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Show THE UTAH BUDGET i Street lighting for January ea-. OgdPii city $l,9!i:;.99. Park City's new high school build, ing was dedicated last wepk. Steps are being taken to obltr.n a fruit and vegetable cxaporating p'.ani or Ogden. Patrick llagerty, aged 53 year.;, (lit ) )f heart trouble, at Park City. Ivt went to a restaurant, sai down i:i i chair and in less than minute i fell over dead. C. I.. Countryman has been nominated nomi-nated by the president to be post, master at Bingham, and Daniel Me Milian was nominated to be postmaster postmas-ter at Heber City. While about one-third of the employ em-ploy es of the Southern Pacific sheps at Ogden have again been laid cff. those who remain are working nine hours daily and six days a week. The apointment of Inez Adams as a deputy assessor has been confirmed con-firmed by the Weber county commissioners commis-sioners and she has taken up her duties du-ties in the office of the assessor. Wool growers in Utah were offered ?5 cents a pound for crossbred wo 1 last week by buyers from the east, according to C. B. Stewart, secretary of the Utah Wool Growers' association. associa-tion. Following destruction by fire of a sma.ll store at Salt 1 ake, E. L. Masoi was arrested and placed in the cenr.-ty cenr.-ty jail on a charge cf arson. It is alleged he set fire to and destroyed the store with felonious intent. Fifty high schools and denominational denomina-tional schools in the siate have signified signi-fied their intention of competing in the annual debate and oratory contests con-tests to be given this spring under the auspices of the University of Utah. Charles L. Warnick of Utah county, coun-ty, retains his seat in the house. The resolution introduced by George F. Goodwin of Salt Lake, declaring the seat of the Utah county legislator vacant, was defeated 23 nays to 22 ayes. One hundred and fifty residents of Layton and Davis county gathered at a banquet and smoker at Layton on February 9 as guests of the Layton Commercial club in celebration of the establishment of a sugar factory in Layton. John Gillespie, an early pioneer, and a veteran of Utah's Indian wars, died at his home in Tooele, February Febru-ary 9, of general debility. Mr. Gillespie Gil-lespie was born in Glasgow, Scotland, March 27, 1830, and came to the United States in 1849. Members of the Hatch family from all over the mter.mountain region gathered at the old Hatch home in Bountiful on February 9 in a reunion. Probably 200 were present and they varied from Mrs. Jane Hatch of 87 to Misa Eleanor Hatch of 2 months. Salt Lake was visited on February 9 by 175 fruit jobbers, most of them from Colorado cities, but many fn)in Chicago and other eastern commercial commer-cial centers on their way to Los Angeles An-geles to attend the annual convention of the Western Fruit Jobber's association. asso-ciation. The accident at Murray, when two smelter employees, Jim Paris and Theros Frame, were run down by cars handled by an Oregon Short Line switch engine and Paris, was killed, was due to the negligence of Paris, according to the findings of the board of inquiry. With but few formalities Utah's magnificent capitol was occupied on February 11 for the first time by the Utah state legislature. The building is not yet completed, but the legislature legisla-ture halls are finished and temporary quarters are ready for the state officers. of-ficers. Dispatches from San Francisco tell of a murdeorus attack on Warren N. Dusenberry, formerly a judge at Pro-vo, Pro-vo, Utah, by his son, Grover, in the basement of the family home in San Francisco. Judge Dusenberry is not expected to recover. The son is believed be-lieved to be insane. Adjustment of the controversy over the Ilatchtown reservoir damage claims by conference with each di.-satisfied di.-satisfied claimant was decided upo.i at a conference between the 3talu land board, the state board of examiners exam-iners and representatives of the settlers set-tlers who suffered from the Hood last May. The supreme court has taken under advisement the appeal of Giovanni Anselmo, convicted of shooting and killing Patrolman Thomas Griffiths at Salt Lake about a year ago when the officer sought to arrest him for participating par-ticipating in a row In a coffee house.. Anselmo Is under sentence to be shot. The master plumbers of the state, ended their convention at IyOgan on February 10, after having elected th following officers for the coming year: President, C. J. Higson of Salt Lak" City; vice-president, A. .1. Atkins of Ogdi-n; secretary, F. W. Jones of Salt Uike City; treasurer, Will I'.ees of Salt Uike City. Ell Harvey pierce, actor of riot'i during the early (lays of Utah, collector col-lector of rare volumes and singer of "bility, who had been associated with -he Salt Lake tabernacle choir for years as business manager, and a sue-essful sue-essful insurance man, died at Salt ake, February ft, at the age of CI. Ethical druggists of Utah welcome the Harrison act restricting the sale of narcotic habit forming drugs, which roes into effect March 1 next, according to A. R. Mclntyre. presl-j presl-j nt ,f tlie Utah Pharmaceutical as-..o as-..o :af |