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Show THE UTAH BUDGET During the two year period closing December 31, 1914. forty-five towns in Utah installed their own water systems. sys-tems. The 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs Albeit Kerr of Payson was severely injured when he was kicked in the breast by a horse. Stimulated by the publication of scores in the clean town contest. Mon-ticello, Mon-ticello, San Juan county, is to install a new municipal water system. Joe Mahor, charged with murder in ths first degree in killing William Kunchan at Bingham, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Organization of cadet corps in every high school of the state boasting boast-ing thirty or more boy students will be encouraged by the war department. depart-ment. Out of twenty-six cases considered, twenty-five indictments were returned by the federal grand jury, which completed com-pleted its deliberations at Salt Lake a few days ago. Elmer Horton, who must face a charge of murder for the killing of Alex Robertson, night marshal at Eureka, Eu-reka, has been taken to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for safekeeping. John G. Ellis of Ogden, contractor, lost one finger from his left hand, and two others may be permanently disabled as the result of his hand coming in contact with a circular saw. Elmer Horton, who shot and instantly in-stantly killed Alex Robertson, night policeman at Eureka, -was given a preliminary hearing and held to the district court on the charge of murder mur-der in the first degree. The number of itinerants who have applied for lodging at the police station sta-tion and the county jail in Salt Lake so far during the present month shows a slight increase over the same month last year. An uindentified man, thought to be either Japanese or Korean, was shot and killed at 3:30 in the morning by Enos Osa, a Spaniard, living at Salt Lake. Osa claims the man was trying try-ing to break into his home. Former Governor John C. Cutler has received a letter from former President Presi-dent William Howard Taft asking him to act as temporary chairman Sr Utah, of the League to Enforce Peace, of which Mr. Taft is the head. The state now has stored at the Piute reservoir 16,000 acre-feet of water, according to W. D. Beers, state engineer. Indications are that more than 80,000 acre-feet will be stored in the dam for next season's irrigating. A disease known as blackleg has 'broken out among cattle south of Salt Lake City. It has been prevalent there the past two months, and twenty-Jive head are reported to have died, while there are now eight cases In existence. Judge Tillman D. Johnson last week pronounced his -first sentence since being elevated to t.he federal bench, when he committed1 Leo 'Dautoff, alias Danthoff, to four months in the county coun-ty jail for having violated the Harrison Harri-son narcotic law. Margaret B. Keller, who came before be-fore the eyes of the Salt Lake public last summer, when she represented herself as a $100,000 heiress, and is said to have fleeced a number of prominent citizens, has been indicted by the federal grand jury. Four beavers have been trapped in Piute and Summit counties, according to reports received by Fred W. Chambers, Cham-bers, state fish and game commissioner. commission-er. Mr. Chambers says his department depart-ment expects to trap this season between be-tween thirty and forty in this locality. A conference of tie mayors of Utah municipalities to be held in Salt Lake for the purpose of discussing ways and means for building a railroad rail-road Into the Uintah basin will be called immediately after Janaury 1 by J. W. JVIcHenry, mayor-elect of Murray, Mur-ray, j. After raving incoherently for hours about 'being wanted for a murder of which be declared he was innocent, Frank Lane, 42 years of age, a deserter de-serter who surrendered himself to the Salt Lake police, hanged himself in his cell at the guardhouse of Fort Douglas. Because the state law forbids the marriage of whites and negroes, John Halvorsen, county license clerk at Salt Lake, refused a marriage license to a man with three-quarters white blood and one-quarter Indian blood in his veins and a woman with half Indian In-dian and half negro blood. P. S. Wangsgard. 67 years of age, was burned to death in a fire which almost consumed the log cabin in which he lived alone at Huntsville. The fire was discovered before midnight mid-night and it was not until an hour 'ater that the charred body of the man was taken from the smouldeiing ruins. Albert Ekker. a rancher near Eureka, Eure-ka, last week killed a mountain lion which measured eight feet from tip to tip. the lion being slain just after it had killed a colt. The horticulturists of the Provo district dis-trict are looking forward to a large attendance at the convention of the Utah Horticultural society, to be held there December 14 and 15. Another convention of the same association will be held in Ogden December 16 and 17. Efforts to induce Salt Lake county to purchase 200 acres of land at a cot of about $10,000 and to convert it into : a county demonstration farm, to be : operated by the county Varm demonstrator, demon-strator, w'll be made in the iiatiedi I ate futuj t |