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Show THE UTAH BUDGET There are now seventy-five names on the roster of the Southern Pacific company band organized in the shops at Ogden. Utah delegates to the American Mining congress have been appointed by Governor Spry. The congress will be held in Chicago November 13-17. The secretary o the Charity Organization Organ-ization society at Salt Lake announces an-nounces that at least $5,000 must be raised for charity purposes at once. At a meeting of the blacksmiths and horseshoers in Murray it was decided to increase the price of horseshoeing 25 cents. The raise is to be put in force immediately. Civil service for police and fire departments de-partments of Utah municipalities was discussed at a meeting of the members of the State Municipal league held in Salt Lake last week. Three women and on man have made application to operate the stat capitol cafe, which closed recently because be-cause the former manager of it tired of his job and quit During the quarter ending September Septem-ber 30 there were 5S0 cases of whooping whoop-ing cough and 871 cases of measles reported re-ported to Dr. T. B. Beatty, state health commissioner. The report of the city sanitary inspector in-spector of Ogden for October seta forth there were twenty-four cases of infectious diseases that month as against twenty-two in September. Ten national guardsmen discharged from the service at Fort Douglas recently re-cently i enlisted in the United States regular army at the army recruiting station at Salt Lake in one day last week. After refusing relief at the counting count-ing tables for more than thirty-six hours an election judge in Salt Lake is reported to have been stricken with appendicitis and had to be removed re-moved to his home. In Salt Lake City, a few cases of what resembles smallpox have developed devel-oped and every precaution is being taken to see that it does not spread. By some of the physicians it is pronounced pro-nounced chickenpox. Plans to ask the next state legislature legisla-ture for an assembly hall and gymnasium gymna-sium to cost approximately $180,000 and an educational building to cost $55,000, are being considered by the board of regents of the University of Utah. High standard of scholarship will be encouraged at the University of Utah by the University Alumni association, asso-ciation, which has announced five cash prizes of $50 each for leaders in class work for the year ending next June. It is reported that Ogden dealers who are affected by the ordinance requiring re-quiring that a license fee of $75 annually an-nually shall be paid for each gasoline dispensing pump are preparing to test In the courts the constitutionality of the law. As he was leaving his home at Salt Lake, Frank Jackson, a negro, was stabbed twice in the chest when an unknown man attacked him with a knife. Jackson declares his assailant struck at him with the knife from behind be-hind a tree. Of the more important bills to come before the next legislature for its consideration con-sideration will be one proposing a public pub-lic utilities commission and the state wide prohibition measure. In addl tion a number of tax bills will be be fore the legislature. Having failed to obtain any clew as to the home or parents of Charles L. McGullen, the youthful bandit shot and killed by Conductor C. A. Wood during an attempted street car holdup hold-up at Ogden, October 31, the body was buried in the pauper plot. Major Wesley King, judge advocate of the Utah national guard, returned last week from the Mexican border. He reports that the second squadron of Utah cavalry and the Utah battery, which are still in border service, appear ap-pear to be enjoying their duties. The Utah artillery have gone into quarters for the winter, while the four troops comprising the second squad-ron squad-ron of cavalry are stretched out on patrol duty for 125 miles, according to Major Wesley King, who arrived at Salt Lake last week from Nogales, Ariz. The new Liberty school at Salt Lake, which was completed only six weeks ago at an approximated cost of $70,000, was burned to the ground last week. Defective wiring from an electric motor in the center of ventilation ventila-tion flues is believed to have started the blaze. When Sheriff Henry of Carbon county coun-ty appeared at the state prison last week with a negro prisoner, who gave his name as Buck Fox, it was discovered discov-ered by the officials that the man In custody was John Pheelinger, who escaped es-caped from the road gang In Davis county two months ago. While washing clothes at her home at Holbrook, Mrs. Emma Maser was attacked by a coyote. Fortunately the mad animal did not bite through the clothes, and her screams soon brought the farm dogs to her rescue. The sentiment for enactment of a city ordinance making it unlawful for any business house to exchange merchandise mer-chandise after once delivered to a customer is receiving the support of some of the principal business institu-tons institu-tons of Salt Lake City. In the belief that the asphalt well at Rozel, Boxelder county, has penetrated pene-trated into a deposit of material containing con-taining icthyol, a substance used in medicine, the directors of the Rozel company plan to send samples of the output of the well to chemists to b analyzed. |