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Show otah news REVIEW A mote-man In Salt Lake saw a passenger pas-senger about to steal the fare box from his car as it stopped at a railroad crossing. He shouted at the man and pretended to be drawing a revolver. The man jumped off and escaped. a Utah factories produced $500,000 worth of paints, varnish, etc. in 1920. Plans are being formulated for the erection of a county hospital at Cedar City, Utah. Approximately 200 children from the Orphans' Home and Day Nursery, Kearns St. Ann's Orphanage and. the Neighborhood House enjoyed such a treat as seldom comes their way when they had the opportunity of being the guests of the Elks at the matinee performance per-formance of the Elks' charity show in Salt Lake. Twenty-five automobiles were donated by members of the club for the transportation of the children to and from their homes. Movement of foods held In cold storage stor-age plants in Utah has been decidedly outward during the month ending November No-vember 30, according to the monthly report published as required by law, from the office of the state board of agriculture. The notable exceptions have been In fresh and cured meats and in condensed milk. Of the latter It is reported that there are now 100,-000 100,-000 pounds in cold storage. Report was made at th regular meeting of the Monticello Commercial club that $40,000 set aside by the state to be used as loans to fanners of San Juan county will be available for relief re-lief of the stringency In this locality as soon as the lands concerned can ba reappraised. Use of the money set aside for this county has been delayed through a misunderstanding with regard re-gard to the matter of land appraisal. Ogden civic organizations are planning plan-ning to adopt the community chest plan, from which funds for charity, work will come Instead of from subscriptions. sub-scriptions. After being Idle for several weeks while extensive repairs were made, the giant clock on the city and county building in Salt Lake has again been started. The clock has been equipped with new chimes and a new striking apparatus. The clock has been completely com-pletely overhauled for the first time since the city and county building was built. Plans for extending the activity of the Utah division of the National Federation Fed-eration of Music Clubs were discussed by the board members of the state branch when they met recently in Salt Lake. The federation not only Includes choirs, musical clubs and singing societies so-cieties of various kinds, but the individual in-dividual members of each. Hay sheds containing twelve tons of hay and a large barn belonging to Sidney Vincent, Sr., at Provo, were destroyed by fire recently. The fire was believed to have started from spontaneous combustion. The loss Is estimated es-timated at about ?400 with no Insurance. Insur-ance. When Luther Skeen, a district farmer, farm-er, was placed on preliminary hearing to answer a charge of shooting wild ducks after sunset a conflict between the federal and state hunting statutes was disclosed. The federal law permits per-mits shooting of migratory birds for one-half hour after sunset. The state law says no migratory bird may be '"shot, pursued or killed after sunset." In view of tills conflict, Skeen. who ad-udtted ad-udtted guilt, was let off, after paying costs of the court procedure. War of extermination is to be waged rm the rabbit pest in Kano county. The rabbits have taken possession of a large part of tho county and they are devastating crops, grass and trees. Proprietors of all largo ftrms ot Salt Iike that uso horses for haulage punxses have agreed to dlsehargo all drivers who abuse their teams, secord-lng secord-lng to an announcement ot J". A. 3. Kendall, general superintendent of the Utah Humane society. A citizen of Sandy, Utfrh, whtl-a U Salt Iwike whs accosted by a man who asked htm for a ride. Aft- going a few blocks the owner ot the oar was forced to drive as directed, ad after reaching a secluded spot w roobed and left standing while ha watched the bandit ride sway Ui hi ear. The annual report of tha rVuloml power conHuisslon shows that, up to dir.v, six applieatiouis for power permits per-mits have been filed, covering projects in Utah which represent a primary development de-velopment Of 918,015 horsepower, bat which would ultimately derelop 1,212,-465 1,212,-465 horsepower. In view of the many complaints made as to the high rates of taxation In Utah, as in other states. It Is said that the citizen of the state of Maiwchu-serts Maiwchu-serts pays a tax more than twice as great as that paid by the cttlzoo of Ctah. Mrs. Eva B. Odell, president of the State Pnrent-Teru-ner association, announces an-nounces that the state officers are collecting col-lecting material pertaining to parent-teacher parent-teacher w;j:-k for the purpose of compiling com-piling It Ui book form. j |