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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Fred Warren, who burglarized a laundry at Provo, has been sentenced to from one to twenty years in the state prison. At least 200 foreigners are attending night school in Salt Lake. The foreigners for-eigners are endeavoring to prepare for naturalization. Kane county is without a superintendent superin-tendent of schools and the state hoard of educaton is looking for a man to take the job. The state is to sink an experimental artesian well In Iron county to determine deter-mine whether or not irrigation by this method is practicable. Salt Lake bread makers have been warned by Hetrer C. Smith, state dairy and food commissioner, that tags on loaves must state the exact amount of bread in the loaf. Negotiations for the purchase of 20,-000 20,-000 acres of land in the Cache valley by a syndicate of California people have been renewed. The Californians desire the land for grain growing. After an illness of three days, Joseph Jo-seph Smith Wells, secretary and treasurer treas-urer of the Utah Light & Traction company, died October 18 at his home in Salt Lake City, from pneumonia. Owing to the lack of funds created by the failure of the county to meet its obligation to the state road commission, com-mission, paving work on State street between Salt Lake and Murray has been discontinued. Application has been filed for a new trial for Arozio Rapole, convicted at Salt Lake October 12 of murder in the first degree in connection with shooting shoot-ing to death, June 26, Amos R. Neff, a farmer of Mill Creek. More than one million dollars per month is the increase in the resources of ninety-six banks and trust companies com-panies in Utah for the last three months, according to the report of C. A. Glazier, state bank commissioner. Foreign corporations doing business in Utah are required to pay the same tax for doing business that is imposed on Utah concerns and when they lapse in payment of the corporation tax they are subject to penalties quite as severe. se-vere. Becoming confused while trying to dodge an automobile at Salt Lake City, C. Mertsheimer, 54 years of age, was thrown violently to the pavement and suffered a fractured leg and body bruises, when one wheel of the auto passed over him. It is officially announced at the war department In Washington that the department de-partment has carved out a new recruit-ling recruit-ling district, with headquarters at Salt Lake City. This district includes all of the state of Utah and part of the state of Idaho. Wanted in New York on a charge of murdering a woman and stealing her jewels, valued at $26,000, Axel Hill has been discovered in the state prison at Salt Lake, and he may shortly short-ly be sent to New York to face the grave accusation. Following the installation of special equipment, the Ogden plant of the Pintsch Gas company is contributing daily from fifty to seventy-five gallons of distillate, a coal-tar by-product, to the supply of dye material now being produced in the United States. That there are now fourteen more saloons in Salt Lake City than should be for compliance with the state law allowing only one for each 1,000 of population in any municipality, is the argument in a protest against the granting of a license for another saloon. sa-loon. H. T. Haines, state commissioner of labor, immigration and statistics, is sending out an invitation to civic organza! or-ganza! ions throughout the state, asking ask-ing that characteristic photographs and statistics be furnished at once for inclusion in the biennial report of the department. Declaring that taxes in Cache county, coun-ty, are becoming too heavy a burden, members of the Taxpayers' league met at Logan, adopting resolutions decrying decry-ing the amount of money expended by the county and pleading for a curtailment curtail-ment of expenses in all departments of government. In an endeavor to bring a stop to the turning in of false fire alarms, Judge Robers at Salt Lake imposed a fine of $10 or imprisonment for ten days upon William Fields, who, when in an intoxicated condition, it is said, pulled the hook in an alarm box to see the department "turn out." Scrawled on a dirty playing card found beside the body of J. E. Jessup, proprietor of a small lunch room in J Bingham, were the words: "I can't beat the twenty-one game, so I guess I'd better quit." A bullet wound in liis head and a revolver in one hand indicated that he had committed suicide. sui-cide. Wrayne Hapgood was thrown from a mule he was riding at Salt Lake, landing land-ing on the pavement, his nose being broken. The supreme court has reversed the lower court iu Sanpete county, which decided that a tie vote made Gunnison City dry. |