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HEBD-EEPTJBLICA- ' - - 1 ' V ' ’ " r SALT N y't- ''i:-i- :' ' - -- ' ''"sX ' ' ' £ ’V" yy " v" ' - : VT' OPEN PLANT Bourbon Efficiency Committee Desires Creation of of Agriculture in TheirSteadBudget System Favored Would Amalgamate Several - £ "' v "J- - ' y - "' - - ' - ' ' Jk ‘ POLICE ARE DEMAND IN if EXHIBIT TO ' : MERGER OF EIGHT STATES DEPARTMENTS PROPOSED HUGE STOCK ' ' ' ‘ CFTY STTNT) A Y TATJTTABY 7 1917: T ATCB ' v:r:‘-- PRAISED IN TTt De-partm- ent & ' -- Rulings of fLand Depart- - Traffic Bureau Delegation j Will Resist Lower Charges to Denver Without Corresponding Reductions to tment Condemned ' — as Preju Vvv Utah Strong Case to Be Presented Jr ' ’ 1916 REPORT - - - V 1 Inauguration of New Cud-’all- y Factory to Be Marked Ly Live Stock Display interest of Salt Lake shippers S 1L Love H WT Prickett and W Department Under Chief WOULD FIGHT POLICY TNS the McCarthy representing- the traffic bureau of Utah will leave for DenSaid Have In- COMMITTEE REPORT SYNOPSIS state conservation eommtoslan to DEMOCRATIC efficiency abolition be abolished and the appropriation 1 thn state uf five divided between the engineering ex-- ' departments to be and managed by the' depart- periment station at the university ment of agriculture which In to be bd the agricultural college expert- yestablished ' The departments to be ment station t — estab-llab-ed abolished are the dairy and food state clerical bureau bureau dairy and food eommimiion-e- r that stenographers and clerks all of the time deportment 'of Htc stock the may be occupied to he Installed the ' board of sheep commissioners the Budget system state board of horticulture' and the budget to be prepared by the state fish and game commissionerauditor and approved by the state ' Creation of department of finance board of exam! acre courts as now established to fake over the work done by the state land board the state bank tojuvenile be abolished except In cities of of the second commissioner and the Insurance the first and possibly ' ' Vcommissioner class A Government’s Effort to Hold Mineral-Bearin- g Lands Unwarranted - re-for- med IS FIXED FOR MARCH Union Stock Yards and Cudahy Interests to Join in Big Enterprise De-dar- ed e f- for-fat-cattl- e ns YOUNG MAY ORE - imon of Releasing Him - - - iV’-'vV- : T7IIVE state departments are to be mergjed in one to be called the state department of agriculture which will be created by the Legislature if the recommendations of the efficiency and economy committee adopted by the joint caucus of House and Senate and approved by the Democratic steering committee are made into state laws The same joint committee recommends that a purchasing agent be appointed to bnyall supplies for the various departments of the state government and that the clerical and stenographic forces of the various officesbe cut down so that every moment of the time of state employees may he utilized A department of finance is proposed to take over the work done by the state land board the state bank commissioner and the Insurance commissioner The state 'conservation commission is also to be abolished and its divided between college appropriation export ment stations The committee also recommends that the juvenile courts as at present conducted be abolished A DUdget system for financing the various state departments is are urged the recommendations Following of the joint committee which were approved by the Democratic steering committee: The Recommendations "That all the state offices' boards and the Legislature engage only the number of necessary by fullemployees time to do the work working needed That a purchasing agent be attached to the office of secretary of state this agent to buy whenever the suppllee for all state practicable offices and boards "That a stenographic and clerical to the office of bureau be attached of state this bureau to fursecretary nish all extra and occasional clerical help needed by state officers By means of this bureau all clerks and stenogthe state may be raphers employed time all the by kept busy "That the system be installed be prepared by the state the budget tobudget auditor and approved by the state board of examiners- before It Is to tho Legislature be- - reduced of unnec"That the cost state and other reessary printing of In of abstract ports by printing all reports needed and that theonly printthe office of the ing be done throughwho shall be parpurchasing agent charged with tho duty of havticularly this printing done at tho lowest ing cost consistent with good work and in In the state fairness to all the printers