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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Miss Myrtle Jenkins of Payson has passed the state board's examination and Is now a full-fledged barber. Mrs. Annie H. Kieben, one of the few remaining pioneer women who crossed the plains to Utah iy ox team in the 60s, died at her home in Salt Lake, March 23. While crossing the yard, Richard Barton, the 5-year-old son of George E. Barton of Provo, was attacked by a white leghorn rooster and severely scratched about the face. Fred Olson, who shot and killed Or-eon Or-eon Lowry at Ferron, will not be prosecuted pros-ecuted by the county authorities, it is said, it having been shown that the shooting was in self-defense. In line with establishing a union terminal station for eleotrlc lines in Salt Lake, there is a move to establish estab-lish 'a union depot for electric inter-urban inter-urban lines running Into Ogden. The Colorado house has passed a bill, instructing the state land board to institue a suit in the courts to test the state's right to eminent domain where government land is affected. Frank Moquist, a Swede, aged about 60. years, fell down the stairway of a rooming house in Salt Lake and suffered suf-fered such severe injuries that he died soon after. A fracture of the skull was the cause of death. The board of education for Ogden city has decided to increase the Insurance In-surance on all school property. The buildings are now insured up to about 50 per cent of their value, but this will be increased to 80 per cent. Blood poisoning caused by a nail In his shoe threatens to necessitate the amputation of the foot of John Beck, pioneer mining man of Utah, who has made and lost several fortunes for-tunes during his residence in Utah. Mrs. Ethel Brysant, aged 28, was fatally burned as the result of a gasoline gas-oline explosion at her home in Salt Lake, and her husband was seriously burned. Mrs. (Brysant was cleaning plumes when the accident occurred. R. A. Grant, formerly of Salt Lake and Ogden, and one time manager of the Colonial theatre at Salt Lake, died at Burley, Idaho, from a stroke of paralyeis which ended a two years' period of surfering from that disease. Andrew C. Thompson, 77 years ot age, and a resident of Pleasant Grove for many years, committed suicide by nutting his throat from ear to ear. He had been blind for many yea.rs and a short time ago contracted pneumonia. John Jackson alias "Bad Eye" Jackson, a negro and ex-convict, has been dcelared insane by an examining examin-ing board at Ogden. , Jackson served six years in the state prison, during which time he created many disturbances. dis-turbances. Eighty-six per cent of the total revenue of the state for 1913 and 1914 will be devoted to educational purposes. pur-poses. This proportion is believed to be the highest of any state in the Union and will keep Utah in the front ranks educationally. If the plans of the Utah Development Develop-ment league are realized, every city, town and hamlet in the state will have its "Greater Utah" celebration during the week of May 12-17, when the Commercial club will conduct its big "Greater Utah excursion." -, The oldest living representative of one of the largest families in Weber county passed away at her home in Huntsvllle, March 20, when death claimed Mrs. Christina Hadloek Allen, aged 85 years. . Born on April 2, 1828, Mrs. Allen had resided in Utah since 1850. Inspectors will be sent through the etate, arrangements for which are now being made, to examine all animals an-imals used .for dairy purposes, the object ob-ject of which is to enforce the ruling that proper health certificates accompany accom-pany each animal sold for such purposes. pur-poses. John Webber of Denver, who has been in jail at Provo for a month on a charge of vagrancy, has made an affidavit af-fidavit that he had killed a Denver & Rio Grande railroad detective by the name of Stringley, in the railroad yards at Utah Junction, Colo., in February, Feb-ruary, 1912. After publicly denouncing the "ragging" "rag-ging" dances for many months the board of education, superintendent of schools and others of Provo have petitioned the city commissioners to pass an ordinance prohibiting all kinds of "ragging," "grizzley bear," "bunny hug" and similar dances. As a livestock shipping center, Og-den Og-den Is maintaining its position of second sec-ond to no other city in the intermoun-tnin intermoun-tnin west. One day last week a solid train of twenty-four cars, all loaded with livestock, was made up there and started for Los Angeles. The (shipment consisted largely of cattle and sheep. Because the statutes prohibit locating locat-ing an isolation hospital within twenty rods of any public highway the county of Salt Lake finds itself in the position posi-tion of being unable to lawfully erect the proposed isolation hospital in connection with the county Infirmary. The people of Springville and Maple-ton Maple-ton are almost certain of a sugar factory fac-tory soon. Farmers are now engaged in securing contracts for the necessary 5,000 acres of land for five years, which the siixar corripany must be guaranteed. guaran-teed. The factory will bo a co-operative affair. |