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Show THE UTAH BUDGET i Another carload of supplies for the unfortunates in the European stnij'.KU" is occupying the attention of the Ueii. Cross society at Salt Lake. Tho city' officials at I'rovo have started a campaign against bottle boot-leggers and say they are cieter- mined to stamp ont this practice. Georgia marble will he used for the rotunda and executive floor of the, state capitof, according to a decision reached .by the state capitol commission. commis-sion. After confessing that he had held up and robbed an Ogden man of ten cents, Charles Arnold was sentenced to serve an indeterminate term in the state prison. The Utah Power & Light company's report for the year rding January 31 shows gross earnings of $2,178,-316, $2,178,-316, an increase of $341, -OS, and net earnings of $1,117,692, an increase of $31,857. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cardwell of Salt Lake, while riding in a single buggy, were thrown from the vehicle when an automobile crashed into thein, both suffering serious injuries to the spine. Utah fared exceedingly well on its fruit crop for 1914 as compared with other fruit producing states, in the opinion of W. H. Garvin, general manager of the Utb Fruit Growers" associatJ"i. Work Kl be iommenced nest month by fie Draper' Irrigation company com-pany on tie construction of the proposed pro-posed waterworks east of Draper, which will supply about 1.500,000 gallons gal-lons daily to Draper and eight neighboring neigh-boring towns. Stricken with heart failure, Richard Rich-ard Kendall Thomas, 70 years of age, former member of the state senate and president of the R. K. Thomas Dry Goods company, died suddenly at his residence in Salt Lake. After the police and hundreds of neighbors had searched for hours for Mae McKay, aged 6, who had not returned re-turned home from school, she was found in the schoolroom, in Salt Lake, where she had been lacked in by accident. ac-cident. In its biennial report to the governor, gov-ernor, the state horticultural commission commis-sion recommends that Arbor day be changed from April 15 to April 1, arguing ar-guing that the present date is entirely entire-ly too late for the planting of trees and obtaining the best results. Mrs. Olivia F. Lee of Brigham City-has City-has exhibited what is undoubtedly the largest lemon ever seen in that city and perhaps anywhere else in the-state. the-state. The lemon weighed one pound and four ounces and was grown in the home of Mrs. Lee at Brigham City. The proposition to issue J7.,00( worth of bonds for the purpose of constructing a pipe line to the muni-ciple muni-ciple artesian wellB in Ogden vallew will be submitted to a vote of the taxpayers of Ogden at a special election elec-tion to be held on Saturday, March 7. Indications of improved conditions with regard to marketing the surplus supply of 1914 canned goods are shown in the east, according to the secretary of the Utah Canners' association, asso-ciation, who has returned after attending at-tending the annual convention of the National Canners' association. The Salduro salt beds and the automobile auto-mobile speed tests there last summer are responsible for a column of publicity pub-licity given Salt Lake and Utah in. the current number of the Railway-Age Railway-Age Gazette. The article gives an account of the speed tests and the general character of the salt deposits. Two hundred idle men, styling themselves the Migratory Workers of the World, marched in a body to the city and county building at Salt Lake-and Lake-and invaded the city commission meeting, demanding relief from hunger hun-ger and want. The commission has. authorized the mayor to expend $500 for the unemployed. An echo to the sensation created last fall when Hyrum N. Winter, then-clerk then-clerk of the Granite school board, was accused of embezzling $3,358.80 of the board's funds came when the American Ameri-can Surety company filed suit In the district court against Winter to collect col-lect $3,222.80 it paid as surety to make good the snortage. As a ipart of the plan to locate a packing plant in Salt Lak? the Salt Lake Real Estate association has addressed ad-dressed a letter to the leading packing pack-ing concerns of the country, setting-forth setting-forth the opportunities for such a. plant in the district. Taking' advantage of the repeal ot the ordinance providing that automobiles automo-biles used for carrying passengers must be licensed, the Jitney Service company put five small touring cars into service on the principal streets of Ogden last week. It now develops that Judge Warren N. Dusenberry, a former resident of Provo, who was attacked by his son with an ax at their home in San Francisco, was not as seriously injured in-jured as at first supposed, hut that he has good ihances for recovery. Roosevelt, the enterprising metropolis metrop-olis of the western half of Uintah basin, ba-sin, has doubled its population within twelve months, erected twenty-seven new residences in 1914, built an electric elec-tric light system and the past week moved into its handsome new $35,000 high school. Utah sheepmen are rejoioing over the unprecedented prices for wool 25 cents a pound with the prospect that the 1915 clip may bring as high as 35 cents. One big lot of 100,000 pounds. o1d the past week is said to have brought 23 to as high as 23 ceuts. |