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Show UTAH BUDGET Balances in funds In the state treasury treas-ury at the beginning of the present fiscal fis-cal year, December 1, totaled $1,407,-13O.S0. $1,407,-13O.S0. j Experiments near Milford and Cedar City have demonstrated that Irrigation Irriga-tion by means of wells can be made a success In Utah. Miss Alia II. Gonover of Salt Lake is the first Utah nurse to be approved for vocational training by the federal hoard at Washington. Early snows have caused considerable consider-able suffering among live stock of the state, according to a bulletin issued by J. Cecil Alter, local meteorologist. When Wyoming miners returned to work last week, 200 cars of coal daily were added to Utah's supply, according accord-ing to officials of the Union Pacific railroad. Senator King expects early action on his new bill, which takes away from the department of labor jurisdiction over the deportation of aliens' and reposes re-poses that authority in the attorney general. That the investigation of the high cost of living in Ogden is a matter for the stale authorities and not the city, was the opinion expressed to the board of city commissioners by the city attorney. at-torney. Five hundred ami forty veterans and widows of veterans of the Black Hawk Indian war have obtained pensions under the provisions of the Smoot act. The disbursements will aggregate about !?323,00O. Announcement that $250,000 will be expended in building the first unit of a dry process wool cleaning plant in Utah has been made by C. B. Stewart, assistant treasurer of the United States Wool company. ' A dam, ten feet hgh and some 200 feet long, is planned by A. J. Hill of Smithfield, in stori g about fifty acre-feet acre-feet of water from the runoff of Ransom Ran-som Hollow watershed, to irrigate ninety-five acres. .1. Leo and Avard Fairbanks, Salt Lake sculptors, have been chosen by the memorial committee of Idaho to furnish counties and cities of that state with memorials for soldiers who were killed during the war. . Visual Instruction has become one of the approved methods of teaching science in Utah schools. The L. D. S. university at Salt Lake has purchased pur-chased two moving picture machines 'o carry on this work. Utah is suffering for a lack of teachers of home economics, as at present every available teacher is era-ployed, era-ployed, and there are many districts in which there are none for this department de-partment of the schools. A movement in Sanpete and Carbon counties, for diverting water from the Mammoth reservoir rights in part to the Sanpete county side of the Wasatch range, is making some headway, according ac-cording to latest reports. The state board of equalization is preparing forms for the use of county assessors in receipting for and collecting collect-ing personal taxes ior taking bonds for the payment of taxes on personal property prop-erty as required by the new state law. Admirers of the scenic wonders of Zion National park, Bryce's canyon and other wonder spots of Utah met in Salt Lake last week and took the first steps toward the formation of an organization or-ganization to promote these playgrounds.' play-grounds.' That Maude E. Tabor, former Ogden school teacher, whose body was found in a trunk at the Tabor home in Law-ton, Law-ton, Mich., was not killed in Utah, is the opinion of the Ogden police, who have investigated the l&al connections of Miss Tabor. William Parson, a former service man, is alleged to have obtained $7500 from a bank in Ogden, through systematic sys-tematic forgeries of the name of his brother, M. Parsons, a cattleman of Nevada, who was doing his banking in Ogden by mail. Petitioning the city commission for a pardon on the ground of his being be-ing a coal miner and willing to go to work in the mines James Martin won his release from confinement in the city jail at Salt Lake on the charge of drunkenness. In the fight against syndjv.tlistic propagand unaccompanied by the advocacy ad-vocacy of violence, the laws recently passed by the Utah legislature give little or no aid, declared Herbert Van Dam, Jr., assistant attorney general, In a lecture at Salt Lake. Under the law enacted by the thirteenth thir-teenth legislature, employees of the state board of equalization and assessment assess-ment are taking from the records of the land offices, both state and federal, fed-eral, in Utah, a complete list of patents pat-ents which have been issued for lands In the state. Severely beaten on the head and body with what examining physicians believe to be a fractured skull and with a bullet wiound in her right side, Mrs. Blanche Riley, aged 30, is in a Salt Lake hospital in a critical condition. condi-tion. Mrs. Riley declares she was attacked at-tacked by a strange man. Utah is to be the scene of a vigorous "keeping fit" campaign, to be conducted conduct-ed under the auspices of the state board of health, in conjunction with a nation-wide campaign. Dr. Charles G. Plumnier has been chosen to take active charge of the work in Utah. Dennis F. Terrell, who shot Ray-Cowan, Ray-Cowan, a 12-year-old lad, while the boy was in Terrell's rabbit pens' in Stilt Lake, wounding the boy in the knees, and who was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon with ln- Itent to do bodily harm, is to have a new trial. |