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Show THE UTAH BUDGET A sugar factory near Kphraim has been suggested. There are now forty-five miles of paved streets in Salt Lake City. Total receipts of the Ogden postof-fie postof-fie in 19155 amounted to $60,780.20 over the total receipts of 1914. The twenty-eighth annual show o( tli e Utah Poultry association opened in iPalt Lake City on January 10. Country butter makers are being investigated in-vestigated by Heber C. Smith, state dairy and food commissioner. The state of Utah is setting out to collect approximately $1,000,000 in back fees from big corporations. David Gregory, 98 years of age, the oldest American born resident of Weber We-ber county, died at Ogden last week. Norman Cowdin, a recluse, the author au-thor of many papers on Socialism, died at the age of fi8 in his rooms at Salt Lake. Death is thought to have resulted re-sulted from heart failure. : A. H. Long, a member of the brokerage brok-erage firm of Woodward & Bennett of Los Angeles, was instantly killed by castbound Denver & Rio Grande freight train at Tnistle Junction. As a result of the campaign now being be-ing waged, it is expected that 150 men will be added to the Utah National Na-tional Gua.rd before the federal inspection inspec-tion conies in February or March. The clerk of the state conservation commission and three deputy game wardens were lopped from the state payroll last week by order of the board of examiuirs and in the interest of retrenchment. J. . Phillips, well known in the early days as clerk at the Valley House in Salt Lake, and later at the old Walker House and the White House, died last week from the Infirmities of age, being be-ing over 80 years of age. Circulation of books by the Free public library of Salt Lake exceeded '.he 313,796 mark during the year which ended December 31, 1915, which total is an increase of more than 57,-918 57,-918 over the previous year. The condition of Jacob Christopher-son, Christopher-son, the farmer residing near Spanish Fork, who was badly frozen when he was pinned under a wagon load of wood and exposed to zero weather for eighteen hours last week, is critical. The Utah militia leads the nation in marksmanship practice, according to the annual report of Brigadier General Gen-eral A. L. Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs, regular army instruc-tor-inspector to the Utah National Guard. Unclaimed by any relatives or friends, the body of Thomas Donnelly, 38 years of age, who died in his room at a Salt Lake rooming house, has been transferred from the morgue to the dissecting room, of the University of Utah. Special rates to Salt Lake on account ac-count of the annual convention of the National Woolgrowers' association, which is to be held in Salt Lake City January 9 to 14, inclusive, have been authorized from California, Nevada and Utah points. A three-day performance of "Chris-tingura," "Chris-tingura," a classic Japanese tragedy written 200 years ago. was completed last week by the Go Raku Za, a Japanese Jap-anese dramatic club of Ogden. The play consists of sixteen acts and requires re-quires eighteen hours. Utah may be invited with five othe; states and the republic of Mexico to participate with the United States reclamation rec-lamation service in financing the Colorado Col-orado river control project, which, it is estimated, will require an expenditure expendi-ture of more than $100,000,000. . That at least ten tons of turkeys have been shipped from the Uintah basin to Salt Lake and Ogden this fall and winter is the estimate of Salt Lake commission men. These turkeys brought 2 cents a pound more on the markets than birds from other parts. Salt Lake has been decided upon by the United States public health bureau bu-reau as the place for holding an important im-portant conference of all the western-states western-states to discuss rabies among the coyotes, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the deer fly disease and other subjects. The annual report of the Salt Lake health department shows that the city broke its own record for low death rate in 1915 by reducing the total to-tal death rate from 9.1 per thousand of population in 1914 to 8.1. Continuation of the payment of "war taxes" during 1916 is called to the attention of payers of special taxes in a notice issued at the Salt Lake office of the Montana division of the United States internal revenue. The vast importance of the discovery discov-ery of potash in commercial quantities quanti-ties in Utah is emphasized in a report received from the United States secretary sec-retary of agriculture, bearing on the fertilizer situation in the United States. An increase of more than $500,000 in the assessed valuation of taxable property in Ogden City and Weber county as compared with 1914 is shown in the official records of the county assessor's office for the year just closed. |