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Show UTAH SME NEWS Bountiful may have a troop In the Utah national guard. Charles Bischoff, aged 57 years, who was employed by a brewing company at Salt Lake, fell dead on the street. The line of the proposed Denver & Rio Grande branch from Duchesne City to Vernal, already surveyed, Is GG.19 miles. James Greri. an Italian who recently recent-ly came to Salt Lake from Denver, has been arrested on suspicion of being be-ing a member of the Black Hand gang. Armond Bigler. aged 9, is in an Og-den Og-den hospital with a mangled left hand and a gash over the right eye as the result of exploding a dynamite cap ho had found. Fire caused $1,000 damage to the grandstand in the baseball park at Ogden. t is believed that the blaze originated from a cigar stub dropped by a spectator at Sunday's 'baseball game. Mrs. C. L. Johnson, aged 30 years, of Salt Lake, is at the county hospital suffering from severe bruises about the head and shoulders, received when she attempted to alight from a moving mov-ing street car. 1 The Utah Health association was organized or-ganized last week at a meeting of Salt Lakers who are endeavoring by "education, "edu-cation, legislation, agitation and organization" or-ganization" to prevent curable diseases dis-eases in Utah. General enthusiasm has developed in Idaho and Montana over the citizens' citi-zens' military training camp which will be established at Fort Douglas next August, according to the report of the recruiting agents. Farm crops throughout Box Elder county are threatened for lack of rain. Not in many years has the season been so unusually dry at this time of the year, and in some localities It is found necessary to resow sugar beets. Louis Derobis, a young Italian, who was found guilty of assault with intent in-tent to murder James Bartolomeo, a bartender, at Ogden, was given an indeterminate in-determinate sentence of from one to twenty years in state's prison. The work of railroad and agricultural agricul-tural experts of the Utah Agricultural . college and the University of Idaho in urging farmers to join the different associations interested in building potato po-tato cellars is making headway Though barefooted and attired in nothing hut a pair of silk pajamas, F. Pasini, a cigar salesman of Salt Lake, ran down and captured a negro burglar bur-glar who had entered his room and stolen his watch and some money. Details for merging the Orem and Bamberger lines and the Ogden, Logan Lo-gan & Idaho railroad have been practically prac-tically completed and it is expected that formal announcement of the merger mer-ger will be made within thirty days. A few hours before the Ogden Golf and Country club was to open formally formal-ly the season fi.re originating supposedly suppos-edly in a defective flue of the recently completed $12,000 club house completely com-pletely destroyed the structure on May 19. Convinced that the rabies situation represents a real danger.he Ogden city board of health has posted notices no-tices to the effect that all dogs must be muzzled from June 1 to September 1, or must be kept confined during that period. The weekly report of--the Salt Lake board of health shows that 64 births were reported during the week as against 44 for the same period last year. Births during the week numbered num-bered 27, as against 24 for the same week in 1915. Robbers blew open the safe In the Murray postoffice the night of May 19, and obtained some money, a pouch of mail and valuable papers and documents. docu-ments. The robbers left in the debris of the safe a sack of pennies and $300 worth of stamps. Information reaching Ogden from northern Utah and southern Idaho Is that business men there will respond heartily to the Invitation of Ogden manufacturers and jobbers who are planning a trade excursion to Ogden Wednesday, Juno 28. Beaver and Millard county farmers have purchased through the Western Securities company, which is developing develop-ing the Delta irrigation project, 200 head of dairy cows. This herd will be Increased to more than 10,000 during the summer of 1917. Salt Lake capitalists interested in the development of the beet sugar Industry In-dustry in the Pacific northwest will build two additional factories for the Utah-Oregon Sugar company, at a cost of more than $2,000,000. The factories fac-tories will be ready for the beet crop of 1917. Assessment of property in Utah of public utilities corporations, excepting express companies, completed by the state board of equalization, shows $130643,923, an Increase in total valuation val-uation of 235 per cent, or slightly more than two and one-third times the valuation of the same property In 1915. Hearing of evidence In a dispute as to riparian rights involving title to 600 acres of land near Wlllard, Box Elder county, the cause of bitter feuds in the past fifty years in which shooting shoot-ing affrays have been avoided only by the interference of peace officers, has begun at Salt Lake. With the city Jail crowded with vagrants va-grants and offenders and railway and construction companies crying out for "aborcrs, Ogden authorities havt! decided de-cided that occupants of the jail shall cither take the jobs waiting for them or work hard for the city without pay, |