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Show UTAH BUDGET The slate, auditor's office paid about SllO bounty claims, totaling $20,000, during the past week. ltapid progress is being made with the building and equipment of 'the now flour mill at Bountiful. The report comes from Utah county that there is a great shortage of farm laborers in that section. One of the oldest residents of Eureka Eu-reka passed away on April 10 when Mrs. Amelia Stone died of general debility. Governor Bamberger has offered to donate 10 per cent of the $10,000 Utah will raiso for the relief of Jewish war sufferers. Thomas E. Banning of Milford has been appointed tiy the state public utilities commission as secretary to the commission. The Utah state association of the Elks' lodge will hold its annual convention con-vention in Salt Lake Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5 and 6. Much activity is being shown in Brigham City and vicinity to utilize all available vacant and idle property for the raising of foodstuffs during. the summer. pany is responsible to the state. It is claimed Ellsworth took the money to save his family from starvation, and it is likely that some clemency will be sh'.ffn John Driscoll, chauffeur of Salt Lake, followed the theory, his wife said, that in ordr to make her love him. he should jeat her, aid the result re-sult was his arrest. Nine coyote pups, taken from one litter ibetween Spanish Fork and Springville, were taken to Provo by David Gull of Spanish Fork, who collected col-lected $1.50 county on each. Thomas Redmond, for nineteen years an inspector in the 'bureau of animal industry, department of agriculture, agri-culture, assumed his duties' last week as secretary of the state board of livestock commissioners. Application has been made with the state industrial commission for insurance insur-ance in the state fund by a large corporation cor-poration which does 'business In several sev-eral states in which workmen's compensation com-pensation laws are in effect. Acknowledgment is made by a surety company that a shortage of ?935.44 exists in the accounts of B. O. Ellsworth, a former clerk in the office of the state board of land commissioners, com-missioners, for which the surety corn-After corn-After May 1 all surplus products of the state prison farm and dairy will be sold to local commission houses at the prevailing market prices, and the practice of distributing quantities among the prison officials aud state employees will be abandoned. The state veterinarian will seek the co-operation of the federal bureau of animal industry in eradicating an epidemic epi-demic of spinal meningitis among the draftr horses of Millar,d county. Forage For-age poisoning is thought to be the cause of the prevalence of the disease. Any employee of Salt Lake connty who enlists in the -proposed military training school for officers, planned for Salt Lake this summer in lieu of the citizens' training camp, will be sure of his position after the period of training has ended. In order to familiarize themselves with the habits of military drill the citizens of Bountiful last week held a mass meeting and organized a company, com-pany, which is to meet at regular stated intervals to 'receive instruction in the tactics of war. About fifty men employed as freight truckers and checkers in the freight depot of the Oregon Short Line, at Salt Lake, refused to continue at their duties one day last week unless grievances griev-ances submitted to the railroad officials of-ficials were adjudicated to their satisfaction. satis-faction. Forty men employed as teamsters and helpers by a Salt Lake transfer company who were summarily discharged, dis-charged, attribute this action on .the part of the officials of the company to the fact that they recently became affiliated with the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor. About $5,000 will be refunded by the state treasury to members of the iState Teachers' Retirement association, associa-tion, which was abolished by the last legislature. The association was com posed of 1,200 teachers, each of whom" paid into the retirement fund 1 per cent of his or her salary. The entrance of the .United States into the war has created such a de-mi3Jid de-mi3Jid at the public library at Salt Lake that the librarian has made a special request of ithe Untied States superintendent of documents, at Washington Wash-ington for drill regulations, artillery field reguiK'ons and other publications. publica-tions. A Huntsville resident who pleaded guilty to the charge of having taken a gallon jug of whiskey from Ogden to Huntsville, in violation of the law which makes it a misdemeanor to carry more than sixteen ounces of intoxicating in-toxicating liquor into "dry" territory, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment im-prisonment and fined $299. |