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Show WW STATE NEWS j ! Kopresoutative E. O. Leatherwood has in, reduced a bill appropriating I S'sp.cpo to purclia.se a st:e and ereet a public building at Lehi, Utah. .Mining activity in the Ophir district continues lo iucrea.se. The working forces on a number of properties have been enlarged recently, and the camp is taking on the appearance of the old-time boom days. Hoys starting grass tires caused a blaze at the Consolidated Wagon and .Machinery company warehouse at Eighth South and Third West streets, Salt Lake. Wednesday, which resulted in a loss estimated to be between !50,-' Odd and $75,000. The loss is covered oy insurance. I Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cowers, each 30 years of age', natives of Xephi, were insiantl. killed at 2 :i'.0 o'clock on Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon near the old power plant in Ihe canyon six miles ea? of .ophi, when the automobile in wnlch they were riding left the grade and turned turtle. The Wasatch Grading companj ol . i'rovo was Wednesday awarded (ha 1 contract by Hie city commission for contracting a concrete road in s reet paving district No. 12 on West Center street from Fifth West street t') the Denver & It in Grande railroad crossing cross-ing on a' bid of .fJd.l l'J.'Jl. About ninety-nine cases of supplies Tor P batlery, Utah national guard, reached Salt Lake- Wed.tosdi-y, consigned con-signed to the property and di'ibursin g officer, who stored' them for 'die time being in the state eapitul. The new equipment included' four four-wheel drive trucks of latest type. The new tobacco dealers' bond anc license law is forcing about 1000 dealers, deal-ers, or -35 per cent of the total number num-ber in the state, out of business, declared de-clared Itob'ert O. Jones,, commissioner ot law enforcement of Idfi.no, on his return from a I rip to the northern part of fhe slate, where -lie- checked up on tobacco and real estate dealers. Salary of Dr. George Thomas, president-elect of the University of Utah, was placed at $7000 a year by thu board of regents in: a special meeting held in the Deseret P.ank budding at Salt Lake Wednesday. All swbtftlinr.v funds which have heretofore been set aside for the use of the president in addition to his regular salary were abolished. County Attorney John B.. OTordon of Tooele county arrived in. Salt Lake last Wednesday, and' he- will hold a conference with District Attorney E. A. Kogers with regard to probable action to lie taken against the membces, of a mob which attempted ' to lynch M. S. Goodale, Postal Telegraph-Cable company com-pany operator at Wendover;. Monday afternoon. From the Orderville correspondent of the Garfield County News the paper prints information regarding road work in that county and the progress that is being made. It details the visit of the members of the state road commission commis-sion to Orderville and of their inspection inspec-tion of the community;, and subjects not deal'ng with roads ora which the -commissioners spoke. Walter W. Sharp, Jr., IS- years of age, who stole .n10;200' from the Western West-ern Loan and Building company last January, was sentenced: to: an Indeterminate Indeter-minate term in the state- prison Wednesday Wed-nesday at Salt Lake-by Judge M. L. Kitchie in the Third' district court. The court announced' that he would make a recommendation to the state board of pardons in-the-case. About 20,000 acres,, roughly- speaking, speak-ing, about one-half, of which.- is already under cultivation, are- included in the new Carbon irrigation district near Pine for -which a large majority of the proposed water users recently voted at an election her&: Arrangements are now going ahead; looking to an ultimate ulti-mate decision as. to the-best means of obtaining water - for tJie- n-e-w district. The members of the state road commission aacb a representative of the federal' engineer's office arrived at Logan Wednesday and accompanied the county.- commissioners over the paved state- highway from Wellsville to Richmond' and' the- proposed extensions exten-sions partly povrded for by the appropriation- ot half of the required sum from- the sale of the county's issue is-sue of "$000,000' lu- roaI bonds, provided nn equal' sum is- obtained from the federal fed-eral rottd funiif. Dr.- iSeorg Thomas, state superintendent superin-tendent of public Instruction, formerly-head formerly-head of the department of commerce-aiiiit commerce-aiiiit finance--at the University of Utah was recently elected president of the-university, the-university, the decision marking th i close of an executive session lasting three haurs. Thomas Hull, acting secretary sec-retary of the board of regents, stated; officially that there were four informal and six formal ballots and that the last, official ballot showed 'J to 4. Fred W. Reynolds, head of the extension department of the university, receiving the minority vote. "Warden James Devine- of the state prison and the members of the board if corrections, except the governor, were the guests of honor at a party staged at the warden's home and the mason offices Saturday night by the prison guards. The governor waa absent from the city. The business men of Manti have organized a volunteer fire department Several hundred feet of extra hose has been purchased. .Saturday the or ganizatlon. was out for its first prae-tlct |