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Show News Notes : - From All Parts of UTAH I Salt Lake City. Damage, roughly estimated at from $15,000 to $2o,000, was done by a fire which destroyed part of the buildings and equipment at Beck's Hot Springs. The blaze was burning fiercely when the fire department arrived about 1 o'clock, but an hour later Fire Chief W. H. Bywater announced that the flames were under control. The loss is said to be covered by insurance. - Salt Lake City. New traffic ordinances ordin-ances for Salt Lake which will relieve re-lieve congested 'conditions in the business bus-iness district were discussed at the meeting of the city commission. The elimination of left-hand turns in the middle of blocks and shorter parking park-ing hours for automobiles and the rerouting re-routing of street cars, thus taking them from Main Street, were among the remedies suggested. Salt Lake City. Gasoline tax receipts re-ceipts for November will total $62,-000, $62,-000, it was estimated by Charles Heiner, chief deputy in the secretary of state's office. The figure will be about $2000 less than for October. Salt Lake City. The University of Utah requested the state board of examiners to authorize a deficit of $9,263.83 in the maintenance account of the institution. The petition will be considered at an early meeting of the board. Dr. George Thomas, president, pres-ident, said that the figure represents the amount spent in securing five dinosaur skeletons from the Jensen quarry. The skeletons were obtained obtain-ed for an exceptionally low expenditure. expendi-ture. Dr. Thomas said, since the Pittsburg Museum spent nearly- ten times as much in obtaining a similar simi-lar collection. Spanish Fork. The Spanish Fork Fish and Game association has gone on record as heartily in favor of protecting pro-tecting catfish in Utah lake. At a meeting of the association held at the American Legion club rooms, varioui subjects concerning fish and game were freely discussed, chiefly the present method of trap fishing in Utah lake, which was condemned because be-cause of the careless methods used by trap owners. Ogden. Eighteen thousand dollars damages was awarded Ernest Gubler in the United States district court to be paid by the Oregon Short Line Railroad company. The federal jury was out about forty-five minutes following fol-lowing the completion of the personal injury suit, returning with a unanimous unani-mous verdict for this amount. Gubler sued for $30,000. Ogden. A county isolation hospital will be built adjoining the Thomas D. Dee Memorial hospital on the south, it was announced by the board of county commissioners. The matter has been considered by the commissioners commis-sioners for many months and arrangements ar-rangements are practically complete. Monroe. Bids will be askd in the near future for construction of a new municipal power plant for this city, to replace the one now functioning with more modern equipment and a doubled capacity. The present plant has a power load alone equal to the capacity of the plant, and this virtually vir-tually means that the lighting load may not be used until the power load has been discontinued or diminished. Mount Pleasant. C. A. Clark, 82, a native of England and a resident of Mount Pleasant for the past twenty twen-ty years, died at his home here following fol-lowing a few days' illness from pneumonia. pneu-monia. Salt Lake City. A directed verdict in favor of the United States in its case against Nephi M Keel and others for rents alleged to be owing two Indian In-dian wards was granted by Judge Tillman D. Johnson in the United States district court. Two cases were consolidated and judgment was grantfd Rosetta Cesspooch in the amount of $116.48 and Alberta Cesspooch Cess-pooch for $184.80. Both are land al lotees on the Uintah reservation. Cgden. A petition for the release from the state mental hospital of Maridros Mausigan, Armnian Dacter-ir.ligist, Dacter-ir.ligist, who became mentally unbalanced unbal-anced while in Ogden and fired a shot, which wounded one of his daughters dau-ghters in July, 1923, was filed in the district coirt by Samuel G. Dye, guardian of the estate. Salt Lake City. The state oi Utah will have a net deficit of $122,-797.53 $122,-797.53 in the general fund March 3, 1925, or a smaller amount than for the past ten years, Mark Tuttle, state auditor, estimates in his annual re Dort to Governor Cha-.es R. Mabcy |