That the force of each office andst board be organised to secure tho hlgh-epossible efficiency and economy "That tho state educational institutions and the publio school system con-be the — and placedof under one boardmanagement the state board of-of trol education the appointive executive ficer of which shall be a commissioner That juvenile courts as now organJn cities shallbe abolished except the second of the first and possibly board of edclass and that the state ucation be charged with doing the work Of these courts in with county boards of education and school superintendent principals and teachers ized - - - submitted - - of education Trustees Meet in Salt Lake to Consider Probability ! ’ - - FROM B Y U s‘ that' $7500 be set apart by to theAsking Legislature the audit of the land board’s complete books and suggest of $66200 to de lng antheappropriation expenses of the department fray for the coming two years the board Its secretary William J Lynch through filed its biennial report with - Gov yesterday An Bamberger exhaustive statement of the condition of the ‘various land and irrigation projects makes up the greater part It recites the Pf that In t thA£?por addition to outside work fact done iby members of twenty-thre- e have been spent In session at the days statehouse discussing problems by which it was confronted and attending to routine duties The board in its report deprecates the effort of the federal government to amend the Indemact and says the legislation if nity Passed will' - have & serious effect onv titles The board also 'declares its of' the 'policy 'Of holding' school support grants Intact with a view ultimately to lessening theforburden of taxation now ' imthe support of posed schools Arbitrary of the federal land departmentrulings are condemned as prejudicial to the interests of the state : ‘ - pany Cudahy Packing associated Interests the openpany and new Salt Lake plant of the ing of the company will be cele Packing Cudahywith a stock show some time be brated tween March 1 and 15 The definite date will be announced as soon as It can be determined when the Cudahy Plant will be finished and ready for operation The stock show will be one of the finest ever Inaugurated in this city It will be known as the Intermountain Stock Show and will be under the immediate supervision of Edward C Parsons of the firm of M K Parsons & Son who has had a wide experience at the stockyards of Denver Omaha and Chicago The matter of putting on the stock show has besn talked of but not made public for the past two weeks and it Is estimated that the entries will up of at least eight cars of le made hogs five cars of sheep and three cars of cattle Seven hundred dollars In cash prlxea will be offered sheep and hogs besides Individual prizes by local business and mercantile houses and banks Support Is Promised J II ManderfieldUnion general manager of the Salt Lake assurance he hadStockyards said yesterday that that the opening Los day would have the Angeles packers support of the who will offer prizes and compete an-In the market for fat stock It is also that the opening day will ticipated the support of the large packers have of San Francisco Mr Manderfield said he hoped to have fifty or more that cars of stock in tho yards for the opening and that he expected keen competition among the buyers After the first day there will be Is& constant demand dally market and astock The Cudahy expected forwillfat 1000 hogs 1500 require plant alone cattle per day sheep and 100 head of men from other Buyers and commission will be on hand and parte of the westwill be close for high-dsthe competition stock At the present time the Intermoun-tai- n Stock Show is a temporary organisation but it is anticipated to make event It an annual men are now engaged In the Eighty Intermounwork of remodeling the old tain plant and there Is an evidence of by permanency in all that is beingIndone the Cudahy Packing companyone transof the the old factory into forming most modern In the country r K t the joint direction of the UNDERLake Union Stockyards comcomthe PRITCHARD IS - the-aboar- - r - - ic the-'publ- ver next Saturday to attend the hearing of the eomplaint brought before the interstate commerce commission by the public utilities commission of Colorado and the Colorado Fair Rates association for the establishment of materially lower rates on 'all commodities asking moving from all eastern to Denver and reduction points in distributing rates from for a slashing Denver to all points in what is known as the intermountfrin territory extending as far west as Huntington Ore Reno Nev on the Southern