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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Salt Lake is to observe March 10 as orange day. The thirteenth annual convention of the Utah State Horticultural society was held in Salt Lake last week. As ha rushed from a saloon in Salt Lake, TJ. Neshaniura, a Japanese laborer, la-borer, was run down by an automobile automo-bile and seriously injured. There were issued in the county clerk's office at Provo 302 marriage licenses in 1916. Thirty-one divorces were granted during the year. The fourth annual farmers' roundup and housekeepers' conference-held at Cedar City last week was the most successful ever held in the city. John Henry Martin of Ogden, who was convicted of attempting to blackmail black-mail a number of prominent citizens of that place, is seeking a new trial. Three men were instantly killed Fehruary 14 when several tons of iron ore fell upon them in the workings of the Oragon Consolidated mines at Eureka. A vigorous campaign will be made by the Salt Lake Rotary club to bring the 1916 convention of the International Interna-tional Association of Rotary clubs to Salt Lake. The charge of murder preferred against Louise Ball for her alleged participation in the stabbing of Thomas Thom-as Park at Bingham on January 13, has 'been dismissed. An attempt to reclaim worthless areas of land is in contemplation for Millard county. The land under consideration con-sideration extends between the towns of Oasis and Deseret. Experiments to devise an indirect lighting system for the purpose of illuminating il-luminating the Pioneer monument, at the head of Main street, Salt Lake, are now 'being conducted. Edward T. Williams, connected with an employment agency at Salt Lake, was fatally shot by William Oshorn McNair, when Williams called on his ;olvorced wife, of whom McNair was enamored. The trout fishing season opened Feh-raury Feh-raury 15, and will cont'nue for six weeks unless sooner stopped by the passage of the bill now pending before the legislature eliminating early season sea-son fishing. George Gull, 73 years of age, who has heen in ill health for a number of years and who of late has been despondent, de-spondent, committed suicide Wednesday Wednes-day by hanging himself in a chicken coop at his home in Spanish Fork. G. H. Jack's statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lin-coln, which is now ornamenting the main floor of the state capitol, will be removed to Mr. Jack's studio, where it will be repaired preliminary to sending send-ing it east for the purpose of casting it in bronze. In line with a plan that is 'being put into effect throughout the country, the Western Union Telegraph company will abandon the use of telegraphers fco far as Salt Lake and Ogden messages mes-sages are concerned, a telephone system sys-tem to 'be used instead of the Morse code. The first, complete and accurate draft of the instructions of the state board of equalization, to be printed at once and sent to all county assessors In Utah for their guidance in the mak-!ng mak-!ng up of their rolls for the ensuing year, has been considered and approved ap-proved iby the board. James Minell, 38 years old, an Italian Ital-ian track-walker, was instantly killed when six freight cars attached to a switch engine ground his body to pieces in the Oregon Short Line yards it Salt Lake. Whether the man committed com-mitted suicide, or was accidentally killed, will probably never be known. Members of the Greek community of Utah declared last week that every Greek in the state will pledge his unqualified un-qualified support to President Wood-row Wood-row Wilson, should war develop between be-tween the United States and Germany. Believed to have been despondent from fear that he was a victim of heart trouble, Lawrence B. Barton, aged 34, a qartermaster sergeant of the First Utah 'battery, committed suicide sui-cide by shooting at Salt Lake City. Placing a .32 . caliber revolver against his right temple, John Moork, aged 33 years, a machinist, whose home is 'believed to be in Fresno, Cal., pulled the trigger and blew out his brains in a coal shed at the rear of a hotel in Ogden. The epidemic of measles which came (o Milford after the holidays is even more abundant than ever. Though the local health department has endeavored en-deavored to control the matter the disease seems to be running its course. The Rev. Archibald Stewart, pastor of the Provo Baptist church, who went R-ith the Idaho national guard to No-5ales No-5ales as chaplain last summer, has ottered ot-tered his services as chaplain or in any department of the army or war office to Secretary of War Baker. David Morrison, aged 24, was instantly in-stantly killed at Castle Gate by a runaway trip of mine team cars on the Utah Fuel company coal tram-wav. tram-wav. Members of the Utah Canners' association asso-ciation announce that the grow-;rs grow-;rs throughout Weber county are sign-ng sign-ng contracts at $11 per ton. this price being a compromise between J10 of-lered of-lered by the wunners and $12 demand-;d demand-;d by the Weber county farm bureau. Given one month's time, C. L. Chris-ensen Chris-ensen of Monticelo, San Juan county, ft'ho says he has been an interpreter imong the Indians for forty years, vrote Governor Bamberger last, week .hat he could raise 10.000 Xavajo In-liaiis In-liaiis to protect the Mexican border n C3be of wwr. |