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Show THE UTAH BUDGET! i Michael L. Powers, one of the mosl prominent mining men of Utah's earlj days, committed suicide at a Salt Lake hotel by firing a bullet into his bra.in Salt Iake City suffered fire losses during 1914 of only 97.6 cents pel capita, according to figures in the an nual report of the chief of the fire department. Charles D. Manson of Mapleton Idano, was arrested at Ogden as he was about to board a northbound train. It is charged he issued a worthless check for $60 on a loca' store. A plant is being constructed at Mid: vale for converting old scrap and ather kinds of iron into more service ible forms. It is expected that th plant will give employment to 200 o: I 300 men. Since 1SS0 the center of population in Utah has shifted from fifteen miles west of Provo to Americon Fork, according ac-cording to the statistical atlas of the United States, just published by the census bureau. In a chair constructed from pieces 3f wood gathered from all the states of the union, which is to be placed on Bxbibition at the Panama-Pacific exposition, ex-position, is a piece of black locust, cut from a tree planted by Brigham Voung. With the opening of 14,000 acres of irrigable land, lying to the south of Myton, which for the first time will hav water for this spring's seeding, the prospects seem bright for the town Df Myton and for the homeseeker desiring de-siring to located. Military science is the newest subject sub-ject to be added to the curriculum ot the Ogden High night school, and part of the time of each class meeting will be given over to scientific discussion dis-cussion of important army moves in the European war. Charles Katkovitch is being held at Salt Lake pending investigation of the murder of Mrs. Olivia Cooper, who was shot down by burglars who were rifling the cash register at a confectionery confec-tionery store where she was employed employ-ed as janitress. Roy Hurst of Mosida, driver of a team of mules belonging to A. J. Stew-tirt Stew-tirt of Provo, narrowly escaped death when the mules, and wagon loaded with baled hay, disappeared beneath the ice in Utah lake, as he was driving driv-ing across the frozen lake. Representatives of five Ogden bakeries, bak-eries, meeting with a delegation of Salt Lake bakers in Ogden, unanimously unani-mously agreed to stop making 5-cent loaves after February 1 and to regulate regu-late the size of the 10-cent loaves in accordance with flour prices. Municipalities cannot lease or sell corporate property, such as a municipal munici-pal power plant, without submitting the proposal to the people, says the supreme court in an opinion rendered in the case of B. R. McDonald against the city of Price, in Carbon county. Ernest Arnold Dixon, aged 8 years, Bon of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dixon, of Ogden, is dead from injuries sustained about three weeks ago, when he was thrown from a sled against a telephone tele-phone pole, causing injuries to his liead from which he had suffered severe pain since the accident. The last carload shipment of Utah exhibits for the San Francisco expos. -lion left Salt Lake January 26. The tar contained a large relief map of the state and a model of a typical Utah school district, made for the Utah expositions commission by J. T. Harwood of Salt Lake. George W. Watkins, manager of the Brigham City iFruitgrowers' association, associa-tion, has gone to St. Louis to look into the matter of instituting proceedings !o recover on the he;-.vy losses sus-lained sus-lained "by the association last year when upward of sixty carloads of peaches were lost on the eastern mar-.kets. mar-.kets. Formal report on the Hatchtown Jam break, recommending that the legislature be asked to appropriate 100,000 to rebuild the reservoir dam it .another site and that $49,309.80 be appropriated in addition to reimburse settlers for damages suffered by the Dreak and the flood that followed, has Jeen filed with the governor. The '"jitney bus" has invaded Oc-den. Oc-den. Through a special arrangement with the city commissioners, five automobiles auto-mobiles have been placed in service rm regular routes, and the number will he increased as fast as the company com-pany can obtain machines. Utah started the year 1915 with greater numbers of livestock of all kinds than were in the state at the beginning be-ginning of 1914, according to a bulletin bulle-tin issued by the local weather bureau in co-operation with the United States bureau of crop estimates. San-.plcs of milk furnished by thirty-six dairies supplying the Sait Lake ; trade have been tested by the city health department thus far in January Jan-uary and, with one exception, were i found to meet all the. standard requirements re-quirements of the department. ' Reports from western and northwestern north-western Box E'.der county are that conditions are most promising in that section. Timber sawing is occupying many idle farmers in the Standrod and Clear Creek sections, and they are making good use of the winter ' months by logging and running sawmills. saw-mills. MTs. A. A. Farrell was fatally injured in-jured at Logan when 6he was struck by an interuriian car. Mrs. Farrell evidently mistook the interurban for a local street car when she attempted to criss the street. |