Pacific railroad and Goldfield Nev It is contended that If the lower Pacific coast if applied to Utah would rates are granted to Denver without be highly compensatory to the carriers As an Instance they cited that the a proportionate reduction in rates be- charge for a car of 60000 pounds of acoorded to Utah shippers of this canned goods ing Rochester N Y to state will be at such an insurmountable San Francisco from Is $510 Of this amount that the business inter- tliel carriers east ‘of Salt Lake receive disadvantage ests will ' ‘ ’ - - ion - - - be-unf- air and not make a corresponding reduction in the rates demanded of Salt Lake shippers'The Denver hearing according to Mr Prickett manager of the Traffic Bureau of Utah is in harmony with the Intermountain held In hearings recently Salt Lake-SaFrancisco Portland and Spokane- - Mr McCarthy and Mr Prlck-e- tt took an active part in the latter and submitted evidence which hearings ther believe established beyond a that the westbound rates to the - n ' ' - horticulture -- - f on the market for sale this year - flcient to prosecute the work Hose Investments Reported' - by-thes- e - - - DEWEESE BOASTS retire from the board of managers of the Brigham Young university as a result of having from Salt Lake changed his residence to Logan The board held a meeting President Joseph F at the offices of and the desirability Smith yesterday uf releasing Mr Young was discussed Mr Young has been a member of the board for eighteen years and has been of ho ardent promoter of thetointerests one of the the university according school officials last night The deed of trust whereby the unifrom versity property was transferred estate to the the Brigham Young there must be provides that three descendants ofThe Brigham Young on the directorate power of aprests with the president of pointment the church (Commencement day at the unfrerslty the birthday of falls this year on Its founder and It la llrlgham Young to celebrate the event with proposed ceremonies Prof George XL unusual Brtmhall of the asuniversity will en many of the de deavor to enlist scendants and relatives of Brigham Young as Is possible in the celebration of the anniversary CONDEMNS 63736 TOUNDS OF MEAT FINED BY COURT Judge Johnson Sentences Breaks Silence to Tell of Him to Pay Amount Equal Exploits as Burglar and to Embezzlement Lieutenant Named to Secure Needed Recruits for Cavalry at Border v Lieut Lloyd Garrison has been detailed by Maj W G Williams adjutant as recruiting officer to secure general fifty-thre- e the Second recruits for in service on cavalry squadron of Utah the Mexican border An appeal has been received at the adjutant’s office from the western department of the on the army that the Secondto squadron war strength border be recruited "Meantime Major Williams is consida ways and means of recruiting ering a machine third squadron of cavalry and platoon a supply detachment agun company in connection headquarters with the organisation of a full regl-meof cavalry for Utah -- nt BbNDS ARE APPROVED ' Surety of State Secretary $250000 'and State Treasurer $350000 “ Bondsof of Harden Bennlonln theDsum O of 825000 as secretary of state sum Iarson state treasurer in the auditorof 0350000 Joseph Rlrle state Oris Murdock as district attorney the Fifth district were approved by state board of examiners yesterday Numerous small bills were ordered paid and bids asked for 1300 tons of coal to heat the statehouse for the year 1917 The Standard Fuel company Is furnish-Ju- g the coal needed for heating the :apltol at the contract rata of last until tho new contract la lot td - Diamond Thief statement In Concluding a In the case of the the federal courtlengthy United States against Alfred E Pritchard found guilty of the embezzlement of 9396632 in postal funds Judge Tillman I Johnson ordered the defendant to pay a fine to the amount of which he was equal accused of embezzling He is given a week in which to pay the fine In the event that he has not the money to pay the fine he may serve in jail and then file an afthirty days of lmpecunioslty fidavit which would result in his release according to fedstatutes eral The total charged against Mr Pritchardshortage as superintendent of finance of the Salt Lake postoffice was more than $8000 W w Ray United States attorney said that this 'must be or his paid either by Mr Pritchard or suit will ' be bonding companies started by the federal government In handing down his statement Johnson said "that he did not Judge care to permit to go unchallenged the Inference of counsel that the conviction upon the count upon which Mr Pritchard was