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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Bountiful may have a troop in the Utah national guard. Charles Bischoff, aged 57 years, who s'as employed by a brewing company it Salt Lake, fell dead on the street. The line of the proposed Denver & ! Ho Grande branch from Duchesne Hity to Vernal, already surveyed, is hi. 19 miles. James Greri, an Italian who recent-y recent-y came to Salt Lake from Denver, las been arrested on suspicion of being be-ing a member of the Black Hand 5ang. Armond Bigler, aged 9, is in an Og-len Og-len hospital with a mangled left hand ind a gash over the right eye as the result of exploding a dynamite cap he lad found. Fire caused $1,000 damage to the grandstand in the baseball park at Dgden. t is believed that the blaze originated from a cigar stub dropped ay a spectator at Sunday's baseball 5ame. Mrs. C. L. Johnson, aged 5-0 years, f Salt Lake, is at the county hospital juffering from severe bruises about .he head and shoulders, received when ihe attempted to alight from a moving mov-ing street car. The Utah Health association was organized or-ganized last week at a meeting of Salt takers 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 jf 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 aecessary 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 grven an 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 jrging farmers to join the different associations interested in building potato po-tato cellars is making headway Though barefooted and attired in nothing but 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 hcuse completely com-pletely destroyed the structure on May 19. Convinced that the rabies situation represents a real danger, the 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 hirthE 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 ol 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 if that business meu there will respond heartily to the invitation of Ogden manufacturers and jobbers who arc p'anning a trade excursion to Ogden Wednesday, June 2S. Beaver and Millard county farmers have purchased through the Westers Securities company, which is developing develop-ing the Delta irrigation project. 20C head of dairy cows. This herd will be increased to more than 10,000 during the summer of 1917. Salt Lake capitalists interested ir the development of the beet sugar in ustry in the Pacific northwest will build two additional factories for the Utah-Oregon Sugar company, at a cosl ! of more than $2,000,000. The fac ' lories will he ready for the beet crof ji 1917. Assessment of property in Utah ol public utilities corporations, excepting i express companies, completed hy thf i : state board of equalization, show; $130043,923, an increase in total val - ; nation of 235 per cent, or slight! ' j more than two and one-third times , 1 the valuation of the same property ir j 1915. |