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Show THE UTAH RUDGET The twenty sixth nni.ual state convention con-vention of the Woman's Christian Temperance uulon was held in 8alt Lake City last week. A balance of $888,621.22 In the treasury treas-ury of the state of I'tah at the end of September. Hil6. Is shown by the report Of the state treasurer. Seventeen persons run down by automobiles au-tomobiles wire treated during the month of September In tho city emergency hospital In Salt Lake City. John W. King, a Black Hawk Indian In-dian war veteran and a prominent resident of Lehi, died suddenly while sitting in an easy chair reading his morning paper. With the return of the First squadron squad-ron Of l.'tnh cavalry from the Mexican Mex-ican border, approximately 128 horses, or thirty-two tor each troop, will bs brought to the state A remarkable decrease In drunkenness, drunken-ness, gambling and vagrancy over the previous month Is shown by tho September Sep-tember report of the criminal division of Salt Lake City court. Two thousand dollars were set aside by the capltol commission last week to beautify the grounds behind tho statehouse. More money will be devoted to the project later, according to members of the commission. Warren C. Mangum, a paying teller at the Continental National bank, Suit Lake ('ity, is missing and coincident with his disappearance an investigation investiga-tion by the bank officials has developed devel-oped that the Institution is short $10,000. County prisoners may be employed by the slate and receive pay for their labor, according to tin opinion given by A. It. Barnes, uttorney general of Utah, in response to a request for authority au-thority by E. K. Morgan, state road engineer. Churles Stevens, aged 30, a negro ne-gro and former convict, who twelve years ago Is reported to have been implicated im-plicated in the robbery of a largo quantity of Jewelry from a Salt Lake Jeweler, was arrested by the Denver police last week. Henry Clay Brownlce, who was connected con-nected with the Salt Lake newspapers for a number of years, died In Toklo, Japan, September 14, of apoplexy. News of his death wus received In papers from the Japanese capital. He was 68 years old. The roaring cataracts of the Grand river In the West water canyon in Utah and thirty miles west of Grand Junction, Colo., have been run by Bert Loper of Torrey, Utah, and Ellsworth L. Kolb of Grand Canyon, Ariz., in a eeventecn-foot cedar freight canoe. For some time It has been an undecided unde-cided question whether the Ute Indian In-dian school at Whiterucks was to remain, re-main, but the Indian commission tae sent the word that the school will remain re-main and that a new dormitory, a modern structure of the latest type, will be built. Salt Lake had no reason to complain com-plain of Its treatment at the hands of the weather man during the month of September. The monthly report of the United States weather bureau shows a total of 329 houra of actual and uninterrupted sunshine, out of a possible 374 hours. At the age of 78 years, after a long Illness, Mrs. Margaret W. Young, a resident of Utah for about sixty years, died October 3 at her home in Salt Lake City. She was tin- widow of Joseph A. Young, the eldest son of Brighum Young. Her husband died about forty years ago. The Oregon Short Line board of inquiry in-quiry has returned a verdict relieving the railroad company and Its employees em-ployees of all responsibility in connection con-nection with the death of Alma Johnson, John-son, who was struck on tho highway crossing by a train east of Dewey on the night of September 19. II. J. Owen, aged 10 years, of Salt Lake, was accidentally shot and painfully, pain-fully, though not seriously, wounded by ills brother, II. Owen, while they were duck hunting on the shores of the lake near Ogden. Members of the Citizens' Military Training association who ai tended the training camp at Fort Douglas are planning for a reception of the first squadron of Utah cavalry when it returns to Salt Take. I'tah potato growers are annually losing large sums of money through the careless digging and storing of their crop, according to Dr. George It. Hill, director of the school of agriculture agri-culture of the Utah Agricultural college. col-lege. The recent rainstorm caused considerable con-siderable damage in the vicinity of Kaysvlila, tho water system intake being clinked up and residence lots flooded, the. highways being damaged, concrete roads being undermined In places and must be rebuilt. The first squadron or the First cavalry, cav-alry, Utah National Cuard, is under orders to leave N'ogales t .r Salt Lake on October 15. After an lllhess of nearly a month Oeorge Todd, 7 years of ago, pto tieer barnei n iker of Ball Lake, dti d from kidney trouble. James West, one of the ptoturei pie pioneers of tho west, died October 1 at his home in Suit Lake City, More Hum fifty years ago Mr. West was In charge of t lie commissary department depart-ment of the first construction ONW to work on the Union Pacific ruilway. W. J. Whittuker of SnowvlUe fought a desperate battle with a rabid coyote lust week, but dispatched tin animal before he was bitten. Tin head was brought to Salt Lake ant; tested and the bacteriologist declarec the auimila afflicted with genuine by drophoUu. |