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Show THE UTAH BUDGET I 1 Based on 100 per cent as an average crop, the department of agriculture estimates es-timates the composite condition ol Utah crops this year a 86.8. Llewellyn Jones, arrested in Ogden while trying to sell an automobile, is said to have confessed that he stole the car in Portland, Ore., ten days previous. The question of annexing a portion of Uinta county to Duchesne county will go on the ballot and be submitted to a vote of the people of both counties coun-ties at the November election. The average annual labor income of the farmers of Utah is $531 it appears ap-pears from a series of investigations carried on by the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college. Uncertain whether her fiance has met with foul play or has deserted her, Agnes Klein, 23 years old, lias appealed to the county attorney at Salt Lake to locate Sam Honnig. Vigorous war on tuberculosis will be started by the Utah Public Health society, the state board of health, municipal mu-nicipal boards of health, civic and charitable societies and the Red Cross. Within an hour after the case had been submitted to the jury at Salt Lake a verdict of murder in the first degree was returned in the case of Orazio Rapole; slayer of Amos B. Neff. Orazio Rapole, charged with the murder of Amos B. Neff, is on trial at Salt Lake City. Neff was killed June 25 on the front porch of his home, his assailant using a double-barreled shotgun. shot-gun. Organization of a Taxpayers' league to investigate the method of assessing assess-ing taxable property in Salt Lake county will be perfected if plans of business men and farmers are carried out. C. C. Holbrook, a salesman of Salt Lake City, has disappeared from his home and his wife and friends fear he has met with foul play. There is no known reason for his disappearance. disappear-ance. John W. Taylor of Forest Dale died October 10 at his home after a long illness. Mr. Taylor was a son of the late President John Taylor of the Mormon Mor-mon church. He was born in Provo May 5, 1858. Henry Baker of Corinne, 87 years of age, was instantly killed three miles west of Brigham City, when a service car belonging to the Brigham Auto & Supply company collided with a wagon driven by Baker. Representatives from practically all of the short line railroads in the western west-ern states will meet either in Salt Lake or San Francisco to discuss ways and means to increase the pay for transporting mail. The United States government has joined In the search for Warren C. Mangum, missing paying teller of the Continental National bank, Salt Lake City. Already the state authorities and private detective agencies are searching for him. Montana's embargo on Utah alfalfa and cereal stems was raised last week by Governor Stewart, The prohibition, which was imposed July 1, was on account ac-count of vermin with which some products of this state were said to have been infested. Myton, which voted "dry" last June, U now without saloons. Time was allowed the dealers to dispose of their stocks and sublet their properties. At the closing time Saturday night, October Oc-tober 7, three of the four saloons had sold almost all of their stocks. The body of "Daddy" Mclntyre, 55 years of age, who was for many years one of the gray-haired newsboys of Salt Lake City, was recovered last week from the Jordan river. His death is believed by the police to have been either from accident or suicide. Utah has a new lake. It is located in the mountain overlooking the Uintah Uin-tah basin. It was caused by a landslide land-slide and is so new that it has not been given a name. This lake is not very large, but it very deep. It is located lo-cated about, five miles above Tabiona. The Utah Power & Light company announces that the 85-mile transmission transmis-sion line from Provo to the mines in the Carbon county field, which has been under construction for several months, has been completed and the mines are being served with electricity. elec-tricity. Work of construction on a railroad, which will tap one of the richest mining min-ing districts of Utah, will be started immediately, according to plans of a newly formed company headed by Duncan MacVichie, president. The railroad will extend from Wendover to Gold Hill. Patrick Edward Connor, civil engineer engi-neer and expert draughtsman, son of the late General Patrick Edward Connor, Con-nor, founder of Fort Douglas, died in Salt Lake City, October 2. Mr. Connor, Con-nor, who was 50 years of age and a native of Salt Lake City, succumbed to heart disease. L. H. Wilkinson, proprietor of a saloon sa-loon in Salt Lake, who struck P. W. Wilson over the head with a club during dur-ing a quarrel, causing his death, has been discharged from custody, his plea being self defense. Local capital, to the extent of about $400,000, will shortly be put into the construction of a railroad to connect the mines of the Deep Creek region with the Western Pacific railroad at Wendover, if rumors current In Salt Lake business circles come true. On the strength of a story told by G. E. Landan of Garfield, of being jiven knockout drops in a glass ol jeer in a rooming house In Salt Late, detectives arrested Frank Ros, a waiter, and June O'Neill, said by tha police to be a woman ot the underworld. |