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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The property of Ogden lodge ol Elks is soon to he improved by the addition ad-dition of a modern gymnasium to cost approximately $25,000. Grand county will be paid $7,500 hy the state for the funds o the county expended to complete the Green river and Moaib state bridges. The heavy hand of the law Is falling fall-ing on the bootleggers of Utah county. Nearly a dozen men have heen taken into custody in the past week. It is announced that the schools of Box Elder will not close on April 1, as at first stated, but that -they will he kept up for six more weeks. , Ten persons were quarantined for inspection in Butlerville when' it was learned that E. Tucker of that town had a well developed case of smallpox. small-pox. With the view of forming' a volunteer volun-teer military organization at the University Uni-versity of Utah a committee was appointed ap-pointed at a meeting of the student, executive 'board last week. The exact total of the general ap propriation bill, signed last week toy the governor, exclusive of the $35,000 appropriated for the current expenses of the legislature, was $3,296,864.91. The Utah Valley Gas & Coke company com-pany has started the preliminary work for extending its gas mains from the plant in the southeastern part of Provo, south of Springville and Spanish Span-ish Fork. Because of their value for petroleum petro-leum and nitrogen known to he contained con-tained in vast deposits of oil shale, 2,511,517 acres of lands in the Uinta basin have been reserved to the government. gov-ernment. Thelma, the 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Baker of Provo, with other children, was playing near a bonfire, into which she fell and was so severely burned that she died in about two hours. Recognition of the ability of Prof. John T. Caine III, director of the extension ex-tension division of the Utah Agricul--tural college, as a judge of Percheron horses was given in a recent Issue of the Breeders' Gazette. "More land planted, digger crops, cut down the high cost of living," were among the doctrines preached by Heber Webh, county farm agent at meetings held at Taylorsville and Bennion ward last week. C. S. Varian, formerly corporation counsel of Salt Lake, and well known attorney, has heen appointed by Governor Gov-ernor Simon Bamberger as a member of the state board of corrections to succeed S. R. Thurman. "Ogden no longer can afford to hold 'small town' ideas," 'Mayor Abbott R. Heywood said in calling attention to the fact that the Oity commissioners have $1,000,000 worth of improvements on their program for the coming year. In an endeavor to save the lives of thousands of starving cattle in Cache valley, George Moench, a Logan grain broker, was selected at a meeting of the Logan Commercial club to make a trip to Washington to purchase hay for the stock. Joe Caputo, an Italian laborer, aged 28, single, a native of Aiello, Calabria, Cala-bria, province of Cosenzo, was Instantly Instant-ly killed at Bingham by being run over by a Bingham & Garfield engine and train of forty-two cars, all of which passed over him. Because her husband had failed to provide for herself and 18-months-old baby for several weeks, Mrs. Josie Royce, 19 years old, attempted suicide at Salt Lake by drinking the contents of a small vial of poison. Prompt use of a stomach pump saved her life. With Glenwood park offered, rent free, by the city commissioners, promoters pro-moters of the City Baseball league say they cannot see why a league of six 'teams made up of amateur or semi-professional semi-professional players cannot have a successful season in Ogden during the spring and summer. Apparently despondent because of ill health and a fear of losing her mind,'' Mrs. Marie McKinney, 25 years of age, wife of W. A. McKinney, a mining man of Cokeville, Wyo., shot herself through the left breast at their temporary home in Salt Lake, and is in a serious condition. Fifteen Duroc brood sows were delivered de-livered to fifteen Vineyard boys last week under the auspices of the local farm bureau for that section and the boys who were fortunate enough to get one of the pigs will pay the shippers, ship-pers, who are the Salt Lake stockyards,. stock-yards,. $33 per head next fall. Warning to loyal citizens of the United States that in their loyalty and desire to save their country from the menace of a foreign foe they do not sacrifice the principles of democracy and liberty, lib-erty, was sounded by Bishop Paul Jones in his sermon at the First Methodist Meth-odist church at Salt Lake last Sunday. With a total snowfall of not more than five inches during the winter and the sun bringing out green slips of grass now and then, the Uintah basin has proved ideal for the wintering of cattle and sheep. |