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Show THE UTAH BUDGET -Salt bake is to have a municipal Christmas tree celebration. Two unmasked men walked into a Salt Lake saloon, held up the bartender barten-der and took $34.95 from the cash register. Cyrus E. Dallin, famous Utah sculptor, won has been visiting his mother in Springville, has left for his home in Boston. Several tons of sand caved in on Gus Erickson while he was at work in a gravel pit at Salt Lake, and he was so badly crushed that he may not recover. James Whitehead, 77 years of age, for many years a well known resident of Springville, died December 1 at his home of pneumonia. He came to Utah in 1S65. Judge Call has handed down a decision de-cision permitting a division of the land in Providence town corporation so that two precincts instead of one may be organized. Surviving his wife less than three weeks, Joseph H. Frisby, former mayor of Provo, died following an operation for appendicitis, which he underwent a week ago. Construction of fifteen miles of new canyon road between Sevier and Marysvale by convict labor the coming com-ing winter is the probable program of the state road commission. Utah is nearer entirely free from typhoid fever and similar diseases than it has ever been before. This will be shown by the next monthly bulletin issued by the state board of health. An effort to convince the celery growers of Salt Lake and vicinity that they should organize to market their product was a feature of the observance of Utah Celery day, Monday, Mon-day, December 6. So closely contested is the competition competi-tion between Utah collegiate and high school students in the Utah products essay contest that the committee on selection as yet has been unable to agree on the winners. The value of the wheat, oats and sugar beet crops of Utah for the present pres-ent year will excel last year's, and the wool crop will be as great or greater, measured in dollars and cents, than ever .before. William Johnson, who shot his brother-in-law, Oscar Peterson, November No-vember 17, at the Mankin ranch near Ophir, pleaded not guilty at his preliminary pre-liminary hearing, and was acquitted on a plea of self-defense. The first conviction under the law prohibiting careless expectoration was obtained by the Salt Lake board of health when Peter Cullen was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $30 or -serve thirty days in -Jail. The Amalgamated Sugar company will produce this season in the four factories at Ogden, Logan, Lewiston and Burley, Idaho, about 850,000 100-pound 100-pound bags of sugar as compared to the 820,000 bags produced la3t year. Harry S. Joseph of Salt Lake has been appointed receiver for the Jewish. Jew-ish. Agricultural Colonization Association Associa-tion of Clarion. He gave bond of $10,000 and will immediately take charge of the organization's affairs. Nearly $100 worth of jewelry and silverware which had been stolen from Salt Lake homes was recovered when three youthful burglars, all under un-der 14 years of age, were arrested and confessed to a series of robberies. Attendance of both farmers and housekeepers that was even beyond the expectations of farm bureau officers offi-cers marked the sessions of the first annual Weber county institute in four of the principal farming ' districts dis-tricts on December 1. What is believed to he the culmination culmi-nation of dozens of robberies and petty pet-ty thefts, which have baffled the police po-lice since last spring, came in the arrest ar-rest at Salt Lake of C. W. Davis, who claims to be a railway news agent, and Mrs. Bell Bishop. Mrs. Lilly C. Wolstenholme, member mem-ber of the Utah legislature, has gone to Washington to attend the conference confer-ence between President Wilson and members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, of which organisation organi-sation she is secretary-treasurer for Utah. While the state produced $44,000,-000 $44,000,-000 in lead, silver and copper in 1914, the heads of mining companies assert that the production will pass the $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 mark this year, owing to the increased prices for copper and the increased production of both lead and silver. Steps are to be taken immediately, it is announced, in an effort to secure the disbarment of O. N. Hilton of Denver, Den-ver, who was connected with the trial of Joseph Hillstrom, executed murderer mur-derer of J. G. Morrison and his son, J. Arling Morrison, for his attack on the supreme court of Utah. Though an investigation made into the shooting at Salt Lake of Mrs. Eliza M. Marshall, wife of Dr. H. D. Marshall, resulted in the police reaching reach-ing the conclusion at that time that she had shot herself, it has been decided de-cided that her husband should be brought back from Sabetha, Kan,, to stand trial as her murderer. |