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Show THUTAH BUDGET The state of Utah will collect approximately ap-proximately $1,750,000 in taxes this year, including school assessments. Daniel M. Torphy, 74 years of age, known as the first railway mail clerk an the inlcrmountain country, died at Salt Luke, December 13. With a capacity of 1,000 hogs, 200 sheep and ;!0;i cattle, the Ogdcn Packing Pack-ing and Provision company's modern stockyards have been completed. The town council of Bingham has decided to install a new lighting system sys-tem -which will he the best in the county outside of Salt Lake City.- 'Mrs. Gust Pappanickolas of Magna was convicied before a justice of the peace of selling liquor in dry territory and sentenced to pay a fine of $50. With her crocheting still in her hands, Mrs. Elizabeth Howell, aged S3, one of the oldest residents of Taylors-ville, Taylors-ville, was found dead in her room by her son. It is estimated that with the loss of liquor revenues in Ogden after a prohibition pro-hibition law becomes effective, the city revenues will .be reduced $66,350 a year. Sheepmen of the Parowan section are jubilant over the price secured for their coining spring clip of wool. Some of them got 31 cents per pound and a few 32 cents. G. Wright, mo'orman, is suffering from internal injuries and may die, and four passengers were injured as the result of a street car jumping the track at Ogden. Directors of the Kaysville Canning corporation met last week and declared de-clared a dividend of 8 per cent, payable pay-able immediately. The company's capital cap-ital is $75,000 and hence the distribution distribu-tion will be $6,000. Because she did not have a purse to surrender, Miss Edna Steele, IS years old, popular young society girl of Ogden, Og-den, w;vs knocked down and then kicked in the face by a highwayman, who accosted her in Silt Lake City. In Beaver county the dairying industry in-dustry is being fostered and the farmers farm-ers are buying blooded cattle. A number num-ber of the farmers are planting a greater acreage of fodder. A number of silos are being built throughout the county. While being attended in the emergency emer-gency hospital at Salt Lake for knife wounds received in a fight in a saloon, Frank Smith escaped from nurses and returned to the saloon to look for bis assailant, and was arrested on a charge of drunkenness. Mrs. August Raschuer of Little Cottonwood, Cot-tonwood, wife of the late Dr. August Raschuer, was seriously injured at the nome of Mrs. E. Hoock in Salt Lae -when she fell downstairs while calling on Mrs. Hoock. She is suffering suffer-ing from concussion of the brain. The expenditures of the state government gov-ernment for the fiscal year 1915-1916 amounts to approximately $2.84 per capita, according to the report being prepared by the state auditor. California's Cali-fornia's expenditures for the same period approximated $5.55 per capita. The heads of three coyotes were received re-ceived for examination a few days ago by L. L. Daines, state bacteriologist. bacteriolo-gist. The heads came from Circle-ville. Circle-ville. Eureka and on the boundary line near Oneida county, Idaho. In each instance the coyotes had attacked domestic do-mestic animals. Calling attention to the general excellent ex-cellent condition of sheep in Utah, to the importance of the industry and to the means that have been employed to keep Utah flocks free from disease, the biennial report of the state board of sheep commissioners has been filed with the governor. A jury at Ogden returned a verdict calling for the payment to Mrs. Lois Newey Keeter and two children ol $16,675, by the John Robinson Shows company for the death of her husband, Malcomb Keeter, July 7, last, when Keeter's horses were frightened by the circus elphants and calliope and ran away. Remorse upon realizing he had spent for riotous pleasure the $150 hq had saved to tide him over the winter, Charles Carlberg, aged 33, a miner from Arco, Idaho, attempted to kill himself by slashing his throat with a pocket knife at Ogden, but the knife was dull and only a superficial wound was made. With the death of Tony Albo of Helper, the number of dead as the result re-sult of the collision at Price was in-reased in-reased to three, the two other vie-:ims vie-:ims being Tony Verdi and W. A. Wallace, who were killed at the time if the wreck. Two women, giving their names as Delia Morg uj, 27 years of age, and Hlla W:ilson, 23, were arrested in Salt Lake City and held on suspicion of be-ng be-ng implicated in the drugging of J. Parley Peterson, a miner, who was robbed of $105. "The state should increase the )ounty on coyotes from $1.50 to $3 er head and I will urge the legisla-ure legisla-ure to make the increase in my forth-oming forth-oming report," said A. A. Callister, jcretary to the state sheep commissioners, commis-sioners, last week. |