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Show THE UTAH BUDGET t Water is scarce in Kanab and Fre-donia, Fre-donia, because of the extremely dry fall season. Ernest Morgan, employed as a conductor con-ductor on the depot lines at Salt Lake, blew out bis brains with a revolver, following a fit of despondency. The building of a sugar factory, a beet-molasses plant and an apple-syrup factory by co-operate action was unanimously unan-imously favored at a mass meeting held at West Jordan. Eight million stamps, worth half a million dollars, are now in the vaults of the Salt Lake postoffice. This marks the high-water mark of provision provi-sion for the Christmas rush of business. busi-ness. T. LeRoy Cardon, president of the Booster club of I-Ogan and manager of a jewelry store in that city, was killed by the accidental discharge of bi3 gun while duck hunting near Woods Cross. Failing to discover any evidence of crime in the death, the sheriff's officers offi-cers have ordered the reburial of a skeleton uncovered by employees of a construction company while grading a street in Ogden. Belated official returns from all of the counties in Utah show that the lower house of the next legislature will be composed of twenty-four Republicans Re-publicans and twenty-two Democrats, Progressives and 'Socialists. Albert W. Forman of Bingham, 55 years of age, formerly a member of the legislature and widely known in fraternity circles, died November 18. Mr. Forman was ill but three days. Pneumonia was the cause of death. The girls of the Utah Agricultural college of Logan sold 125 pounds of candy made by them one day last week, the proceeds of which will be given to Governor Spry to be used in the Red Cross relief work. The sale netted $50. Death before a firing squad was .the 6entence pronounced on Frank De Pretto, convicted of the murder of Eugene Allen at Bingham. De Pretto chose shooting in preference to hanging. hang-ing. The date of execution was fixed for January 15, 1915. Francis L. Thomas, a lineman, entered en-tered his 'home at Salt Lake and shot his wife, Anette. Three bullets entered en-tered the woman's body,, any one of which would have -proved fatal. She died instantly. Thomas then fired a bullet into his own brain. At its next meeting the state road commission will be tinder the necessity neces-sity of making a ruling on the question ques-tion as to whether or not cities and towns are to be given the benefit of the uniform plans for bridges used in construction of state roads. What promises to be of the utmost importance to Fillmore and to Millard county is the oil strike made recently by the Westwood Oil company. The present well is down to a depth of 1,-120 1,-120 feet, with oil showing ever since the 600-foot point was passed. Protest against the use of city prisoners pris-oners at Salt Lake for work to be done in remodeling and preparing the Y. Ml. C. A. building for police and health department headquarters has been filed with the city commission by the local building trades council. (Preliminary arrangements for the consolidation of the Amalgamated and the Lewiston Sugar companies have been announced by the officers of the former company in the publication publica-tion of a call for a special meeting of the stockholders on December 19. Forty-nine bear were killed in Utah during the past year, according to the state fish and game commissioner. Two were grizzlies and the others were black and brown bear. Nineteen were killed in Cache county and the rest in Sevier and Carbon counties. Adulterated foods and drugs are to be stopped short of the shelves of the retail store in the future, if the plans of F. B. Raynor, federal inspector for this district, hold out. The work of inspecting all good shipped Into the state has now been assigned to Mr. Raynor. Howard Dalton of Willard, Boxelder county, has been declared the sweep-Btakes sweep-Btakes champion boy in the boys' and girls' club contests of the state and has been awarded a free trip to the Panama-Pacific exposition. His score was .84.8 and the score of his nearest competitor was 82 9. Charles H. Virden, an expressman 40 years of age, shot himself when a shotgun he was cleaning in his home in Salt Lake was accidentally discharged. dis-charged. The charge from the gun struck Virden in the abdomen and he died a few minutes afterward foe fore medical assistance could reach him. Mantl is the cleanest town in the state of Utah, according to the scoring scor-ing of the judges of the statewide "clean town contest." The total cost of the November 3 election to Weber county was not less than $6,500, according to estimates esti-mates prepared by the county clerk. |