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Show THE UTAH BUDGET Five feet of snow at the Yankee mine at the head of American Fork canyon Is reported. Measles Is still on the Increase In Bait 1-ake, according to the weekly re port of the board of health. Fifty poor families and 350 bom lese men of Ogden will be taken car of by the Salvation Army at Christmas, Christ-mas, Ten miles of marademUcd road ha been completed in Weber county and designated to the state during the at year. Mark Tuttle of Emery county, at , present deputy state auditor, wi:i be named assistant auditor by Lincoln J. Kelly, the newly elected auditor. That there has been a marked de crease In tuberculous among the live Itxk of the state Is shown by the feiort of Uie state livestock Inspector. William H. ItUhop, former city treasurer of Murray, died on the Mil) cf tuberculosis. He was 40 years old and la survived by a wife and two children. Burly next spring the children of Che ub!lr u hools of Ogden will start beautifying and improving the city In connection with the League of Good Citizenship. llccnunu her husband will not fix the roof over their two-room building and because he has removed the cook stove and refuses to buy another, a Halt Lake woman has filed suit for divorce Henry V. ETilns, II years of age, baa been awarded $500 damuges for permanent paralysis which resulted when he touched a live wire ou the property of tho Tellurtde Power company com-pany near Ogden. Tho big convention of Utah fruit-growers fruit-growers will be held at the Weber club In Ogden Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 20, 21 and 22, The session will be devoted almost entirely to the marketing question. ' Despondent over ber arrest on charges of soliciting. Mrs. Mildred Rchmhlt. 17 years old, a chorus girl . at the Majesllo theatre, Halt I.ke, and wife of Edwin Schmidt, a theatre usher, committed suicide, drinking carbollo acid. The biennial report of the state board of dental examiners has keen Bled with the governor. It shows that Uie receipts of the board for the past two years amounted to 12,177.80, while the disbursement amounted to 11,714.25, During November the state land board collected 124,722.10 principal and Interest from Investments of the State land grant funds, and S23.S28.17 principal and Interest on land eilen made by the board la various parte of toe state. Declaring that the standard of education edu-cation In Utah has reached a high plane, Dr. A. H Wlnsbip or Boston congratulated the teachers at the conjoint Institute at Murray, for the part they have played In the advance of education. Charging false Imprisonment, Geo. E. Francis, colored, bas (lied suit against the -chief of police of Salt Lake for damages In the sum of 15,000. Francis alleges he was arrest ed, thrown Into Jail and held incommunicado incom-municado for Ave hours. The week of January 20 to 35 will be a busy one In Ogden. as three convention. con-vention. , poultry show and a pure . food exhibition will be held. The three conventions are the Slate Dairymen's association, the Slate Dry Farmers' association, and the State Horticulturist Horticul-turist society. Utah live stock is In excellent condition con-dition according to the biennial report re-port of the stale live stock Inspector. Hog cholera shows some increase because be-cause of lack of funds to purchase , vaccine, the report says, but all other disease of stock have been reduced to a minimum. On the ground thst the present law regarding the dipping of sheep Is amblrnous in places, the state board of sheep commissioners favors the enactment en-actment of a new law giving the state inspector power to take charge of any abeep whose owner falls to comply com-ply with the law. The residents of Cayune have been frightened recently by a man named Autone Tenney, who had a hallucination hallucina-tion that a woman was trying to kltl him. He would leave bla room half dressed at night and scare the people of the neighborhood. He haa been placed is the Mental bospltaL Jam Meaktn. a Utab pioneer, passed away December 13 at the borne ct bis daughter in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Old age was the cause of death. He was born la Northampton-ehlre. Northampton-ehlre. England. July 26, 1826. Mr. Meakla joined the Mormon church la 1147 and ram to Utah, In 1171. After holding of floe sine lST.O, Jesse Pond, the poundkeeper at He Ver, baa aent In his resignation. He bas aommalated a competency wtlle la efflo sufficient to keep him during dur-ing hi remaining days. Mr. Dond Is ever M years old. Aa anti discrimination law making tt a misdemeanor for any person, f rm or association to maintain higher prices for food products In one section sec-tion of the stat thin la another, l recommended to tho legists tar by the state pur food bureau and the 1st food and dairy commiaslooer. 1' |