found guilty is purely a technical one” He added however that Mr Pritchbeen made a victim ard virtually had of a habit that had been in long standpostoffice of' transferring ing in tothe cover but he said funds shortages are Inexcusable though that such habits on in the postoffice so gone they had of them ' had the appearance that long ‘The annual report of Dr M J Con of meat nelly chiefof of the division the city board of health Inspection shows the following figures: Hogs dressed by farmers and inspected by of health upon arrival in the the board 11027 veal 3337 spring lamb city 328 -- The meat condemned totaled 63736 divided as follows: Tubercu pounds9102 losis hog cholera 5021 pounds 2432 16173 emaciation putrefaction 1047 abscess 8806 para- lost their ugliness metaphasia sitic 1232u lymphadanitls 5012 and Improper dressing 1037 pounds CHIEF GARRISON IS DETAILED r OF GEM HAULS AT THOMAS - o’clock-Monda- - - investment the loaned maximum amount report states on in addition to the foreclosures The says many Inquiries have beex report received from the east relative to public lands and the measures necessarj to obtain loans On the fund of $50625 appropriated for the expenses of the board for $1108877 remains unexpended In the request for the biennial approprienumeration the following items are their- estimated needs: Salated1 - - 1915-191- 8 with $9600 salary-oof employees secretary salary expenses of commissioners $80000reclamation expenses 85000 $8000 office expenses $10000 Slscellaneous asked for the defensedef-of and hydraulic surveys Nonamed titles enm Is asked for the last inite members' ary of four$8600 f ‘ - SHOOTS HIMSELF - -- items JEWISH NEWSPAPER QUOTES GOVERNOR Forces Gotham Publication Reviews Which Elected Bamberger to Office in Utah Simon Bamberger Utah’s 'new governor and the forces which brought about his election are treated at Amerilength In the current number of the New York can Hebrew published in The story is partly devoted to an inwhile terview granted by the governor he was in New York a few weeks ago The article saysi in part: of - "The unwritten law of the Statecan Utah that none but a ‘Mormon be elected to a high office was amended in an important manner last November 7 when the people of the commonwealth selected Simon B&mhergerAs aa Jew as governor of the state matter or fact there is no such law written or otherwise for Mr Bamberreceived a plurality of 24000 votes ger over his opponent through the aid and the practical good will of the people of ‘Mormon’ faith in Utah "Mr Bamberger paid high tribute to the ‘Mormons’ and said that their attitude toward the Jew was one of fellow-feelin- g and sympathy" GIRL ’ and W D Livingston Roylance Include seThe music program willsixteen-piece lections by a band and a orchestra A quartet consisting of Horace S Ensign Miss Edna Dwyer Mrs' Mary Atkinson-anFred C Graham and the Acapella will sing chorus A - number of vocal solos selections will be included ADMITS:y :tTHEFT - V - international Edmund M' Bennett Clerk in Land Board Office Ends Own Life '- - — —— — -— ' :Vv - - - - ' - did not return! work alleged fact that showers of fell with the flakes of "the beautiful’ and in the - coffers of taxicab lodged and transfer the recent big companies during snowstorm led to the resuscitation an Old of ordinance by Judge John F’ Tobin in city- ' court yesterdaywas " The ordinance in question never been Passed in 1913 but enforced It requires that the name of the owner the license number and the rates of fare shall be dls- -' played on every licensed public vehicle 'the big snow" said "Throughout Assistant City Attorney Walter Lit tie “"taxicab drivers and others charged $10 an hour for conveyance iind other exorbitant' prices The ' 'rates were not': posted where the prospective- passenger could see 'them- if at all to the an law drivers can chare e so much If hour or so much per mllev andcan a there's stop they add 25 cents There’s a sliding scale and it would take a Philadelphia: barrister to elucidate it ail - but there’s no question that rates are ? ft fixed and unchangeable under the law This case is 'important- your 'honor because it’s the first) prose- -' cution under the old ordinance It was explained that letters vers sent uot sixty warning all days agocompanies or and transfer livery the coming enforcement and inclos-ordinancecopies ofIn ' ing"The matter Is Just" r law this said Judge Tobln "and hereafter I severe penalties when It will Impose Violated""-'- is VV‘ W Fawcett the defendant in the ' ' case was released as he had known of the letters of warning 'nothing He had been arrested because