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Show I News Notes X From All Parts of Z j UTAH ' Suit Lake City A resolution was panned by the directors of the State Federation of Women's Clubs at its meeting n-rently at the Hutrl L'Lib and forwardud to the board of pardons, par-dons, protesting against the recent ction of that body in parolling Oorge I'arry. The vote was unanimous. unani-mous. The resolution was binned by Mrs. K. O. Wattis of Ogden, state president of the federation, and was communicated to the newspapers by Mrs. N. A. Dunoon of the board of directors of the state federation. Marrti. John R. Nielson, Jr., ol .this city has been appointed execu-'live execu-'live secretary of the Sanpete county furm bureau. In addition to the regular secretary treasurer work Mr. Nielson will do, he will also handle the field work in organization, membership mem-bership drives, commercial work, etc., of the organization. Ogden. A shipment of six carloads car-loads of cattle, containing 145 head of three year-old steers, from Burt Kuud of Grand valley, Idaho, drew the highest price paid this year for Krass-fcd steers at the Ogden Union stockyards this week. The price paid was $7.75 a hundred pounds and the animals averaged $!)G.10 a head. Salt Lako City. Governor Charles K. Mubey was renominated on the first ballot in the state Republican nominating convention, receiving 34? 1-16 votes from a convention in which 419 votes were necessary to elect. The fight between him and his two opponents, William H. Wattis and Wiillam W. Seefvniller, was easily the feature of the convention as it had been practically the sole item of interest in the pre-convention fight. Logan. As nearly as the company's com-pany's officials can estimate, the Morgan Canning company's plant at Smithfield will this year put out .170,000 cases of peas. This fall's 25,000 cases below last year's output, due to the excessive dry season. The bean crop, the canning of which is about to begin, is pronounced fair and better results are expected. Cedar City. A large cave near Navajo lake was explored last week by a party of Cedar City men who, no far as known, were the first to venture far into its dark and watery recesses. The cave is located in some pink cliffs about one and a half miles northeast of Navajo lake and from it flows a large spring which joins the north fork of the Virgin. Ogden. H. W. McCarty, deputy collector of internal revenue has been assigned to the Ogden office of the internal revenue department, succeeding suc-ceeding A. G. Gundersen, who was in charge temporarily after the departure depar-ture of J. C. Littlefield, who accepted accept-ed a position as claims examiner of the veteran's bureau at the district office in Denver. Logan. The Utah Agricultural college will open for the fall quarter September 29, according to an announcement an-nouncement contained within the general gen-eral catalog issued by the college, which is just off the press. Logan. Special committees were appointed recently by the board of directors ctf the chamber of commerce commer-ce to aid in securing funds for the equipment of the Cornegie library, to outline and conduct a program for the observance of National Defense clay, and to arrange for a program for entertaining the Salt Lake business busi-ness men who will visit with the chamber of commerce on September 1st. Trovo. C. S. Leaf, expert swimmer swim-mer and instructor at the Provo high school, successfully swam across Utah lake, a distance of eight miles, t'loyd Booth, one of Leaf's pupils, tw.ira with him for all but one mile at the beginning. The swim was made in four hours and thirty-five minutes, and is said to be the record long distance fresh water swim of the state. Castlegate. The Castle Cate-Du-chesiie highway is to be kept open during the coming winter, the Duchesne Du-chesne county commissioners and the government garage people at Price having concluded a deal by which this will be done. Ogden. Theron Robison, University Universi-ty of Idaho student, who received a broken neck while diving in the swimming pool at Como Spring resort re-sort in Morgan, died at the Dee hospital. hos-pital. Laving nearly three days with the broken neck was considered remarkable re-markable by the physicians. Moab. Information received frorr authentic sources states that whet the bit of the Crescent Eagle oil well .'ix miles west of Thompson reached a depth of 3120 feet a steady in- j crease of oil aiid gas was in evidence. : After 3150 feet of the gas pressure was sufficiently strong to raise the tools in the hole and xne gas continued contin-ued blowing so strong that the driller drill-er was forced to pull the tools out of the hole and shut in the well. The gs is of high petrt leum content. |