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Show UTAH BUDGET Kane county has reported over the top in the Mormon Battalion Monument Monu-ment drive-Fifty drive-Fifty disabled men will legin vocational voca-tional training after the holidays at Utah educational institutions. Utah ranked second iu the amount of wool produced in 1019 among the states in the Twelfth federal reserve district The parents and teachers of Coalville Coal-ville met re ently for the purpose of effecting an organization and getting better acquainted. George banes was found dead at Ogden having evidently been murdered. mur-dered. It is believed robbery was the motive for the crime. Sheep in the nine-mile section of Carbon county are suffering with sore mouth, according to a report made to the U. S. weather bureau. Joe Lopez, charged with the murder of a fellow countryman in Grand county coun-ty about, two weeks ago. attempted to take his' own life in the county jail in Price. Alfred Olson, of Emery, died at a Salt Lake hospital. December 2", from a gunshot wound, accidentally indicted indict-ed three weeks previous by a 5-year-old brother-in-law. The delinquent tax list for Weber rounty this year contained fewer names than for a long period, and sales of property will be about 50 per cent of what they were last year. Andrew Haravgis, proprietor of a soft drink parlor at Scolield, will lie formally charged with first degree murder for the shooting of W. H. Scott in a rooming bouse at Salt Lake.-The Lake.-The Salt Lake Ministerial association associa-tion has offered its co-operation in raising rais-ing funds for the erection of a monument monu-ment on the capitol grounds at Salt Lake in honor of the Mormon battalion. bat-talion. The state is selling another $100,000 worth of state road bonds, bringing the total of the Issue to date to 51.400,-000. 51.400,-000. This will leave $2,600,000 of the bond issue to carry out the 1020 road program. Hay is a scarce article in Cache county. Many farmers have sold their cows, but others are compelled to buy hay, which is selling at $28 to $32 a ton at different Idaho points and costs $4 a ton to ship. Although he had nearly $200 in his. possession, Jake Colin. 52 years of age, an umbrella mender, residing at Ogden, starved to death, according to the city physician who examined the body of the man. By way of getting action early on next year's program, the state road commission has authorized Ira R. Browning, its secretary, to advertise for bids on the paving to be laid from Spanish Fork to.l'ayson, a distance of 5.74 miles. Estelle M. Patterson, of Provo. was seriously injured in an automobile accident ac-cident at Needham, Mass.. when an automobile, in which she with friends .were returning to college, was struck on the Needham railroad crossing by a freight train. A. O. Smoot. postmaster of Provo, is the owner of a two-year-old cow which lias just completed a record which makes her stale champion butter cifw for her age. She gave in one year 0107.:! pounds of milk and 513 pounds of butler. Contracts for bridges over the Sevier Se-vier river. IV2 miles north of Redmond, Red-mond, to cost $11,305.02, and another over the San Pitch river in Sanpete county. 0V2 miles from Gunnison, to cost $7,541.00, have been approved by the road commission. Boxelder county has planted the largest acreage of winter wheat in the state, 40.0(10 acres, which is 95 per cent of last year's acrage. Cache has planted 31,000 acres, or 91 per cent of last year's and Juab, 14,400 acres, le same acreage as last year. ""Utah's senators and representatives in congress are urged in a resolution unanimously ladopted by Salt Lake ltotarians to do everything possible to procure the early passage of the Davey sedition bill, introduced by Congressman Martin L. Davey. Severe damage to the buds on fruit trees has been the result or the recent re-cent cold snap, according to C. E. Pet-tigrew. Pet-tigrew. crop pest inspector of Weber county, who has just made an inspection inspec-tion of a number of orchards. Peach and apricot buds suffered the most damage. The industrial commission of Utah has granted a lump sum payment of $1510 to William Rupp. who was injured in-jured when a piece of a nail be was driving flew up and hit his eye. He lost the sight of the eye. and under the law is entitled to payment at the rate of $10 a week for 100 weeks. Maps of Utah showing the county boundaries and location of some of the principal communities in each are being be-ing sent to livestock men of the slate, with the request that they mark on them the approximate location of the ranges they are using this winter and give their present conditions in per cent of normal |