there was no such poster-ohis vehicle t now onbe reaulred aa will-fro- THE - - er : te - the-191- -- ’ : -- 1 m v - Y- -' 4 1 Vv siV f ' 4 tt- R ' s - s re-electi- on - self-destructi- on ur for-changin- - 25t-00- Hotels Would House Education arid Says Large Are Exempt From Woman's Exhibits Larger Use for Grounds New License Fee Recommendation on the part of the state fair board that $30000 be approarts priated to construct an education on the state buldlng craft and women’s fair grounds' is ' meeting with ardent part of educators of the ‘upporton theFred Anderson chairman satd J state" schools’ ' executive Lake Salt the of committee named to prmote the project and Mr Olive Ferris J Anderson representing the city schools and Horace 8 Ensign representing the state fair board met at 'the City and yesterday and disCounty building ' cussed ways and means' of arousing public interest in the : project ' v All present pledged their time 'and Influence toward consummation of the plan It is proposed by: this committee to enlarge the soope of the fair grounds and make them useful at all seasons of the year' It Is proposed to use the track for athletic events in the summer and that the field be flushed and ' frozen for ice skating in 'the winter The suggestion also was advanced that bazaars and public meetings could hig be held in the building proposed A art exhibit-- - for the new permanent also is one of the plana of the building - usnortera- of the project “ ' - - - - v - SCHOOL BOARD f l'1’ ''L bt - ' - v j - Charges Will Hereafter Be Punished y J udge Tobin Declares - - on the floor with a mirror Sitting In one hand before his face Edheld mund M Bennett for three years a clerk in the office of the state land board committed suicide by shooting himself through the head in his log cabin home at 123 W Seventh South street Despondency over failing his health is said to have prompted rash act Bennett was 63 years old and a widower He had lived alone In his house for the past ten years BecomBennett at not ing suspicious Emma Brazier about the house Mrs- seeing a neighbor looked through a window and saw the body 'lying on the floor was a small Loosely held in one hand caliber revolver and in the other was clutched the small hand mirror A bullet hole through his head from the left to right side indicated that death had been instantaneous Before accepting a position with the land board three years ago Bennett was employed for a number of years He was a In local railroad offices Y and his native of Rochester IsNa son 'believed known relative only to be In that city The only property known to have been left by the aged man isona $5000 which insurance policy to his son the latter has paid the' premiums for several years in According to friends he worked until Christmas when the land office of he complained to heart ' ' trouble and Excessive - - : r ' ten-minu- - - - Taxicab Gouging Leads to Resort to - An Old Ordinance - ' Proposed to Commemorate 300th Anniof Landing of Pilgrims v versaryJan 6— Plans ror an ''Boston exposition to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the landing of the were submitted to the legisPilgrims lature today by a to special commission the created last yearmatter The total costinvestigate of developing a tract1 containing 625 acres on- the south water front and erection of exwas -estimated at position structures - ‘ - -- ’ It Man May FSre White Slave Chargev On the strength' of the confession of Ursullne Rudolph' of the Juvenile court that she stole- two travelers checks aggregating $120 from Roderick' McKenzie y of Butte Mont Kdward Le&derman now serving Jail for vagrancy thirtybedays in the city may returned to Montana to face a tocharge of white local officers - slavery --according The girl told Juvenile Officer George Robinson that she gave the checks to Leaderman while with' him in Butte The checks were found yesterday in the latter’s room In Salt Lake accord-- V: to the police ingLeaderman was arrested In Salt Lake three weeks ago for vagrancy- and sentenced ' to thirty days In jail The girl claims to have been induced by Leaderman to accompany him- to Butte from i—— Ogden : PLAN FAIR IN BOSTON —————— - - - - On' Strength of d ’ -- - - - - STATE EMPLOYEE WOULD REDUCE - pas-eeng- - - - - con-‘"?