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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Mrs. John Chadwick of Salt Lake was knocked down by a coaster occupied occu-pied by children and seriously injured. injur-ed. Utah's portion of the funds received last year by the government from forest for-est reserve within tt state amounts to $33,700.42. The delinquent tax list of Salt Lake county show approximately $1,000,000 unpaid taxes, or almost one-third of the total amount due. James Anderson, a Salt Lake paper-hanger, paper-hanger, is suffering from a broken nose and a broken arm as the result of falling from a scaffold while at work. ' Nearly every man, woman and child in Kaysvllle turned out Sunday to pay their final respects to the late Bishop Peter Barton, whose funeral services were held in that town. Charles Ivy of Park City has been committed to the reform school as an Incorrigible. Young Ivy yas accused of breaking into a beer house and committing com-mitting other depredations. The new $15,000 water system at Coalville, for which bonds were voted August 8, da practically completed, giving the town good drinking water and efficient fire protection. "Death caused by drowning," was the finding at the autopsy held at Salt Lake over the body of Joseph Evans, who was found dead on the shores of Great Salt lake Thanksgiving day. The state sanitary inspector reports that Provo sanitary conditions are among the best in the state, the city having a good water supply and boasting boast-ing a sewer system, that is nearly perfect. i Weber county's roads have a high average of excellence. About seventy-five seventy-five miles of road are sprinkled, and there are about thirty miles macadamized, macadam-ized, fifteen of which were built during dur-ing the last year. More than 38,000,000 acres of the finest wheat land in the world (almost (al-most equal to the entire present wheat acreage of the United States) lie within with-in a 300-mile radius from Salt Lake City, and are tributary to it. For the loss of his leg," as the result of a bullet wound inflicted by a deputy sheriff in the employ of the Utah Copper Cop-per company during the sbrike troubles trou-bles at Bingham, Mike Edwards has filed suit for $25,000 damages against the company. In an effort to stimulate greater interest in-terest of Utah farmers in the growing of potatoes, tne Utah Agricultural college col-lege has inaugurated a potato contest to take place during the farmers' roundup at the college, January 27 to February 8. Emerson WJells and Pete Derrick were arrested last week in Brown's park by Sheriff Richard Pope and brought to Vernal. The charge preferred pre-ferred is the unlawtul. (removing of marks from eheep and the complain-i complain-i ftnt is Edward D. Samuels. As the result of a shooting sorape tn the poolroom in the rear of a ealoon in Bingham, Carl Schmidt, , guard, may lose his left limb while Ernest J. Ward, a fellow guard, is being be-ing sought hy a posse charged with wounding his companion. Thinking that he may have met with some accident, preventing him from making deposits to cover checks for $117.50 which he passed in Ogden, friends of Charles M. L. Houston, an expert accountant, have asked the Ogden police to find him. Jackson day, January 8, has virtually virtual-ly been decided upon as the time and the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, as the place for Utah Democrats' celebration cele-bration of the national victory of their party. The celebration will be in the nature of a great banquet-To banquet-To strengthen the laws regarding the sanitation of water supplies for cities in this state, an act that failed of passage by the legislature last year will be presented again, this time probably with the recommendation of the Salt Lake Commercial club. Weber county is, with one exception, excep-tion, the smallest in the state, only including about 425,000 acres, yet it stands second in manufactures, second sec-ond in jobbing, and third in population. popula-tion. Only five counties exceed it in the total value of its farm property. There are thirty-seven factories reported re-ported from Weber county, exclusive of creameries and canneries, and most of them in Ogden itself. The makinf of sugar and cement, the packing of meats, brewing, candy making and milling are the leading manufacturing interests. In his report to the legislature this year, Caleb Tanner, state engineer, will urge that the legislature find some way of using the great mass of engineering statistics which have been gathered in the past for reference in litigation and which have never seen the light. George N. Ries, 28 years old, manager man-ager of the Salt Uako Electrical Supply Sup-ply company, considered one of the most capable electrical contracting S engineers in the west, died at his liome in Salt Lake last week, pneu-s. pneu-s. monia being the cause of death. SThat section of the stautes provid-that provid-that a convict who escapes from .he state prison Is under jurisdiction 1 of tho court of the county in which ' the prison Is located, and that only, is held to be In conflict with the constitution con-stitution by a ruling made In the Third district court. |