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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Morrell Johnson of Ogden, a ten year old boy, is dead as the result of lighting a fire with gasoline. An overheated stove is thought to have started a fire that burned to the ground the Union social hall near Midvale. Joseph Mantle of Taylorsville was struck by a Denver & IHo Grande engine en-gine at a railroad crossing in Murray and fatally injured. Ogden has a population of more than 35,000, according to the Tattler, the nionthly publication of the Webei club and Ogden publicity bureau. Charles W. Penrose of the first presidency pres-idency of the Mormon church celebrated cele-brated the eighty-second anniversary of his birth on Wednesday, February i. Plans are being drawn for a church edifice to be erected by the members of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Scien-tist, in Ogden, at a cost of approximately approxi-mately $S,000. Benjamin Neilson, 27 years of age. until recently a fireman Vor the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande railroad, committed suicide at Salt Lake by taking poison Family troubles led to the deed. Statistics prepared by the county clerk for the state statistician of Utah show that 106 final divorce decrees and fourteen interlocutory decrees were granted in Weber county during 1913. Lehi Hennefer, one uf the early pioneers pio-neers of the state, died at Hennefer last week. Mr. Hennefer wan Born in Staffordshire, England, July 5, 1S47. and came to this country in 1852, crossing the plains in an ox can. Milton H. Li-e, aged 67, was ai rested rest-ed in Salt Lake City by federal officers of-ficers who charge they caught Lee In the act of making a counterfeit $5 gold -piece. Lee is said to have confessed con-fessed and declared it was his first offense. of-fense. The first annual state poultry show, held at Logan last week, was an unqualified un-qualified success. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people were entertained in the show room during the week, including includ-ing nearly 2,000 school children of the county. J. M. Browning, Ogden inventor of me rifles, shotguns and pistols which, bear his name, has been honored by King Henry of Belgium. Browning is. to be invested with the Belgian decoration decor-ation of the Chevalier de l'Order de Leopold. Steven Kerr, winner of the Steven s oratorical contest last year, and Quin-tin Quin-tin Wallace will represent the Salt Lake high school in its scheduled debate de-bate with the University of Utah freshmen, to be held the latter part of February. Mrs. America Rose Kenner WeHui, a descendant of Pocahontas of colonial colon-ial fame, died at her home in Salt-" Lake last week. Mrs. Wetzel was born in Clarksville, Montgomery coun ty, Tennessee, on the Cumberland river, May 24, 1837. A state-wide . clean-town contest, a resource survey of Utah, an attempl to secure a more liberal policy from the federal government with refer ence to mining claime, are among the activities outlined by the Utah Development Devel-opment League for the present year. Ben R. Eldredge of Salt Lake City was re-elected president of the Utah Dairymen's 'association at the closing session of the annual convention at Lagon. The convention was r'eld in connection with the Farmers' RouncJ-up. RouncJ-up. Near death by freezing within twenty-five miles of blooming flowers was the experience in southern Utah of John K. Tibbetts, who was brought to Salt Lake, hospital a few days ago with both his hands aud feet badly bad-ly frozen. The dead body of Louis M. Brcdie, 48 years of age, first president of the Salt Lake aerie of Eagles and employed em-ployed as a cigar maker, was discov-. ered early Sunday morning, face downward, down-ward, in his b;d in a holoj in Salt Lake. Heart failure was the cause of death. Amos H. Neff, a patriarch in the Mormon church, member of the second sec-ond corps of pioneers, who arrived in Salt Lake valley in 1847, and who delivered the first shipment of merchandise mer-chandise to Salt Lake valley, died February 1 at his home in East Mill Creek. He was 88 years of age. In conformity with its recent decision decis-ion to. contest the right of the federal government to withdraw land embraced em-braced within school land grants, given the state under the enabling E.ct, the state land board has filed with the attorney general a protest against such a withdrawal in the case of forty acres near Storrs. The governor and other sUte officials offic-ials are to make a visit to Washington to confer with Franklin K. Lane, secretary sec-retary of the interior, and other officials of-ficials having jurisdiction over public lands, in an effort to settle the longstanding long-standing -lispute between the state tind federal governments over title to certain public lands. Governor Amnions of Colorado, in his address before the Utah Development Develop-ment League at Logan, declared that not only should individuals and towns and cities and states co-operate in an effort to build up the west, but the federal government should ullow a liberal course In helping the people who -have had the hardihood to come into the west. Jacob Peart, 78 years of age, died at his residence in Salt Lake last week. He crossed the, plains to Utah with one of the early companies, arriving ar-riving in Salt Lake valley in ISIS. |