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Show UTAH flHfl5 That "Red" Gross, alias Charles Langdale, alleged to have been one of . the four robbers who held up the' Springville bank, must remain in Oregon Ore-gon to answer for his crimes in Portland, Port-land, was the decision of the Portland authorities, according to word received in Salt Lake. Maximum sentences for burglars and robbers irrespective of youth or mitigating circumstances will be the 'judicial dish" handed out to all offenders coming before the trial judges in Salt Luke, under a new policy pol-icy of "no leniency" which was outlined out-lined last week. Earl L. Packard, an Ogden hoy, has been appointed to a secretarial position posi-tion in the American Russian embassy. For the present, Packard will be on duty with the state department, acquainting ac-quainting himself with diplomatic methods, and will be assigned a foreign for-eign station later. The Utah executive committee of the American Legion will not mix in Jack Dempsey's affairs, according to action taken at a meeting of the committee. com-mittee. They decline to take sides in the controversy as to whether or not Dempsey was a slacker. One of the oldest remaining Utah pioneers, passed away in the death of Solomon F. Kimball, 73, well-known resident of Salt Lake. Mr. Kimball was born February 2, 1S47, while his parents were crossing the plains by ox-team en route to Utah. That it may give thorough service from Price to Pueblo, Denver and other eastern points by telephone,- the Eastern Utah Telephone company has applied to the public utilities commission commis-sion for permit to extend its 'Ines from Price to Green River. Steps for the formation of a Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho hnseball league will in all probability prob-ability bo started soon at Ogden. The present plans being considered call for a six-club league, with Logan, Ogden, Brigham City and three teams from Idaho in harness. Completion of highways already partly built and the construction of others as feeders to the main state highway appear to be the intent of the state road commission this year rather than work on scenic highways, which can wait. In the four counties in Utah which are traversed by the Union Pacific railroad main line, the company values its property at $0,405,221, while the value placed on the branch from Echo to Park City is placed at .?GG3,8S0. The Pahvant Irrigation district, one , of the first in the state of Utah to take advantage of the law which was passed by the 1917 legislature, and amended in 1919, has decided to disincorporate. dis-incorporate. Investigation of the facts connected with the present potato market in Salt Lake and in other cities of Utah is being made by representatives of the federal fair price commission. Shirley Madsen, aged 23, was seriously ser-iously injured when an automobile he wns driving to Salt Lake turned turtle upon the state road at Riverdale, three miles south of Ogden. Immediate steps to establish a municipal muni-cipal lighting plant in Ogden are recommended re-commended by the Ogden Trades and Labor assembly in a communication to the city commissioners. The ban has been lifted in Ogden as far as the theatres and motion picture pic-ture houses are concerned, but will remain re-main on for the dance hulls, because of the influenza. The Tooele county board of commissioners com-missioners donated $50 to help finance the educational drive and the Tooele county school board also made a donation do-nation of $50. American Legion charters were granted last week to the posts of Toc-querville Toc-querville in Washington county; (Um-nison, (Um-nison, Sanpete county, and Silver City, Juab county. Conference of the fish and game wardens of the mountain states, winch was to have been held in Salt Lake on February 1(5, lias beet; indefinitely postponed. Salt Lake drug stores report a falling fall-ing off in the number of influenza prescriptions as compared with the demand de-mand for preventatives the past few weeks. Information on all Utah business houses is being gathered through questionnaires ques-tionnaires being sent out by the Utah Manufacturers' associal ion. In twenty-two years the Salt Lake public library lias acquired 91,000 books, according to the report of the librarian. Witli more than sixty-five new models mod-els on exhibition, Salt Lake's, twelfth : annual automobile show opened February Feb-ruary 9. Mrs. Catherine Lynch, 00 years of age, the first graduate r.urso to practice prac-tice In Salt Lake, died last week. The city council of Manti has passed an ordinance closing all pool halls in the city. Call has been issued by Ira I! Browning, secretary of the state road commission, for a meeting at the cap-itol, cap-itol, February 17, of the state road commissi, m and various county and j city commissions, tit discuss the gen- j eral subject of engineers' salaries. j Value of livestock per head in Utah has decreased during the past year, j according 10 a report made public by i M. M. Justin. Held au'cnt for Utah of j the bureau of crop estimate. Niim- j I hers of various classes of livestock, 1 however, have quite generally in-j in-j creased. |