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Show UTAH STATE NEWS lienjamin W. Brumley has been arrested ar-rested in San Francisco, charged with forging a draft for $U.jO on a Sail Lake bank. Arthur IT. Ortlopp, aged 28 years, an experienced electrician, was instantly in-stantly killed at Ogden when he came In contact with wires carrying 4"i,000 VOlt3. A petition , is being circulated at Coalville to have an election held in June to vote on the liquor question. The saloons were voted out two years ago. Two nights of hard freezing have left .their mark on the fruit crop of Davis county, and horticulturists are counting their losses in thousands of dollars. The Ogden tabernacle choir will be the oflicial musical organization representing repre-senting the Mormon church at the I'anamia-Paoific exposition at San Francisco in 1915. K. H Grable, the man who is believed be-lieved to be a leper, has disappeared Horn the isolation hospital at Salt Lake, and it is supposed he is on his way to some leper colony. Wind and waves caused some damage dam-age to the Western Pacific tracks across . the south end of the Greal Salt Lake on April 23, and traffic was delayed for several hours. Two "joy riders" who appropriated a horse and buggy and an automobile in Ogden one night last week for a ride around the city, have been sentenced sen-tenced to ninety days in jail. With 1,251 names signed to the monster petition presented to the city commissioners of Provo, the questiorj of a liquor election during the lattei "art of June was practically assured. With the exception of cherries, and perhaps apricots, the fruit crop ol Utah passed through the cold periods and frost of Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of last week without damage. dam-age. Th new Alta theater in Brigham City Is nearly finished and D. L Levitt, manager of the date when the new playhouse-will be formally opened open-ed by the Box Elder Commercial club by its annual show. Only seven votes were cast againsl the proposal to bond Lehi for $22,000 for a waterworks system at the election elec-tion last week. The system will cost about $60,000, the remainder of the money to be raised by special tax. At a meeting of the business men of llyrum $15,000 was subscribed toward to-ward the building of a flour mill for Hyrum. There are no grist mills in the eouth end of the valley and the new one will furnish flour for Hyrum, Sterling, Paradise and Avon. The first stretch of the state road In Box Elder county will be completed this year according to plans of the state road commission and the officials offic-ials of Box Elder county. The first stretch includes the twelve miles from Hot Springs to Brigham City. A big drainage company has been onmed in Corinne during the past week, -which has in view the reclamation reclama-tion of several hundred acres of farming farm-ing land south and west of Corinne Vhi-ch has been practically ruined by water during the past few years. It will require $968,000 to run the schools of Salt Lake City during the school year of 1913-14, according to estimate of the board of education. This is $44,000 more than the estimate esti-mate for the present year, as th budget for the year 1912-13 was $924,-000. $924,-000. Merchants of Provo and other towns in the county have formed the Utah County Merchants association. Preparation of a rate book is well under un-der way and the merchants will soon be able to give ratings on the credit of practically all the people in the county. Building of an electric intenirban line from Ogden to Preston, Idaho, will be undertaken in July or by autumn au-tumn at the latest, by the Ogden, Lewiston & Northern Railroad company, com-pany, which last week filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. "Overirrigation in Utah causes an annual loss that would pay our yearly water tax," declared Dr. John A. Wldt-soe, Wldt-soe, president of Utah Agricultural college, in an address at Salt Lake before be-fore members of the irrigation and drainage committee of the Commercial Commer-cial club. When they could not persuade 14-year-old Soren H. Peterson to confess con-fess that he stole money from Lars A. and John A. Johnson August 18 last, the two men. who are farmers near Provo, are said to have placed a rope about the boy's neck and threatened threat-ened to hang him. The courts have just awarded Peterson $400 damages. Despondent because of failure to make progress in a love affair, E. E. Howes, aged 19, suicided at Salt Lake, shooting himself in the abdomen. abdo-men. He lived five hours after the shooting, and declared he must have been insane when he shot himself. Exchanging his prison blouse and hat for the coat and cap of a grave digger working in a Salt Lake cemetery, ceme-tery, John Stewart, private of L company. com-pany. Twentieth United States infantry, in-fantry, recently sentenced to eighteen months for desertion, successfully escaped es-caped from Fort Douglas. |