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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Fred Warren, who burglarized a laundry at Provo, has been sentenced to from one to twenty years in the state prison. At least 200 foreigners are attending night school in Salt Lake. The foreigners for-eigners are endeavoring to prepare for naturalization. Kane county is without a superintendent superin-tendent of schools and the state board of educaton is looking for a man te take the job. The state is to sink an experimental artesian well in Iron county to determine deter-mine whether or not irrigation by this method is practicable. Salt Lake bread makers have been warned by Heber C. Smith, state dairy and food commissioner, that tags on loaves must state the exact amount ol bread in the loaf. Negotiations for the purchase of 20,- 000 acres of land in the Cache valley by a syndicate of California people have been renewed. The Callforniana desire the land for grain growing. After an illness of three days, Joseph Jo-seph Smith Wells, secretary and treasurer treas-urer of the Utah Light & Traction company, died October 18 at his home in Salt Lake City, from pneumonia. Owing to the lack of funds created by the failure of the county to meet its obligation to the state road commission, com-mission, paving work on State street between Salt Lake and Murray has been discontinued. Application has been filed for a new trial for Arozio Rapole, convicted al Salt Lake October 12 of murder in the first degree in connection with shoot ing to death, June 26, Amos R. Neff a farmer of Mill Creek. More than one million dollars pel month is the increase in the resources of . ninety-six banks . and trust com panies in Utah for the last three months, according to the report of C A. Glazier, state bank commissioner Foreign corporations doing business m Utah are required to pay the same tax for doing business that is imposee on Utah concerns and when they lapse in payment of the corporation tax the are subject to penalties quite as se vere. Becoming confused while trying te dodge an automobile at Salt Lake City, C. Mertsheimer, '54 years of age was thrown violently to the pavemen and suffered a fractured leg and bod; bruises, when one wheel of the auti passed over him.' It is officially announced at the wa department in Washington that the de partment has carved out a new recruit lng district, wi(th headquarters a Salt Lake City. This district include all of the state of Utah and part o the Btate of Idaho. Wanted in New York on a charg' of murdering a woman and stealin; her jewels, valued at $26,000, Axe Hill has been discovered in the stat prison at Salt 1-ake, and he may shorl ly be sent to "New York to face th grave accusation. Following the installation of specia equipment, the Ogden plant of th Pintsch Gas company 'is contributin, daily from fifty to seventy-five gallon of distillate, a coal-tar by-product, t the supply of dye material now bein produced in the United States. That there are now fourteen mor saloons in Salt Lake City than shoul be for compliance with the state la allowing only one for each 1,000 o population in any municipality, is th argument in a protest against th granting of a license for another si loon. H. T. Haines, state commissioner c labor, immigration and statistics, 1 sending out an invitation to civic oi ganzations throughout the state, asl ing that characteristic photograph and statistics be furnished at once fo Inclusion in the biennial report of th department. Declaring that taxes in Cache coui ty are becoming too hesavy a burdei members of the Taxpayers' league me at Logan, adopting resolutions decri ing the amount of money expended b the county and pleading for a curtai ment of expenses in all department ; of government. In an endeavor to bring a stop t the turning in of false fire alarm! Judge Robers at Salt Lake Imposed fine of $10 or imprisonment for te days upon William Fields, who, whe - in an intoxicated condition, it is sait pulled the hook in an alarm box t 1 see the department "turn out." I Scrawled on a dirty playing car found beside the body of J. E. Jessu proprietor of a small lunch room i Bingham, w'ere the words: "I can ' beat the twenty-one game, so I guee I'd better quit." A bullet wound i his head and a revolver in one han i Indicated that he had committed su ! cide. Wayne Hapgood was thrown from ' mule he was riding at Salt Lake, lane Ing on the pavement, his nose beln broken. ; The supreme court has reversed th i tower court in Sanpete county, whic ! decided that a tie vote made Gunniso i City dry. 1 Albert Carlson, 30 years of age, I ! in a Salt Lake hospital suffering froi three wounds inflicted by Mexican in a fight, at Eureka, and William M Kenna, 30, is at his home at Eurek: 1 severely cut on the face and head a 1 a participant in the fray. Attracted by the success of the e: Iraction of polnsh from alunite ores i Utah, scientists working for the go' ernment have concluded an exhaustiv experiment in the hope that the moui tains of Utah may be able to prortuc sufficient potash to make this countr Independent of Germany. |