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Show UTAH STATE NEWS An epidemic of hog cholera, said to have been rife In Weber county, la now under control. Two families near Roosevelt are homeless as the result of fires that occurred last week. The consolidation of the United States land otfice at Vernal with that at Salt Lake has been postponed until un-til February 15. I A vigorous campaign against the Belling of short-weight coal and other commodities sold In bulk will be begun by the Salt Lake city commission. Suspected of being highwaymen responsible re-sponsible for recent holdups, Julius Held, 19 years old, and Samuel Shea 24, have been placed in the Salt Lake City jail. The Contlos brothers, arrested at Bingham about a month ago on charges of selling adulterated milk, were found not guilty by a jury sit-, sit-, ting in justice court. Out of thirty-two applicant for barbers' bar-bers' licenses before the state board of barbers' examiners last week, twenty-one will henceforth have the privilege, of practicing In Utah. ThePayson City council is consid ering putting in a waterworks system. sys-tem. The members are enthusiastic about it and will no doubt within this year Issue bonds and Install an up-to-date system. In attempting to alight from a moving mov-ing street car In Salt Lake, Jed Brown, a business man of Bountiful, was thrown to the pavement and rendered unconscious, besides suffering severe abrasions. T. Haubez was sentenced to six months in the county jail and T. Sanzdo was sentenced to three months on charges of robbing the Miners' hotel and the Brisk rooming house at Bingham. They are Mexicans. Mexi-cans. James F. Hickman, convicted in the October term of the district court at Nephi of murder in the secohd degree, dug his way out of the Nephi jail Thursday night, where he had heen held -pending a new trial, and made good his escape. William Henry Rowe, 71 years ol age, treasurer of the State Fair association, asso-ciation, secretary of the Good Roads commission and assistant superintendent superin-tendent of the Z. C. M. I., died at his home in Salt Lake last week, aftei an Illness of three months. Endoresement of the Mabey antl-racehorse antl-racehorse gambling bill was the re suit of a mass meeting held at Kays vllle. A strong resolution was passed upholding the bill and calling on the ' legislators representing this district to vote favorable to Its passage. J. U. Eldredge, Jr., has begun his second term as United States as-6ayer as-6ayer In charge of the Salt Lake office, of-fice, his first term of four years having hav-ing been completed January 19. He has iheen notified of his reappointment by letter from the authorities at Washington. George Thatcher of -Cache Junction, Junc-tion, who It Is said attempted to ride free by placing a conductor's hat check in the band of his hat, was arrested ar-rested upon his arrival In Ogden, and is being held in the city jail, although no charge has been placed against him. i Prof. L. A. Merrill, secretary of the Utah conservation commission, declares de-clares that irrigated lands in semi-arid semi-arid climates do not "wear out," on the contrary, they increase in fertility fer-tility from year to year through the sediment carried in the water and deposited on the land. W. L. Chambers, a farmer of Ogden Og-den valley, reported to the police that someone had removed the brass trimmings trim-mings from the harness on his team while it was tied to the curbing in Ogden. Chambers was compelled to purchase new trimmings before he started on his way home. Confiscation of all loads of coal that vary in favor of the dealer more than 1 per cent from the weight marked on the weigh -bill is recommended recom-mended to the city commission by the social service commission of the Episcopal Epis-copal church of Utah in a communication communi-cation received last week. T. Horman, a guard at the Utah Copper company's property at Bing ham, was arrested and brought to 6alt Lake last week. A grip full ol dynamite, fitted with caps and fuse, had been found in Herman's room, end it is charged he was planning to blow up several .buildings. As a result of the , complaints received re-ceived from deputy tax assessors in Weber county, against the vicious dogs which they have encountered, it is possible that they will be clothed in tne authority of deputy sheriffs in order that they may carry suitable weapons for personal protection. George Murphy, a veteran employee of the Union Pacific, is at an Ogden hospital as the result of injuries sustained sus-tained when he leli from the tender of an engine and fractured the bones of his right ankle. He also sustained cuts and bruises a;bout the head. Juvenile courts of the state pronounced pro-nounced 424 minors incorrigible during dur-ing the past year. Of this number, 299 were boys and 125 girls. No children chil-dren were classed as incorrigible until un-til repeatedly efforts had proven them beyond the best efforts of the juvenile juve-nile officers. j |