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Show "N VOLl'ME OGDEN. UTAH, nfl) KENT HERE fflUKSDAY WITH 17 FAMOUS DOGS VI .Noted Race Driver Spends Day to in Ogden Waiting for Train Famous Ashton, Idaho for to DemDerby; Had Expected onstrate His Famous Racers in the City Streets LI Tod Kent and his famous dog team, veterans of many races, nent Thursday in Ogden laying over for the midnight train for Ashton, jfcho, for the annual dog races on numbering 17 5FTwo8ofhe2r-d- g teams, nine belonging and 9 owned by Kannady to Harry Whistlin Lid Hutchinson, accom-rinie- d the Kent dogs while their driven nroceeded to Ashton. Ogden is missing one of the big-n-it events of the entire year by not tying in with the dog racing circuit, Mr. Kent, himself a Utah man, deon the clared. "Active could state in this lovers of sport jirt mt over one of the greatest events of he entire year. Ashton, only a small town, is host to approximately 20,000 xopie for three or four days while he derby is being held, and that number could be doubled or tripled where here is a large population to draw tom like there is here in Utah. "While I have not gone in search if a possible race course here, I am cnfiaent that a suitable course could located that would accommodate Kent continued. .he huge crowds, against Clarence negro, now being held in the city jail, due to the death Wednesday of John Bowman, 23, negro, in the Dee hospital from a gunshot wound in the jaw, alleged to have been inflicted by Mosley. A charge of asault with intent to kill had already been filed against Mosley, who has confessed to the shooting, according to the police. When Bowman was taken to the hospital following the shooting February 1 he wrote the name of Mosley on a piece of paper when asked who shot him. Bowman was unable to talk. He was treated by Dr. II. W. Nelson, who said that for the last four or five days prior to death the man had had a fever of 104 to 105 degrees. Mosley was arrested and a t8 caliber revolver was later recovered by the police that was used in the shooting, it is claimed. Muslt-y-, Liquor Violator Gets Jail Term and Fine Ten days in jail in addition to a fine of $150 was imposed by Judge Simon Barlow in the city court Wednesday upon Joe Montes 35, proprietor of the Rex rooming house, when 12 he pleaded guilty to possession of inMontes was artoxicating liquor. rested by Sergeant L. W. Pack Tuesday evening, and is alleged to have had a gallon jug of liquor under his arm. Charles Brown, a porter in a soft drink parlor at 227 Twenty-fift- h street, operated by Bert Knowles, was sentenced to pay a fine of $150 or Brown plead The Ashton course runs through the serve 30 days in jail. guilty to a charge of having liquor in ritj three times during the itreteh, and the eager fans get to his possession. vitness the races from every vantage joint during the three laps. Mr. Kent and his companions s top22-2- 3 ed over in Ogden for the express To Convene demonstration of a giving impose vith their famous dog teams through Approximately 50 bottlers of soft he streets of the city. Race officials drinks in Utah with many of their ire said to have tried to arrange such Utah tn event by wire, but were unable to working forces will attend the convention association State Bottlers lo so, although no particular reason ould be established for the hitch in in Ogden Friday and Saturday, Febhe plans. ruary 22 and 23, at the Hotel BigeIt had been hoped, Mr. Kent stated, low. Representatives from other hat the event would be given wide states, and from firms closly allied to mblicity and that a real demonstra-lo- n the bottling business will also be in of dog teams and dog racing could attendance, it was stated. save been given. Charles P. Nevin, of Butte, Mont, The drivers have ecently participated in the derby at a member of the executive board of rruckee, just over the Nevada line the American Bottlers of Carbonated r.to California. A large number of Beverages, will represent the national alifornians were present, but the association. neet was quite unsatisfactory from Mr. Nevin has been a leader in he drivers point of view, Mr. Kent the organization of his industry for aid. years. Besides his office in the many The prizes were high, with $3000 as national association, he is president in irst won by Fred Prince of Portland; of the Montana State Bottlers as so 2000 second prize won by Scotty Al-e- n ciation and served several terms as of Nome, Alaska, and $1000 third of the Interstate Bottlers irize won by Roy Stover of McCall, president association (Montana, Wyoming and daho. He also is a former mayor While Kent did not finish in the Idaho). and of Butte is chairman of the Mon' noney at Truckee, he has the distinc-o- f tana state Democratic committee. winning 11 first prizes out of 9 races in which he has participated, ie won 8 of the 12 races at to Ashton, nd two of the three races at McCalL he recent hard luck at Truckee cut :own his average. The birthday party sponsored by Dog race enthusiasts are the best sports in