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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Mrs. Hannah' May, a widow, fell on the icy sidewalk in Salt Lake and sustained sus-tained a broken wrist. In one of the biggest rabbit hunts ever held in this state 164 hunters on Sunday killed over 7,000 bunnies near Roselle. Five mail carriers in the business district of Ogden have had their salaries sal-aries reduced $100 per annum and were reprimanded for "inefficiency and loitering." Yanco Terzich, executive board member of the Western Federation of Miners, is seriously ill in his room in a Salt Lake hotel. He is thought to be suffering with typhoid fever. Carbon county has outstanding obligations which exceed the legal limit of indebtedness by $40,000, according ac-cording to the report made to the county attorney by the county clerk and treasurer More than one hundred housewives of North Ogden put the old oil lamp on the top shelf in the pantry last week, for they have been replaced by electric lights which were turned on for the first time. The forest service in the United Spates department of agriculture is in need of more help and will hold examinations ex-aminations for forest and field clerks March 1, 1913, which will be held in Ogden, Provo, Salt Lake and Logan. Ted Carroll, a laborer of Tucker, aged about 50, "was instantly killed by a freight train on the Denver &. Rio Grande. He was intoxicated anu was walking down the track when a train struck him and passed over his body. The juvenile court commission for Utah has submitted its report for 1912, showing a total of S.S16 cases handled in the juvenile courts of the state. Salt Lake county leads the other counties of the state with 2,577 cases. It is expected that the fish and game committee will, during the week, report favorably Barnes's house bill providing for the observance of Bird day in the public schools. It is thought the bill will pass wtihout opposition. op-position. Several other smaller electrical power pumping plants will be installed in-stalled the coming season on the west side of Utah lake between Lehi and Kosida. They will pump from three te sis second feet each for irrigation p rrposes. Roed R. Strong, a prominent stockman, stock-man, has on exhibition at Provo, a calf with, a doubie constitution. The doctors of this vicinity have examined it and state. that it has a dual system. It has two tails and five legs. It, however, how-ever, uses but three in walking. Juvenile courts of the state pronounced pro-nounced 424 minor3 incorrigible during dur-ing the past year. Of this number, 299 were boys and 123 girls. No children chil-dren were classed as incorrigible until un-til repeatedly efforts had proven them beyond the best efforts of the juvenile juve-nile officers. Work is progressing rapidly on the b:g pumping plant o! the Utah Lake Irrigation company just south of the Saratoga springs. This plant will be in operation by the beginning of the coming irrigation season and will irrigate ir-rigate 10,000 acres in Utah and Salt Lake counties. Frank Joseph Baer, 20 years old, manager and part owner of the Crystal Crys-tal Ice company, met instant death at. Salt Lake when an ice wagon he was driving swerved and overturned. Baer wag caught under the body ol the wagon and crushed, while an Ico pick pierced bis breast. CU;n Mack, who is Buffering from tho self-inflicted bullet wound received receiv-ed a fow weeks ago at Ogden, wheh he ahot and slightly wounded his wife and then attempted suicide, has recovered re-covered to such an extent that, he )3 njw ablo to take short walks In the oj-n air. Jfe is still totally blind. James Benson, 05 years of age, a pioneer of 1H'',2 who walked the entire distance from Xew York city to Halt. Lake, exempt for a ferry ride ar;ro:-;s the Missouri river, died at Salt. Lake last week of general debility. Joo I'enovich claims $10,000 as the prUx of his eye. He was errifiloyed at Tcjele by the International Smelting Smelt-ing Sc Refining company last June and :tn breaking a hot ma.t.te with a sledge. A pie;e flew Into his eye and burned It out. He has sued the company com-pany Tot $10,000. . Clayton Locuson Haines, 81 years of ag;, died of general debility at Salt Lake, January 22. He vas one of the most i':l.ure(pie figures of l.'ta.h. Accident, Ac-cident, having brought, him to Halt Jjsiko In W'i'i, lie was one of the originate origi-nate of the Alia club and for many years had charge of the Salisbury stage line:',. The dealh rate In Utnh was slight-1 slight-1 larger In Herejnber than In the preeerjing month, aceonling If) the bulletin l-xued by the sl.ite board of t.'-altb. In Novemle-r there vere V'. death s, vhile in Heocrjibcr tlie.ro vore - If. I!. John;; ton, a young fl:nt, I,ak(j man, has Invented and paten l.-f n screen wbl'.b he hopes solve the problem of preserving game flab of Utah In their native haunts. His Hereon s Intended to prevent fish from entering a canal or dll'b frotn a lake or stream, |