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Show News Notes X From All Parts of UTAH - Beaver. Haying is on in full swing with a short crop reported by most of the farmers. Some of the alfalfa is short, and in places the stalks are almost stripped of their leaves. Hay is selling in the fields at $12 to $15, with little to sell. Hay hands are scarce. Provo. Joseph Nelson, architect of this city will build a forty-eig'it room apartment, on East Center street to be completed befor fall. The structure will be one of foul stories with twelve apartments of four rooms each Salt Lake City. The first mail from a terminus of the air mail route to reach Salt Lake under the operation opera-tion of the new day and night flying schedule was brought to Salt Lake from Elko Tuesday by Pilot Paul P. Scott. He arrived in Salt Lake at 1:50 o'clock in the afternoon, one hour and fifty minutes out of Elko. The mail was transferred to another plane and at 2:15 o'clock Lester F. Bishop began his flight to Rock Springs. He was escorted to the summit of the Wasatch range by A. Claron Nelson, western division air mail superintendent. Ogden. Hearing on the order to show cause why Weber county should not be permanently restrained from paying the Utah Agricultural college $1250 on the co-operative contract con-tract for the employment of extension exten-sion service workers was called in Judge James N. Kimball's court and continued to July 17, because of the inability of A. G. Horn, plaintiff's counsel, to proceed with the case. Mr. Horn is ill. Ogden. The request of the Ogden Ku Klux Klan to participate in the community Fourth of July parade in Ogden was refused and there has been much hauabaloo as a result. Flaring hand bills were distributed, supposedly by the klan, asking the question in bold type, "Why was the klan denied the right to participate in the Fourth of July parade?" Salt Lake City. Frank J. Irwin of New York, chairman of the national nation-al rehabilitation committee, Disabled American Veterans of the World War was elected to the post of national na-tional commander at the election of officers which marked the closing session of the fourth annual convention conven-tion of the order in the Elk's club. Salt Lake City. Attractions for the coming state fair in the way of amusements will be determined upon by a committee of three from the executive committee, appointed by the latter at a meeting in the ofices of the general manager. The committee com-mittee decided to increase the charge for admission to - the fair from 25 cents to 50 cents, in view of added attractions. Ogden. Charles Osborne, 35, was instantly killed when he attempted to leap from a brick loading platform plat-form of the Ogden Pressed Brick and Ti'.e company to a freight car of tile Utah-Idaho Central Railroad company com-pany at Harrisville, and fell between the platform and car, crusfiing his head and f rac'.nring his skull. Midvale. James C. Denos, 31 years of age, resident of Midvale and an employee of the smelter of that city, was instantly killed Sunday, when his automobile in which three others were riding, ran off the highway high-way between Garfield and the Garfield Gar-field smelter and completely overturned. over-turned. Denos' head was crushed by the steering wheel as the machine rolled over. Ogden. The R. A. Moves company filed suit in the Second district court against T. II. Beacom, receiver of the Denver & Bio Grande Western Railroad company, to collect damages amounting to $10,00 claimed to have-been have-been done the Moves ranch in Weber county by fire caused by sparks from a locomotive of the company. Frovo, Fee L. Baker, senior member mem-ber of the law f.rm of Baker & Baker left l'rovo this week to attend the annual convention of the American Bar association at Philadelphia, which will convene there July 17. Mr. Baker will represent the Utah State Bar and the Utah Country Bar asso ciations. After tJie conventions Mr. Baker will he joined by Mrs. Baker, who is now attending the Democratic national convention in New York and they will board the S. S. Berengaria to attend the joint convention of the American, Canadian and British Bar associations at London. |