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Show UTAH STATE NEWS A juror In the federal court who was twenty minutes late for the session in Suit Luke one day last week was fined $20. Two more supposed cases of smallpox small-pox have broken out in the state school for the deaf and blind. The patients have been isolated. Burglars entered a drug store and the rooms of employees at the sugar factory at ELsinore. The cash register in the drug store was pried open and $3 stolen. The monthly statement of the state treasurer shows a balance in the state treasury at the close of business October Oc-tober 31 last of nearly a million and a lialf dollars. More than $1,500,000 was paid out last week by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company to the farmers of Utah and Idaho In payment for the October delivery de-livery of beets. Bids on the state capitol will be opened December 3 and the state capitol cap-itol commission expects that twenty-five twenty-five to thirty contractors will be in the competition. Announcement is made by the poll tax department of Salt Lake that all delinquent taxes would be collected before the end of this year if every cent has to be sued for. That Salt Lake and Ogden have In the past few weeks been flooded with worthless checks bearing the signature of "H. W. Davis" and totaling more than $700, was made public a few days ago. John C. Sullivan, director and general gen-eral manager of the Victoria Consolidated Consol-idated Mining company of Eureka, one of the best known mining men ol the state, died at a Salt Lake hospital on the 13th. Harry Spinbon, the Greek miner who was shot at the United States mine iD Bingham, October 25, when a pitched battle between strikers and deputy sheriffs was fought, died at a Salt Lake hospital on the 12th. A vigorous campaign has been launched by the Utah Association of Credit Men with a view of securing a number of new legislative enactments enact-ments for the protection of business Interests throughout the state. The plans for the new bank a1 Provo, to b eopened by the Knight people peo-ple soon after the first of the year, have been completed, and show it tc be second to no other institution in Utah outside of Salt Lake City. An attempt to board a train while it was in motion cost Alfred Harris ol Linder his life at Lehi Junction. When Haris fell from the train an axle struck him on the head, Inflicting a wound from which he succumbed a few minutes min-utes later. The city council of Lehi has voted to proceed with the laying of five miles of new cement sidewalks in the center -of the town. But one-tenth of the property holders in the district objected object-ed to the improvement. W,ork will begin be-gin immediately. Utah county may have three more sugar factories in 1914. The Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho factory at Nampa will be transferred trans-ferred to Spanish Fork at once. The 6ame company and Jesse Knight of Provo are each contemplating building build-ing factories at Payson. Horse flesh is worth 10 cents a pound, according to the petition of a Chinese truck gardener, who has presented pre-sented a claim to the city commission of Salt Lake for the death of his horse as the result of a bullet wound fired by a police officer. The bullet was intended in-tended for a human fugitive. For the purpose of placing in operation opera-tion a plan by which it is hoped to make the intermountain country the greatest dairying section in the country, coun-try, a company is being organized at Ogden which will import 10,000 head of the best-known dairy cattle, to be sold to Utah and Idaho dairymen. The seventy-fourth birthday of Joseph Jos-eph F. Smith, president of the Mormon Mor-mon church, was celebrated November Novem-ber 12 '-with a private family dinner party in Salt Lake. One hundred and nine descendants of the president attended. at-tended. The total number is 111, but two are on missions in Germany. 'Where to Go and What to See," a booklet on Salt Lake and Utah, published pub-lished by the Salt Lake Commercial club publicity bureau, has proved so successful that the bureau is now following fol-lowing it up with a second booklet exploiting ex-ploiting the attractions, resources, advantages ad-vantages and possibilities of the state. The annual report on marriages find divorces issued by the state statistician sta-tistician shows that there were issued is-sued during the year 1911, 4535 marriage mar-riage licenses, 2,132. nearly half of total number, being issued in Salt Lake county. The number of divorce decrees granted during the same period per-iod was 671. The state of Utah is richer by $5,S34 as a result of the land sales made by the federal government within the -f state during the fiscal year ending last June 30. Two years ago the state received re-ceived $10,000 from the same source and a year ago it amounted to $4,000. Three pairs of twins and two odd ones, eight children, ranging from 4 to 12 years of age, stood by their mother, Mrs. Mary Lehon, a full-Dlooded full-Dlooded Cherokee, when she was arraigned ar-raigned in the criminal division of the Salt Lake court last week on a charge of grand larceny. i |