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Show THE UTAH BUDGET March 10 will 'be celebrated along the line of the Salt Lake Route as "Orange day." Mrs. Hallie Moormeister, aged 27, wife of Dr. F. Mormeister of Salt Lake, was killed in an automobile accident ac-cident near Santa Monica, Cal. The menace of tbe rabies in Utah continues unabated, according to advices ad-vices 'being receievd almost daily "by members of the health service of the state. The second squadron of Utah cavalry cav-alry will be among the first to return from the border, as they are included includ-ed in the first of the three groups to be returned. Trapped in a room on the second floor when fire broke out at their home in Salt Lake City, Mrs. Charles Timson and two children were rescued res-cued by firemen. Statistics received at the local army recruiting station from the . war department de-partment in Washington give Salt Lake a ranking of ninth among a list of sixty-two cities. Thirty-five cents per pounds fo.-1917 fo.-1917 clip of wool is the record price for Iron county. About fifty sheep owners in that section are consequently conse-quently feeling rich. Potatoes were 'being sold last week by Salt Lake jobbers at $3.35 per 100. It was stated that the cold weat'.ier prevented the shipment and caused a consequent shortage. Members of the Second squadron of Utah cavalry, now on border duty at Nogales, Ariz., will arrive home February Feb-ruary 1, according to information received re-ceived a few days ago. Showing a gain in population of a little more than 26 per cent in six years is the remarkable record made by Salt Lake, according to figures given out by the census bureau. Tony Shavonio, an Italian, and a section foreman on the Denver & Rio Grande railway, was struck by ' a freight train near Nolan and instantly killed, his body 'being badly mangled. man-gled. Sufficient contracts have been made with beetgrowers in the vicinity vicin-ity of Hooper to warrant the statement state-ment that work will begin soon on a new sugar factory at that place, according ac-cording to latest reports. A Utah branch of the National Security Se-curity league, incorporated, was organized or-ganized in Salt Lake last week at a meeting of prominent citizens who are interested in national preparedness, prepared-ness, held at the Alta club. Fees collected by the state board of examiners of barbers in 1916, according ac-cording to the report of the board filed with the governor, totaled $2,056 and the disbursements for the same period aggregated $2,03 '.74. George Tall, a pioneer who crossed the plains to Salt Lake in 1853, and who vas well kno'n as one of the chief figures in the artillery branch of the old Nauvoo legion, died at Salt Lake last week at the age of 90. State Chemist Herman Harms testified testi-fied on the witness stand at Salt Lake last week that there is so little uif-ferenie uif-ferenie in he taste of beer and "near beer" when both are 3ervtd very cold as to be not detectable by the average aver-age person. Returning from a hunt'ng trip, Iazah Clark, aged about 60 years, and who had been a resident of Vernal only a short while committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. He was seated on a fence apparently resting rest-ing when he shot himself. Following a preliminary hearing, Mike 'Morris was held for trial in the Third district court on a charge of murder in the first degree for the alleged al-leged killing of "Connie" Mack, a woman wo-man of the Bingham restricted district, dis-trict, on last Christmas eve. Considerable interest is being created creat-ed in Grand county, in southeastern Utah, over the proposed colonization of Paradox valley," just over the line in Colorado, but which draws part of its water supply from a Utah source and for which southeastern Utah will be the natural supply point. Owners of patents on devices used in the manufacture of sugar met in Salt Lake and formed a $100,000 corporation. cor-poration. It is the purpose 'if the organizers or-ganizers to withdraw their patents from the American Tool company, which Is now paying them a royalty, and establish a factory In Utah. Estimating that four of every 1,000 persons In Utah are mentally infirm, the commission appointed to make a si.'rvey of the feeble-minded in its report re-port to the governor, urges an appropriation appro-priation of J105000 for the erection and maintenance of an institution for the mental defectives of the state. Roland D. Williams, who was mysteriously mys-teriously shot and killed last week in Oklahoma City, was well known in Salt Lake. He was a music teacher and opened a studio there with his wife in 1908. Frank Francis, for the past twenty years editor of the Evening Standard of Ogden, was elected secretary of the Ogden Publicity bureau, succeeding succeed-ing James P. Casey, resigned. The Salt Lake Real Estate association associa-tion will petition the legislature for a repeal of the act passed by the last legislature limiting the rate of taxation taxa-tion to an aggregate of 17 mills, which any county can levy on property. prop-erty. Just how to provide legally for the $140,000 estimated deficit in the school funds of the state made necessary neces-sary under the operation of the present pres-ent tax law and incident to the growth of school population in Utah is the problem now confronting Utah edu wtors. I |