The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1916-03-22
THE UTAH BUDGET

LAKE, VIII recover.
Fire destroyed the home OF s. T.
Jefferson at Park City. An overhead.
ed stove is believed to have started
the blaze.
be put down tight in Bingham, sa-
looms must close at proper hours and
gambling must be discontinued.
County authorities are seeking to
Identify a transient who died, presum.
ably OF heart failure, in ogden, falling
dead while walking along the railroad
tracks.
A committee of seven to take gen.
eral charge of the tercentenary cele.
bration at Salt Lake of William
Shakespeare the week Of April % has
been named.
Fred Hottinger, aged about SO,
boilermaker, was killed almost il-
stantly when he fell from an automo.
bile truck in which he was riding with
friends at Salt Lake City.
An industrial education convention
for teachers. instructors and supervi.
oeAo ~ oiA VI arts
in Utah, Idaho and Nevada will be
held in Salt Lake on March 81.
Distribution OF beet seed to the
farmers contracting with the Amalga-
mated Sugar company of Ogden has
begun and field representatives are
advising planting within the next ten
days.
About 1000 head OF horses to be
brought to ogden from Oregon and
Nevada are to be sold at auction
about May I'm a buying ring now be-
ing constructed in the Ogden railroad
yards.
One Of the highest smokestacks In
the west Is being constructed In con-
nection with the enlarHng of the Og.
den plant OF the Amalgamated Sugar
company. The stack Is TO be 220 feet
in height.
Primary rules for the ram sale and
show. which will be given in Salt
Lake under direction OF the National
Woolgrowers' association, August 80
and 81 and September and 2, have
been announced.
Fitzpatrick Brothers OF Beatrice,
Neb., and Denver obtained the $1,000
600 contract for second track work
on the Union Pacific between Castle
Rock and Wasatch in Summit county,
nifty miles east OF Ogden.
The secretary of the interior has
signed a decision giving Claud w.
| ENrnnA IN ~
Freed, OF Salt Lake, undlsputed title Ia
AGO acres OF coal land In Utah, valued
at approximately 100000.
After being dry fer Ave years. Muir
ray may again be placed In the wei
column. A petition is now being cir
culated asking the city commission
to call special election for the re
submission of The prohibition question
In July.
II IL announced that a train on the
Denver q Rio GRANGE last week broke
all records for apSed on western rail
roads, when its actual running time
from Grand Junction to Salt Lake, q
distance Of 313 miles, was hours and
33 minutes.
Mrs. Amanda Cannon Shaw, who
suffered a fracture OF the spine De
cember 20, 1911, when struck by au
tomobile driven by A. w. McCune
Jr., at Salt Lake, died March IA, as q
direct result OF the injuries received
five years ago.
Despondent because OF poverty and
III health, Mrs. Charles Berry OF Salt
Lake attempted suicide. but was pre-
vented by her 11.year-old son, who
knocked bottle OF carbollc acid from
her hand. after she had swallowed g
small quantity of the poison.
Eastern railroads that fail to comply
with the suggestion OF the American
Railway association as TO the deliv
cry OF cars TO western lines to anchor
ate the present car shortage in the
west are TO be penalized, according tc
Information received in Salt Lake.
At an election held at Mount Pleas
ant II was voted TO establish a pub
lie library in a 1000 building. The
Sanpete county library fund. The cit
liens OF Mountain Pleasant will main
tain the cost OF running the library.
Definite action on the proposition
70 place a boycott on sugar until the
price is reduced was postponed by the
Housewives league OF Salt Lake until
the matter has been thoroughly dis
cussed and voted upon at a mass meet
ms which will be held in the near
future.
Senator Smoot has introduced a
bill authorizing the University OF
Utah TO use the surplus waters OF Red
Butte canyon and Dry canyon creeks
not needed for military purposes at
Fort Douglas and to lay pipelines and
build reservoirs on the military reser'
walton under a revocable license from
the secretary OF war.
With a total OF $500 acres OF beets