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Show UTAH STATE NEWS Ogden's effort to lmvo a largo addition addi-tion built to tho present federal building build-ing will probably result In Bomo early action. Tho total assessed value of nil tnx-nblo tnx-nblo property In tho stnto of Utah, according ac-cording to complete returns for 1020, l $717,308,321. Sugar reached Its lowest price In moro thnn n yenr In Ogdon last week, when stores offered tho product nt $11.30 per hundred pounds. Funeral services for llohcrt 13. Dur-rant, Dur-rant, the first Spanish Fork soldier who died In Franco to bo brought homo for burial, were held November 20. To be knocked down nnd rolled nlong tho rnllrond track by a switch engine and escapo Injury was itho unusual experience at Ogdcn of Carl Engelke, D years of ago. fllcn Jensen, 20 years of nge, ar. em-ployeo em-ployeo of a ranch on Antelopo Islnnd, conducted by B. T. Harris of Knys-vlllc, Knys-vlllc, was kicked In tho right side by a hdrso nnd seriously Injured. It now appears that thero will bo ono Democrat In tho lower house of tho Utah legislature. On tho face of returns from Grand county, C. A. Hammond, Democratic candidate, has been elected. The board of directors of tho Bonneville Bonne-ville Irrigation district has decided to accept the offer of tho Industrial commission com-mission of Utah to purchaso for tho state insurance fund $10,000 of the Irrigation Ir-rigation district's bonds nt 05. Wlllard Vance, 38 years of age, and his brother, Franco Vance, 31 yenrs of oge, both of Fain-lew, aro nt a Salt Lake hospital recovering from Injuries received when n hlnst In a mlno nt Seofleld went off unexpectedly. N. I. Ip.som, member of the state Innd board, who was severely Injured In an automobile accident near Beaver, Bea-ver, Is progressing rapidly toward recovery. re-covery. Mr. Ipson suffered n broken collarbone, when his automobile turned turtle. Frank K. Neboker of Salt Lake, now assistant attorney general of the United Stntes, has been appointed by the president to he "uxslstnnt of tho attorney general," which Is- tho second highest office In tho department of Justice. Boyd Kemp, the 20-months-old son of Mr. and Mra. Fred Kemp, was drowned nt Lehl. The child wandered away from tho homo and was found Inter by Its mother In a tub of water In u neighbor's yard, ubout u quarter of a block distant. , John William Brown, 35 ye,ars of age, of Ogdeti, was Instantly killed from an electric shock, and five other persons In the Immediate vicinity escaped es-caped similar fates,, nx the result of tho feed wire for an arc light crossing wires leading to their homes, ' Abo Majors, who commenced n' sentence sen-tence for tho imirder of nn Ogilen police po-lice captain In 11)01, ami who has beer, out under commutation of sentence slneo January 18, 1010, lias appealed to tho pardons board for u full pardon, par-don, but his application was denied. There Is no warrant In the statutes r coustlutlon of Utah for a school district to charge fees from the par-cntH par-cntH of pupils resident In tho school district for attendance at tho public schools of tho state, according to an opinion rendered by tho attornoy gen eral. Immediate steps In a state-wldo campaign cam-paign to persuade young people of Utah to remain on tho farms rather than to seek city employment, will be undertaken by the Utah statu farm bureau, co-operating with tho extension exten-sion division of tho Utah Agricultural college. 13. J. Norton, assistant state superintendent super-intendent of public Instruction, has been appointed by Governor Bamberger Bamber-ger as tho official representative from Utah at a conference to bo held In Butto, Mont, December 2, to take up problems of tho schools nnd school support. Ileber M. Hollands, 52 years of ago, formerly of Coalville, was killed Instantly In-stantly when ho fell twenty-flvo feet from tho top of n reo on tho farm of his brother, Oeorgo Hollands, two miles southwest of Sandy. Hollands was trimming tho treo when tho incident inci-dent occurred. In tho hope of supplying tho Utah Ons & Coke Company with sufficient rovenuo to pay operating expenses, depreciation, and tho Interest on Its bonds, tho public utilities commission of Utah has granted tho company permission per-mission to ralso Its rates on gas by 22 cents per 1000 cubic feet. It will cost $705,000, according to estimates es-timates presented to tho Btnto road commission by Its engineers, to com-pleto com-pleto tho work now In hand by tho stnto road commission so far as It Is posslhlo to complete It tho present yenr. Mrs. William Banks, wlfo of a Murray Mur-ray undertaker, Is In a critical condition condi-tion nt tho County hospital, as tho result of taking bichloride of mercury I tablets by mistake. |