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Show THE UTAH BUDGET I "Water is scarce in Kanab and Fre- JonJa, because of the extremely dry fall season. Ernest Morgan, employed as a conductor con-ductor on the depot lines at Salt Lake, blew out his brains with a revolver, following a flt of despondency. The building of a sugar factory, a beet-molasses plant and an apple-syrup factory by co-operate action was unan-lmously unan-lmously favored at a mass meeting '! leld at West Jordan. Eight million stamps, worth half a million dollars, are now in the vaults of the Salt Lake postoffice. This t marks the high-water mark of provi-;: provi-;: sion for the Christmas rush of busi-ness. busi-ness. 'i T. LeRoy Cardon, president of the - Booster club of Logan and manager 1 : of a jewelry store in that city, was : killed by the accidental discharge of 5 ils gun while duck hunting near K; Woods Cross. ,i: Failing to discover any evidence of crime in the death, the sheriff's offi-ers offi-ers have ordered the reburial of a skeleton uncovered by employees of :; .a construction company wihile grading a street in Ogden. Belated official returns from all of the counties in Utah show that the - Jower house of the next legislature L will be composed of twenty-four Re- publicans and twenty-two Democrats, Progressives and Socialists. L Albert V. Forman of Bingham, 55 .years of age, formerly a member of '"" the legislature and widely known in fraternity circles, died November 18. u- Mr. Forman was 111 but three days. Pneumonia was the cause of death. 'jT The girls of the Utah Agricultural college of Logan sold 125 pounds of " -candy made by them one day last " week, the proceeds of which will be T" .given to Governor Spry to be used In the Red Cross relief work. The sale netted $50. Death before a firing squad was the . entence pronounced on Frank De 7" Pretto, convicted of the murder of ;" Eugene Allen at Bingham. De Pretto -chose shooting in preference to hang- iDg. The date of execution was fixed tor January 15, 1915. ' ' Francis L. Thomas, a lineman, en-?' en-?' tered his home at Salt Lake and shot ; his wife, Anette. Three bullets en- tered the woman's body,, any one of which would have proved fatal. She died instantly. Thomas then fired a I, bullet into his own brain. At its next meeting the state road -commission will be under the neces-sity neces-sity of making a ruling on the ques-tlon ques-tlon as to whether or not cities and J. towns are to be given the benefit of ir.. the uniform plans for bridges used in construction of state roads. c What promises to be of the utmost r- importance to Fillmore and to Millard county is the oil strike made recently hy the Westwood Oil company. The present well is down to a depth of 1,-j. 1,-j. 120 feet, with oil showing ever since the 600-foot point was passed, r. Protest against the use of city prison; pris-on; oners at Salt Lake for work to be li.i done in remodeling and preparing the erj-; T. Ml C. A. building for police and ; t (health department headquarters has e p been filed with the city commission a if "by the local building trades council. (Preliminary arrangements for the consolidation of the Amalgamated nd the Lewiston Sugar companies & have been announced by the officers n-cr of the former company in the publica-, publica-, i-: tion of a call for a special meeting of y ri the stockholders on December 19. en, Forty-nine bear were killed in Utah no s during the past year, according to the die etate fi;sh and game commissioner. o! Two were grizzlies and the others ills were black and brown bear. Nineteen were killed in Cache county and the rest In Sevier and Carbon counties. O Adulterated foods and drugs are to on? be stopped short of the shelves of the dnei; retail store In the future, if the plans s;: of F. B. Raynor, federal inspector for o sJ'-thls district, hold out. The work of 3pW; Inspecting all good Ehipped into the htsi state has now been assigned to Mr. be - Raynor. Howard Dalton of Willard, Boxelder county, has been declared the sweep-stakes sweep-stakes champion boy in the boys' and a girls' club contests of the state and tW'has been awarded a free trip to the Panama-Pacific exposition. His score :al- was 84.8 and the score of his nearest lie. ''competitor was 82.9. Charles H. Virden, an expressman el40 yeara of age fihot nimsel when a shotgun he was cleaning in his home in .Salt Lake was accidentally dis-lfft dis-lfft charged. The charge from the gun GeI;Struck Virden in the abdomen and ,reS:;he died a few minutes afterward be ; 6ta'tore medical assistance could reach , tb'hlm' yor Mantt is the cleanest town in the Hate of Utah, according to the scoring scor-ing of the judges of the statewide 'clean town contest." is The total cost of the November 3 an flection to Weber county was not liflS ess than $6,500, according to esti-as5eBales esti-as5eBales prepared by the county clerk. SSI! |