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Show THE UTAH BUDGET There was a balance on hand of $!. 158,:!:'2.rifi in the state treasury May 1, 1911, according to the seitil -annual report of the stain auditor. Active work In the construction of he new water system for 1'ark City commenced Monday with a force of 350 laborers and mechanics. Almn I. Ilofer, the 2 year old son of Carl Ilofer. a farmer and trout grower of Salt Lake, was drowned In iish pond on tlie premises .Sunday. Melvin Knapp, aged II, fell from a tree In Salt Lake, from a height of at least fifty feet, and escaped with a broken leg and a lew minor bruises Fifty delegates from various points In rtah will attend the thirteenth in ernntlonal Sunday school convention 1o be held at Kan Francisco June 20 fi7. June 1." has been set aside as pioneer pio-neer day by the governor of Idaho in proclamation Issued last week, the last legislature Imvlng legally recognized recog-nized Idaho I'loneer day. A government expert has decided that it is not the alfaira weevil that Is damaging strawberry patches in Utah, but a bug that has been designated desig-nated the "strawberry bug." Within the next month, regardless f the result of thn special election June 27, it is said twenty saloons of Ogden will go out of business because of a drastic ordinance passed by the Ity council. Ixgan, Dolse and Poeatello will all be on hand determined to capture the 1912 convention of the United Commercial Com-mercial Travelers, the 1911 assembling assem-bling of which organization is to be fceld in Ogden, Several thousand steers belonging to Moab cattlemen were delivered to Colorado buyers at Ited Hoc k last week. The best price ever paid for Moab cattle was received, yearlings bringing I2G.H0; twos, $33. and threes f 37. Tuesday was Miners' I'nlon day, nd practically all of the mines of the state were closed to allow the miners to celebrate. The celebration is in honor of the founding of the federation on June 13, 1SS2, In Helena. Mont. There Is great rejoicing among the farmers on the Sand Kldge over the results from the new Davis and Weber We-ber county canal In its concreted form. The farmers have ull the water ' they can use and not a drop Is being wasted. Within the next few weeks buildings will be erected and the work of extracting ex-tracting salt from the great aalt beds of the Montello Salt company in Tooele county will begin, according to the president and attorney for the company. Ity a vote of two to one the county commissioners have settled the mooted moot-ed question of dividing Sanpete Into two high school districts, placing Kph-raim Kph-raim and the south In one division nd the remainder of the county In the other. From a report Just given out by the county fruit and tree inspector. It Is seen that, although tho frosts have done considerable damage to the fruit, and In some cases certain kinds have been almost totally destroyed, Nephl jjivs a izi: crop. John Sloan, shift Loss at the Boston Consolidated mine, Hlngham, was instantly in-stantly killed in the mine shortly after af-ter midnight Friday morning Sloan was standing upon the little rallwny track in the mine when a number o! 'cars were accidentally shoved upon him. The new Utah hotel In Salt Lake, built on the site of the old Peseret News building, has been thrown open to the public, about 2".0 rooms having been furnished, and the remaining l.'u rooms are being furnished as fast as small army of workmen can complete com-plete the work, 1 IQla. the 9 year old daughter Of Paul A. Lclu. a carpenter mid call-wt call-wt maker at Sugar House, wa-i drowned In Parley's creek Monday. The little girl whs found In almost the exact position and met her death In a manner very similar to a brother who was drown'd twenty years ago. Threatened by the deadly fangs of a rattlesnake while lying on his back repairing his automobile, was the experience ex-perience of Chester Colborn of Salt Ike, who saw the rattler Just as it was about to strike, and killed It with a wrench with which be was repairing the car. The biggest Independence day cele-bratlon cele-bratlon ever pulled off In southeastern southeast-ern Utah Is to take place at Monti cello on July 3. 4 and 5. Athletic contests con-tests of all kinds and horse races are to be the principal features of the celebration. Over 11.000 will be distributed dis-tributed In prizes. A real wild west show at Sandy one flay last week drew the people for miles around. There was broncho busting by Sandy boys and well known cowmen. Prizes were offered for fancy riding and the towspeople had a big time during the afternoon. Deputy Sheriff Fd Johnson of Car bon county, well known because ot Ms bravery In freelug Carbon county from lawlessness, administered a sound thrashing to Joe Kokas, a Cre tan. who accosted biro on the street In Bait Lake one day last week andj tgao abusing the officer. |