Show THE UTAH BUDGET james jamea marrila lost a fine team of horses which fell over an embank ment between price and green river at the annual exhibition of t the lie davis county poultry association at Rays maysville raysville ville birds were ou tion prices tor for wool during this year are expected to go higher than last year by those who are in touch with the situation there are about tons of beets in piles along the railroad in box elder county awaiting better facilities for loading into cars so gerlous ser lous was the coal shortage in ili salt lake and vicinity that the schools of Gr district were ordered closed all last week practically all of the judges of the district bench who retired from office on january 1 have decided to begin the practice of law in salt lake utah is to have a drastic prohibition bill it tho the measure which the democratic democh tic committee Is preparing at this time passes the legislature free school chloi books and supplies for the city of salt lake cost the taxpayers approximately per year according to an estimate furnia furnished died by the secretary of the cy va board of education utah nuances incoming and bufi ing were greater in december than in any month in the history of the state the receipts for the month were fere disbursements total arsts of the banks and trust companies of the state november 21 1914 aggregated 27 december 18 the assets of the same con corns cerns totaled a gain of tor for the biennium blenn lum B H roberts has been appointed a member of the state board of equalization to succeed hardily bardln bennion who was elected secretary of state the appointment of mr roberts was the first official act of the new governor the utah conservation commission will ask the legislature for special legislation regarding conservation which will wil I 1 not be a radical departure but will be on the same lines as legislation which has been recently passed by the national congress despite the loss of revenue from the discontinuation of the licenses of one brewer brewery and three drug stores and the revocation of two saloon licenses the receipts of tae tn salt lake city license department for or 1916 show an increase of over those of 1915 1916 members of the utah society of en ginders desiring radical changes in the road laws of the state have appointed 9 a legislative committee to promote measures measure s favored a and n d oppose m meas aas ures they deem detrimental to the in teresta of the state or oe their profession offering a solution of the high cost of living dr G G plummer who appeared before the housewives league at salt la lake e suggested e that meats be eliminated from the menu and that milk fruit vegetables and peanuts b be e i made the substantial portions of all meals building permits issued at salt lake city during 1916 total 1147 for construction st the value of which is estimated at according to a report prepared by the city department of mechanical inspection in 1915 the 1235 permits issued aggregated it Is reported that eastern millionaires have agreed to donate tor for the construction of a twenty mile stretch of the lincoln lilg highway hway in utah the piece of roadway to be improved it was stated extends across the desert from granite mountain to redding springs thirty five per cent of the fires in utah during the year 1915 with a property loss of were from strictly preventable causes according to the national board of fire underwriters and per cent wit with 11 a property loss of were from partly preventable causes democratic presidential electors jesse knight R N baskin john seaman I 1 and anthon anderson reported to governor bamberger january 6 that they are ready to conform to the law and designate one ot of their number to go to washington and cast the electoral vote of utah for president wilson exhibiting keen interest in tle the acre grazing homestead law wh which I 1 c I 1 i b became e effective december 29 farmers and stockmen stoc kmen from every corner of the lie state appeared at the united states land office at salt lake on january f and deposited more than 1100 with the filing of homestead applications and petitions asking fora for designation after a battle of several months in the state supreme court sheldon C sentenced to nine months in the penitentiary for at tempted attempted robb robbery ery has hag b been en released by the state board ot of pardons although sentenced to only nine months in prison tor for his offense has served two years and nearly three months what the police regard as positive proof that the woman alleged to have been murdered by howard de weese in a room at salt lake last september was formerly mrs fanny fisher of new york has been received ill through rough identification of the womans comans teeth owing to the number of cases of contagions conta gions diseases among school children and also because there Is an insufficient supply of coal in some of the buildings the ogden board of education voted unanimously to postpone opening schools until monday jan pary nary 8 |