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Show THE UTAH BUDGET James Gibson, aged 67 years, for twenty-one years doorkeeper at the Salt Lake theater, died November 30. Francis V. Fitz Gerald, a Salt Lake newspaper man, has been appointed private secretary tn Governor-elect Simon Si-mon Bamberger. A general advance in i.'de price of barber work probably will be made by the leading barber sheps of Salt Lake City in the near future. The farmers of Box Elder county have decided to join the farmers of the state in asking for better prices and better reenlatior for sugar beets in 1917. An investigation of the high cost of living in Utah will probably he made. The state has a law designed against combinations for the raising of prices. Utah in 1910 had a population of 313,351. On January 1, 1917, according accord-ing to estimates issued by the federal census bureau, it will be 438,974, a gain of 65,623 in six years. Joseph DeCarlo, an Italian, was crushed to death as d result of being caught between the ledge of an hie-, vator and the floor above at the Western West-ern Macaroni factory at Sail Lake. Wi'.en iJvty tons u' coal, miivji at the Hiawatha coal property, started west on the Salt Lake Route on November No-vember 29, it represented the first coal ever sent out of Utah to be used as battleship fuel. T. H. Dobson, 27 years of age, a sheepherder, who . was serving a ten days' sentence, committed suicide in the city jail at Ogden by hanging himself with a piece of wire attached to a steam pipe. Found guilty on a charge of obtaining obtain-ing money under false pretenses through the means of a fictitious check, Ed Kinney was sentenced to serve ninety days in the county jail at Salt Lake City. Lincoln G. Kelly, state auditor, has returned from St. Augustine, Fla., where he attended the convention of the National Association of Auditors and Comptrollers and presided over the sessions of the convention. Unconscious and with both feet badly frozen, John Poll, 30 years old, a cook employed at the Miners' hotel In Bingham, was found lying in a road near Garfield. It is feared that both of his feet will have to be amputated. ampu-tated. The body of a dead Infant, found November 28 in a Salt Lake coal yard, makes the third baby that had been deserted in Salt Lake in as many days. Two were dead when found, while one is enjoying a good home for the present, at least. Through prompt work, nurses at the city emergency hospital at Salt Lake saved the life of James Bogan, who was taken to police headquarters suffering suf-fering from potaoplng. Whether he took the poison with suicidal intent or not is not known. George Holman, of the United States biological survey, declares there is grave danger of rabies in Utah 'becoming 'be-coming state-wide ithin the next sixty to ninety days unless most drastic dras-tic measures are emploved to check spread of the disease. The Utah Copper company has announced an-nounced that it had increased the wages of employees of its mmos at Bingham and the couceuircxlors and mills at Magna and Arthur 25 cents a day where the labor was being paid more than $3.05 a day aud 20 cents a day where it was receiving loss. Not being satisfied as yet that the disease among cattle of the middle western states is really the foot and mouth disease, officials of the state of Utah have declined to establish any quarantine against shipments from the states where the trouble is supposed to exist. Several persons were cut with flying fly-ing pieces of glass when Sylvestos Cortez, Mexican, became enraged because he was excluded from a party par-ty at the home of Mrs. Frank Bario, at Salt Lake, and hurled rocks at the house, breaking every pane of glass in the building. Pinned under tons of ore which caved in on him while working in an ore bin at the West Mercur Mines mill at West Mercur, Virgil Trimmer, aged 20, of Salt Lake, was crushed and smothered by the heavy ore and died an hour after he was rescued by fellow workers. Miss Mary Elida Johnson, IS years of age, whose home is near Grants-ville, Grants-ville, died in Salt Lake at ttc conclusion conclu-sion of an operation on her throat. While still under the anaesthetic she inhaled a foreign substance, which lodged in her throat, obstructing the air passage, causing her death. If the contention of the co.mty assessor, as-sessor, supported by a recently written writ-ten opinion by the count' attorney regarding re-garding exemption of insurance companies, com-panies, is to stand the test of the law $1,724,675 will be added to the assessed as-sessed valuation of Salt Lake county, with a resultant increase of approximately approxi-mately $30,000 in the tax revenue for this year. Drafts of the statewide prohibition bill and the public utilities bill which are to be introduced at the coruing session of the legislature, have been partially completed by Senator Frank Evans. The prohibition bill as framed is said to be not as drastic as the Idaho law. In the arrest of James Porter, 47 years of age, giving his occupation as a miner, the police believe that they have rounded up the gang of shoplifters shoplift-ers which has carried on systematic thefts in the department stores of S-.Ut j Lake for 'he last few months. i |