. ' A number of Provo citizens met at jtbe Commercial club on Monday to organize an association to promote , liquor election In Provo in June. L. A. Jeffs of Salt Lake City has , made application to the Park City council for a franchise to install and operate an electric plant In that city. ( A coroner'a Jury has decided that fhe death of Samuel II. Whltmore, j who was killed at Mldvale In a street car accident, was due to the reckless- t ness of a motorrasn. i The explosion of forty sticks of dy- i Dsmite In the magazine of the Minnie I (nine at Bingham, caused the death of Emmett Hall, aged 28, and the serious i Injury of Frank Jones, aged 24. For the first time In the history of 1 the city a woman baa applied for nat- ' urallzatlon papers at Ogden. She j Is Inger Andersen, and gives her axe ' a 69, and her place of birth as Den- J mark. 1 It Is said that there were never eo many bears In the history of the state ( as can now be found upon the Mantl , national forest, and the value of stock ( killed during the past year reaches t Into the thousands. ( Potatoes for eastern consumption 4 are being shipped through Ogden at the rate of fifteen to twenty cars a day. In January 125 cars were ( handled; 7o0 cars In February and 1 about &00 cars In March. t Opposition to appointment of a f woman on the regular police force In c Halt Lake has developed among mem- t bers of the city commission and it Is very uncertain whether any woman t policeman will be named. r L. J. Mark ham, serving a nineteen-year nineteen-year sentence In the Utah penitentiary, penitenti-ary, white working in a trusted ca- ' pacity outside the walls of the prison v Sunday, made an attempt to escape, 0 but was captured a few hours later. D The church authorities of the Bear River stake of Box Elder county have fl been well v a during the past week tnak- 0 Ing arrangements for tbe new 140,000 p take tabernacle that tbe people of f that stake will erect during tbe aum- ., tner. ( Lowry Nelson of the Carbon coun- ty high school of Price was awarded m first place and Wallace Brockbank of ol Spanish Fork high school second a place In the annual atate public ad- ( dress contest at the University of Cl Utah. Guilty of murder In the first degree ei with recommendtion for life Imprls- j onment was the verdict of the jury at tl Salt Lake against J. A. Hill, charged a; with the murder of Night Marshal ir Frank A. Colclough at Mldvale August w 7 U I. w The agitation started last summer si for the estaUlshment of a detention b home In Ogden has been revived again tl nd provided the city and county get 01 together and co-operate In the pur- d chase and maintenance, an emergency hospital will be established within a " short time. ' As a sequel to tbe strike at Iltng- n ham and clashes between the union " men and officers, E. O. Locke, aecre- " tary of tbe Bingham local of the Western Federation of Miners, hss ' filed suit against Deputy Sheriff Theo. p Schweitzer for &G00 damages for alleged alleg-ed assault 01 The unsettled weather Is respon- j? slble for the late planting of the beet ' crop In Weber county this season. Farmers say that the crop should be . la the ground at this date, but the K weatbr has held them hack. The tJ fields at present are too wet for planting beets. Thomaa G. Wakefield, one of the a pioneers of Huntington and of Emery bl county, was found dead In the field by tI his son. He had seemed In his usual m health, but when the son noticed his father's body hanging over the seat tli of the plow, and the team still In mo- Cc tloa, he went to his aid. but found blra tl already dead. tD The public road from St. George, In Washington county, to the Nevada line, an Important link In the Salt th Lake City to Los Angeles highway, Is B( to be Improved, a delegation from T, Washington county asking the state BI road commission to deitgnste tbe gv twenty stx mKe stretch of road 11 1 . tate highway. f Downcast over being discharged as (( stenographer at tbe Salt Lake offices n of the Illinois Centra: railway, Harry m C Coker, it years of age, aaid to be rr tbe scion of a distinguished family of t London, England, suicided by drink- B Ing potassium cyanide ai Believing that the tariff question th wl!l not be settled In time to be of th help to the woolgrowers, a prominent crower of the state is advising his fellow wool producers to have their wroo! stored until auch time aa the present uncertainty should be ellat- j lB |