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Show UTAH SIWE HEWS Five hundred Utah horses are being purchased for use in the European, war. Mrs. Carolina Wilhelmia Hestmark, SI years of age. a resident of Ogden for the past forty years, died suddenly Dn Christmas. William Anderson Smith, Coalville's first settler, died at his residence, December De-cember 2.-1. of general debility. Ho was SO years of age. Final arrangements for the farmers' round-up to he held at Richfield January Janu-ary 6 to 16 have been completed by the Utah Agricultural college. While coasting down a hill in Salt Lake, Ella Frost, aged 15, and Doris Baxter, aged 10, ran into an automobile automo-bile and were seriously injured. Aaron Keyser, So years of age, for more than forty years a resident of Salt Lake and a prominent business man of the city, died December 24. I. K. Bell, who shot and killed A. C. Harvey in a saloon in Helper, has been discharged. A coroner's jury brought in a verdict of self-defense. Hog cholera has been discovered in a herd near Murray. Prompt serum treatment has been advised and efforts ef-forts are being made to stamp out the disease. William Krough and Moses Foster, serving time at the state prison for burglary, have been committed to the state mental hospital, following an investigation. in-vestigation. Fire destroyed the historic plant of the H. Wagener Brewing company in the mouth of Emigration canyon, Salt Lake, on December 27. The loss is $200,000. Isaac Lawrence, aged 75, was seriously seri-ously injured when he was struck by a street car in Salt Lake. He suffered suf-fered fractures of the right hip and right shoulder. Injuries sustained in a fall in Salt Lake on Christmas eve resulted in the death of H. M. Stewart, formerly a telegraph operator with the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Two men known as Elmer Schlegal and Clarence Olson, suspected of having hav-ing victimized a Salt Lake hotel on a bogus check for $100, are under arrest ar-rest at Las Vegas, Nev. The weekly report of the city board of health shows 55 births and 32 deaths in Salt Lake last week. Of the births 28 were boys and 27 were girls. Of the deaths 17 were males and 15 were females. In view of the benefit accruing to the public and prisoner alike, Warden War-den Arthur Pratt, of the state penitentiary, peni-tentiary, urges continuance of the use of convict labor ou sta highways, in the biennial report of the state board of corrections. Pure food inspectors and weights and measures officials of the state plan to ask the legislature to t?.js laws compelling creameries that sup: --x, ' ply Utah dealers to put up their butter but-ter in four, eight, twelve and sixteen ounce packages. Enactment of a law requiring the registration of every drug store in the state with the secretary of state as well as with the state board of pharmacy, phar-macy, is urged in the biennial report of the state board of pharmacy, filed with the goveinor. Reports made to the Oregon Short Line, the Denver -ft Rio Grande and the Salt Lake Route show that the passenger travel during the week preceding pre-ceding Christmas did not cqn-.: uiai 1 of the corresponding week of 1U 1 3 by I almost 50 per cent. ' Francis William Builey, 74 years ol age, one time a pony express rider between Salt Lake and Piuche, Nev., died at his residence in Salt Lake on Christmas. Mr. Bailey was born in Farhan, England, November G, 1840, and came to Utah In 1SG2. After remaining unconscious for six hours with a bullet in his brain, a self-inflicted injury, Harry Edmund-son, Edmund-son, 24 years of age, a linotype operator, oper-ator, died at the Ogden hospital. Ed-.,, mondson bad been suffering from injuries in-juries sustained in an automobile accident. ac-cident. Ira D. Wines has given a block In the center of town to Lebl City. Restrictions Re-strictions connected with the gift are that the city shall inclose the block with an Iron fence, expend $1,000 in 1915 planting grass lots and at leu.st $500 a year thereafter In keeping it in good condition. To assist In caring for the distressed distress-ed In the European war zone the first presidency of the Mormon church has suggested to the stake presidents, ward bishops and presidents of missions mis-sions in the United States that contributions con-tributions be solicited from all members mem-bers of the church. In common with organizations lu .. other western states, the Utah State V -Woolgrowers' association will endeavor endeav-or at the coming session of the legislature legis-lature to secure amendments to the law covering bounties on predatory animals, to prevent bounties on the same animal being paid more than once. What is thought to be an old Indian burial ground has been unearthed at Lcland, near the Halt Lake Route line by .lesf-ph and George Markham, while making some excavations. Two of the skeletons, one of a woman and the other a child, were nearly intact and were in a sitting position. Otto Weeter, about 24 y-nrs of ag't, S and well known all over i,!t:ib on ac- f count of bis ability as a d.;buier in the t Park City high school a few ye.'rs I was dangerously injured while lug on the Daly West mill at ';i-.y. which is nearing completioi, |