the the Kent Rotary club of Ogden will be givsaid, country, while there is no ticket sale of res- en at the Hotel Bigelow Wednesday erved seats, the race committee puts evening, February 20, it was announcunt souvenir badges with ribbon that ed at the last meeting of the club. re readily bought up at $1.00 each Rotarians from the Logan and Brig iJid proudly worn by the spectators, ham city clubs will be the invited and more proudly kept after the race guests. over. Frank M. Driggs announced that Kent made a hurried to Salt distribution of twelve calves to Wetrip ake early Thursday evening prior to ber county boys, planned for today, cakmg the midnight train with his had been postponed until next Wed 'logs for Idaho. He was born at nesday noon. This presentation will Uwiston, Utah, near Preston. He be made at the Utah state school for ' Jn,Ped into fame by winning his first the deaf and blind, five pure bred a Ashton several 9 j years ago Holsteins and five pure bred Jerseys without even being considered a given to groups of boys from contender for the honors prior being Plain City and Hooper. The RotaLake Lindbergh, his dar- who made contributions for these rians aa a driver has been sub- - calves will be in '!? attendance, together tiantiated by repeated successes. of the Weber County the with boys the most interesting stories Calf club and members ,Ua of the general 1 Kent, however, didnt have committee headed James R. Beus, by c. rahearing on dog racing, but on chairman. he was reported frozen to at his summer home in the Kent left for Ashton, the f mercury nountains near Ashton. The night drepped to 75 degrees below zero, where the thermometers froze up, and it was so cold that a pair of registered mares owned by Kent were frozen "stiff in their stalls. As rumors grow with every telling, the story soon got out that it was Kent who was found frozen with his dogs t shivering beside him. On reaching Ashton, the editor of the Herald there saw Kent as he arrived and proceeded to tell him that he was reported dead, and wanted to know what to report to the other papers, particularly the Pocatello papers who had sent the in quiry. Kent told the editor to let him stay dead for a while in such weather. Kent boarded a train for Pocatello the next day, and was everywhere hailed as a living dead man. Few of us realize just how cold even 50 degrees below zero is, Kent continued, and have no realization how cold 75 degrees below zero is here in these mountains. He said he had just recently swapped stories with vetAM JUST BBlMMlUff OVER erans from Alaska, who agreed that rrM HOMS TOWM PRJOe, so severe spells in the Idaho mounthe SO THAT I VJAitr TO tains are much more severe than anyHAVE AU.THE thing experienced in the north counTom HAS try. 1 meau pi we schools, Kent regretted very much rot havlibrary BEAUTtfUL CHURCHES, BWE ing had the opportunity to display his famous dogs in Ogden, and hoped that coiMuunv greets, House, a rark, pusue pimsrouub a move would be launched to include wwea. SYSTEM AMD so ou, Utah in the annual dog racing circuit A lot of politicians get calloused Aw WILLING to fWAV hands by trying to hang on to the job SHARE I for mother four yeajrs. ; le Soft Drink Bottlers Feb. Rotarians Stage Birthday Party , home town henry S' 7 Wmi NUMBER 11 Wounded Negro Dies; DR. F. S. HARRIS DAVID PUGH USED Murder Charge Looms TVl SPEAKER AT FARM Murder charges were filed -- 25-mi- FRIDAY, FEBRl'AKY 15. 1920. 'BUREAU MEETING MINING STOCKS Annual Meeting of Weber CounAudit of Mining Company Hooks ty Organization Saturday at Shows that $22,179 of State's Weber County High School Money Was lut into Mining Saturday Will be Gala Affair St oik by David J. Hugh; Audit With 19 Local Groups ParticiAlso Shows Dorter Acted as in the pating Program Underwriter for the Company Dr. Franklin S. Harris, president of the Brigham Young university and former director of the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college, will be the principal speaker at the Thirteenth annual meeting of the Weber County Farm bureau at the Weber county high school Saturday, February 16. Dr. Harris is not only one of the leading educators of the country today, but is practically the father" of dry fanning in the intermountain country, having demonstrated the feasibility of dry farming with proper cultivation while serving at the Utah Agricultural college. A full days program has been prepared for the farm bureau members. The first meeting will convene at 2:00 p. m. with an address of welcome by !rs. Murray K. Jacobs, president of the home and community service of the organization. President George Stallings will then submit his annual report for the year 1928 and will outline the various projects and activities of the organization for the coming year. The afternoon meeting will be followed by a dinner and a moving picture program from 5 to 7 p. m., when ehch of the 19 farm bureau locals in Weber county will furnish an act on a mammoth stunt program. A dance beginning at 9 p. m. will conclude the