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Show 'UTAH STATE NEWS' Th valuo of tho school buildings of the stato Is approximately $3,000,000. Governor Cutler has appointed delegates dele-gates to tho Dry Farming congress to bo held in Denver. The saloon men of Ogdcn have combined com-bined to test tho ordinance relating to card slot machines. The Twenty-ninth regiment, stationed sta-tioned at Fort Douglas, has been ordered or-dered to the Philippines. The records for tho year 1906 show that thero wero in Weber county 438 marriages and CG divorces. Cache valley peoplo are rejoicing over the heaviest fall of snow that haa occurred in many years. Mrs. Lillian Bromway suicided In Salt Lake City by shooting. Mrs. Bromway was a sufferer from melancholia. melan-cholia. Thero were 178 marriage licenses Issued, 177 children born and eighty-nlno eighty-nlno deaths In Salt Lako during December. De-cember. Tho Twin City creamory ot.Castle-dalo ot.Castle-dalo and Orangovlllo turned out Sr.-355 Sr.-355 pounds of butter tho first month, that of December. Tho total sum asked for tho maintenance main-tenance and improvements of the State mental hospital for tho next two years Is $120,000. The debato between tho universities universi-ties of Utah and Colorado, scheduled to take place in Boulder on Jan. 11, has been postponed until Feb. 15. Governor Cutler, in response to an qulry sent out by tho Third Term National Na-tional League, declares that ho Is In lavor of tho re-election of Theodore Roosevelt In 1908. Irene Miller, of Mill Creek, Salt Lako county, was shot and killed at LowiBvillo, Idaho, by I. S. Crouch, her rejected lpver, who suicided after shooting Miss Miller. Tho curtow ordinance is to bo enforced en-forced in Salt Lake City in the future. All children under 16 years of age found loaflng on tho streets after 9 o'clock will bo arrested. Mary Clark, tho girl burglar 'arrest-cd 'arrest-cd at Park City on a chargtf of burglarizing burg-larizing a residence in Salt Lako City, has been sent to her home in Kansas City and will not be prosecuted. Dr. T. B. Bcatty, of the state board of health, will tccommend that a bill be presented to tho legislature forbidding for-bidding tho marriage of feeblo minded mind-ed and Imbecile Individuals and first-cousins. first-cousins. It is now expected that threshing will contlnuo In Emery county until tho last of March. Tho lucerno soed crop being so enormous, It has been necessary to nin four threshing machines ma-chines all fall and winter. Jnck Smoth, until recently stewart in the Vienna restaurant at 'Ogden, was arrested In Salt Lake, charged with embezzlement, It being chargod that ha had gotten away with some of tho funds of the restaurant. Jcsso Oler, a young man of Pleasant Pleas-ant flrovo, has been arrested on a charge of assaulting Alex Ellis, a man 6G years of age, the difficulty starting over a division fence. Ellis Is reported report-ed to bo In a critical condition. Miss Carrie McClosky, thirty years old, committed suicide In Salt Lake City, drinking a quantity of cariolic ncid. She had been despondent for somo time becauso of an enstrange-ment enstrange-ment between herself and father, James Daly, ono of tho men arrost-ed arrost-ed In connection with tho robbery at Bingham somo days ago, tried to hang himself In tho Salt Lako county Jail, having mado a ropo out of a blanket but wns discovered and cut down by tho sheriff. ' Fred Leando, claiming to bo nn actor, ac-tor, la chargod with Inducing; young girls to run awny from (heir homes In Salt Lako City for tho ostensible purposo of Joining a thoatrlcal company com-pany which ho said ho was organizing organiz-ing to take to Ilutto, Mont. Cyclorio Thompson defeated Mnurico Thompson at tho flrand opera house, Ogden, In tho fifteenth round of what was scheduled to bo a twenty-round contest. Maurlco's second throw tho, spongo Into tho ring to savo their man from further funlshmcnt. . Salt Lako sportsmen will ask tho coming legislature to take somo stops to raise tho dignity, authority nnd salary sal-ary of tho 'stato game warden's ofllco. Tho present stato gamo warden, John Sharp, has hold tho ofllco slnco Utah beenmo a state. His salary Is $1,000 a year. . In 1896 there wero 9.1,682 pupils In tho schools of the stato of Utah. Tho total expenditures by tho stato for educational edu-cational purposes wero $1,784,354.75, or $19.49 por capita. In 190G thero wero 92,877 pupils, und tho expenditures expendi-tures wero $1,970,121.42, or $21.28 por capita. Tho fifth biennial report of tho board of trustees of the Stato' Industrial school at Ogden, was tiled with Governor Gov-ernor Cutler last week. The report states that an appropriation of $160,-674.92 $160,-674.92 will bo required to moot tho estimated es-timated expenses of tho Institution for tho noxt two yenrB. Tho Illuo Mountain Telephone and Electric company of Moab, formed to do n general telephone and telegraph business In Utah and Colorado, filed articles of Incorporation with tho secretary sec-retary of statu last week. It Is capitalized cap-italized for $10,000, tho par valuo of thn shares belug $1. |