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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Smallpox claimed a victim at Og den a few days ago when a nine year-old boy died from the loathsome disease. The W. A. Nclden Drug company, one of the oldes' wholesale firms In Salt Lake, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Idellus M. Dye, charged with thi murder In Salt Lake several monthi ago of Joseph Rainbow, Is on trla' for his life. The clerks In Ogden are working upon a scheme to have all the dry goods, clothing and ehoe stores close at a uniform hour. Two confidence men, representing themselves as officers, drugged and rolled W. D. Ilalley of MiGIll, Nev., of I'JOO In Salt Lake City. Electrical workers from the states of Idaho. Wyoming. Montana and Utah held their sixth annual convention In Salt Lake the first of the week. With one exception. Salt Lake led all cities In the Pacific coast division in the percentage of gains In bank clearings for last month over April of 1911. Twentyslx delegates from Philadelphia Philadel-phia will attend the annual convention conven-tion of the American Institute o Hanking, to be held late In August In Salt Lake. A call has been Issued by the lnter-mountain lnter-mountain Good Roads association for the third annual convention of the association as-sociation which will be held In Iogan, June 12. 13 and 14. The fire los In Utnh for the year 1911 was 33 13 per cent. This ratio Is lower than the average throughout the United States, as most other states average 40 to 4." per cent. Julius Slnnay. murderer of Thomas Karrlck, who has been sentenced to be shot to death on May 22, Is making a final effort to have his sentence commuted com-muted to lift Imprisonment. The striking smeltermen of the lead mill at the American Smelting and Refining Re-fining company's plant in Murray have been enrolled under t-he banner of the Western Federation or Miners. With Indications that the new home of the Ogden Elks will be ready foi the opening within the next two months, tho lodge has placed an order or-der for $15,000 worth of furniture. Fire at Sprlngville for a tlm threatened one of the most valuable business block In the town, but waf finally gotten under control. The flr was due to defective electric wiring Cache county commissioners hav appropriated $1,000 for the fund being be-ing raised by popular subscription tc Jmy a right of way for the proposed Tlogan cut-off of the Oregon Short Line. J. M. Maddern, a professor of lan guago In a Salt Lake school, bat been arrested on a charge of passing worthless checks. Maddern's friend cling to the belief that bis mind Is deranged. Mrs. Joseph Stahr and her three children, seriously burned In the fatal wreck and explosion at Helper, which burned to death two more of her children chil-dren before the mother could save them, will recover. The unusual amount of clothing worn by Chris Jonson probably his life when be was stabbed Id tb abdomen with a jack knife during a quarrel in Salt Lake. His Injury con slsted of a slight flesh wound. The citizens of Sandy are planning a concerted attack on all dirt and rul-blsh rul-blsh within the city limits. In order lo carry out the campaign for a cleaner clean-er city, the city council has designated designat-ed Saturday, May 11, as "cleanup" day. Franchises for two parallel Inter-urban Inter-urban electric lines, one company getting the right of way to lay Its j tracks on the right side of the road and the other on the left, have been granted by Cache county commission- 1 ers. The mammoth project of collecting ' the surplus wnter of the I'rovo and Weber rivera and utilizing It for Irritation Irri-tation purpose In tho Intervening territory ter-ritory Is being given renewed impetus throughout Salt Lake, Weber and Utah counties. With a view to Improving grazing i conditions and checking the erosion ; of the soil on the forent reserves in I Utah, the forest service early this coming summer will establish a permanent per-manent experiment station at the Manti natioual forest. Thirteen of twenty sample taken 1 from milk wagons for Inspection by : the food and dairy commissioner of Salt Lake last montli'came up to the standard required by law. Inspection of dairies showed that four of the twenty dairies supplying the city with dairy products failed to come up to requirements. The horticultural Inspector of Weber We-ber county reports that after a careful care-ful Investigation of the orchards in the county he Is of the opinion thai the recent cold spell has not done any damage to the fruit trees and that the danger point Is passed. The confession of J. J. Morris, made Just before his execution, on April 30. that be killed Thorns Sandall thlr-leen thlr-leen years ago. will be considered by the board of pardons at Its meeting Msy is. Nick Haworth I serving a life sentence In state rrlson for the crime. With the employment during this week of a convict crew on a stretch between Layion and Clearfield and the letting of a contract for wood pipe for the sprinkling system. th '.ate road tx-tween Salt Lake and Og den soon !! be ready for service. |
