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Show THE UTAH BUDGET M. S. Drowning has been chosen tc succeed the late David Kccles as president pres-ident of the Ogden Rapid Transit company. com-pany. Cut In tbe bark during a boyish quarrel over an apple, Ward Christen-sen Christen-sen of Leal Is slowly recovering from a painful wound. Last year 11.053 boxes of apples, 7.135 boxes of peaches and pours and boo boxes of other varieties of fruit were shipped from Grand county. Thomas Tor bet t, aged 32, waa killed near Smitbfleld in a runaway accident txtcoming entangled In the Hues and tlng dragged for a considerable distance. dis-tance. T Following an Illness of several I weeks, Marlon It Harris, one of the ' refugees driven from Mexico a few ' months ago, died at a Satt Lake bospl- tal last week. ' Indications show that the coming summer will show as much water In tbe streams as the average, according to A. II. Thelssen, section director of the United States weather bureau. Memorial services for Joseph K. Taylor, Tay-lor, pioneer undertaker, and who at the time of his death was a patriarch in the Mormon church, took the place of the regular afternoon meeting In the tabernacle. With a bullet hole In bis head, evidently evi-dently self Inflicted, P. 11. Watson, 4S 'years of age, a miner and cement y worker, formerly of Park City, was found dead In a shanty In the out- skirts of Suit Lake. In the event that the parcel post ' system grows as rapidly in the next two mouths as It has In the past two, It will be necessary to add an auto delivery wagon to the equipment of the Salt Luke postoffice. At the annual Utah products banquet ban-quet of the Manufacturers' association associa-tion held In Suit Lake City on Feb-ruarly Feb-ruarly 21, every speech was for Utah and every article on the splendid menu was grown In Utah. John Kellct, the crossing watchman who was seriously Injured when struck by the Los Angeles Limited train In a successful endeavor to save two little girls from being run over at Salt Lake, Is reported to be slowly improving. im-proving. IjouIs Ilermandex, a Mexican laborer, was killed at the Utah copper mine at Hlngham last Sunday, ilermandex, who was about 23 years old. was shoveling coal from a car, when a rock, blasted from the mine, struck him. . De Witt B. Lows, a prominent Salt Lake broker, who was arrested in September, 1911, charged with wiretapping, wire-tapping, baa filed suit against Rodney T. Dadger, Jesse T. Badger, George Badger and Ralph lladge for (50,000 damages. . After a hearing which lasted over a period of three hours. Chris M. Chris-tensen, Chris-tensen, charged with tbe murder of his wife, Christine Cbrlstensen, at Salt Lake, on the night of Janaury 7, was 1 found over to the district court with- I out ball. A new fire Insurance project of wide scope, backed by Salt Lake capital and officered by leading Salt Ika ' business men, with a probable capital!- 1 tatlon and surplus of $1,000,000 or 1 more. Is the object of a well-defined ' move made known a few days ago. ( Tbe Midland Trail appropriation bill passed by tbe house, carries an appropriation ap-propriation of 350.000, 135,000 of which ' Is to be expended on the southern 1 end of tbe route and 1 15,000 Is to be ' used In llox Elder county between Snowvllle and tbe Nevada boundary. Utah lake Is froon to a depth of twenty-two Inches, according to tbe statement of Madsen brothers of Provo, who are conducting fishing operations through the Ice. Tbls Is a record for recent years. Automobiles and wagons ar driven all over the lake. Some of the officials of the Irrigation Irriga-tion companies drawing water from Log&n river have ben Investigating Investigat-ing tbe action of tbe new dam placed in Uigsn river by tbe state, and they assert that there Is a loss of water through seepage that la really alarming. alarm-ing. R. A. Hart. United States drainage engineer. In a talk before Utah Society of Htate Engineers at Salt lake, declared de-clared that there Is today In Utah 250,. ooo acres of land abandoned that once was cultivated, and this acreage soon will be 2,000,000 unless the remedy Is f pplled. For injuries received in a railroad accident James Lamanda has filed suit in tbe district court against the Denver t Rio Grande Railroad com- pany for f 15.000 damages. He alleges ( that he was caught between two cars near Price last August and permanent- ly Injured. Tbe Salt Lake k Utah Valley Inter-urban Inter-urban company has again started work oa the city street car system for lrovo. and large shipments of ties are t being distributed along the route of the line la readiness tor the track work, which will begin la a few days, i T experiments by the Promontory I folot Land company in an effort to reccre fresh water have been so sue cessful that the officers of the company com-pany are now proceeding with a plae to cultivate and possibly Irrigate sev- 1 ermJ hundred acres of land la tbf skialty of Balls. J 'v |