Show FHE UTAH BUDGET I 1 I 1 the twel twenty sixth annual state con j mention ot of the t lie woman s christian temperance union was held in salt lake city last week A balance of 22 in the treas ury ot of the state of utah at the end of september 1916 is s shown by tha the treasurer report of the state treasurer seventeen persons run down by au to mobiles were treated during tha the month of september in the city emergency hospital in salt lake city john W king a black hawk in dian than war veteran and a prominent resident of lehl lehi died suddenly while sitting in an easy chair reading his morning paper with the return of the first squad ron of utah cavalry from the mex lean ican border approximately horses or thirty two for each troop will be brought to the state A remarkable decrease in drunken ness riess gambling and vagrancy over tha the previous month is shown by the sep report of the criminal division of salt lake city court two thousand dollars were set aside by the capitol commission last week to beautify the grounds behind the statehouse more money will be devoted to the project later according to members of the commission warren c mangum a paying teller at the continental national bank salt lake city Is missing and coincident with his disappearance an in tion by the bank officials I 1 as devel aped that the institution is short 15 county prisoners may be employed by the state and receive pay tor for their labor according to an opinion given by A R barnes attorney general of utah in response to a request for au dhority by E it morgan state roal engineer charles stevens aged 30 a negro and former convict who twelve years ago Is reported to have been im in the robbery of a large quantity of jewelry from a salt lake jeweler was arrested by the denver police last week henry clay brownlee who was con necked with the tile salt lake newspapers for a number of vears died in tokio japan september 14 of apoplexy news new of his death was received in papers from the tile japanese capital he was 68 years old the roaring cataracts of the grand river in the westwater canyon in utah and thirty miles west of grand rand C junction colo have been run by bert loper of torrey utah and ellsworth orti L kolb of grand canyon ariz in a seventeen toot foot cedar freight canoe for some time it has been an undecided question whether the ute in dian school at whiterocks was to remain but the indian commission hag has sent the word that alie school will remain and that a new dormitory a modern structure ot of the latest type will be built salt lake had no reason to corn COM plain of its treatment at the hands of the weather man during the month of september the monthly report ot of the united states weather bureau shows a total of h hours ours of actual and uninterrupted sunshine out of a possible hours at the age ot of 78 years after a long illness mrs margaret W young a resident ot of utah for about sixty years died october 3 at her home in salt lake city she was the tile widow of joseph A young the eldest son of brigham young her husband died about forty years ago the oregon short line board of in has returned a verdict relieving and arid its em ern the railroad company of 0 f all responsibility in con lection with the death of alma john son who was struck on the highway crossing by a train east of dewey on the night of september 19 H J ow owen en aged 30 years of salt lake was accidentally shot and pita fully though not seriously wounded by his brother 11 owen while they we were re duck hunting on the shores ot of the t he lake near ogden members of 0 the citizens military tram train ng association who wh 0 attended the training camp at fort douglas are planning tor for a reception recep tion of the first squadron of utah cavalry when it returns to salt Lale 1 utah potato growers are andua annually ily losing large sums of money through and storing of the careless digging their crop according to dr george R hill director of the school of agri culture ot of the tile utah agricultural col lege the recent rainstorm caused con tild sid erable damage in tha the vicinity of kaysville Kays ville the water system intake being choked up and residence lots flooded the highways being damaged moncrete r roads oads being undermined la in liacas laces and must be rebuilt the first squadron adron ot of the first caa airy alry utah national guard I 1 la ull under der orders to leave nogales tor for salt like lake on october 15 alter after an illness of nearly a month george todd 78 years of age a pioneer harness maker of salt lake died from kidney trouble james west one of the picturesque pioneers 0 of f the west died october 1 at bis his home in salt lake city more than fifty years ago mr west W est was in charge of the commissary depart ment of the first construction crew to work on the union pacific railway W J whittaker ot of erate battle with a rabid ought a desp desperate coyote coyotl last week I 1 but ut dispatched the animal before he was bitten tha the head was brought to salt lake and tested and the bacteriologist declared the anitila afflicted with genuine by dron hoLia |