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Show i. , 1 News Notes a It's a Privilege to Live in 1 Utah SSEIjaiSSfiiiKa Ogden. George E. Browning was elected mayor of Ogden by a substantial substan-tial majority over former Mayor Frank Francis. Harmon W. Peery was elected four-year-term commissioner, commis-sioner, defeating Arthur F. Larson, incumbent, in-cumbent, and Mrs. Mary E. Farley was reelected city auditor, winning over Stanley Robbins. Salt Lake City Gas bombs are to be used by police in the capture of those criminals trying to evade arrest ar-rest by barricading themselves in a house or room, it was announced by Chief of Police Joseph E. Burbidge. A number of gas-charged hand grenades gren-ades have been obtained from Fort Douglas and are to be kept in a convenient con-venient place at police headquarters where they may be obtained at any time a fugative endeavors to barricade barri-cade himself and fight off arrest. Salt Lake City. The last Utah State Fair entailed disbursements of $70,288.55, according to a report presented pre-sented to the executive committee of the directorate by E. S. Holmes, manager, man-ager, and Miss Martha Gibbs, secretary. secre-tary. Revenues from the fair proper were $55,492.58, or $14,795.97 less than the expenditures. There are still a few outstanding accounts which are about offset, it is believed, by outstanding out-standing claims. Salt Lake City. That girls employ-ed employ-ed in fg industries in Salt Lake may have p'.ace where they can meet and disjj problems vitaj to them and also tind recreation, fun and classes of all kinds, the Arda club has been organized and will hold weekly meetings meet-ings at 8:30 o'clock at the Young Women's Wo-men's Christian association club romos. Parson. Through the efforts of the Paysou Fish and Game Protective association as-sociation 24,000 rainbow trout have been added to Payson Creek and Sprink Lake, which is the property of Payson city. The planting was done by members of the hatchery and local sportsmen. Salt Lake City. One woman in Utah has a desire to slay a monarch of the forest in the way of an elk and she has applied to the state fish and game department for a permit to hunt the animal. This is Mrs. E. M. Bagley, wife of the former president of the Salt Lake Fish and Game Protective Pro-tective association. The season opens on November 20 and during the time that the aninrals may be hunted 300 elk may be killed. Spanish Fork. The Spanish Fork sugar factory is now cutting an average aver-age of 1476 tons of beets every twenty-four hours. The factory was originally origin-ally built for 600 tons daily capacity, but has been improved and the efficiency effi-ciency of the force built up until now it is doing nearly three times the work originally intended for it. Farmington. "Take me! Take me! Come, get me!" Shrilled in the frightened fright-ened voice of a 2-year-old baby girl, over the road of the Farmington flood on August 13, 1923, these words were destined to save a little life and incidentally in-cidentally to make a hero of Dr. R. Clarence Robinson of Farmington. According Ac-cording to word received in Salt Lake Dr. Robinson for his bravery has just been awarded a bronze medal by the Carnegie hero fund commission which met in Pittsburg recently. Panguitch. An unsolved murder of a quarter of a century ago may come to light as the result of the discovery of a human skeleton, partly gnawed by rats, in an arroyo known as "Lady Peterson's Pot," near here. The remains, re-mains, surrounded by an old muzzle-loading muzzle-loading cap and ball rifle, a large quantity of home-made bullets and other antiques indicative of an earlier j age, were found by a group of school boys, who were out for a hike on Mammouth mountain. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake business and professional men are responding eagerly to the call for volunteers to "put over" the chamber of commerce 1926 advertising campaign to be staged stag-ed November 16 to 22. Provo. Battling desperately but unavailingly against the powerful University of Utah eleven, the B. Y. U. Cougers were forced to take the short end of a 27 to 0 score. Salt Lake City. Greater Salt Lake now has a population of 164,110 according ac-cording to the 1925 city directory. Greater Salt Lake two years ago had a population of 146,000, making the percentage of increase in the two years greater than that of any other city in the intermountain region. Oregon Ore-gon and Washington. The directory contains 1600 more names than last year, which means an actual increase of 3200. |