festivities. Special guests for the occasion will be Ephraim Bergeson, president of the Utah State Farm bureau; Frank Evans, attorney for the national farm bureau; presidents of the farm bureaus of the adjoining counties and five or six county agents and representatives of the Utah Agricultural college extension service. David Iugh, former chief deputy state treasurer, convicted and sentenced to the state prison for embeiils ment of $104,541.14 of state funds, used $22,179 of the money in the pur- chase of stock and the payment of asMinsessments in the ing corporation, it was disclosed in an audit completed Thursday. The audit of the company's books was made by Schofield, Wells & Co. and C. M. Chrktenscn at the request of Director Ileher O. llicks of the state securities commission. The audit in part refutes the story told by lugh at the time he confesHe claimed that the sed the crime. money was all lost in playing the horse races through local bookmakers. The audit further intimated that the balance between the amount inand the total vested in amount of the speculations has been hidden away. The report to the commission stales: It is further shown that F. E. Porter acted largely in the capacity of an underwriter or dealer for the compuny in violation of the securities act and at no time attempted to qualify or to meet the requirements of the law with respect to the sale of securities in the state. Porter was a former officer in the mining company and it was to his room in a local hotel where Pugh was taken immediately after his arrest Porter offered at that time, according to the officers, to place several thousand shares of stock to assist Iugh in paying back the shortage. Park-Bingha- m Chamber of Commerce ARIZONA DAM To Meet Monday Nitflit PROJECT NEXT For Flection Ucturns ON PROGRAM While the chamber ef commerce election Monday is being conducted without the customary caucuses, primaries and rallies incident to election, a itcord vote from tin 500 members of the chamber is expected, according to F. J. Kjeldsted, secretary. l.al lots containing 14 names were sent out to the entire membership last Saturday, and a large portion of the ballots have been returned already, it is stnted. Seven of the fourteen men named on the ballot are to be elected directors of the chamber for the coming year. All ballots must be returned to the chamber of commerce by six o'clock Monday, February IS, in order that the ilrrtion committee, headed by J. M. Forrislflll. can have the entire vote tabulated for ounniecemeut at the regular meeting of iha membership of the chamber at. the Hotel Dtalm mllrooin Monday evening. Those nominated include James It. Beus, E. 1.. Ford, 1(. J. Finch, J. S. Glazebrook, Robert 11. Hinckley, S. T. Jtppesen, Frank A. Kuhlmati, Joseph C. McFarlane, I. H. Mulcahy, S. Fred Fred M. Nye, J. Fletcher Norton, , John TilloUon and I)r. s. W. Wherry. Itcclanintion llurcau to Deter in Arimine Amount of zona in the Parkcr-Gil- a Proj- ect; $250,000 Appropriated for Investigation; 110,000 Acres to be Irrigated is Estimate A determination of how much of the land in Arizona under what is known us tlio larker-Gil- a project, may lo irrigated from the Colorado River us an incident to the construction of the great dam at Black canyon will be one of the first undertaking of the RcclHiiiiUon llr.rcs'.i, wfcsa the bill authorizing the Colorado river development become effective. An item in that bill provides $250,-(Hi- O for the investigation of the feasibility of various projects of in the irrigs-developme- nt jun The act sing'l,,ora, nu. les out specifically the larke Scow-croft- project and states that a report on its feasibility shall be ntado by DecemThe money will not ber 10, 1931. for available, however, until the ApprO CU der canyon act has been ratified riv-by at least six of the seven Colorado Wednescommissioners er basin Btntes. city Ogden day informally approved the general With referenre to the procedure stadium recreation plan presented to I that will be foilowcd in' this study, them by Mayor Frank trancis as out- - (he burcau ot rccilimation cites the lined Tuesday by the Ogden stadium futt lbnt( jurinff lbc 26 years of its I recreation committee. existence it has made similar studies The next question before the com- - and reporta on 150 possibly feasible missioners is thnt of selecting a lte I projects In the Colorado river basin, for the stadium anil deciding upon ftlnnj 330 reservoir sites, large and It is hoped that P18'0" small, on the Colorado river basin, design. for a baseball diamond can Ins includ- - amj its tributary. It lists these un PL dertakings Btute by state. Several sites are under consldera- In Wyoming, it says, investigations tion. One lies east of the city, a,H began jn jjjqj with a reconnaissance joining the reservoir, where a nntural L lhe torage possibilities of Green bowl exists. Three sites near Ogden s river an(1 engineering investigations airport, south of the city, one near the j wtirc later undertaken in cooperation mouth of Ogden canyon, one at