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Show r iHf NewsNotes From All Parts of UTAH Salt Lake city. The petition of Charles McKellar, convicted In the First district court, lioxelder county, of voluntary manslaughter, for clemency, clem-ency, was denied by the state board of pardons at iU regular meeting. Ogden. A special deputy sheriff is on duty in Ogden canyon to prevent the cutting of Christmas trees by persons who have not obtained consent con-sent of the owners of the property. Sheriff Richard D. i'incock says he has received reports that small pine trees which, had been planted for ornamental or-namental purposes hud been cut ana removed. Manti The local chick natchery has Just complted the construction of a new modern building to meet the rapidly growing demand for, chicks. A -!O,00O egg incubator will he installed install-ed which will double the capacity for this spring's hatch. Ten and a half tons of eggs will be required for the two incubators which have a seasons capacity of 108,000 eggs. A thousand chicks a jay will be delivered during the months of March, April, .May and , June. Salt Lake City. -sweeping thnrgea which would virtually abolish the finance fi-nance end of the state department or finance and purchase are advocated by Stnte Auditor Mark Tuttle la his unnual report made to Gov. Charles It. Alabey. The auditor holda tne entire law as being in conflict with the constitution and providing duplication dupli-cation of work and effort in the finance fi-nance end. Ogden Mayor Frank Francis, in an address at the First Methodist church made an appeal to citizens to co-operate with the city administration in its efforts to enforce the prohibition law. Salt Lake City. strikers and union lubor organizations won In the first court battle in connection with illegal violations of the United States district dis-trict court restraining striking ahoi-men ahoi-men from Interfering with Denver and Kio Grande Western employees when Judge Tillman D. Jalinson discharged J. W. Edwards, charged with contempt con-tempt of courL Logan. One dollar bill raised to ten dollars by pasting the numerals 10 in the corners, has made its abearance abear-ance here and merchants have been j warned to look out for it. It could not be passed unless In a rush of business. One was passed In Preston for ten dollars and Sheriff UeekMeno ut once informed the officers here. Logan. Representatives of Che bondholders of the Cache Water Conservation District No. 1 have agreed to extend two years the time for payment of the assessment now Hue. This action will result in many oi tne land owners mere retaining their holdings, It is said, when insistence in-sistence on payment now would have cau-sed many to relinquish their lands rather than attempt to pay. Moab. The county commissioner ut their session last week took up' the mutter of Grand county's o-op-eration in federal road work. , The project to construct un east-and-west federal aid highway met with the ait-provul ait-provul of the commissioners, the highway high-way to be constructed along the route of 'the Midland trail or Pike's Peak highway. Moab. Grand and San Juan counties coun-ties during the week have been visited by heavy rains. Frost being totally absent in the section around Moab, the moitture nil went Into the ground and has been of great benefit to the range and the furmers. The highway high-way between Moub and Thompsons has been dragged und Is now in first class condition for travel. Kumas .Snow has has fallen In the vicinity almost contlnuosly clnce Thanksgiving and there is now sufficient suffici-ent snow to permit all traffic being conducted on sleighs. A half dozen teams came here from the reservation bringing sleighloads of oats for market. mar-ket. A herd of about COO cattle was driven from Ileber back to the reservation, reserva-tion, afoer the owners had vainly tried for weeks to market at a profit. Nephl. The Nepbi Commercial Club iwssed resolution ndvocnting the routing of motorists to Ely, Nev., via Nephl and Beaver over the Zion park-highway park-highway nnd thence west from Beaver through Mil ford, Newhouse, Garrison, nnd Baker and Osceola, Nev., instead of over the Lincoln highwuy, which i declared Impassable. Salt Lake City Closing of the doors of the defunct stats bank of Duchesne Is attributed directly to the frozen na. tur of the loans, the tremendous amount of bad tmper nnd the shrinkage shrink-age of the deposits without liquidation in a report fivon on an audit of thu bunk to Soth Pixton, state bunk com-tiiisioner. com-tiiisioner. Ogden.-National "Canned Goods" week will ho observed March - to 10, according to tho advices roved ber. j |