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Show I- SEE m Tito twelfth ntiiimtl convention of tlio Ulnli Stuto Federation of I.nbor will 1)0 held September 0 ut thu Labor temple In Salt I.ukc. Annual gathering (,f Utah ministers mid official members of tho Methodist church will ho hold I lie third week In August iit Ogilcu, nccordlm: to tin tin uounrcmcnt made IIiIh week. I'liins proposed hy the University of Utah for pulling Into effect tho requirements re-quirements of the federal hoard for orntlonul subjects, worn discussed mid approved lust week hy n eoiiiinllteu of the hI ul o hoard of education. The Harvard endowment fund committee com-mittee ha.s appoluled (Heed Miller of Salt Luke iim ehalrinan of the Utah ill-. ill-. vision In tho cuuipulgu for upwards of $I0,IMXMHH that will hu raised In thu fall for Harvard. Km nl; .1. Cuhlll, a discharged sol-died sol-died of lllnghum, was found dead In III hod at Copperflehl lust night with u h'tllel hole through tho right tomple. He. had heen rending a paper Just before be-fore killing himself. Plans have been completed for tho Utah Slate I'lremenV convention and t loiirnauieiil lo be held at Sandy, Aug-!, Aug-!, tint ID to 21, according (o announce- meat mndo hy A. Itohert I.arson, chairman chair-man of tho program committee." ISprlngvlllo and Muplelon citl.eiis will hold u hpcclal election August 10 to deteriiilue If the people will enter Into n contract with tho government to nblalu an addlllonal water supply under un-der the fedcnil reclamation net. Alex Hunt, 20 yearn old, of Hoove-' Hoove-' velt, wim In.stnntly killed hy routing Into contact with a live electric wire, lie wiim at work on tho Uintah I'owor k & Light company's lino when tho necl- dent happened. He had been with thu company for two years, John W. .Jacobs of WllllauiHport, I'n., recently nppolnled secretary of the Utah Public Health association by tho . eiecutlvo committee, litis taken up IiIk I duties. A cnmpnlgii for the Improve ment of health conditions Is being arranged ar-ranged by the association. What Is believed by the police to liuvo heen nu attempt of firebugs or radicals lo burn Hie city of Ogtlon occurred oc-curred when threo fires hriko out til. must simultaneously one night Inst week. Tho flrat call wiu to thu Mur-Ion Mur-Ion hotel. t Finding that a concrete pavement varying In thickness It tun fi to 7 Inches In tho Hrlgluim City paving district for this year would cost $128.2.11. IX), while n hltullthlc pavement on a crushed , - rock Imku would cost only t:n;niSI, thu llrlgham City council lias decided In favor of the latter material. Charging thai freight rates on gasoline gaso-line and oilier petroleum products to Salt I .a lie and Interinouutalu points are uureasoiuihly high and discriminatory, discrimin-atory, thu Utah State Automobile association, as-sociation, through Hie Truffle Servlcu llurciiu or Utah, will shortly fllojitilt with tho Interstate Commerce commission, com-mission, seeking a rate adjustment. Tho merchants of Ogdcn passed a resolution protesting ngulnst tho proposal of tho statu ton id of cqtiall. zutlon to Increase thu assessment rating rat-ing of merchants In Ogdeit and Weber county 100 per cent and farm property prop-erty 25 per cent. The resolution will ho presented to' the state board at Salt Lake. " At a mass meeting of tho wheat-growers wheat-growers of Salt Lake county, held lit Mldvulu last week, nbout 200 persons woro In attendance, representing every wheat-growing section of tho county. A- resolution was unanimously adopted asking tho government to remove ull restrictions on tho price of wheat, pointing out Hint from present Indications Indica-tions tho wheal crop of the county would ho (50 per cent or more under normal. Subject to prior right of the Mum- moth lteservoir company and Its shin lessors, tho Gooseberry & Cottonwood Irrigation company Is seeking to obtain ob-tain rights lo tho waters of melting snows and Into spring rains In tho JicadwntcrM of Hie Gooseberry, and to fonvey tho water across the backbone of tho Wasatch, utilizing u tunnel, and to use tho water us n supplementary I supply n Irrigate hoiiiu -700 acres around Pulrvluiv. (County eommls&louors .accompanied by thu committee representing clubs mid organizations of Ogdcu and farm-era farm-era of Weber county, protesting uh:yit I ho inunner of repairing roads In thu county presented to tho state road commission a protest relative to tho . resurfacing of tho ltlverdulo Pleusaut Vlow iiiitl Ogden canyon sections of tho stale highway In Weber county, ism; .. Willi more than three tulles of trucks, rolling kitchens, mobile repair 'hops and touring cars In Hue, Hie transcontinental army motor convoy f will renen Salt Lako August in, tie- wording to thu schedule of tho trip. The couyoy is being sent out hy thu overninent to du'ermlnu thu fcnslbll-)ty fcnslbll-)ty f hng uim with trucks and to 1, g'utlu'r various Outs, A contest was filed In the Fourth district court ut 1'rovo, last week, ngulnst tho Incorporation of the town. Of Orcin on I'rovo bench. George Adams, and others, are the contest- nnts. It is their purpose lo tnku about i, miio off of thu" south MdTTor' tho" jinwtowr.slte. ! Soventy-flVo per cent of (ho steers', 60 per cent of tho stock cattle and 83 per cent of thu sheep upon the I'ayettu ffutlnnal forest will bo sold or sent to winter ratigcH, nccordlng to llio vo- j port received by District Forester I . JT, Knoipp, of Ogden. |