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Show THE UTAH BUDGE! While ploying with a revolver, Olar enco Erlckson, aged IB, of Ka't Lnko shot himself through tho templo death being almost limtnntniu'Otis. Of tho property valuation, of $20,000, 000 in Wobor county tho stnto on Its I mills gets approximately $l(i0,000. Oi this nmount $150,000 him already beet paid Into tho stnto treasury. F. C. Jones, nbout 70 yours of ago a fftinllinr character about tho pollc stntlon, was found dead on tho ntreol In Salt Lnko. It has boon decide thnt death was duo to natural causes Following several months of brood Ing over his estrangement from hli family Chris Jensen, ago CO jenrs, ol Salt Lnko, committed suicido by tak Ing poison In a rooming house at Po catollo, Idaho. Willi a total output of 1.1,320.000 pounds, the wool crop of Utah In 191G, figured nt 24.5 cents a pound, amount ed to $3,263,400. This Is tut Increase of ?730,773 over tho total valuo ol $2,532,727 In 1914. At tho nge of 91 years Mm. Annlo C. RnBmupsen, widow of Peter O. Rns musscn. died In Uuntsvllle, Weber county. With her husband alio came from Denmark and crossed tho plains with an ox team. Insurance conditions affecting the Htato Insurance departments of Utnh, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho were discussed nt a conference nt Salt Lake among tho Insurance commissioners ol theso commonwealths. That death resulted from chloral ad ministered feloniously or otherwise by parties unknown was tho verdict ol a coroner's Jury in tho case of A. K. Ashby, tho California mnn whoso body was found in a pond nt Ogden. Sheep outfits In tho vicinity of Cisco, Thompsons and Mnah nro shipping ship-ping in quantities of cottonseed cakes to feed this winter. Colorado sheep havo been coming Into llnunl county r.ll fall and winter and thero nro many camps. Without a sign of rcniorpo for his act, Marvin Turnbow of Moab, Is In a cell in tho Grand county Jail waiting wait-ing for the procoss of lav for tho murder of Clydo Dallcy, whom ho shot to death on tho platform of tho station at Thompsons. Not ono of tho countlen which havo so far submitted their annual reports for tho state's fiscal year to II. T. Haines, stnto commissioner of statistics, statis-tics, has exceeded two-thirds of tho amount allowed by law for poor mothers' moth-ers' "pensions." Through train servico over tho electric elec-tric lines between Salt Lnko City and Preston, Idaho, may bo tho result of test runs which nro now being mado over tho lines of tho Salt Lako & Ogden Railway company hntween Ogden Og-den and Salt Lako. Tho state fish and gaiuo commissioner commis-sioner has Issued an appeal to residents resi-dents of Utnh to remember that tho birds aro having poor picking whilo tho ground Is covered with biiow, and urging cltlzejiB to provide for food for our feathered friends. Max Rarbci , aged 8, and Jay and Eugene Eu-gene Larson, 10 and 13 yearn, wore seriously injured in a coasting accident acci-dent at Salt Lako, ono suffering a fractured skull and another brain concussion whon tho three lads woro thrown against a trco. All but 100 of tho 1,000 acres which were to havo been contracted for enst of Bear river to insure tho building of a factory thero by tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company had been signed up on tho last day of December, according to advices from Brlgham City. Tho farmers of Clcarllold luivo followed fol-lowed the lead of tho Syraciibo and West Point beet growers and agreed with tho Layton Sugar company to grow beets during 1910 for that company com-pany exclusively. Tho flat rato of $G a ton for beets was accepted. Tho Bountiful Commercial club and n largo number of farmers in tho vicinity vi-cinity of Bountiful and Contcrvillo havo undertaken to persuudo tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company to build n sugar factory at Bountiful. Already moro than 0,000 acres have beon pledged. An organized effort to hccuiu a federal fed-eral appropriation for the extermination extermina-tion of coyotes will bo mado as tho result of a conference hold at Salt Lako In tho offlco of Governor William Wil-liam Spry to consider the threatened Invasion of Utah by rabies or hydrophobia. hydro-phobia. Representatives of county commissions, commis-sions, commercial clubs and civic organizations or-ganizations of Utnh havo determined to orgunizo tho Utah Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, to bo located at Salt Lako, and to appeal to every county to levy a tax to support tho chamber after It is established. John E. Brown of Moab has sold to E. M. Gordon and William Graham of Gateway, Colo,, about C50 of his herd of COO cattle, whloh ha has beon running run-ning between tho Green rtvor and tho Grand. Mr. Brown reserved GO head of the finest stock for breeding purposes. pur-poses. Tho prico paid was $52.60 straight. Bonus checks from tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company of 10 cents per ton aro being handed out to tho farmers of tho Spanish Fork district. Flold Manager Snell says that tho farmers of this vicinity will recolvo moro than $4,500 more than tho contract Piico of the boots. It Ib announced that a campaign will be begun by Dr. T, B. Uoatty, secretary secre-tary of the stnto board of health, against tho spreading of hydrophobia among tho flocks and herds In Utnh by rabies-crazed coyotes and tho Incidental Inci-dental dnuger to human |