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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Nearly all the men and Uimi ol Itl h i-oun'y ore employed h hulidini the sitte road through the county, The new IIO.OUO opera house al Randolph Is nearlns; completion and will soon be ready for occ upancy. ThreKhlrm Is going on with good ylolds, In Rl h county, outs runulnjr ai hi nil as ninety bushels per acre and wheat around forty butihelH. Alfred 8. Kskelsen afornpted to smoke a rlnr and handle a half pound of gunpowder at tho Provo Mattress factory at the same. As a result bo is suffering from gunpowder burtiB. Caleb A. Inlow, charged with murder ins Thomas "Eddie" White, chauffeur, a. Suit Lake, about midnight, October 4, bus been held without ball to bo tried In the criminal district court. LchIIo Tope, aged 63 years, v"" Itnown miner of lilngham, waa killed by an electric shock while working at the tailing dump reservoir of the con ceutratlng mill at Lark, Sunday morn lug. The UJe of cholera serum is believed to have checked tho contagion among the hogs of the farming districts in the vicinity of Layton, Kaysvllle and other Incalltes. There were more than 300 deaths. Harold Ctuff, the young man who was severely burned at Park City a ahort time ago, Is slowly improving at a Bait Iake hospital and unless com-pllra'Jona com-pllra'Jona set in will mover from bis Injuries. Comment on the recent session of the National Irrigation congress made by the Engineering Record In its last Iksuo is to the ffect that the session was marked by a decided improvement over previous meetings. Lids for the construction of the new Bta'e capltol are being advcrtltted for by the commission. Didders will bo allowed thirty-five dayu In which to submit their figures, which can be given on all or a part of the work. Claude Sadler, F.mmctt Coleman and Robert K. Wright, the throe boya who escaped from the Utah Industrial s hool at Ogden, have been taken buck to that institution from Kaysvllle, Kays-vllle, where they were taken into cus-1 tody, John Felt, Jr., of HunUvllle, Is the winner In the fly-swatting contest, baring bar-ing extermlna'e 9,307,800 files, and wins the $100 prize. A. F. McCully of Mllford wins second prize and W. Obald of Salt Lake, was third in the contest. Two 120 horsepower engines are engaged en-gaged In clearing the sagebrush from a farm of 6,200 acres on the slopes of the southern end of Rush vsvey in Tooele county. They have stripped a square of 2,000 acres, clean as a market mar-ket garden. Joseph l&ittal, aged 7 years, one of the early pioneers of Utah county, died t Provo on the 25th.' Mr. Tuttal came to Utah when a boy, and for many years was engaged in freighting across the plains, between Salt Lake and the Missouri river. s Ojjtar R, Kelley, a special deputy, was accidentally killed at Rlngham on Saturday by William Meyers, another deputy. Meyers playfully pointed a rifle, not knowing it was loaded, and pulled the trigger. The bullet pierced Kelley'a left eye. James liar wood, one of Lehl's prominent promi-nent and respected citizens, died October 26. Mr. llarwood was one of the early ploiwers of Utah. He served the city twelve years aa postmaster under Presidents Garfield and A 'hur, Cleveland and liarrUon. About 130 deacendents of Daniel Hammer Wells, one of the pioneers of Utah, met at the home of Jumius F. Wells, In Salt Lake on Saturday to celebrate the ninety eighth anniversary of his birth. The founder of the family fam-ily has been dead twenty-one years. Walter Sanstrom of Murray was accidentally ac-cidentally shot while hunting Sunday Sun-day by Edward Covington, hla chum, and died as be was being taken lo a hospital about two hours later. The two boys, who were aged 15 and 14 yer, respectively, were hunting for guall. Claim for damages In the sum of (20.000 has been filed with the city ecorder of Salt Lake by Mrs. Lib Jan Martin, widow of Finley Martin, hii was killed by the police auto-noblle auto-noblle September 2S. The first shipment of apples from Clearfield In Weber county was mado last week, when fifty cars were dls-1 patched to eastern markets. The ' growers expert to realize from 75 cents to f 1.00 a boi on the fruit. William T. Holt, said to hare been lomewhat deaf, was Instantly killed In Quuntlful on Wednesday. Holt, who as 69 years old. was walking on the rack north of the station when struck . if a speclsl ftsmberger electric car. There will be no coal famine in ' 'tsh this winter by reason of a car ihortage on the Ilarriman lines, according ac-cording to A. L Mohler, president or he Union Pacific and of the Oregon bort Line, who was lo Salt Lake last ek. The fly-swatting contest, conducted luring the summer under tho dlrec lon of Dr. T. n. Hest tie, secretary of ho state board of health, has been :Sosod. It Is estimated thst not less ban 60.OO0.OO3 files were killed In ;tah during the summer by tho differ-ai differ-ai contestants. Striking miners of Piogham have ommeneed to derive the benefit of he Westers Federation of Miners' trlke fund. Strikers are paid at the ate of 13 per weak for single men ad t VT for me with fans- !'eo. |