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Show THE UTAH BUDGET A concrete roadway sixteen feet wide will be built on either side of tho car tracks from Salt Lake to Murray. State officers probably will be able to move into the capitol about October Oc-tober 1. Kane county people are making great preparations for the big Kane county carnival to be held in Kanab October 11 to 16. There were close to 1,000 Utah people peo-ple registered at the state building at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco last week. W. R. Anderson, a switchman, 40 years of age, was found dead shortly after 6 o'clock Sunday morning on the steps to the entrance of the Masonic temple at Salt Lake City. Lofter Johnson is suffering from a broken collar bone, as the result of trying to slide into base in a recent ball game at Spanish Fork. For stealing four cigars at Saltair and firing four shots at the conductor of a train who had ejected them, four Silt Lake youths have been sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment. At the close of the first week the enrollment in the public schools of Salt Lake was 19,876, an increase of about 250 over the opening day. J. T. Hale was seriously cut about the face and hands by broken -glass of a windshield when the automobile he was driving collided with a horse and buggy, driven by two boys, about two miles south of Provo, Sunday. A carload of first-c'ass alfalfa comb honey was shipped from Spanish Fork last week by local beekeepers. The honey is valued at approximately $2,-600. $2,-600. The honey is the first to be shipped from here this year. The first term of school under consolidation con-solidation will open Monday at Manti. The school census for this year gives this district 2,616 children between the ages of 6 and IS. There are 200 over that age mat will attend nign sctioot. The merchants of Provo have decided decid-ed to have a fashion show the latter part of the month, when Provo will demonstrate her ability to give the people of that section a splendid entertainment. en-tertainment. Third zone rates still prevail for parcel post matter consigned from Utah cities to Vernal and vicinity, according ac-cording to a telegram received from Edward McGrath, superintendent of the railway mail service at San Fran Cisco. Opening of the sugar season around Lehi, which was scheduled for September Sep-tember 15, will be delayed for five' days because of the "million dollar rain" last week. The protracted drought had stopped the beets from either growing or making sugar. To decide whether to adopt the five supplementary courses of study that were recommended and urged by heads of departments at the 'Ogden high school, members of the board ol education met as .the committee of the whole in the board office. Mrs. Anna Wirick, who lives on a farm northeast of Sandy, was painful ly bruised early Sunday morning when an automobile struck a wagon in which she was riding. Mrs. Wirick was thrown out of the wagon and was foi a short time unconscious. Mischief of boys in placing strych nine in an apple almost resulted in the death of Deputy Sheriff Henry Clark at Provo. The boys broke into an old canning factory and, after strewing old cans on the floor, they found a bottle of the poison ai:d put a quantity of it in an apple. The Wasatch county annual fair will be held September 22. 23 and 24 at Heber and on account of unusually good crops and the greater attention given to pure-bred stock is expected to be the banner event in the history o( the Wasatch County Fair association. That Utah is proving attractive to the citizens of outside states is em-' phasized in the announcement that eighty-five families from one state, Tennessee, are preparing to move to Uintah basin to take up contiguous homesteads. Mary Davis, aged 17 years, was accidentally ac-cidentally shot at her home in Ophir. She was removed to the Tooele general gen-eral hospital, where she died. She picked up a revolver which she had found in some rubbish on the porch, the weapon exploding when she dropped it. Two hundred and eight delegates, representing the seventeen voting dis tricts of Ogden, will be elected at primaries pri-maries in the five wards of the city Monday night, September 20, to Hamu a municipal ticket at the Republican city convention, according to the announcement an-nouncement made by Chairman Geo. J. Kelly of the central committee. Burglars entered a store at Vineyard, seven miles from Provo, sometime during the night and carried away about $800 worth of goods, principally ilry-goods. While crossing the tracks near Ogden. Cornelius Vandearlies. agei was struck by tae Yellows'.of.e special and sustained injuries from wliirh h? died half an hour later. The total enrollment of the Boise schools on the opening day. was 3,038 65 less than til" opening day last year. It is believed that many families have not yet returned from their vacations, and that the enrollment will be increased in-creased later. The state road commission and tho rounty commissioners of Sevier county coun-ty have decided to build a road through Sevier canyon from the town of Sevier in Sevier connty to Marys-vale Marys-vale in Piute county. The road will be eleven miles in length and will sup plant the present road. |