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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Former Governor John 0. Cutler lias been appointed a member of the Salt Lake school board. Walter L. Price, a pioneer grocer of Sail Lake, died last week al a hospital hos-pital after being ill for three weeks from a complication of disorders. The total regis! ra I ion in Salt Lake of voters who were tiuili!ied to vote in the primary election was 3G.073. In the slate election. 40. COO registered. The expenditures for Ogden city exceeded ex-ceeded the receipts by more than $20,-000 $20,-000 during the month of September, according to a monthly financial report. re-port. Don Emanuel I'age. colored, is under un-der arrest in Pueblo, Colo., on a charge of forging a I'nited States postal money order in Mohrland, Emery county. Two bold bandits walked into a Salt Lake saloon while the proprietor was counting up the evening receipts and relieved him of $22, the contents of the cash register. Despondent because of failure to get work, Vera Shingleton, aged 20 years, attempted suicide by swallowing swallow-ing strychnine at his home in Salt Lake. He will re cover. Nearly 10,000 Ogden city voters were enrolled in the official registration registra-tion books of the city at the close of office hours the last registration day before the primary election. With a total investment of $95S,000 in thirty-two manufacturing establishments establish-ments in Provo, the value of the products prod-ucts turned cut by these plants is placed at $843,000 for the fiscal year. James Latsis, aged 23, a driver for a Salt Lake laundry , was stabbed in quarrel with Peter Ciors, after which his assailant fled, but was later captured. cap-tured. Latsis is in a serious condition. condi-tion. Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City's military mili-tary pot, already has been recommended recom-mended to the war department as a brigade station and supply depot for the west by officers of the regular army. The Provo pressed brick yard has received an order from the E. H. Dyer Co. for 2,000,000 bricks, which are to be delivered March 1, for the building build-ing of a sugar factory in Spanish Fork. Protests voiced by residents of the Granite school district has failed to result in a decision on the part of the board to have children of the detention de-tention home withdrawn from the public pub-lic schools. Not less tahn 100 visitors, comprising compris-ing the prominent clubwomen of the state, attended the annual convention of the Utah Federation of Women's clubs in Ogden Thursday and Friday of last week. After testifying that he had been given $102.11 to fire a store at Ogden, but that he failed to carry out his part of the plot, C. T. Lockhart, tried on a charge of grand larceny, was found not guilty by a jury. John A. Maynes, 'president of the London conference in the British mission mis-sion of the Mormon church, and who had been identified wtih business interests in-terests in Salt Lake for many years, died October 14, of pleurisy in London. Lon-don. Two million shares or nearly 70 per cent of the total stock of the Union Pacific Railroad company was represented repre-sented at the annual stockholders' meeting of the road, held in Salt Lake last week. The old board of directors was re-elected. The erection of 100 modern brick and concrete bouses, at a cost of $100,-000, $100,-000, is planned for a new city that will spring into existence within the next ten days, south of the West Jordan Jor-dan sugar factory, upon which work has actually begun. A Salt Lake paper says R. S. Lovett, chairman of the board of directors of the Union Pacific system, has not yet made up his mind as to whether the Union Pacific will or will not build a railroad into the Uintah basin, but may do so within a few months. Since the surplus of canned vegetables vege-tables and fruit in the state held over from last year's production, has been practically exhausted, some concern is being expressed by dealers that the short supply of this year will not be sufficient to meet the trade demands of the state market this winter. In addition to the statement that this has been the most profitable year in the history of the sheep business in Utah, because of the high prices paid for wool and lambs, A. A. Cal-lister, Cal-lister, secretary of the state sheep commission, announces that the stock sheep of the state are more free from disease at present than ever before. The home of S. D. Coffeman, a Ri Grande section hand of Springville, was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. after-noon. His wife, who was in bed with a 5-days-old baby, was forced to flee to the home of a neighbor. Reports from the Clarion colony, six miles south of Gunison in Sanpete county, are to the effect that the crops were not very good this season, largely large-ly due to water conditions. A supply sup-ply was cot available when needed. |