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Show THE UTAhuDGET Mrs. Villa M. Wiseman, the Salt Lake woman who has been in custody at tlgden on a charge of forgery, has been adjudged insane by a medical board. That the output of the Kayvsille Canning company for the year 191.1 will be cut to probably a third of the normal, so far as tomatues are concerned, con-cerned, is announced. Agnes Ketchum, 12-year-old daughter daugh-ter of Mrs. Juiia E. Ketchum, a traveling trav-eling saleswoman of Salt Lake, was severely injured when struck and run over by an automobile. James Gale, SC years of age, a pioneer pio-neer member of the building trade in Utah, died March 2-1. He had been helpless for more than four years past, as the result of a stroke of paralysis. It is declared by the field representatives represen-tatives of the Ogden sugar factory that more than 9,'.iiiu acres of beets have been contracted for the ' local plant, as compared with about "i,ln for last season. The special bond election in Ogden resulted in a defeat by three to two of the proposed issue of $200,000 wo: ih of bonds, the money to have been used in improvement of Ogden's school buildings. As a result o: fun her correspondence correspond-ence between the Utah commission and the Panama-Pat iric exposiiion ni-ficcrs, ni-ficcrs, Moiu'..i.v, Aprl VI, i:,,s been agreed on as the dale for the dedication dedica-tion of Utah's building at Han Francisco. Fran-cisco. General Hugh L. Scoti, pacifier of the San Juan county Indians, and Lieutenant Colonel R. K. L. Micliie, his aide-de-camp, were the honor guests of the Bonneville club at one of the club's brilliant dinners at Salt Lake on March 2.1. I Arthur Brown Bradley, aged 11, was exonerated by a coroner's jury at Price of blame for the death of his step-brother, Matt Bradley, three years his senior. .Matt suffered a knife wound in the groin during a scuffle with Arthur at the Bradley home. John Huff, the man shot at Thistle by two Greeks, is still in a serious condition. Physicians in charge, however, how-ever, are still hopeful of his recovery. recov-ery. Xo charge has yet been made against the Greeks, as the officers are awaiting the outcome of the man's injuries. in-juries. As soon as the G o'clock closing law-goes law-goes into effect, .May 15, business men of Salt Lake will start suits to test the validity of the regulation imposed by the last legislature. The bill was signed by the governor March 15 and becomes effective sixty days after that date. Jlembers of the three trading stamp companies operating in Utah, together wtih several big users of the stamps, held a meeting at Salt Lake a few days ago for the purpose of laying lay-ing plans to fight the trading stamp laws which were passed by the recent legislature. Aioert (Geddes) Kcclos has lost the first round in his battle for a 6hare of the millions left by the late David Eccles. Judge George G. Armstrong sustained the demurrer of the administrator admin-istrator of the estate to the complaint and gave the plaintiff ten days in which to amend. Harvey Collins, 24 years of age, of Ilermosa, Wyo., is at the hospital in Ogden, suffering from a bullet wound in the abdomen, and Leslie Plynell, a special agent of the Union Pacific railroad, has been taken into custody as the result of a shooting which took place at Echo. At a meeting of the members of the Utah Canners' association at Ogden Og-den it was determined that the tomato to-mato pack for 1915 should be 40 per cent less than normal. Inability of the canners to get a reduction In freight rates to the east and north is assigned as the reason. The goveruor having vetoed the public improvement bill, which would have repealed the law giving to Salt Lake City the right to issue paving bonds, the city commission are considering con-sidering the advisability of issuing $100,000 worth of paving bonds to swell the public improvement fund. Judge O. X. Hilton of Denver is in Salt Lake making preliminary preparations prepar-ations for arguing before the supreme court of the state at the May term of court (he appeal of Joseph Hillstrom for a new trial. Hillstrom is at present pres-ent under death sentence for the killing kill-ing of John G. Jlorrison and son. A tramp who was arrested at Blackhawk while selling cutlery and jewelry, has been locked up in the county jail, as some of the articles found on his person have been identified iden-tified by the manager of the Price Cooperative Co-operative Mercantile Institution as having been stolen from that company's com-pany's store. Voters of Utah will pass upon a constitutional amendment providing for taxation of mines at three times the net proceeds at the next general election. |