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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Kane county has a floating indebtedness indebt-edness of $1,900, or $1.00 of debt for each inhabitant. Peter Adamson, Jr., convicted at American Pork of illegally selling whiskey, has been fined $100. Salt Lake bank clearings for the last week show a gain of $764,992.72 over the corresponding week of last year. A. O. Mauser, an architect, was found dead in bed in Salt Lake City, Sunday morning, death being due to heart trouble. Oscar Jenson, aged "7, while hanging hang-ing on a freight car at Murray, fell underneath the car, one of his legs being crushed off. During the years 1908 and 1909 there were eighteen marriage licenses Issued in Kane county. During these two years there were no . divorces granted. L. L. Hunter, a locomotive engineer, engi-neer, and his six-year-old son Paul were burned to death In a house car near Cheyenne, Wyo. Hunter was well known in Utah. Charles Brooks, a brakeman on the Denver & Rio Grande, was assaulted by two Greek section hands near Bingham, Bing-ham, and was severely beaten, one of his arms being broken. Driven thereto by forty-five cent butter, it is said that ,a number of people in Salt Lake are taking to oleomargarine, oleo-margarine, and to their surprise are finding It an excellent substitute. The new opera house at Kaysville was destroyed by fire on the night of January 14, the loss being $5,000. It - is thought the fire was caused by an actor dropping a lighted cigar in the building. The twenty-second annual poultry show of the Utah Poultry association, held in Salt Lake City last week, proved to be one of the most successful success-ful exhibtions ever given by the state association. Coal is so scarce in Sandy that many of the residents have gone to burning wood. The situation is so se- rious that if a fresh supply is not received re-ceived today the public schools here will be compelled to close their doors. John Oglesby Mather, one of the oldest residents of Salt Lake, died Sunday at his home, aged 88 years. Fifty-five years ago Mather came over the prairies in a wagon drawn, by oxen. He had heard of the development devel-opment of Salt Lake away over in Scotland. There are three irrigating canal companies in Kane county, with a capitalization, f 69,048".. The cost of the canals was $26,800. Their aggre-atejentt aggre-atejentt is nine and one-half miles, 7 and'the cost of maintaining them during dur-ing 1909, was $1,716, while tne acreage acre-age irrigated was 1,552. Theodore Kenned', the negro porter por-ter who shot young Wallace Lyon, a white man,Nwith a revolver at Ogden on the evening of December 15, inflicting in-flicting a wound in the neck which came near ending his life, must an-. an-. swer to the charge of an assault with intent to commit murder. According to the figures given In the current number of the American Contractor, Salt Lake City stands seventh in the list of cities in the United States in the matter of building build-ing operations during the year 1909. This city showed a gain of 70 per cent in building operations during 1909. Twelve grizzled and tottering old men met in the office of the county commissioners at Ogden on - Monday to file their papers proving them to have fought in the Black Hawk Indian war, that they might benefit by the pension statutes enacted by the last legislature relative to veterans of the Indian wars. All of Sanpete county, an ox, two guns and other property is conveyed In an old deed discovered at Ephraim N a few days ago. The deed is from the Indian chief, Slegnerouch Arropine, to -Brigham Young, trustee for the Mormon Mor-mon caurch. Henry Mulhausen, the self-styled German nobleman against whom there there are at least eight charges of burglary, fouij of grand larceny and five of chicken stealing pending, appeared ap-peared in Salt Lake City, entered a plea of guilty, and was sentenced to twenty years in the state prison, the maximum penalty. William A. Brown, Jr., a very popular popu-lar young man of Woods Cross, was seriously injured the other clay while playing a game of basketball. He jumped up quickly and cut his head on the window. sill. A Bhort time after af-ter pus formed under the skin and the doctors have ordereu an operation. Financial troubles, together with melancholia caused by the death of his wife In the State Mental hospital at Provo a short time ago, prompted John W. Streeper, an old time citizen, and formerly a prominent stockman of Springville, to commit suicide by shooting himself through the heart. Martin Stelnez, an Austriac miner employed at the Boston Consolidated, at Bingham, while springing a hole, was caught by a premature explosion and had his left, hand badly shattered. . The left side of the victim's face was also badly lacerated. After a thrilling experience in which he sustained several broken ribs in a enowslide on Observatory peak, Geo. "Lorn of Huntsville was able to leave the Ogden hospital a few days ago. Lorn was on his way to his mining i claim wlr- he was caught in the ) |