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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Many passengers were severely shaken, but not seriously Injured when a rear-etul collision occurred Ijctween Btrcet cars in Ogden. Several case.s of smallpox are reported re-ported in Pleasant View. To prevent further spread of the disease the Page ecbool has been closed. Salt Lake physicians will lay a proposition before the next legislature legisla-ture for tlie establishment of a tuberculosis tuber-culosis hospital in the capital city. It cost Representative Joseph Howell How-ell of Utah $087 to be renominated and elocted to congress, according to a statement filed with the clerk of the house. As a mark of respect to the memory mem-ory of Jerry Daly, the Denver & Rio Grande has named a new stop on its main lino after the veteran Ogden conductor. With teachers from over all the state dn attendance, the Utah Educational association opened Its nineteenth an-bual an-bual convention In Salt Lake on Monday. Mon-day. 1 A largo force of men and teams has Btarted work to construct the grade lor the Utah Railway company's track a distance of ten miles up Spanish Span-ish Fork canyon. Peter Smith, employed at the Daly-Judge Daly-Judge mine at Park City, was hit by a rock while blasting and sustained a fractured skull, besides being cut about the face. Carbon county's new $100,000 school building will be formally opened to the public December 20. When completed com-pleted this building will be second to none in the state. George Hamilton McKinley, aged 78 Jears, a resident of Provo for the past thirty-two years, passed away November Novem-ber 24, after a short illness of an attack of pneumonia. Fred Turner Jr., formerly of Cache county and a son of Fred Turner, of "Salt Lake, was drowned last week at Mendenhall lake, eighteen miles south , Of Magrath, Alberta, Canada. ,: Of a total of $670,00 in taxes in Weber county this year, the treasurer, has collected approximately $500,000. This will produce a delinquent list elightly larger than that of a year ago. The state sanitary inspector, after a tour of Millard county, reports that commonwealth so health that one physician in a good sized town has had only four calls in more than two months. Having captured virtually half the prizes in the Jersey class at the Pacific Pa-cific Dairy show in Portland, Ore., last week, members of the Utah Jersey Cattle Cat-tle Breeders' association are well pleased. The state of Utah has the smallest percentage of Illiteracy of any state dn the United States. No less a person per-son that Hon. P. P. Claxton, government govern-ment commissioner of education, is authority for the statement. Despondent because, as she said "nobody would give her a chance," Miss Delia Smith, a cafe habitue, committed com-mitted suicide in Salt Lake, by swallowing swal-lowing the greater portion of a two-ounce two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid. Rather than submit to arrest for a felony, Charles Nelson, 23 years old, son of Magnus Nelson of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, attempted suicide, shooting, himself in the head. The bullet missed 'A the brain tissues and he may recover. Anew bank to be established in Ogdgj will cater especially to the eheepmen and stock raisers of the dntermountain region. Warehouses will be established and maintained for the benefit and accommodation of the woolgrowers. Sixty men were laid off at the International In-ternational smelter at Tooele last "week. Shortage of ore Is given as the reason. One shift has been laid off in the mill. One day and one night crew of the Tooele Valley railroad Lave also been suspended. That section of the stautes providing provid-ing that a convict who escapes, from the state prison is under jurisdiction of the court of the county In which II the prison is located, and that only, I is held to be in conflict with the con- I etitution by a ruling made in the Third district court " Sixty-three marriage licenses have ' been granted in Sevier county since January 1. The month of July leads Trlth nine, January comes next with eight, and April, May, June and No-ember No-ember follow with seven each. September Sep-tember is at the foot of the list with hut three marriages. Sevier valley fruit growers have been successful in their plans for maf keting their 1912 crops, according to - Vjthe president of the Sevier Valley Fruit Growers association. A total of sixty cars of apples from lands owned by the association have been marketed at good prices. -S 11 is said that negotiations are be-ing be-ing made by the city commission of Vsj, Salt Lake for the purchase by the city of the old Independent telephone building as a home for the city health department and a combined emergency and municipal hospital. Roy E. Lewis, a shop hand in the local railroad yards, staggered into the police station at Ogden and told a sensational story of being drugged, held a prisoner in a room and robbed rob-bed of $40. A man and woman have teen arrested, charged with, the rob-hery. |