the wilh t,lc atate of Wyoming, looking north terminus of Harrison avenue the locaiion 0f feasible irrigation and one on North Washington ave-- I projects and storage reservoirs. Ex-nnear the Martha society home al- - j tensive surveys and borings at dam so are being considered. Bitos were mado in 1915 and a review Columbus of the cooperativo investigations was mado by a board of engineers in 1910, Sponsor which Dr. Elwood Mead, the pres- v a ) I ent commissioner of reclamation, was Acntiioi chairman. Butter production at the Weber I More than 25 projects that have With only the formality of signing the contracts between Ogden City, Central dairy in January of this year been investigated, involving a total Weber college, and tho Ogden City increased 34 per cent over the corrcs-- 1 ultimate irrigable area of about o schools to make the civic stadium a month last year, it was acres. I addec an received James It. President Bugs nounccd the n connection with these projects, by reality, project boost with the announcement by the at the Hooper Farm Bureau meeting 0Ver 20 reservoir sites were investi-Mondevening. A total of 79,000 gated, including Flaming Gorge, an Knights of Columbus that they would donate $1000 toward the fund from pounds of butter were made last estimated capacity of approximately the proceeds from their huge Orient- month as compared with 69,000 pounds 3,000,000 acre-fee- t, al Carnival to be staged during the in January, 1928 an increase of 20,-- 1 ln the state of Colorado Investi-00-0 I sceond week in April. pounds valued at approximately gation have been made of about 50 A gigantic pageantof industrial and $10,000. An aggregate irrigation projects. mercantile development in Ogden will of the powdered milkirrigablo area in the state of nearly Operation be staged in true oriental fashion in plant has greatly aided butter produc- - 2,000,000 acres has been reported and the huge coliseum. A colorful auto- tion, it was pointed out, as the skim over 150 reservoir sites. Two mobile show, radio show, and an inis used in making the powdered gation projects, the Grand valley and dustrial pageant of such huge pro- milk after the cream has been taken the Uncompahgre valley have been portions that it will become an annual out for making butter. constructed by the reclamation buaffair like the Mardi Gras of New Orand are under operation, havrcau, leans. ing an aggregate area of 125,000 We have long had in mind an un- G. S. Gadsby Succeeds acres. dertaking of this kind to boost OgIn the state of Utah, investigations Green den, J. F. Shaughnessy, grand knight been made of about 30 irrigation have chairand council local of the general 1 & Utail and 75 reservoir sites. One Lilgnt projects, man of the festival, said, and have has bcen constructed by the reservoir bematter thoroughly gene into the M. elected of reclamation. wi,th a capa- bureau George Gadsby, president fore a decision has been reached to and I Utah the of acre-feeof the water manager general 255,000 city stage this huge undertaking. & a Power at out of the Colorado meeting diverted company Light being The coliseum will be transformed its directors on February 4, has as- - river basin through the continental into a typical village of the Far East of sumed his duties and is now directing divide into the great basin for the with its specially constructed huts and of the company. As n I irrigation of over 60,000 acres of land affairs the in the narrow winding streets, cral Mr. of the fagodas manager 47,000 yards of bunting Gadsbv succeeds D. C.company, who jn the Strawberry valley project. Green, In the atate of New Mexico, a estito decorate the building, it is resigned his position as vice- - dozen irrigation projects have been mated. A popularity campaign will be con- president and general manager of the investgatcd within the Colorado to accept a position with basi havi area of about ducted to choose a Miss Ogden to Bond & Share company B00000 Electric the and a doZ(m r,Bervolr acre8( reign as Empress of the festivaL of New York City. Lafayette an sites, several of which are on the head-cheStreet parades will also be a feature who as : resigned president of waMrs 01 ine u,,a r,ver of the week. Special excursions will be run to the city for the week, it is the company and who was elected I 'reaenrolr stated. would Jjthi th, The undertaking has the support of pmndenl by Mr. Gadaby. hay. Lnin- 1,1 the Boulder expprominent business men of the city, veBt,Ktad including MrGadsby has had widespread of the enand Hie active is which reservoir partly tire community wiil result in one of erience in the public utility field. llejrn I state of Anzon. The most prom- as and resigned general president ever successes the most outstanding (Continued on page 4.) manager of the West Penn Power staged in Ogden, it is claimed. Pittscompany, with head offices at BILL BOOSTER SAYS: burgh, to accept the position he now holds with the Utah Power & Light In 1909 he was graduated Club company. eta booster, has his by Massachusetts Institute