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Show HIE UTAH BUDGET The State Millers' association will hold its annual convention at the Utah Agricultural college during the two weeks of the Round-up. Edward W. Cornish, an employe ol the Grocer Printing company at Sail Lake, was found dead in bed, deatr. being due to natural causes. The Springville Poultry associatior is working hard to make the poultrj show, which will be given there th( week cf December 21, a great success One trapper of the Uintah basin is languishing in the Uintah county jai as the result of an attempt to trai beavers in the eastern part of thf state. As the result of a stabbing affraj in Ogden, the trial judge sentencec W. J. Shannon to serve 100 days ir the city jail without the usual alter native of paying a $100 fine. r Livestock shipments westward anc wool shipments eastward have beer better during the past few months than at any time in the history o: the Western Pacific railroad. Harry Hansen, aged IS, has beer arrested at Buena Vista, near Sail Lake, charged with setting fire tt z haystack. Young Hansen claims thai someone else set fire to the hay. The Ogden Poultry association has changed its name to the Weber Coun ty Poultry association and named De cember 2S to January 4 as the time for holding the annual poultry show at Ogden. The assessed valuation of propertj in the state of Utah for 1914 is $221, 720,400, according to the report of the state board of equalization filed with the governor. This is an increase ol $7,851,503. Mental troubles, if treated in the early stages, are as recoverable as other diseases, says Dr. D. H. Calder superintendent of the State Mental hospital, in his biennial report to the governor. Jim Botto died at a Salt Lake hos pital l'rom burns received in a mine explosion at Helper tan days ago coupled with injuries received when he jumped from a window in the hos pital, where he was confined. In the future the United 'States as say office in Salt Lake will be oper ated by a force of but two men, whe in addition to being assayers and pre cious metal smelters, must attend tc all clerical work of the office. The Bear River Stake tabernacle a( Garlar.d was built and furnished at a cost of $53,000. Before the dedication of the handsome structure every cent of obligation against the building was paid by the people of the Bear Rivei stake. George" John Taylor, eldest son ol the late President John Taylor of the Mormon church, died at his residence In Salt Lake, December 15, at the age of 80 years. Mr. Taylor had been a resident of Utah since Octobei 2, 1847. The Utah chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni was organized at a dinnei given in the University club at Sail Lake by fourteen alumni of that uni versity. The alumni association will start with a roster of about thirtj members. John Hancock, son of George Han cock, a mining man of Salt Lake, was accidentally shot and killed while hunting near Hayden, Ariz., where he was employed as chief chemist at the mill of the Ray Consolidated Mining company. Plans to enlarge the scope of the Utah Association of Architects frorr a purely architectural organization as it is at present, to a body includ ing artists, musicians, writers and al! persons connected with the fine arts are being considered. Bruce Mactay, 22 years of age, oi Taylorsville, died December 16 from the effects of a bullet wound in his head received on November 22 during an altercation with foreigners at the American-Hellenic Athletic and Political Politi-cal club at Murray. The third annual Fashion Show, held in Ogden last fall, not only finished fin-ished with a clean slate as to bills, but rolled up a net balance of more than $300, according to the financial statement that has just been completed complet-ed by the secretary. Four thousand pasteboard cartons, each to contain about four pounds of Utah celery, have been contracted for by the Salt Lake Commercial club and will be disposed of to the leading lead-ing grocers of Salt Lake, the idea being be-ing to stimulate interest in Utah celery cel-ery day. Members of the medicaJ profession of Salt Lake are greatly interested in a case at a local hospital where a young man died as the result of a very slight injury. The young man accidentally suffered a slight laceration lacera-tion of the skin and in four days bled to death. George L. Rist and A. A. -Carlson, firemen stationed at the Sugar House station, Salt Lake, were injured, the fire automobile was badly wrecked and the porch, of a small house was lemolished when the fire automobile kidded on slippery pavement and urned over. |