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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Articles of incorporation of the Logan Lo-gan Rapid Transit company were filed last week. Fire caused by an overheated stove completely destroyed the home of A". Christensen in Salt Lake City. With one exception (Tooele county) there are more sheep in Millard county than in any other county in the state. Nephl Manning, a popular young man of North Ogden, is dead as the result of Injuries sustained when . a horse kicked him. There is no race suicide in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gamble of Lehi, whose home was brightened last week by the advent of their fifteenth 6on John Albian of Pleasant Grove has been sentenced to three months in the state prison by the Fourth district court for failure to care for his minor child. Governor Spry has accepted the invitation in-vitation of citizens of Mantl to attend excerclses celebrating the opening of the new armory there on January 2S and 29. Santaquln, which for some time past has been a "dry" town, has granted liecense to two saloons at $800 a year apiece. The town authorities believe the revenue will more than offset any disadvantages. The last of this year's crop of beets at Willard is now being hauled to the factory. This year has been the nost successful of any, and has proven to be an eventful one in the history of the local factory. While on his way to a Salt Lake hospital; Durand W. Meldrum, aged 22, who was run over by a dinkey car at the Utah Copper mines, south of the city, severing his right leg, died from loss of blood. A number of the young people of Murray have formed an organization to be known as the Murray Amusement Amuse-ment club. The object will be to give amateur entertainments throughout the county the rest of the winter. The Dick bill, passed by congress to have state laws conform to federal regulations re-gulations regarding militias, went into effect on January 22, and it finds Utah well prepared with a law passed by the last legislature conforming with its requirements. The first case of small pox of the eeason In Ogden was reported Sunday. Ogden has been exceptionally fortunate fortu-nate this winter in escaping the ravages rav-ages of the disease, which has Infested the surrounding country to an alarming alarm-ing extent in the past month. Word has been received in Ogden of the permanent promotion of George McCabe jjp-'the position of chief of ,x the forest service law department, with headquarters in Washington. Mr. McCabe Mc-Cabe is an Ogden man, having entered enter-ed the forest department several years ago. There are ten irrigation companies in Millard county with a capitalization capitaliza-tion of $1,224,628. This Is the largest capitalization except Utah county in the state. In miles the canals are 84.6 and their estimated cost Is $249.-150, $249.-150, the estimated number of acres irrigated ir-rigated is 52,310. The fourth annual convention of the Utah League of Municipalities met at Logan on Monday, and two interesting meetings were held. The attendance" was not as large as expected, comprising, compris-ing, perhaps, twentyyour mayors and twice as many councilmen from many parts of the state. A great bras&bound Bible, several hundred years old, and an old-fashioned timepiece made in England .before the Revolutionary war are named as part of the estates of William Wright, an aged man whose estate was appraised ap-praised in the district court at Ogden one day last week. Zhon ne, an Indian, charged with the murder of Chas. Fritz at Heffernan's trading post on the Navajo Indian reservation res-ervation in southern Utah, is in the custody of Indian Agent Shelton at Bluff City. San Juan county. The motive mo-tive of the murder is supposed to have been robbery. That there is an organized band of sneak thieves operating at several churches in Ogden while se-rvices are being held, is the opinion of the local police. During the past few days numerous nu-merous complaints have been made of missing overcoats and hats, which are taken lrom the cloakrooms. Starting a cursade against tobacco, which he intends to make state wide, Judge V. C. GunneJl of the Ogden juvenile court visited the various schools cf Davis county during the past week and delivered a score of lectures before the pupils on the evils of tobacco, and especially cigarettes. . Mrs. Elcnor Berryman, wife of Geo Borryman, a rancher of Granger, was killed by-a street car in Salt Lake City, and a six-months-old child which was held in her arms was probably fatally injured. It appears Mrs. Berry- man stepped directly in front of a rapidly moving car without seeing it. Lavon Baer, a boy employed at the sugar factory at Logan, was badly hurt Saturday. He Is employed to run a beet grinder of some kind and in some way- got his nnger caught'ln the machine the result being that the member was torn out. Six horses dead and two more barely bare-ly alive, out of a small bunch of ten, were found on a ranch owned by George Couts, on the Jordan river near Salt Lake by a humane officer, and an action will probably be brought against Couts. The animals had died from starvation. |