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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Tin- income la will take in practically practic-ally every person in Eureka. l.eo Taussig, an Austrian, made three attempts to cud bis life in the county jail at Ogden. All of them were unsuccessful. Twenty-one members of the Ogden fire department have filed a petilion Willi the board of city commissioners ashing an increase of $10 a month in wages. I'tah crops, exclusive of beets, brought producers $11,07(;.0U0 in 11)17. In I'.llli, I'tah farms produced crops worth $17.S(2.000. In 1U17, '.ICII.OOO acres were tilled. Fanners from every section of Utah will gather at Logan January 21 to 20 to attend an inslitule at which addresses ad-dresses by professors of the SLate Agricultural college will be given. That the stale free employment bureau bu-reau had placed :i2;!0 persons in jobs during the first five and one-half months of its operation was a fact set forth in a report presented to the governor gov-ernor last week. Struck by a northbound freight train as he was crossing the Denver & Rio Grande railroad tracks at Murray, Frank l'uschar, 35 years of age and a reside" t of Murray, was seriously and probably fatally injured. More than 100 residents of different sections of Utah appeared at the United Stales land office sit Salt Lake on January 9 to file on lands which had been thrown open to entry under un-der the general land laws. Asking that coal prices to consumers consum-ers in general he based on the actual cost of producing coal at the mine, a communication has been sent to H. A. Garfield, national fuel administrator, by the -Manufacturers' Association of Utah. Payment of a portion of the ?25.-000 ?25.-000 appropriated at the last session of the legislature for the benefit of Indian In-dian war veterans will he made as early as the state authorities can get in touch with these veterans or their widows. Due to the prompt and efficient work of the fire department at Logan, a destructive fire probably was averted avert-ed at r.righam -Young college. The blaze was discovered through the openings of the south wall of the chemistry building. With the shooting at Fairview of a dog, believed to have been suffering from hydrophobia, a menace that has terrorized that community several days was removed. The dog, a stray, had bitten a number of others dogs and domestic animals. The report of J. Cecil Alter, meter-ologist, meter-ologist, shows that the average snowfall snow-fall for the state during December, 1917, was only 2.G inches, while it was 20.0 inches during the corresponding period of one year ago and 12 inches during December, 1915. An appeal to all Utah women to keep their own cow and to churn their own butter if they wish to reduce re-duce the high cost of living has been received by Mrs. Jeannette Hyde, chairman of the state women's committee com-mittee on food conservation. Recovery of 40 per cent of the stock of the Newhouse Realty company, representing rep-resenting 825,000 at par value, is sought in a suit filed at Salt Lake by Samuel Xewhouse, against Samuel Un-termyer Un-termyer and his son Irwin Untermyer, New' York lawyers and financiers. Because there are uncaught carloads of carp in Spring Creek hike and uncounted un-counted thousands of fish-hungary people peo-ple in Utah and points east, the Provo chamber of commerce has, petitioned the state fish and game commission for permission to seine the lake fish. Because of defective addresses, including in-cluding street numbers which do not exist, streets not known to Salt Lake, non-existent hotels and names which could not be deciphered, postmen of Salt Lake have failed to deliver 150 envelopes containing questionnaires. The Salt Lake board of education lias decided to permit married school teachers to retain their jobs. The teacher m oruer to ue ccoi payrolls must have been married since July 1, 1917, and her husband must be in the military service of the United States. School teachers, under the ruling of the commissioner of internal revenue, are not subject to tax on their salaries as teachers, but are allowed that amount as exempt, and teachers are also allowed an exemption of $1000 outside the salary, if single, and $2000 if married. Complaint charging murder in the second degree has been issued against Clarence Livingston, former Salt Lake deputv sheriff, who shot and killed 10-vear-old Arthur Hyde early on the morning of December 20. Livingston declares Ilvde was peeping through the window at the Livingslon home. As an aftermath of the breaking of Mammoth dam last summer, when convicts con-victs were set: to work repairing part of the Denver & Rio Grande railway's roadbed which was washed out by the flood, the state last week received a check for $4022.94 from the company. The sum was in payment of services rendered by the convicts. |
