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Show THE UTAH BUDGET The estimated value of timber in the national forest of I'uh is placed at $18,117,660. There are seventy-seven state banks, twenty-two national banks and one private bank In the stale. The value of farm property in the atate Is estimated st f 130,79.'j.201, an against 175.175.141 In 1900, an increase in-crease of more than 100 per cent. Impressive funeral services for tbe ashes of ClesMon 8. Kinney, authority on Irrigation laws, who died aud wsi cremated at Honolulu, were held in Salt Lake last week. With the Intention of forming an organization to dispense with middle men and co-operate in selling milk, s 'arge number of dairymen will meet In Salt Lak during the week. A movement Is on foot to banish frills snd furbelows from the Suit Lake blfrb arhool, and enforce a rule which will compel all tbe school glrlt to dress alike, In plain blue uniform dresses. Th total assessed valuation ol iroperty throughout th stale ol Utah, as shown by reports of county auditors for 1912, Is f200.2:9.207 which 1 six millions greater than for 1911. That the man killed la Kane county by a man whose name is said to be Samuel Ileal, waa not tbe convict, V. E. Orant, who escajied from the Wash Ington county road camp on Janunr; II, has ben definitely established. Sergeant C. C. lirown, for the past sixteen- years a member of the Oxden I'Ollce department and the senior officer of-ficer in point of continuous service, died at his home, Saturday, death being be-ing due to a computation of dlsesnea William Evans, 43 yeara of age, dropped dead on the streets of Mur ray, bis desth presumably being due to heart failure He was returning from a visit to a physician whom he Lad consulted concerning his heart rouble. Th Ogden recruiting office turns out on an average ten enlistments a month, according to Sergeant K. W. rlchllllng, who has been In charge of the United States army recruiting station sta-tion In that city for th past four months. v Jt Kuramlnger, a D. A It. d. conductor, con-ductor, waa dangerously wounded at Garfield In a quarrel with Lee Ditlley, ft switchman of his crew. Ilummln-ger Ilummln-ger waa struck over the head with a pick handle, a compound fracture ol tb skull resulting. Tb greatest automobile ahow In th history of th lntermountaln west, typifying the Important .stride that bav been mad In the last twelve months by tb youngest of the great national industries, Is being held In Salt Lake this week. 3llm Ilond, a Chinaman, let his taste for chicken get the better 'of him and he la now occuplng a cell In the county Jail at Ogden awaiting trial for stealing about 400 members of the feathery family from th coops during tb last few months. , Utah has tbe distinction of leading all states In th Union In the pro- : ductlon of barley In both 1913 and I JJtl. In 1912 the yield waa 45 bush i els per acre and In 1911 43 bushels i Tb average yield throughout the I country was SI bushels. L In realisation Of tb vast amount of dtllrahl advertising which it will I give tb city, th members of th Og- den lodge, Brotherhood of Railway 1 Trainmen, bav arranged lo enter J Jain tbe COO or more delegates who will psii through Utah In May. ! t Beatrice Bmlth, aged IS. died at Og den last week as tb result of a peculiar pecu-liar accident While la ft fainting pell MUs Smith fell from ft couch. , striking her head against ft stove sine which time until her death she j ba complained of sever pains In her , head. j i Required to furnish ft bond of tie , 000,000, th largest ever fqulrcd In legal affairs In Utah, David C. Cedes, , son of the Ite David Eccles. timber i and railway magnate who died sud- denly la Salt Lake Iecember i, has been appointed administrator of tbe i stat. , About 15.000 acres of land will be i placed under irrigation by the Provo I Reservoir and Utah Lak Irrigation I companies this spring and summer, i About 10.000 of this will be on th i east aide of the Jordan river In the ' north of Utah county, and the rest on I the west side. I It has been decided to call a sp- ' cial election at Parson some time 1 within the next six weeks at which water bonds to the extent of lU.O'M) I will ba voted upon. If the election carries tbe council proposes to instai, 1 ft modern water system at th earliest 1 possible moment I Th average all of Utah'a 21.674 1 farms la 1912 waa 13(7 acres. There 1 ar t,S30 firms containing between 1 20 aad SO acres; 4.170 that contain ' from &0 to 100 acres; J.60 tbst coo 1 tala from 100 to 173 acres; 1.732 that 1 contain from 175 to 260 acres. Earl Thomas of Ogden sustained serious Injuries when b struck s ( trolley pol In alighting from a street car. He struck bis bead and probably suffered concussion of th brain. Al though unconscious for more thin tc hours, th young man Is not believed i to to fatally Injured |