- : - : - in that of the Connors home inJuly191-5Tenefly 'N J dia-in March 1915 of $2500 worth of monds and a haul of $2500 from a home n Fort Chester N Y the same month De Weese declares he has been a for eight years and has averburglar aged one a month He claims to have 92000 from each burglary in averaged all cases he sought diamonds and always realised at least 50 per cent of their value- he asserts- - - - - Mathonihah Thomas state Democratic chairman will be toastmaster Demoat the Jackson Day banquetatand the Audicratic ratification meeting torium beginning at 8 evening- it was announcedin last night of is 'charge be by T F Thomas-wh- The will speakers arrangements William ' H Gov Simon Bamberger senator-elect United States King Wesley K Walton Mrs Gwendolyn Little M H Welling congressman-elec- t H from the First district Brigham M Roberts C C Richards William — - - JACKSON BANQUET1 818JWLOOGL taken to the police station yesterday that he might "throw a little light on himself for the benefit of the newspaper men" In Chief White’s private office De Weese leaned leisurely baek In a big chair crossed his legs and puffed nonchalantly at a cigaret as he calmly related his career as a diamond burglar The prisoner told practically the same In connection with his story yesterday activities as a' diamond thief as he related to the Chicago police when he gave himself up in that city a month ago When he arrived in Salt Lake asked him about the stories the police he told In Chicago but until yesterday he refused to reiterate his statements He talked of robberies he claims to have committed in all parts of the country but refused to discuss any of the crime of which he stands phase accused "In June 1915 I robbed the home of George Whalen an official of the United Cigar Stores company- In New York of more than $2000 worth of diamonds’’ said De Weese - 'Whalen told the police he was chloroformed but was a pipe dream He was snoring that so loud when I was in the house a cannon report would not have awakened ' him’ Other robberies to -- which he were the theft of $1500 worthd of diamonds from the Williamson home In New York - J - Cell life has apparently broken the silence of Howard De Weese alleged wife murderer and he asked to be almost total reorganization of the deand partment in a more systematic Chief economic basis is ascribed by White as one of the principal reasons for this showing Although only 585 more cases were taken into the courts by the1915 departand Phoenix ment last year the than during demanded Under the rate reduction records show a total of 1180 more conwould victions and fifty-elgless acquittals by Denver shippers Salt Lake hanbe placed to the following- dlsadvant- - Out of a total of 8571 police cases court 7291 resulted in conages under which It could not compete dled in the viction 108 acquittals and 1172 diswith Denver in its own territory: missals In 1915 there were 6111 conCLASSES victions 166 acquittals and 1709 dis100 Cents Per Pounds) (In missals out of a total of 7986 cases handled A feature of the total list of arrests complied ‘for the year ii the fact that an average of approximately ten persons were arrested on charges of drunkenness every day In the year Out of a total of 3626 arrests for this offense 148 were females The next arrests1072was for largest number oftotal Other of vagrancy with aare 49 arrests for rob-er- y Items of the list 6 for wife beating 232 gamblers 68 for burglary and 146 for disturbing the peace Contained in the report which will be submitted to tho city commission within a few days are the reports of the humane officer and the superinthe tendent of fire and police alarm sumPolice Mutual Aid society and a mary of the Cases handled in the hospitalwasduring the year The report which compiled by InIn gs Secretary-spector Angus J Mull L May Jr and Clerk Chester Colburn is said to be most complete and comprehensive Cost of Maintenance The cost of maintenance for the police and prison departments for 1916 shows an increase of more than 1800) over the expenditures for 1915 This is due to the fact that fifteen additional men were employed considerable new equipment purchased and an Increase of 5 cents per meal allowed for feeding city prisoners The total cost of operating the department for twelve months was $16288790 The police department now has a of 125 persons as against personnel 110 In 1915 the year there were thirty-fiv- e During and reresignations movals and fifty appointments A feaIs that 1915 ture of the more womenreport were arrested during than in tlia It also shows that year Just ended more than 40 per cent of the persons arrested ranged in ages from 20 to SO years There was a total of 67278 meals served In the city prison as against 58086 during the preceding year Only four prisoners escaped last year aa with twenty-fiv- e during compared 1915 The value of property recovPresident Barrette Will Ask ered by the police during the year is estimated