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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The animal meeting of the Osteopaths Osteo-paths oi the state was held in Salt l.ake last week. Edward Irwin, aged S2. a prominent G. A. R. member and resident of Utah since IS-'m. died of general debility at his home in Ogden. B. S. Smith. 19 years, is under arrest ar-rest at Reno. New, charged with the theft of a big touring automobile from a real estate firm in Salt Lake. Assurance that the National Association Asso-ciation of Insurance Commissioners will hold its annual convention in Salt Lake within two years, has been given. Estimates of wheat produced in Utah for this year is S. 220, 000 bushels, as against 7,275,000 bushels for last year, according to the government crop report. Said to be waited ln Portland, Ore., on a charge cf conducting a $3,000 race horse fake pool room swindle, George Ray, 35 years old, and George White, aged 34, were arrested in Salt Lake. A 'felony complaint charging assault as-sault with a caustic acid, has been filed against R. I. Dickson, who is alleged al-leged to have dashed a bottle of muriatic mu-riatic acid in the fee of Harry Mort, at Ogden. At the tenth International Dry-Farming Dry-Farming exposition held in Denver, the Utah Agricultural college and experiment ex-periment station exhibit received second sec-ond prize in competition with thirteen western states. The annual convention of the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Good Roads association, which was to have been held in Ogden Og-den this year, is postponed one year on recommendation of the secretary, L. P. McCalla of Boise. Members of the state board of equalization equal-ization will confer with officials of Kanev Washington, Garfield, Iron and Beaver counties in reference to a uniform uni-form plan of assessing property at its full value beginning January 1. There is no evidence of foul play in connection with the death of John Francis Heron, January 24, 1914, near the St. Joseph crossing, the Davis county grand jury has reported. His death was found to be accidental. That the man whose skeleton was found on the mountains east of North Ogden by boy hunters last Sunday was a Japanese, who probably came to his death in a fight with bears, is the opinion of the county sheriff. During the twelve months ending October 1, 1915, $18,137.19 was collected col-lected and disbursed by the Central Finance Board of Charities of Salt Lake for the benefit of deserving poor and unfortunate people in the city. Injuries received when he fell between be-tween the cars of a Union Pacific freight train near Gateway, Weber canyen, resulted in the death at Ogden Og-den of Frank Kocher, -a transient laborer, la-borer, who Was beating his way east. Five dollars, is all the damages to which Albert Arnold, a tailor, is entitled en-titled for a beating administered to him by V. A. Bettilyou. a reaj estate dealer, according to judgment of a jury at Salt Lake. Arnold had sued for ?3,000. Plans for maintaining the Utah chamber of commerce and its extensive exten-sive exhibits at Salt Lake by the various vari-ous counties of the state were practically prac-tically perfected at a meeting last week of nearly a score of county commissioners. com-missioners. Undiscovered for three years, the remains of a man about 40 years old, believed to be George Adams, address ad-dress unknown, were found by Robert Rob-ert McCombe of Salt Lake half buried in . the mud a mile and a half west of Centerville. After cancellation by the city license li-cense assessors of one wholesale and one club liquor license there are left in Salt Lake City 132 retail saloons, forty druggist liquor dealers, twelve wholesale dealers, three breweries and eight clubs. Twenty members of the National Guard of Utah under command of JVIaj. W. G. Williams of the First infantry, in-fantry, make up the rifle team which will represent the state of Utah at the national rifle competition to be held at Jacksonville, Fla., October 15 to 22. After being out about an hour, the jury in the case of the state against Amanda Trulove McClure, charged with murder in the first degree for the killing of her husband, S. G. McClure, Mc-Clure, at Salt Lake, returned a ver1 diet of not guilty. , The McClures are- colored people. Utah has a corner on the sugar beet seed supply of the United States and representatives of the different sugar beet companies are trying to devise means 'whereby this state and the companies operating here may be able to supply a part of the beet seed Colorado and California require. The inability of Roy Telford, 28 years of age, a resident of Mason City, Iowa, and Frank Dodd, 20, a resident of Sioux City, Iowa, to furnish a satisfactory sat-isfactory bill of sale for an automo tile vhey had sold to Henry Gwil-Jiams, Gwil-Jiams, at Ogden, resulted in their arrest ar-rest on the charge of having stolen the machine. |