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Show UTAH STATE NEWS The governor hns authorized the offering of-fering of a reward of $1,000 for tlin capture of Rafenl Lopez. Four men had narrow escapes and considerable damage was done when a warehouse belonging to .1. W. Sum-herhays Sum-herhays & Sons company at Salt Lake collapsed. Salt Lake needs more good rental cottages and small, modern apartments, apart-ments, according to a report raau'e to the city commission by the building inspector. Although the bank clearings of the western and Pacific coast states for November show decreases over the corresponding mouth of 1912, Sail Lake recorded an Increase. J. H. Martin, recently arrested at Ogden on the charge of being implicated impli-cated in the Eccles blackmailing case, Is now charged with shooting David Edwards, a Pinkerton detective. A reduction of BO per cent in the city vehicle license tax was made by the Salt Lake City commission last week, and a motion for a similar reduction re-duction in the merchant tax was defeated. de-feated. Tickets for the dance to be held at Salt Lake, December 19, as a benefit for the families of the men killed by Rafeal Lopez, the bandit, were placed on sale on Tuesday ana within two hours over $200 worth had been sold. Nineteen convictions for violation of the Mann white slave . law have been secured in the federal court for the district of Utah in the last two rears. On a comparative population basis, the number is greater than in any other state. Reports on receipts from revenue for Salt Lake for the year 1912, which have just been issued by the census bureau of the "United States depart . ment of commerce, give evidence that the population of the city is mow more than 100,000. Jose Lopez, no relation to the Mexican Mexi-can bandit, hau filed suit at Salt Lake against the Denver' & Rio Grande for f 20, 000 damages for the loss of an, eye put out by the head of a rail spike n-hich broke from the spike and struck the plaintiff in the eye. Announcement is made by the Salt Lake Route that a weekly service on the Moapa branch which runs between Moapa and St. George has been started. start-ed. The line is twenty-two miles long. The train will be a mixed one, carrying carry-ing both passengers and freight. The publication of a monthly leaflet y4 of suggestions to housewives has been A started by the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college. The Brst issue is entitled "Desirable Christmas Christ-mas Gifts" and numerous suggestions for presents that would be both appropriate appro-priate and practical. The commissioners of Davis county bave passed an ordinance whio-h provides pro-vides that any person who dances ragtime steps, and any proprietor or floor manager who permits any such iance to be engaged in, will be subject to a fine of $50, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty daps, or both. That he sustained painful and permanent per-manent injuries as the result ot L.. H. Becraft's failure to properly repair an automobile is the unusual contention made by William M. Bostaph, former city engineer of Ogden, in bringing suit against tjie defendant in an effort ef-fort to recover $1,550 damages. Under the state law a creamery can T mold a "pound" of butter, and if it corn I tains only fifteen ounces and is labeled label-ed to that effect it is still a legal pound. However, when butter is labeled lab-eled sixteen ounces and contains only fifteen ounces, the state dairy and food department has something to say. A saloon in Ogden was the scene of l typical wild west hold-up Thursday night, when two masked men, armed wtih automatic guns, entered . the place fifteen minutes before the 9 o'clock colsing hour, lined everybody up along the bar and secured $350 in :ash, together with a diamond stud valued at $135 and a gold watch. Two masked men, armed with automatic auto-matic revolvers, entered the Boston bar, Salt Lake, and, forcing the bartender bar-tender and two customers in the place to put their hands on the bar, robbed the cash register of its entire contents. The residence of David Wolfe ot '. Salt Lake, with nearly all the con-I con-I tents, was almost completely destroy-j destroy-j H by fire, by blaze starting from an I overturned oil store, three small J children being alone In the house at I the time. I -HusseU Xatlmer, a high school stu-I stu-I dent; met with a serious accident I hile sleigh riding at Monroe. Step-I Step-I Ping on the tongue to adjust the i I harness, he was kicked under the I sleigh, which ran over him and broke t I knee cap. I It is said that Georgia marble will ,. I "in a victory over the Utah product I lt tie next regular meeting of the state capitol commission, when the I foreign article will be selected for g I Seneral use in the new Utah state I Capitol. ?" I Tlle central agricultural club at the I cultural college at Logan has or-I or-I Banked twenty, other, agricultural -'9 I ;'uba in as many high schools I ;ughout the state. The object ot tb- eSe organizations is the promotion f I " ec'Wtific agriculture, both in and I wt the school. ud- I 'el8 Johnson, one of the contract- uet. at the new high school building Be I b Monre was struck on the bead I ( a brick, which fell a distance of I ey feet A deep gagh was cut 0D iji 1 id0' Ws head rendering him uncon- 1 I 0Us lot a short time |