at 818882096 The report -Legislature to Cut Mem recovered shows 147- automobiles stolen and li2 last yearrecov-as by the police 229 243 stolen and with Five to compared bership ered in the previous year aa many murders fewer Only half accidents and the same number exactly last V J Barrette president of the Salt of suicides occurred year as in Lake city school board announced 1915 There were four murders twenty-personcommitted suicide and 200 acyesterday that when the board re- cidents were that required organizes he will not be a candidate treatment In reported the emergency hospital an even for as president Until that While the suicides totaled e score were thirty-fivthere attempts announcement was made it had been at twelve as against Mr Bar- In 1915' The emergency hospital regenerally understood that rette would succeed himself In his port shows eleven persons found dead eighty-fofive Injured by vehicles statement yesterday Mr Barrette de- deaths as run a down of result being clared he believes the presidency Is an by autos There were twenty-si- x honor which should be passed around deaths In the hospital during the year and his suggestion Is that O W Moyle II mane Of fleer’s Report now vice president should be his sucThe humane report ofaFrank B Tripp cessor recases 1099 officer shows of total In announcing that he is to retire ported a Out total of the year during from the chair Mr Barrette made a of fifty-on- e thirty-fou- r were the organiza- for cruelty toarrests suggestion wm animals tion of the board and declared that killed during the year There e he will advocate Its adoption by the horses one cow ninety-si- x forty-thre-vicious Legislature four porcupines and thirt3-thre- e “I am going to advocate before the dogs Horses taken out of the harness cats Legislature reducing the membership 602 totaled 178 drivers reprimanded of- the board” said Mr Barrette “As horses ordered pastured 37 now constituted with ten members It patrolmen report the theft Is a cumbersome body Its personnel of Mounted 202 horses and the recovery of 119 should in my opinion be reduced to A total e thirty-threcows were lost of five twenty-seve- n recovered There "Five men ara as competent to reach and sixty-tw- o horse and buggy thefts a decision on any matter as are ten were like number found and restored a and It takes ten men too long to reafch a to owners 0 The officers escorted decision head of sheep through the city dur“I think' the publio would be better the year served with a board of five ingThe Into the who would meet like a board members police departmentofturned direcof re369785 a total tors and transact their business quietly city treasury from the sale of unclaimed propwith no ‘fireworks and no speech- ceivedand taken from prisoners As It Is now we do too much erty wasmoney making and never called for when they Is not the fault of which that talking members of the board either It were released from prison any The report of Charles J Reading suis just a condition that is bound to In a board the size of the pres- perintendent of police and fire alarm exist ent- one” shows the installation of twenty-fiv- e Mr Barrette will remain as a mem- new bell and light relays In place of those which proved defective a few ber of the board but will be a of member rather than the chairman floor years ago One mile and a half aerial was placed in service on the r ca9981 west side to replace miles of ble rented from the Mountain States Telephone company thus saving the a rental of $800 per year During city the year 128480 patrolmen’s reports were received over the system and 2900 wagon calls A new House police box was district by in the Sugar placed means of a line formerly used by the with an approximate fire department to the city of $300 for construcsaving tion A statement of the Police Mutual Aid ‘shows a total ofas$458596 on association City Assessor Declares $500 hand compared at the present time The to 8369088 a year agoball lastproceeds March from the policemen’s Charge Under Ordinance were in 3121990 and 8644 was receivedwas of $96932 dues and fines A total Cannot Be Collected - paid ' out for death and sick benefits and charity during the year ' LAKE CITY cannot collect PLUMBERS IN PROTEST SALT the Hotel Utah Newhouse and Semloh hotels under ' ' the recently passed ordinance reProposed Amendment ReObject quiring that restaurants serving meals quiring Preliminary Examination liquorsfeewith intoxicating must pay a license of $500 for The Lawrence Plumbing company & year or any part thereof Such ia Tobin Brothers and Midgley Brothers the opinion of Charles W- Law- - filed