of Tech- noiogy and immediately thereafter beFAULTS', BUT BEING MEAU Virgil Harrop was elected president came associated with the Warren WaABOUT AtCWEV B WOTOI of Life Underwriters association of ter company, a subsidiary of the TWE LIST 1 DOWf GO ABOUT Ogden al a meeting of life insurance American Water Works and GuaranTW IM TO GET RXKff TO CUT men at the Hotel Bigelow Tuesday af- tee company, at Warren, Pa. Then THEIR. FAIR ESTABLISHED ternoon, who voted to organize into a he went to Pittsburgh, then to Little PRICES OU WHAT THEY HAVE unit. Rock, Ark., and later to New York. TO A1ARKET, WHEWEFL Other officers elected were G. W. He joined the West Penn organiza- GOODS OR LABOR-- LIVE AMD S. V. Prows, tion in 1918. The territory served by Breon, secretary and treasurer. The follow- this company includes about 210 ing were selected as a special com- cities and towns in western and cenmittee to work with the officers: W. tral Pennsylvania. His first position R. Poulter, Agnus E. Berlin, William with the company was as assistant to Ludden, LeRoy Malin, O. C. Shurtliff the president, a year later becoming and filling that office and L. M. Hinds. for nine years, when he became its president and general manager. Dance Close Mr. Green has been receiving many felicitations upon his advancement in the public utility field. His departure from Salt Lake, however, is a matter Chief of Police Harry S. Anderson of regret in many circles, as he has has sent notices that all dances con- been actively identified with many ducted within the city limits must constructive movements there during close at midnight on Saturday nights the time he was and in compliance with a city ordinance to of the power commanager general that effect. Chief Anderson was in- pany. structed by the city commission MonIn accordance with our city ordi-day to enforce the ordinance. Copies of the letter which follows nance regulating dancing, you are inwere sent to the Berthana, White City, structed to see that dancing in your El Monte Springs, Elks' club, Wood- place ceases promptly at 12 o'clock men of the World, Knights of Pythias, midnight on Saturday, Chief Anderand tha Hotel Bigelow, son's letter said. Plans Stadium at Arc r Boul-Ugcl- tn Park-Bingha- m 1,1 uc Knights of Roy Chapman Andrews Big Carnival Butter Production To Lead New Searching For Stadium Benefit Increases ill i cr $ . Party to Gobi Desert Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, dis coverer of ancient animal remains in the Gobi desert in the interior of Mongolia, announced in his lecture before the Ben Lomond club Monday evening that he is on his way to San Francisco to sail some time in March for China to lead another searching party into the desert. While Dr. Andrews discovered prehistoric animal remains larger than had ever been discovered before, he is especially interested in finding remains of the man in the Gobi region. He showed motion pictures and lantern slides of his trip last year through the bandit-infestdesert stretches. Dr. William G. Peterson, geologist of the Utah Agricultural college, was toastmaster and introduced the speaker. pre-histor- ic ed Aged Accident Victim Still Semi-Conscio- us W. E. Johnson, 81, who fell from a chair in his home last Friday was still in a condition Thursday, it is reported at the Dee hospital. Mr. Johnson, who resided at 17 North Washington avenue, struck his head on a chair or on the floor when he fell, knocking him unconscious at the time. He was rushed to the Dee hospital where he has only partially regained consciousness. Bishop Oscar Tumquist was at the Johnson home at the time and saw the accident and summoned aid as soon as possible. Mr. Johnson is the father of Mrs. Stanford Harrop, who lives nearby. semi-conscio- us Airedale Dog Chained At Back Door Gives Fire Alarm Signal Fete is only an Airedale dog that keeps eternal vigil at the rear of his masters restaurant at 157 Twenty-fift- h street guarding the back door to the good things to eat. But Pete does not confine his duties to guard- ing the eats" entirely, he knows what fires are, and that they are not wanted on the roofs of adjoining buildings. Pete became a hero Wednesday just before noon when he saved the surrounding property from serious damage. Pete saw a fire start on the roof f the property next door, and proceeded to give the fire alarm as best he could by setting up a wild display of barking and howling. Patrolman Lamoni Holmes was among the first to be attracted by the frantic appeals of Pete, and hurA ried to the scene of activities. fire alarm was phoned in, and the flames were soon extinguished by Fireman A. W. Stcgen before any serious damage had been done. S. Hagihara is the proud owner of the dog, and Pete will have the best of fare from his masters restaurant from now on it is stated. 900,-pondi- ng an-oo- 1 ay 1 irrf-mi- lk as Manager of ower t,' half-rccent- ly ny tt, -- 1 Harrop President of Underwriters I vice-preside- nt; I vice-preside- nt Halls to At Midnight Saturday vice-preside- .At. nt H J |