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Show 1 News Notes if From All Parts of 1 UTAH I - Salt Lake City. Governor George T. -Dent and his chauffeur, Edwin C. Burt, CiiS South West Temple street narrowly escaped injury when a missel, mis-sel, believed to have been a .22 caliber cal-iber bullet, crashed throus.h the windshield' wind-shield' of the car as Burl was taking the chief executive of the state to his home. Glass from the windshield was scattered over the governor and Burt, but neither was cut by it. Ogden. Plans for the proposed new hotel in Ogden, to be built' upon the Reed hotel corner at the intersection inter-section of Washngton avenue and Twenty-fifth street, are now complete-showing complete-showing that the building will be a twelve story structure instead of nine stories as originally intended. Salt Lake City. There are now in the State of Utah, not including the Uintah basin, 11,G98,796 acres of . surveyed land as yet unappropriated, according to yearly reports completed by Ell F. Taylor, register of the local lo-cal land office. Much of this land, of course is desert land, unfit for any kind of agriculture, and without mineral resources. Besides this, thei e are 15,4S4,7G0 acres of unsurveyed land, showing the great potential laid resources of the state as yet undeveloped. undevel-oped. Price. A number of prominent Carbon county citizens went on the bonds of the eleven alleged ringleaders ringlead-ers of the lynching event of June 18. As a result of court action and the promptness of friends in coming to their aid in a financial way, all have been released from the county jail and will likely enjoy freedom until called for trial court about the middle of October, when . the third term of the Seventh judicial tdistrict, embracing embrac-ing this county, begins. Price. Henry Larsen, 23-year-old youth of Castlegate was drowned while in swimming in an abandoned reservoir northwest of the city. It is believed he was stricken with cramps while still some tweney-five yards from the nearest point of shore, and in water approximately nine feet deep. The sudden attack caused him to become panic stricken, and although al-though a good swimmer, he became frantic. While his companions were trying to aid him, he struglged desperately des-perately with them. In the end they were forced to free themselves and with failing strength, make their way back to shore as best they could,, leaving their unfortunate comrade com-rade to his fate. Logan. Erection of a large granite and marble monument to the mem- .. ory of Martin Harris"," "one of the . three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, Mor-mon, was completed in the Clarkston. cemetery, according to Bishop Loos-ley Loos-ley of Clarkston, who has charge of the-work. Monticello. Without obtaining sufficient suf-ficient evidence to bring an indictment indict-ment against anyone for the burning of the La Sal Sheep Shearing plant, the grand jury investigation here was brought to a close. It was impossible im-possible for Sheriff Oliver to locate Fred Sharpe of Colorado for the in- quiry into the stealing of the Bayles Brothers' sheep. Ogden. The waters of Great Salt Lake have remained stationary during dur-ing the last month, according to Otis Weeks, division engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad. This is about twelve inchese lower than last year. Last year the water rose to 84 inches above an arbitrary mark and this year has remained at 72 luehes above the same marks for the last month,' Mr. Weeks said. Ogden. Colin Wood Rankin, well known as "Scotty," chef at the city jail for six years prior to the first of this year, died at his home. Death came very suddenly while he was seated in a chair conversing with Mrs. Rankin, he suddenly passed away. Salt Lake City. Reporting on thd damage done by floods on the Eph-raim-Orangeville road in Emery county, coun-ty, H. S. Kerr, assistant chief state road engineer, totals the loss at $4500. Of this $300 was sustained at Cottonwood Cot-tonwood creek, $300 at Cottonwooa wash and $1200 at Boulder wash. Salt Lake City. The supreme court of Utah has ordered the attorney attor-ney general, Harvey H. Cluff, and J. Hunter Lunt, district attorney of the . Fifth judicial district, to file a complaint com-plaint in disbarment against Thomas H. Burton of Nephi, who is judge of the Fifth district, based on charges contained in a petition for disbarment disbar-ment filod late in February by William Wil-liam B. Higgins, formerly district attorney at-torney of the Fifth district. Bingham. The town board at the regular weekly meeting passed an ordinance or-dinance ' to better regulate card games. In future all persons having card games on their premises will be required to procure a license. The ordinance will be effective in ten lays. Ogden. Joseph Warren Wadsworlh 91 years old, hand cart pioneer an! one of Weber county s oldest residents, resi-dents, died at his home in Hooper. While conversing with his wife, !i9 was seized with apoplexy and e-r-cumbed. |