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Show THE UTAH BUDGET January 24 will be Indian War Veteran Vet-eran day at tbe Provo schools. Lawrence Martin, a drug fiend, died it Halt Lake last Friday as the result of taking an overdose of morphine. V. M. Fitzgerald has been appointed appoint-ed post master at Robinson, Juab county, Utah, vice M. (lunderson, resigned. re-signed. A movement Is on at Ogden to have the stores, except clothing houses, dose at 7 o'clock Saturday nights. The state land board Is receiving bids for concrete culverts under the extension of the Piute dam. The cost will be about $2.r.00. Unless the citizens turn It down, American Fork will have a $10,000 high school building before another school year commences. The twenty-fourth annual Utan poultry and pigeon show was held In Salt Lake the past week. Nearly a thousand birds were entered. Louis J. Craig, a member of tho Oarrlck stock company at Salt Lake, died Sunday from an attack of spinal menlngltlB. after a week's Illness. Sidney T. llendlng of Ileber City and II. C. Drezon of Richfield have been appointed irrigation engineers under the department of agriculture. Fire destroyed the building of Eccles Ec-cles 4: Sons at Delta, and but for tho bravery of his grandfather would have cost the life of Mr. Ecctes' young son. A Salt Lake doctor was arrested last week, charged with writing a prescription for cocaine for an habitual habit-ual drug lieud who was not his patient. A statement of fees received by tho secretary of state's ofllce during the year 1911 has been Issued by Secretary Secre-tary of State Tlngey and shows total receipts amounting to 119,9."8.63. Mrs. Christiana Anderson of Gunnison Gun-nison Is dead, after a career of nearly near-ly nlnety uine years. Mrs. Anderson came to Utah In 18t2. and has been a resident of Gunnison since lSii.V Tho reportB of the city superintend ents of waterworks and electric light at Brlgham City shows these utilities to be worth upwards of 1150,000, which Is nearly double the amount of the original Investment An explosion In tho hot water tank In tbe house of Ole Larsen at Eph-ralm Eph-ralm injured three of Mr. Larsen's grandchildren who were sitting near the kitchen range, and did considerable consider-able damage to the furniture. Walter Perry, alleged accomplice of Gladys Wliltney, who waa found not guilty of robbing J. D. Diehl ol nearly J 10,000 worth of diamonds In Salt Lake several months ago, Is tc be placi d on trial January 29. A severe blow to the loan agencies of the state waa dealt by the supreme court last week In an opinion which holds that they have no right to en forco the terms of a contract calling for the payment of exorbitant Interest Tbe state land board has decided that loans within a limit of $:.o.00( will be made by the state to Irrlga tlon districts where the appllcanti conform to tho terms of the state law ' and the regulations of the land board j A letter asking that Salt Lake ar range to hold a state convention to se lect delegates to the second World'i Christian Citizenship conference to b held In Portland, Ore., from June 2! to July 6, 1913, baa been received bj Mayor Park. James T. Strang, pioneer of 1849 veteran Jeweler of Salt Lake, diet Sunday at the age of 70. At the agi of eight yeara be accompanied hli parents over the plains to Salt Laki valley, with one of the ox-team com panlea of 1849. Lorenzo Walker, aijed 47, a natlvi of Utah, died at a Salt Lake hosplta last week of abscess of the brain Some time ago he suffered with pto malne poisoning, which affected hli ears, brain and plne. Oerationi failed to save him. In order to make the annual discu slons of fruit growers of a greate lasting benefit, the Utah State llortl cultural society la arranging to hav the proceedings of the eighth annua convention, to be held In Provo Janu try 29 31. published in book form. If the Utah Ievelopment league fol lows the suggestion of its board o governors the exhibit of I'tah pre durte In Salt l,ake will be taken ove by the league and augmented until 1 will compare- with the permanent e hlbitlons at W Angeles and Sai Francisco. A sturdy bucket brigade of a stor of men saved tbe business and rrs denflal district of Garfield from d structlon Friday, when fire developln from the explosion of a gasoline lighi Ing generator razed the general utor of Cooper llroa . entMl'ng Ionics rst mated at $:i0,00f. Idellus M. Iye was held to the dli trlct curt at the conc'uslou of hi preliminary he-trims ut Salt Lake o the charge of murder. Dye. who I accused of sliootln Joseph Rainb-In Rainb-In a holdup, U the son of a we known attorney of Pueblo, Coin. Edith Elvira Antell. two years an nine months Id. ate twenty two p:t ?nt medicine tablets containing fort: four grains of aeetsnllldo at the hum of ber parents In MnKhnm. She die few hours later In great agony. Th mother was 111 In bed when the chil sot hold of the tablets John Edwards has been arrested Ogden. suspected of being one of ill men who robbed George W. Culver c 17.00 when he had gone to a varrw bouse, expecting to recover $1.5 worth of diamonds which fcad bee stolen from his wife. |