Show STATE NEWS the value ot of the crops raised in ill utah during 1908 is placed at 18 1013 the question ot of incorporating the town of B engham junction is again being agitated A bill has been introduced in con gross gress providing for pensions for the utah indian war veterans and their widows an acreage of SO 30 of sugar beets laisee in the state ot of utah during the tast season yielded tons worth 1800 building permits in salt luke lake city broke all previous ois records during the month of november coming close to the million dollar mark an effort is to be made by leading men of ogden to bring the next an nual giua convention of the national asso elation of wool growers to that city cit there are 2 sheep in the state worth approximately according to the annual report of the state board of sheep commissioners while suffering from a series ot 01 epileptic fits in the emergency hospi tal at the salt lake city jail richard drone a laborer b t off the end of his tongue in accordance with instructions la Is sued by the murray city council sixty candle pon er lamps have been in stalled on all the principal streets ol 01 murray the pigeon fanciers of the IN state are planning tor for a pigeon exhibit at the january show of the utah state poul try association to be held in salt lake city bill a greel creel employed in the railroad yards at bingham was caught between two cars and his right teg so badly crushed that amputation was necessary livestock in 1908 is estimate td ed to be worth 28 the farm value of horses and mules Is placed st at 70 a head and poultry Is valued at 0 cents a fowl iowa received first in the awards on state exhibits at the national horti cultural congress con giess second place was achen hen to idaho third to washington fourth to utah and fifth to Al maryland aryland according to the report of the bu acau of statistics presented to the governor utah s valuation in real and personal property railway and equipment and livestock is placed at 1 I 1 here are axe approximately 9 miles ct cf public roads in the state of which 3 2 are mountain and 5 are val ley roads approximately miles are passable for loaded wagons at all reasons ot of the year the chamber of commerce of ogden Is endeavoring to get the city council to look into the electric power plant matter and to learn whether the pre ent companies are taking every pre caution against danger the curtailment of the I 1 quor tr me 1 ie now occupying the attention of the richfield Mch field city council mall saloon regula tion has recently been under cliscinia eion sion and some drastic changes in the city laws may be made the chief probation officer n grand county has reported that when he took office in april a single case dase was pend ing in the juvenile court this case has been dismissed and n nj other cae has come before his court an overheated radiator caused a panic in an ogden school one day last week the fire drill being entirely forgotten by the children who ran out of doors there was fortunately no one hurt and no damage done As the result of being beat over ne n e bead by a burglar about ia a year ago george W jones a resident of salt lake city has become mentally un balanced and was last week commit ed to the state men al hospital to cope with the contagion ol 01 smallpox sweeping over salt lake cit the city physician has been granted authority to employ a second w assistant and a determined fight will be made to stamp out the disease II 11 A pedersen judge of the juve rile court of cache county in his an dual nual report to governor cutler puts ir it a strong plea for the establishment of a detention home not only in hi big own county but in every county ol 01 the state government and private enterprise a the present time are engaged in irrigation projects in utah that will elialia epi alia acres of arl blands toi foi cultivation the value ot of the re claimed lands with water rights 14 1 traced laced at an average of 40 an acre miss anna beach deputy county clerk of cache bointy anty was robbed within three blocks of her home in logan one evening last week the robbers securing but 3 and the note taken at an inquest held that day but miss beach was prostrated by the shock john W att who shot and killed junius nielson at logan and who v ill be tried on a charge of murder in the first degree maintains that he nad aad no intention of shooting nielsen but tut mistook him tor for a man who had given him att a beating a short ime before an effort Is being made by oon con gressman howell to have the state of utah reimbursed by the national gov tor for money exren expended ded by the territory errit ory of utah from 1865 to 1868 for he equipment and maintenance ot of ml mi atia in defense of the settlers from findlan depredations |