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Show THE UTAH BUDGET i The state of Utah will collect approximately ap-proximately $1,750,000 in taxes this year, Including school assessments. Daniel M. Torphy, 74 years of age, iknown as the first railway mail clerk iin the intermountain country, died at Salt Lake, December 13. With a capacity of 1,600 hogs, 200 heep and 300 cattle, the Ogden Packing Pack-ing and Provision company's modern stockyards have been completed. The town council of Bingham has decided to install a new lighting system sys-tem -which will be the best in the county outside of Salt Lake City. 'Mrs. Gust Pappanickolas of Magna "was convicted before a justice of the peace of selling liquor in dry territory and sentenced to pay a fine of $50. With her crocheting still in her hands, Mrs. Elizabeth Howell, aged 83, one of the oldest residents of Taylors-ville, Taylors-ville, was found dead in her room by her son. It is estimated that with the loss of liquor revenues in Ogden after a prohibition pro-hibition law becomes effective, the city revenues will be reduced $66,350 a. year. Sheepmen of the Parowan section are jubilant over the price secured for their coming spring clip of wool. Soma of them got 31 cents per pound and a few 32 cents. G. Wright, motorman, is suffering from internal injuries and may die, and four passengers were Injured aa the result of a street car jumping the track at Ogden. Directors of the Kaysville Canning corporation met last week and declared de-clared a, dividend of 8 per cent, payable pay-able immediately. The company's capital cap-ital is $75,000 and hence the distribu. tion will be $6,000. Because she did not have a purse to surrender, Miss Edna Steele, 18 years old, popular young society girl of Ogden, Og-den, was knocked down and then kicked in the face by a highwayman, who accosted her in Salt Lake City. In Beaver county the dairying industry in-dustry is being fostered and the farmers farm-ers are buying blooded cattle. A number num-ber of the farmers are planting a greater acreage of fodder. A number of silos are being built throughout the county. While being attended in the emergency emer-gency hospital at Salt Lake for knife wounds received in a fight in a saloon, Frank Smith escaped from nurses and returned to the saloon to look for his assailant, and was arrested on a charge of drunkenness. Mrs. August Raschuer of Little Cot tonwood, wife of the late Dr. August Raschuer, was seriously injured at the home of Mrs. E. Hoock in Salt Lake when she fell downstairs while calling on Mrs. Hoock. She is suffer ing from concussion of the brain. The expenditures of the state gov. ernment for the fiscal year 1915-1916 .amounts t approximately $2.84 per capita, according to the report being prepared by the state auditor. Cali-fornla's Cali-fornla's expenditures for the same period approximated $5.55 per capita. The heads of three coyotes were received re-ceived for examination a few days ago by L. L. Daines, state bacteriologist. bacteriolo-gist. The heads came from Circle-ville, Circle-ville, Eureka and on the boundary line near. Oneida county, Idaho. In each Instance the coyotes had attacked domestic do-mestic animals. Calling attention to the general excellent ex-cellent condition of sheep in Utah, to the importance of the industry and to the means that have been employed to keep Utah flocks free from disease, the biennial report, of the state board of sheep commissioners has been filed with the governor. A jury at Ogden returned a verdict calling for the payment to Mrs. Lois Newey Keeter and two children of $16,675, by the John Robinson Shows company for the death of her husband, Malcomb Keeter, July 7, last, when Keeter's horses were frightened by the circus elphants and calliope and ran away. Remorse upon realizing he had spent for riotous pleasure the $150 he had saved to tide him over the winter, Charles Carlbcrg, aged 33, a miner irom Arco, Idaho, attempted to kill Himself by slashing bis throat with a pocket knife at Ogden, but the knife was dull and only a superficial wound was made. With the death of Tony Albo of Helper, the number of dead as the re-Bult re-Bult of the collision at Price was increased in-creased to three, the two other victims vic-tims being Tony Verdi and W. A. Wallace, who were killed at the time of the wreck. Two women, giving their names as Delia Morgan, 27 years of age, and Ella Wilson, 23, were arrested in Salt Lake City and held on suspicion of being be-ing implicated in the drugging of J. Parley Peterson, a miner, who was robbed of $105. "The state should increase the bounty on coyotes from '$1.50 to $3 per head and I will urge the legislature legisla-ture to make the increase in my forth-soming forth-soming report," said A. A. Callister, lecretary to the state sheep commis-ioners, commis-ioners, lust week. A commission of three members at not less than $6,000 a year each is the plan of the committee that Is prepar-ig prepar-ig a public utilities bill for presentation presenta-tion to the next legislature. F. N. Prewer of La Sal claims to have killed the largest hog ever raised in the Moab-La Sal section. The animal an-imal weighed when dressed for the market a little over 500 pounds. Edward Fauster, arrested at Ogden ,'or the Evanston, Wyo., authorities on i forgery charge, Is held as a suspect !m the alleged murder of Chris G. Gannon near Wasatch, Summit county. |