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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Cornish, Utah, is the site selected by the West Cache Sugar company for its proposed factory, it was announced last week. Louis Perie, an Italian, 30 years of age, died at a Salt Lake hospita'. as a result of injur'es received in a mine accident at Sl.andardville. '.Masons from all points in Utah were present at the open'ng session of the forty-sixth annual convention of the grand lodge, F. & A. M., at Salt Lake last week. The spreading of a rail on the Western West-ern Pacific railroad caused a fast freight train of fourteen cars to leave the track at Grant's station, but. no one was injured. A man known as "Dutch" McKen-drick, McKen-drick, about 50 years of age, wa;-: found dead in his room in Salt Lake City. Death is said to have been due to a weak heart, induced by alcoholism. alcohol-ism. The biennial report of the state horticultural commission recommends that the entire inspection service be placed under state control, instead of being divided between state and coun--ty, as it is now. A movement has been started to construct a $20,000 chapel in the Fourth ward at Provo- The buildin-' will be modern in every respect and will be built to accommodate all of the ward organizations. The kitchens of three Salt Lake 'homes were wrecked on January 1 G, and four person? more or less seriously seri-ously injured as the result of frozen water jackets exploding when fires were built in the stoves. With the heaviest snowfall in years, residents of Salt Lake face a water shortage in addition to a shortage of poal. The water shortage is occasioned by people allow'ng water taps to run to prevent pipes freezing. The schools of the Mormon church in Castledale, Fmery county, were closed last week, owing to the prevalence preva-lence of scarlet fever in the district served. Some dissatisfaction is being shown by the parents of the pupils. A great number of quail are dying, from starvation and the d.xtremely coid weather and deep snows around Americas Amer-icas Fork. Farmers on the outskirts . of town are feeding the quail by scattering scat-tering wheat and other grains around their straw stacks. Hunted for more than a year for the alleged murder of a policeman and a fellow countryman in Fresno Cal., L Tera, a Japanese, aged 20 years, was arrested at Salt Lake after a bitter fight in which he attempted to kill two officers. Two l-year-old boys, Eimer isass and Clarke Burnham, of Woods Cross, are at a Salt Lake hospital suffering from injuries received when a Denver & Rio Grande switch engine collided with a wagon in which they were riding rid-ing in Wood's Cross. Logan merchants will conduct a b'S display of Utah manufacturers' products pro-ducts at a fair to be held during the week of the annual Farmers' Roundup Round-up and Housekeepers' conference conducted con-ducted by the Utah Agricultural college, col-lege, January 29 to February 3. The shutting off of gas and the turning turn-ing of it on shortly afterward by the gas company at Salt Lake is. thought to have caused a fatality. The victim was W. T. Rand, 24 years of age, a brakeman on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. It is believed hs.was asphyxiated as-phyxiated as he slept. The sugar beet campaign of the past year, which still remains incomplete, incom-plete, has 'been one of almost unpr cedented difficulties and ill luck, according ac-cording to officials' of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, owing to 'the abnormal abnor-mal climatic influences which prevailed prevail-ed throughout the entire season. Dolores Mattson, who told several conflicting stories regarding her identity iden-tity when arrested at Denver on charges of issuing worthless checks, finally directed that her mother, living liv-ing in Ogden, be notified. The latter responded promptly and settled her daughter's financial obligations and took her home. Hyrum M. Smith and David O. McKay Mc-Kay have been appointed to the committee com-mittee of the Mormon church having in charge the making of appropriations appropria-tions for school purposes. They fill the vacancies created by the death of Francis M. Lyman and the assignment assign-ment of George F. Richards to mission mis-sion tour in Europe. Some of the fruitgrowers of X'tah county have expressed fear that the severe frost has killed the fruit for this year and that some of the trees would die. Investigaticns made by William M. Roy lance and County Fruit Horticulturist Otto J. Poulson, however, how-ever, indicate there is no reason to believe be-lieve this to be true. The revenue which is derived in Utah annually from saloons is about $352,670, according to the figures of the state statistician. Although the state-wide prohibition bill has not been reported out of committee, com-mittee, two candidates have Eade heir appearance for commissioner of prohibition. |