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Show THE UTAH BUDGET There are now 127 saloons in Salt Lake City. 'Murray City has published a notice of intention to commence work on the new proposed sewer system. George Warner, a 17-year-old boy, was arrested at Provo on a cnarge o! passing worthless checks on the merchants mer-chants of that city. The police are looking for the thief who got into a saloon-it Salt Lake a few nights ago and re a cash regis ter valued at $500. J J. W. Thornley of Kaysville was elected president of the Utah Wool growers' association at the meeting 1l Salt Lake last week. The superintendent of city waterworks water-works announced last week that the water used by Salt Lake during the year 1916 amounted to SOS gallons per day per capita. An automobile speedway on the Bamberger tract, immediately north of Salt Lake, costing $300,000, may be constructed soon after the frost leaves the ground. Practically complete -rangements have been made by the "Weber county farm, bureau for the Farmers' Roundup Round-up to be held in Ogden from January 22 to 27, inclusive. Salt Lake is in the grip of an epidemic epi-demic of pneumonia, which, despite heroic efforts on the part of the health authorities to check it, seems to he becoming more serious daily. Driven desperate by the scarcity of food supplies since the big sno'w came; bands of blue goshawks are said to be killing and devouring quail by the score at the state public feeding grounds. Howard De Weese, th& self-confessed burglar held at the county jail at Salt Lake on the charge of murdering murder-ing his wife, continues to maintain an attitude of studied indifference to his fate. The federal appropriation ior the extinction of coyotes in the inter-mountain inter-mountain country, which it was estimated esti-mated would suflice until June, is al-1 al-1 ready exhausted, and coyotes are still numerous. i After nearly three months of active - patrol duty at Loehiel, on the Mexican Mexi-can 'border, thirty miles east of No- ' gales, troop G of Ephraim, second squadron of Utah cavalry, has returned return-ed to Nogales. i Merton H. Phillips, who was injured in-jured in the wreck on the Ogden, ' Logan & Idaho railroad, died at Logan, January 11, following the am-' am-' putation of his leg, which was crushed in the wreck. , Four persons were severely injured i and about forty others were badly . shaken up in a rear end collision on ! the Ogden, Logan & Idaho railway 1 main line near Nerva, about eleven miles north of Ogden. i Junius Gurr, aged 23 years, fresh- man student of the B. Y.. U. at Provo, , while chatting with Alvin Russell, his 1 room mate, drqw a 3S caliber revolver ' and shot himself through the heart. 1 Death was instantaneous. , Installation of an immense auto-, auto-, matic hog scraper, with a capacity for cleaning hair from 3000 head ol hogs every twelve hours, has 'been ! started at the Ogden Packing & Pro 1 vision corwpany at Ogden. ' As a result of interest in the 640-acre 640-acre grazing homesteads which sooi may be thrown open to entry. It was estimated at the Salt Lake land office last week that more than $15,000 had ! been taken in as application fees. With totals of building work oi - $SGO,0S5 done in Ogden during 1910 i the improvement record for the p:i - twelve months has exceeded those o: . both 1914 and 1915 and has nearlj : equaled the high record of 1913.' ' T. R. Cutler, general manager ol - the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, twili i confer with officials of the Oregoi Short Line in a few days in reference - to the extension of a railroad line fron ! Garland to Bear River City, a distancf of nine and one-half miles. James Lambros, merchant of Mag - na, has been named president of the t Greek community of Utah, succeeding - Andrew Pappas of Salt Lake, ,whc ) has tendered his resignation after di recting the destinies of the commun , ity for a period of six years. "Passage of the vocational educa t tion bill by congress will bring ai - least $15,000 annually to Utah If tht . legislature will pass the necessar; I legislation to comply with the iedcrr. i terms," says Dr. E. G. Gclwars, stat i superintendent of public instruction. Fourteen woolgrowers of Manti anc ' vicinity last week contracted theii wool for next spring. Horace G. Browi ' of Manti bcught the clip for 35 cent; ' per pound. The amount of wool sole 1 was 316.000 pounds. This will brins i to the woolgrowers the sum of $140, 1 600. ' Mahonri M. Youn. the Utah sculp tor, is one of four artists in the eour try whose work is on exhibition riu - ing the month of January at the Cat cago Art institute, the largest an: ' most extensive institution in the Unit ed States devoted exclusively to ar m all forms. Fifteen carloads of gas pipe for lay ing heavy mains have been shippec Jm the east and are due to react Provo within the next ten days. TV, pipe is for the extension of the U J Valley Gas & Coke company's plan 1 Springville and Spanish Fork. t Nearly 1.000 of the flockmaste 1 , the United States gathered at , Lake last week to attend the forty 1 third annual convention of the Na tional Woolgrowers' association, rep , resenting every state west of the Mia iouri river, where sheep and wool rais tog Is an industry. |
