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Show THE UTAH BUDGET W. G. Adams has been appointed postmaster at Bennett, in place of J. M. Lundberg. Under tl.e Carey act the state has filed a temporary selection on 400,000 acres of land in San Juau county. The thirty-first annual encampment af the Grand Army, department of Utah, was held in Salt Lake last week. Out of the total number of manufacturing manufac-turing establishments in operation in Utah in 1910, Salt Lake had 245 and Ogden 68. There are fifty-seven towns in Utah, fifty cities of the third class, four cities of the second class, one city of the first class. An $SO,000 gas plant is now prac-lically prac-lically assured Logan as a result of egotiations -which have been , going en for some time. Park City Elks on May 19 burned the $7,000 mortgage that for between four and five years has hung over ths B. P. O. E. home in that city. After paying dividends totaling $281,. 860, or over $2.81 a share, the Utah mine of Fish Springs has levied an assessment of 5 cents a share. Mike Caviini, an Austrian, 38 years old and unmarried, fell 250 feet down a chute at the Boston Consolidated mine at Bingham, sustaining a broken neck- Three hundred and seventy-five thousand thou-sand dollar's will be spent by the Western West-ern Union Telegraph company in Utah territory during the next twelve months. There will be no liquor election at Spanish Fork in June. When the petition pe-tition was checked up it was found that nearly 100 names on the petition were not on the polling books. Thomas V. Finlayson, aged 34, died at West Jordan from what is thought to have been blood poisoning resulting result-ing from an ulcerated tooth which he had extracted about two weeks ago. Marshall, Field & Co of Chicago, recognizing rec-ognizing the importance of Salt Lake as c distributing center for a vastly rich territory, will shortly increase the Btaff of their Utah office from one to Eve men. Before insanity can be pleaded as a cause for divorce effectively, it must be proven by a regularly appointed commission, according to a ruling made last week by Judge C. W. Morse it Salt Lake. The tour of the Salt' Lake 'boosters" last week through Utah brought forth the fact that Utah is liberally supplied with "boosters," the party being well received in every city, village and tiamlet visited.' The stork came very near making mother record at Salt Lake last week. The report of the board of health shows 65 births 30 males and 35 fed males- There were 23 deaths 13 males and 10 females. For the purpose of bringing together for social and educational purposes all Utah residents who have circumnavigated circumnavi-gated the globe, a state-wide society is being organized by the world touring residents of Salt Lake. Too many names were irregularly placed on the petition for an election on the question of wet or dry, ruled , the Provo city commission, and, as a result, no election will be held unless ! contrary action is forced through the j courts. Mrs. Celeste Brown of Ogden is dead from ptomaine poisoning, after eating meat purchased from a local market- All of her children except one, who did not eat of the meat, were poisoned, but they -were soon revived by emetic. In 1910 there weTe 749 strictly manufacturing man-ufacturing 'concerns doing business in the state. The value of the products of these plants had increased over 59.2 per cent above the value of the products prod-ucts of Utah manufacturing establishments establish-ments in 1904. ' The total loss suffered by the state in the recent fire at the University of Utah amounted to $705.05, according accord-ing to the official figures, which have just been announced. The loss amounted to $3,628.30, with insurance amounting to $2,863.25. There are approximately 750 manufacturing manu-facturing plants in Utah. Fourteen thousand one hundred and thirty-three people were employed in the entire list of manufacturing plants in Utah in 1910 and the proprietors or firm mem- bers of these companies numbered , 688. I Water companies in the state, of j which there are 16S, are being urged by officials of the Salt Lake Commercial Commer-cial club to take advantage of au official of-ficial measurement of their water sup- I ply and of the water actually used on a selected list of the farms they serve. J. W. Skinner, aged 53, a well known real estate man and mining operator, suicided at Salt Lake, shooting himself In the mouth. It is thought he was driven to the deed by stomach trouble which intermittently had caused him excruciating and unbearable pain. Fire of unknown origin damaged the Greek bunkhouse of the United States Smelting company at Midvale to the extent of $500. The place has been without tenants for several months. Although Al-though it has not buen definitely determined, de-termined, it is thought that the lire was started by a passing locomotive |