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Show I News Notes f From All Parts of i UTAH 1, t - Ogden, Loris Buchanan, a private of F company, Thirty-eighth infantry, stationed at Fort Douglas, was arrested arrest-ed by police on a charge of deserting the army. Ho will be taken to Fort Douglas. Ilyrum, About S00 acres of land in Cache county was thrown open to entry Saturday. The property was reserved re-served for power sites, but an order recei'ed by Eli Taylor, local United States land office register, again makes the land available to home-steading. home-steading. The land la located west of Hyrum. Salt Lake, The "diploma mill" disclosures in the east do not apply to Utah, James T. Hammond, state director of finance and purchase said. He declared that an investigation investiga-tion has not disclosed a single case where a physician, surgeon, osteopath, osteo-path, chiropractor or other professional profession-al man has obtained a diploma by fraudulent means. Moab, David Arza Empey, one of the oldest pioneers of Moab and the valley and the oldest survivor of the confederate army residing in this state, died at the home of his daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Andrew Taylor, after an illness of only a few hours. Ogden, Lafayette Hanchett, active member and director of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce, was indorsed in-dorsed for director from the Eighth district in the chamber of commerce of the United States by the directors of the Ogden chamber of commerce. The eighth district comprises Utah, Idaho, Montana, Xevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona ajsd New Mexico. iSalt Lake, - JVoolgrowers from all parts of Utah were ia Salt Lake the first part of the week attending the annual convention of the Utah State Woolgrowers Association, Salt Lake, Provo City has applied to the state engineer for one second foot of water from Big Pipe Springs, Heiselt House Spring and Joint Springs to supplement its municipal supply, 'according to reports received. In the spring and fall its is proposed to use the water for irrigation purposes. Provo, Dr. Christen Jensen, professor pro-fessor of history and political science at the Brigham Young university has been appointed acting dean of the college of applied arts, during the .temporary absence of Dean M. C. Merrill, who will leave the first part of February on a tour of inspection of forest offices in the west, prior to going to Washington, D. C, to accept ac-cept the position of director of all forest service publications. Provo, The fact-finding commis. sion of the reclamation service, now in session in Salt Lake, will be extended ex-tended an invitation to visit Provo in order to familiarize itself more thoroughly with the Utah lake recla. mation project. Ogden, The J. S. Lewis Jewelry company is celebrating its fifty-fourth anniversary in business by a unique display in the company's window. Surrounding a photograph of J. S. Lewis, Sr., the founder of the company, com-pany, are pictures of early scenes in Ogden depicting the days when Ogden and Salt Lake communicated by means of a stage. Price, On application of the Columbia Col-umbia Steel company a postoffice hag been authorized at Columbia and will be installed' as soon as a postmaster can be appointed. Salt Lake, Numerous products which might be made at the Utah prison for use in state institutions here and elsewhere in the west wera enumerated by It. S. Humphries, consulting con-sulting accountant of the national committee on prisons and prison labor, In a report submitted to Gov-ernon Gov-ernon Charles It. Mabey as a member of the state board of correction. The recommendations were made at the request of tha Utah Manufacturer's association, which has opposed the making of proucts for tha open market. The report will be con. sidered at a meeting of the corrections correc-tions board. Cedar City, The Cedar-Kanarra federal aid project in Iron county, on the Zion National park highway, will be constructed for $01.70.32 a mile il the present estimates of quantities hold up and the low hid of J. T. Kaicigli & Company of Salt Lake, submitted, is accepted. Eight bids in nil were received and opened by the state road commission. They ranged rang-ed in prices from $12,.S."i"i.V0 down to that presented oy the Italeigh com. pany. While action was not taken by the state road commission, there appears to lie no doubt that the Kaleigh bid will be accepted. Salt Lake, Authority to complete its water system and to snpply watei for manufacturing, irrigation and domestic uses to Steel City, IrontoD and the immediate neighborhood was granted the Steel City Investment comi any by the public utilities commission. com-mission. Logan, Officers of the Cache County Foultry and Pet Stock association as-sociation have announced the date for the anaual poultry show as January Jan-uary 20, SI andFebruary 1 and 2. |