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Show THE UTAH BUDGET About 100 men who would be oth- erwise unemployed are at work har- vesting the natural ice crop of one of the local companies at Ogden. As a result of the alarming increase in the rabbits that are harvesting crops for the farmers of Marysvale, a general campaign is being carried ou against them. Florence C'ostanzo, 3 years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Cos-tanzo Cos-tanzo of Salt Lake, was fatally burned when her clothing caught fire from the kitchen range. Salt Lake's expenditures during 1914 totaled $1,651,900.14 from its revenue funds. From its special funds, representing repre-senting public improvements mostly, it spent 1925,046.50. During 1915 a total if 14.SJ0 head of cattle and horses and So. 700 sheep and goats, a slight increase over allowances al-lowances in 1914, will be permitted to graze within the Wasatch national forest. for-est. The average of the lake level readings read-ings of Great Salt lake made by the United States weather bureau during the past year shows that the lake has been .4 of a foot higher than during 1913. Utah ranks sixth among the states of the union in the matter of low percentage per-centage of illteracy and ninth in the list as regards expenditures per capita cap-ita of population for educational purposes. pur-poses. During 1914 the fire loss in Salt Lake was $106,7S7.5S, which is $2,000 less than was lost in one fire in 1913, that of tile Denver & Rio Grande shops. The gross loss is less than $1 per capita. A permanent fund of $25,000 a year for extension work throughout tha state on the part of the University of Utah is sought by the board of regents re-gents in its biennial report to the governor. Of the thousands of parcel post packages that were handled at the Ogden postoffice during the Christma3 rush, only one could not be delivered because of lack of address, according to the postmaster. C. S. Page, general manager of the Arrowhead Motion Picture company, promoter of Alaska "snow scene" film dramas staged in Utah moumaing, is charged with passing worthless checks on a Salt Lake hotel. That the wrapper of every lost of bread sold in Utah must bear the net weight of the loaf stamped on the wrapper is the information sent out in notices to breadmakers by the dairy -and food commissioner. Orders to all saloon keepers to abolish abol-ish free lunches immediately and instructions in-structions to all cigar store managers and proprietors to stop dice throwing and other forms of gambling have been sent out by Salt Lake's chief of police. The Ogden sugar factory has completed com-pleted the season s run with S5.(iOO tons to its credit for the season. This is the greatest beet tonnage in the history of the Ogden plant, but there are indications that the record will last only until next season. Willrd Hansen., Jr., state dairy and food commissioner, is warning bread makers throughout the state to label their loaves of wrapped bread properly, prop-erly, showing exact net weight, lie says that he is preparing to enforce the net weight law rigidly. People of Utah will be given an opportunity op-portunity of seeing the finest collection collec-tion of poultry ever gathered in the state at the opening of the second annual an-nual exhibition of the State Poultry Association of Utah, to be held u Salt Lake, January 11 to 18. The eleventh session o the Utah, legislature, which begins January 11, will at least open in the usual quarters quar-ters in the City and County building, and a part if not the entire session will be held in that place, the state capitol not having Ijecn finished. It is estimated that the University of Utah will need during the coming liiennium $502,5 49. :!(), and its revenue, estimated on prevailing assessments, will not amount to more than $4b2, ."G5, leaving a balance of $20.2X4 30 to be met by an extra appropriation. More automobiles were purchaser1, by Utah residents in 1914 than lor tiny two years since autos were in-v(nted. in-v(nted. The number totaled 2.250 when the secretary of state closed his office December 21, this being based on the number of licenses issued by him. The state is spending $ 1,500,000 annually an-nually to educate its children, which Is $38.88 per cent capita of schooi population. It has a school population popula-tion of 117,1132 and an average attendance at-tendance of 90, (179. The value of Its school property is 3tlmatod at $9. 000,00(1. Because he operates a nonunion shop, W. J. Wright, low bidder for the heating and ventilating of a new school building was refused the contract con-tract by the Halt Lake board of education. educa-tion. The hoard feared labor troubles and eon.sruent delay In tho comple- ; tion of the building. Since the law passed the last legislature legis-lature regulating the pr.ictice of ar- , ehitecture in Utah the penalty clauso was stricken out. the state board of architecture ar-chitecture urges the governor, in its report filed last wc k, that be use his j Influence with the coming legislature to have the clause enacted into the ' law. The weekly report of the city board Df health shows 55 births and 32 jeaths in Salt Lake last week. Of the births 28 were boys and 27 were girls. Of tho deaths 17 were rnalea ind 15 were, females. |