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Show Eastern Trips Humerous For State jOffidak Nearly Alt Heads of Departments Depart-ments Absent After Annual . Vacations, But Chain Holds Capitol Statute of Missasolt. ! Callers at tha capital thla week and next will find many near faeee In the various desert menle, many kef them being la tha hands ef chief clerks or deputiee. Vaea- I tione tor all about tha capital building have practically ewded or did and with August. Now cornea tha conventlona. Secreeary of State H. B. Crock tl Is an route to New Tora, Wash -IngtoaT and Ashsvllle. N. C. Hs wlU sttend a convention af tha secretaries of atata, motor vehicle ve-hicle superintendents and corporation corpo-ration commlsalonara In tha North Carolina linrli ' . . . , State Treasurer W. D. Sutton is In Iowa attending tha Iowa atate fair and will continue on aaet to attend -the New York atata fair at ft recuse. Ha was accompanied on the trip to Iowa by John T. Calne of the Utah Agricultural college. Attorney General Harvey H. Cluff will be In Cincinnati thla week. He attended tha national convention of attorneys general of tha several states In Minneapolis last week and waa elected vloa president of the association. Then ha rlaited Chicago Chi-cago and win go on to "the southern Ohio city. ANOTHER N C. TICKET. John H. Glenn, director of finance and purchase. Is acheduled to leave for Ashvllls, North Carolina, where a national gathering of similar officials of-ficials la acheduled and at which Director Glean will deliver an address. ad-dress. Aahevllle was the headquar-tere headquar-tere for one of tha missions of ths L. D. S. chuch when Mr. Glenn wsa on a mission In the Sontb and ha made Aahevllte headquarters.1 This convention will glva aim opportunity op-portunity to visit with some' old friends In that locality. ! William Calley. president nf the ststs board of- equalisation and assessment, as-sessment, and . Lerenso Tett. also of the stste board, will visit Whits ' Sulphur Springs. Vlrgints, to at-I at-I tend the convention of the National i Tax association. It will be recalled that last year -an expert of the - national aasocistfon spsnt several I weeks In Bait Lske preparing a tax- lng acheme for .Utah which - was presented the state commission on taxation but which did not prove practical for Utah .and It waa abandoned, aban-doned, tha legislature not acting on It ANOTHER EXCURSIONIST. D. H. Cannon," stats dairy and food commissioner, will attend the annual convention pertaining . to dairy and food products ta be beld the latter part of tha month la Philadelphia for -on day, then in Washington for a couple of days snd then for a week In Syracuse. New Tork. He Is to be accompanied by a representative from the Utah Agricultual college and a member of the Welfare commlasion. Mesnwhlle. the gevernor has been Invited to sttsnd severs! conventions conven-tions and associations but ha will be unable to attend, even if he cou'.d epare the time, awing to the fact that the ststs would be without a governor In that Secretary Crockett la out of tha atate and tha senate Is without a president who Is next In line to asaume tha reins-of ststs In- ths sbsence of the two officials named aa President McKay of the eenate resigned In order to socent the presidency of the-publle utilities oommlssion. . The statue of Maseaeolt. however how-ever will stsnd sentlnsl like In the rotunda of the eapltoL It however. Is chained down .to tha pedestal on which It stands. mltjed. Often when search warrants are served the suspected bootlegger tries to destroy ths evidence. 1 believe be-lieve that Geros wsa trying to get rid of a bottle of whisky when hs fled." Hsrris clutched his gun with both hands aa the last shot waa fired. Nichols said hs called back to Harria Har-ria to atop shooting. Harria ceased firing and -picked up the bottle. CROWD THREATENS OPPICERS. After Deputiea Harria and Nleholls Nleh-olls had walked with Oeroa back ts ths front of the restaurant where the sheriffs automobile was standing stand-ing snd ths wounded, man waa placed In the machine to be taken to the emergency bospltst, a crowd gathered and for a moment a riot or mob violence threatened. In a few minutea the crowd Increased In-creased to approximately ZOS persons per-sons and mumblings to "gat Harria" were uttered. Deputy Nicholla atepped forward and told tha crowd to disperse. . "Without movement or threat on my part the crowd quieted dowa." Deputy Nicholla said. "I accompanied accom-panied Oeroa to tha hospital and returned to aid In tha aearch for liquor. We found about 100 flasks. thirty of which had been emptied on a coal pile during our absence at tha hospital with ths wouuded rfian. Ths bottles had been emptied hurriedly, hur-riedly, 'but In their heete men woo aided in the deet ruction of the evidence evi-dence overlooked two flasks which were filled with Wiule.' v "In his flight Gsros turned and. taking a pint flack from hla pocket hurled It at Harria It fell short of Its mark and broke aa It hit tha stdswalfc. Harris gathered up the broken container. We took several handfula of coal where tha liquor had been dumped. Thla waa evidently evi-dently poured there while ws were at ths hospital." Deputy Robert Holt whs aided In the raid, waa left alone In front of the store while Sheriff Hsrrles snd Deputies Harria and Nleholls took Geroa to the emergency hospital.. hospi-tal.. When they returned they found a crosd menacing Holt Ntch-alls Ntch-alls said. Tha ahertff and hla dep-.uties dep-.uties continued their aearch and, according to - Depoty Nicholla t whisky wss found. Geros haa bean a resident of JUIt i Lake for alas yeare and haa been I engaged In the reeLaeraat business all that linn.,... .. .... J |