yesterday with the the city commisrence city license assessor proposed sion & protest against enactment of ordinances requiring that Mr Lawrence came to that comaster and journeyman plumbers and nclusion yesterday after he had steam fitters pass an toexamination bethe situation with George O operate in the g the Hotel Utah fore being permitted Relf manager-oof the 'and other They declare certain city - advocated representatives special inby four hotels terests Under the present state law hotels The ordinances were submitted by of more than 250 rooms are peragent of the local mitted to serve liquors with meals :' The business union to Commissioner Herthe plumbers’ ‘Mr RelfIn took the position that are man H Green of the department of hotels question since they: not arks and over buildings which has are operatingto under that law tbe the department of urlsdlction public ‘regulation by city Jmechanical subject' Inspection government Mr Green has not yet Introduced Further legal advice Is to be ob- - ' them In case they are considered Mr Lawrence and tained both by the commission a hearing will prob-by the hotel men but as the situation before definite action ably be ordered 'now exists the hotels- will noj— pay — v l is taken r : the license f ea city-emergenc- : one-thir- - The present rate on this car to Salt Lake le $660 As a result of the Denver and intermountain rate hearings Mr Prickett said yesterday that he looked for a rates between complete readjustment ofReno Spokane points in Kansas and cisco - filed have been before the federal department eighteen years with no mon prospect of settlement ' than when thi controversy started: Concerning- the Piute canal the boarl the canal yet unreports six miles-ofinished and says application of land! will hasten the completion of the project - Lands leased last year are placed - -- it Salt representatives stopped White has attained' perhaps the Denver-having to protest and the charges are assessed at Pacific hearing is highest efficiency in Its history beagainst the rates sdught by the Denver coast terminal rates the carriers anin the shown contained by figures but to present the fact that tween Chicago and Salt Lake would nual report for 1916 The establishshippers It will to would the lower receive $14022 mpre than of the detective bureau under the rates demanded by thegrant to San Fran-by ment Denver shippers handling the car through they direction of Joseph G Sharp and the at n the - Amalgamation Urged “That a department of agriculture be established with the board of control and a commissioner as the' chief executive officer this department’ to with the have charge In college and the United agricultural of States department of agriculture state activities relating : to food supplies and In particular to take over the work now done the following: The dairy and food by' bureau the dairy and food commissioner the department of live stock the board of shesp commissioners tbs state board of and the fish and game - commissioner “That & department of - finance' be created controlled by the board' of loan commissioners with ' a commissioner of finance as executive' officer to take over the work now being done the land board the state bank comby missioner and the insurance commissioner "That the conservation' commission be d abolished and of its present beappropriation be divided equally statween the engineering experiment tion at the university andltha agricultural experimentstation at the college to enable these stations to do the work of the commission in promoting the deof our agricultural and minvelopment eral resources "That the state departments and boards maintain close relaworking institions with the state educational tutions to the end that work of nature shall be done Institutions which institutions shall also sustain the relation of technical advisers to the various state offices "That the state work be ' grouped ' that the so correlated and inspection present large number of inspectors may be greatly reduced “H T Reynolds Joseph F 'Merrill W W ' Armstrong Bevan J Alex Isaac Blair Evans Alma Greenwood members of the subcommittee"' Increase in Number of Arrests and Conviction During Year Report Says of Utah be in $36978 and the carriers west of Salt the police department under It Is not the purpose ofperil the Salt Lake Lake receive 814022 If this car is THAT direction of Chief J Parley merchants by ia maintained at Lake ion - - MANY CASES HANDLED - : i Willard Young may i to-b- - - a to creased Efficiency tWliite - ' ‘ V' Umm i : - dls-cuss- ed f the-measure- s are-bein- - - i - : - -- r- V V’ i -- t : 1 -- - |