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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Tho district foresters' convontlon closed a weeks' session at Salt Lake on February 1C. Tho Young Women's Christian association as-sociation of Salt Lako celebrated Its tenth birthday ItiBt week. Inytng of water main extensions involving in-volving n total I'stlmatcd cost of $GG,-000 $GG,-000 lias been determined upon by tho Suit Lake commissioners. Scnntor Rood Smoot will lutroduco n 4)111 in congress providing for tho erection of a government munitions plant In Utnh to tost $1,000,000. It Is 'predicted that olthor Brlgham City or Davis county will get tho third of tho now Infantry companies which nro to bo added to tho Utah National Guard. Ono hundred dogs havo boon killed in Murray tho ipast three weeks on orders of tho city health officer, who Ib rigidly enforcing tho licensing ordinance. or-dinance. A celebration in Ogdcn in 1919 to colobrate tho fiftieth anniversary of tho joining of tho Union Pacific and Central Pacific rallwaya near that city, is proposed. With tho aid of eighty willing workers work-ers and asslstuntB to a corps of carpenters, carp-enters, it is proposed to erect a taber-naclo taber-naclo In Ogdcn in ono day, Washington's Washing-ton's birthday, February 22. Paving to bo dono thlB year at a cost to tho city of $25,325. and a total cost to tho city and abutting property own-ors own-ors of $125,275, was decided on last weok by tho Salt Lako commissioners. commission-ers. Martin C. Nellson, a section foromnn for tho Denver & Bio Grando, died at a Salt I.ako hospital from Injuries received re-ceived at MantI, when ho slipped In front of a train and lost his leg and right foot. Another flowing woll hns been Btruck In Millard county. It Is on tho farm of Albert Robinson. A six-Inch l)lpo Is flowing 800 gallons n mlnuto. Thoro aro now ten flowing iwclls In tho artesian bolt. iMormonlsm Is not a nnmnco and tho Kplscopal church In Utni has not been established to attack it, declared Bishop Paul Jones of tho Episcopal dloccso of Utah In his nddross It St. Mark's cathedral at Salt Lake. Waldo Jenson, tho 3-year-old non of Mr. and Mrs. William Jonson of Murray, Mur-ray, wna struck and badly Injured by a streot car. Tho accident occurred OS tho llttlo follow wbb crossing tho street and failed to seo the approaching approach-ing car. Frank Bltsakls, 25 years of ago, who haB been In tho county Jail at Salt Lako since May 26, 1915, awaiting await-ing trial on tho charge of murdering G. Syko3, a Bingham minor, hnsibecn removed to tho state mental hospital at Provo. Total valuation of tho property of tho Oregon Short Lino railroad In tho stato Is $8,891,445, according to tho roport just mndo by J. B. Evans, tax agent of tho road, to tho stato board of equalization, as a imls for assessing assess-ing this 'year's taxes. Tho exploitations of tho agricultural possibilities In Uta nni Idaho was ono of tho toplps of oBVeclal Interest to the lntormountalu region discussed at tho opening -meotlug nt Salt Lako of tho conforonco of traffic officials and representatives of tho Unlrfn Pa-clfio Pa-clfio system. Moro than 200 farmers In Utah will bo supplied Willi electricity for Irrigation Irriga-tion by pumping this year by tho Utah Power & Light company. Construction Con-struction of extensions to transmls-llon transmls-llon lines for accommodation of farm-srH farm-srH -will bo commoncrd as soon as the weather pormlts. On nccount of Jio Cry weather last year hay Is very scarco In tho Ihapah soctlon, and many head of llvo stock aro starving. It Is reported that thirteen thir-teen head of horses starved to death In a bunch not far from Ibapah, in No vnda. Tho deep snow haB also put tho sheopmen In bad straits. At a mooting of tho Utnh Conservation Conserva-tion commission, It was decided to havo tho relief map of tho state, which has toeen on exhibition at tho San Francisco exposition, examined and recast -whoro ecessnry by agricultural agricul-tural collego c iperts before placing It in tho rotunda of tho cnpltol. Bounty claims against tho stato for tho killing of predntory animals, principally prin-cipally coyotoa, wero greator In tho last sixty days than for the preceding six months. Stato Auditor Lincoln G. Kouy lias issued uounty warrants amounting to $11,881.50, representing claims mado amco December 18. With tho dentb, at his homo in Farmington, of jamcB D. Wilcox, Davis county loses ono of her oldest Inhabl tants and most Bturdy pioneers. For moro than sixty-throe years Mr. W11-" cox had mado Ms homo in Farming-ton, Farming-ton, and his sterling qualities mado him a most highly respected cltlzon. Logan Island property owners nro devising ways of protecting tho lBland from tho flood waters of tho Logan river. Tho city commission and tho Boosters club offer to render assls. tnnco In tho matter, as it Ib apparent that tho river will bo high this spring, and practically one-third of tho city lies on tho Islnud. |