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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Fifteen successful prosecutions for shipping wormy apples have been reported re-ported by the Inspector of Carlioc :ounty. A new armory, costing $30,000, for the Ogden company, N. G. U., will be erected, if plans now under way are realized. A celebration is to be held at Spanish Span-ish Fork on November 12, to signalize the opening of the Oreui electric line to that city. It is said that the historic Valley House in Salt Lake is to be torn down to make room for the depot to be used by an interurban railway. Maintenance of county roads and bridges during the first nine months of 1915 cost Salt Lake county $42,544.44 less than for the same period in 1914. Two hundred Salt Lake business men visited Logan on October 27, on the occasion of the celebration of the completion of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho electric line. The school board is making plans for a new $10,000 school building at Monticello, and is negotiating for the lots now occupied by a big corral. The structure will go up next spring. When Don Wadsworth attempted to demonstrate to the porter of a Salt Lake hotel just how windows should be cleaned, he fell to the pavement below and sustained a broken leg. Claims totaling $16,700 have been filed by property owners of Ogden valley val-ley against Ogden City for damages alleged to have resulted from the opening of the city's artesian wells. Ranges in southern Utah are not in the best of condition, and it is probable prob-able that stockmen will have to feed heavily during the winter if losses are to be avoided, in th opinion of some stockmen. The body cf John A. Maynes, who died recently in London, England, while on mission duty there for the .Mormon church, is on board the liner Scandinavia, which sailed from Liverpool Liver-pool on October 22. Herman Christensen, a well known millwright of- Logan, committed suicide sui-cide by hanging. His body was discovered dis-covered in an old outbuilding. Despondency De-spondency is presumed to have caused him to take his life. Samuel Matelle, aged 30, is in a Salt Lake hospital suffering from two bullet bul-let wounds, John Edmunds, aged 50, being charged with the shooting, which followed a fight between Ma-telle's Ma-telle's dog and Edmunds' cat. Mosiah Hall, s;ate high school inspector, in-spector, has returned from visiting the schools of the Tintic district, including in-cluding Eureka, Mammoth and Silver Ciey, with a report that they were in better condition than ever before. Ably assisted by the entire membership member-ship of the Boy Scouts, which organization organi-zation has cheerfully volunteered to co-operate in the work, the annual "clean-up" campaign planned by the board of health at Salt Lake has begun. be-gun. Thomas Stokes, aged 73 years, a re tired farmer, died at his home in Draper at midnight Thursday night, and his wife, Mrs. Sorah Stokes, Suffered Suf-fered a fracture in the region of the hip and possible internal injurie-s, as the result of an automobile accident. Vandals, suspected of having burned the automobile of Thomas Redmond, inspector of the United States bureau of animal industry, are being sough), by the police and sheriff's office at Salt Lake. The automobile was stolen from Redmond's residence at Salt Lake. A verdict of guilty, but with a recommendation rec-ommendation of leniency, was returned return-ed by the jury that tried Mrs. Irene Stewart at Salt Lake for the shooting of a 10-year-old boy who was stealing apples from a tree in the front yard at Mrs. Stewart's heme. The boy was only slightly injured. William Sholty, formerly a brake-man brake-man employed by the Oregon Short Line and other railroads, is being held in the Salt Lake jail pending investigation in-vestigation into what the police department de-partment declare to be an attempt to evade the law covering the shipment of intoxicants into Idaho. Full instructions for fighting malarial ma-larial fever and the mosquito that spreads the disease Were sent to Washington, Washington county, a few days ago by Dr. T. B. Beatty, 'state health commissioner, as a result of a report from there of the existence of twelve cases of the fever. Information has reached Salt Lake of the death on October 17 of Harvey Henry Meeks at Hudson, Wyo., after a brief illness, at the age of 77 years. Mr. Meeks was a native of Indiana, emigrated to Utah as a youth in 1852, and resided at various places in this state for many years before removing to Wyoming. The salaries of the cily councilmen of Price have been reduced from $150 to $100 a year, while other officers have beeu forced to accept a like reduction. re-duction. Ray Kite was arrested near Alts and lodged in the county jail on a charge of threatening to kill Emanne' Ericksen at Alta. Both men are joiners. |