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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The annual convention of the Utah State Woolgrowers' association will be held in Salt Lake City January 6 and 7. The University of Utah will petition the legislature for a new girls' gymnasium, gym-nasium, costing In the neighborhood of $30,000. The United States forest fervid has allotted Utah $13,504.17 for the construction of roads within the national na-tional forest. Fifty Greeks left Murriy one day last week for tneir home country, where they have been culled as re-Bervlsts re-Bervlsts to join the war forces. A more stringent law regarding the sale of narcotics is recommended in the biennial report of the state board of pharmacy filed with the governor. J. J. Ryan, convicted of fleecing Samuel Walker, a Canadian, of $145 in Stilt Lake last September, has been sentenced to four years' Imprisonment. Three- skeletons have been unearthed un-earthed by the graders of county road Jn the gravel pit near the Utah-Idaho Sugar company's cutting station at Le-laud. Le-laud. Utah's state law library now contains con-tains 14,616 books, according to the report of the librarian. The total expense ex-pense of the library during the year was $1,408.85. Owing to the frozen condition of the ground it has been found necessary to suspend construction operations on the Ogden-IIuntsville - extension through Ogden canyon. Many Salt Lake .business houses are expected to take advantage of the parcels par-cels post, which goes into effect the first of the new year, ' in delivering small packages in the city. Utah's population is divided . into 196, S63 males and 176.4S8 females, according ac-cording to figures announced by the eennus bureau for 1910. This is 111.5 males for every 100 females. If Glen II. Mack, son of a wealthy Oigden family, who shot his wife and then attempting suicide, should recover - from the effects of the bullet wound in his head, he will be stone blind. There are 332 barber shops in Utah, according to a report for the past six months submitted to the governor by the state board of examiners for barters. bar-ters. There are 620 barbers in the 6tate. Insane jealousy of his wife is ascribed by the young man's father as the motive for the shooting of Mrs Edith Mack by her husband, Glen H Mack at Ogden. Mrs. Mack will re cover. (Six students of Ogden high school lost overcoats and other wearing apparel ap-parel valued at $195 at a dance given v - at the close of work for the year 1912. , It is believed the garments were taken l ' by a drug fiend. I In a cave-in in a well he was dig- glng, John F. Gray of Richfield was killed at Delta. Many workers dug to rescue him, but the ground was slippery slip-pery and the well had to be slowly timbered down. This is the best December for the real estate business in the history of Salt Lake, according to dealers. Never before has the demand for rented houses in this month been greater. December Is usually a dull month. "Baby" Jennie Klomp, the one and one-half pound baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Klomp of Wilson lane, Weber county, is. dead. The baby was perfect in every way and gave promise of developing into a strong, healthy child. Scores of prominent business men of the state have signed a petition urging the governor and the state capiiol co-mmission to speciy the ex-" ex-" elusive use of Utah materials, so far as practicable, in the construction of the state capitol. A novel departure in line with the spirit of the Christmastide was inaugurated in-augurated by the students of the Utah agricultural college this year. It con-, slsted in the students as a body plaj-ing plaj-ing the role of Santa Claus to poor children of Logan. The Utah-Idaho Sugar company is busi.ed getting everything in readiness to commence active work of construction construc-tion of the new sugar factory at Pay-son. Pay-son. They have purchased over one hundred acres of land surrounding the site where the factory will built. James Wtesson of Moab. a prominent rancher, was crushed to death beneath be-neath the wheels of a wagon. He was driving through the big dugway when the wheels lurched into a deep rut, hrowing him from his seat to the ground, the wheels passing over him. James Donaldson, one of the central figures in the famous McWhirter rob-ery rob-ery case, which created such a sensation sensa-tion in Salt Lake City six years ago, " was pardoned from the state prison last week. Donaldson was convicted " ?f taking $10,000 from the McWhirter; In a card game. Revision of Utah's irrigation laws go as to create a board of control for the adjudication of all issues arising over water rights, the decisions of the board to be subject to appeal to the courts, is strongly recommended by the state engineer. The biennial report of the state school for the deaf and blind, filed with the governor, says that $75,000 Is needed as a special appropriation by the legislature for a new building. N.and a total of $185,409 is needed for maintenance and operation of the jabool. |