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Show Pithy News Notes From All Parts of I UTAH Logn. Ilanford McNider, national commander of the American Legion, will be the principal sneaker at the fuorth annual department convention of the Utah department of the legion, according to the annoucement made by Dr. . y. lllnck, department commander, comman-der, at a meeting of Legionalres, at which the first plans for the convention conven-tion were made. The convention will be held in Igan September 21, 22 and 2:(. Moab A floor in one of the rooms of San Juan county's new courthouse collapsed under the weight of 70,000 pounds of flour stored by the Monti-cello Monti-cello Milling company during the wet spring season. Salt. Lake At a meeting held in Durango, Colo., at which every section of the San Juan basin in Colorado and Utah was represented, assurance was given by the Los Angeles syndicate syn-dicate in charge of the financing of the proposed southern outlet railway extension that upon the completion of the land subscriptions under the new contract to a net sum of $3,000,000, immediate, construction will begin. Ogden. Utah chapters of the American Ameri-can Ited Cross, more than thirty in number held their first regional conference con-ference at Ogden this week. Hinckley Conditions In Millard county are very favorable for a' large eed crop. Ogden Utah Construction company of Ogden has been awarded seventeen and one-half miles of grade by the Oregon Short Line between King's Hill and Medbury. in Idaho. Salt Lnk?. The industrial commission commis-sion of Utah has awarded $3,792.96 each, in payments at the rate of $12.12 a week, to two widows of men who were fatally injured in the course of employment. In the case of Mrs. Emma Em-ma Huber of Payson, widow of H. A. Huber, there are five dependent children child-ren surviving, and in the case of Mrs. Roxie Jewell of Salt Lake four. In each case funeral expenses are awarded award-ed in addition. Ogden Old folks of Ogden and Weber We-ber county will have their annual reunion re-union and outing June 23 at Lorin Farr park, committees of the four stakes of the Mormon church announced announc-ed Sunday. All men and women over 70 years of age will be special guests. Price Jack Cave, an employee of the McCunes Forwarding company, was caught in the Price Commercial Savings bank. A revolver and twelve rolls of one-cent pieces worth 50 cents each were found on his person. Salt Lake. The city recreation grounds, of which there are ten, have opened officially for the summer sea- son. Salt Lake. One hundred Utah sportsmen held a meeting here last week. A state-wide effort to have Strawberry valley left open for fishermen fish-ermen was launched. Richfield Utah possesses radium deposits which some day may prove of inestimable value in helping to furnish the world's supply of the precious metal, according to Frank L. Hess, geologist of the United States geloical survey, who made a trip through southern Utah in company with V. C. Heikes, statistician in charge of the geological survey. Soldier Summit Recurrence about two miles west 'of here on the right of way of DenverVc Rio Grande Western West-ern railroad of wbjat is declared to be one of the strangest freaks known to geological science Is causing delays in the trafifc Of that railroad. A mountain is slipping on its internal strata resulting in an upheavel 'beneath 'be-neath the tracks of the railroad and throwing them out of line. In places the track is reported to have be?n raised four feet, twisting the steel rails ind m-aking the road bed impassaDie. Two steam shovels md two ditchers are working on the mass of earth and rock clearing it away.- Salt Lake. Ui-vh's own Maude Adams has earned the gratitude of the pope by the generous gift last last week of her 200-acre estate at Lake Ronkonkoma, L. I., for the use of th? Roman Cat'iolic Sisterhood oi Our Lady of the Cencalc, according tc advices from New York. Miss Adanin is not a Catholic. Salt Lake Drainage districts are 'ialile to the county in which they are 3ituatsd for the cost of assessment .UK1 oll.jcti'in of the drainage district as scssments and taxes, in opinion i ' Jarc-y H. duff, attorney generl ol L'tah A. II. Christensen, atiorney for South Sanpete drainage it"irt No. 1, raises the qn: stion, on account of 8 .lnim for $."7.72 presented aur.inst the listricl's proportion of the sale in ;he assessors and treasurer and thei deputies in Sanepta county. |