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Show THE UTAH BUDGET An early eprlng is predicted by tho weather man. W. W. Wilson, postmaster at Sandy, quit tho office last wcok after nearly nineteen years of continuous service! Eleanor Lloyd Thomas, 92 years of age, mother of former Governor A. L. Thomas of Utah, died Sunday at tfklah, Cal. Carbon county will soon havo ono of tho most up to dato shearing plants in Utah. Tho plant will bo located lo-cated twenty miles from Price. Brigham City has been sclectad"OfH) tho slto for Uio now $750,000 sugar I factory to bo built in Box Elder coun- ty (by tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company. com-pany. Tho absenco of an ndoquato supply of water in tho neighborhood resulted in tho homo of W. M. Fuller on Har-rlsvlllo Har-rlsvlllo road, noar Ogdcn, being destroyed de-stroyed (by flro. Salt Lako and mountain resorts in ' tho vicinity of tho city aro to Ibo ad- vortlsed on Uio Paciflo coast ns summer sum-mer resorts during tho spring and i summer months by tho Salt Lako 1 Routo. Becauso of his advanced ago, Wong r Wong, known as "Doc" and said to i bo tho oldest Chinaman in Ogden, waa tflncd only $5 by Judgo Barker when convicted on a chorgo of smoking smok-ing opium. John Priestley, pioneer among Utah printers, died March 1 at his rosidenco In Salt Lake, after feeing prominently identified wft.h tho typographical typo-graphical trado in that city for moro than half a century. Preliminary ateps toward tho es. I tahllshmont and operation In Salt I Lako county of an Independent telephone tele-phone Bystein to glvo tho public hotter hot-ter servico at lower rates woro taken at a meeting held last week. Surrounded by members of her ln medlato family and many warm personal per-sonal friends, Mrs. Emmelino B. Wells on February 29 celebrated at Salt Lako her twenty-flrst leap year birthday birth-day tho olghty-elghth anniversary of her birth. Preparation for tho 1910 wool crop of Utah Is being mado hy tho shearing shear-ing pens. At Blnckrock, Cisco and Mantl tho pens and yards nro bolng put in condition. Wool buyers expect tlio 1916 crop of Utah to exceed Uio 1915 crop "by about 10 per cent. Joseph Strong, prominent Bheopman and wool buyer, was prohably fatally injured; at Ogdcn while descending In an automaUc clovator at the Colonel 1 IhidsonubuUdlhg from'tho Weber cluh. I Caught 'between, tho car and the floor I landing, ho suffered a fractured skull. I A portion of tho town of Castlo I Gate, Including tho Denver & Rio Grando railroad station and eighty-flvo eighty-flvo dwellings, will bo Involved In tho suit of Uio Pleasant Valley Coal company com-pany against Truman A Kctchum, filed in United! States court at Salt Lake. Tho Whltecotton library ot 1,23"0 books has been purchased: by Brig- ham Young university for $1,500. Thl3 is less than one-third of tho original cost. Tho funds woro collected by tho faculty and students from Provo "business "busi-ness men, frlonda and fonmcr stu-dents. stu-dents. January waa a healthy month In Utah, according to the report issued by tlio stato board of health. Wayne, Wasatch, Rich and Grand counties report re-port no contagious diecoaos during tho month, whllo Wayno county also reports thero was aot a dauth; during that period. Nicholas Byhower, former superintendent superin-tendent of publio parka in Salt Lako, has signed a contract with Lchl to supply and supervise tho planting of trecB and shrubbery in Wines park in that cty. iMoro than 250 trees and 200 shrubs will ho used In tho laying out of tho park. Orrln N. Hilton,, tho Denver attorney, attor-ney, will como to- Salt Lako City, March 25, to present In the supremo court his dofonso against tho chargo of unprofessional conduct mado against him In disbarment proceedings proceed-ings ibrought by the Utah stato har assocatlon. Prosperity day was celohratod at Richfield .by a parado of moro than , 1000 school children and citlzcn.s led ' by a hand. A' mooting was hold In tho opera house, at which band sol lections woro gtvon. "America" sung by f.00 school children, and talka undo hy prominent men. Salt Lako bank clearings for tho month of February, 191C, show an In-creaso In-creaso of moro than 60 por cont, or moro than $11,500,000 over tho somo month a year ago. Tho clearings for Uio month Just closed amounted to $33,03(3,378.72, as against $21,139,-511.87 $21,139,-511.87 for February, 1915. hi accordnnco with act passed hy tho 1915 legislaturo authorizing tho appointment of a commission to Investigate In-vestigate provisions for tho mentally doflciont and making an approprla-1,. vy tlon for Its cxponses, Governor Sp'jAfMflF has appointed Dr. D. II. Caldor, Dr. cSjP a G.' Plummor and Dr. E. Q. GomiusUS' Arthur "M. Schultz, aged 34 years, a Southern Paciflo car Inspector, was found dead In an outhouse at Uio rear ot tho horolo of his sister In Ogden, , ho having shot himself. Thoro is no known reason for tho sulcldo. Francis Sawyer, aged 7, and Georgo Jensen, aged 8, aro dead from exposure expos-ure suffered Sunday night whon, with, threo other "boys, they bocamo lost In Uio salt magshoa wo3t of Salt Lako City, near tho Saltalr tracks, from., which they strayod, whllo walking back from a trip, to- the resort earlier In tho day, |