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Show j News Notes I From All Parts of ! UTAH Salt Lake City A resolution was passed by the directors of the State Federation of Women's Clubs at its meeting recently at the Hotel Utah and forwarded to the board of pardons, par-dons, protesting against the recent action of that body in parolling George Parry. The vote was unanimous. unani-mous. The resolution was signed by Mrs. E. O. Wattis of Ogden, state president of the federation, and was communicated to the newspapers by Mrs. N. A. Duuyon of the board of directors of the state federation. Manti. John E. Nielson, Jr., of this city has been appointed executive execu-tive secretary of the Sanpete county farm bureau. In addition to the regular secretary-treasurer work Mr. Nielson will do, he will also handle the field work in organization, membership mem-bership drives, commercial work, etc., of the organization. Ogden. A shipment of six carloads car-loads of cattle, containing 145 head of three-year-old steers, from Burt Ruud of Grand valley, Idaho, drew the highest price paid this year for grass-fed steers at the Ogden Union stockyards this week. The price paid was $7.75 a hundred pounds and the animals averaged $96.10 a head. Salt Lake City. Governor Charles R. Mabey was renominated on the first ballot in the state Republican nominating convention, receiving 345 1-16 votes from a convention in which 419 votes were necessary to elect. The fight between him and his two opponents, William H. Wattis and Wiillam W. Seegmiller, was easily the feature of the convention as it had been practically the sole item of interest in the pre-convention fight. Logan. As nearly as the company's com-pany's officials can estimate, ths Morgan Canning company's plant at Smithfield will this year put out 170,000 cases of peas. This fall's 25,000 cases below last year's output, due to the excessive dry season. The bean crop, the canning of which is about to begin, is pronounced fair and better results are expected. Cedar City. A large cave near Navajo lake was explored last week by a party of Cedar City men who, so far as known, were the first to venture far into its dark and watery recesses. The cave is located in some pink cliffs about one and a half miles northeast of Navajo lake and from it flows a large spring which joins the north fork of the Virgin. Ogden. H. W. McCarty, deputy collector of internal revenue has been assigned to the Ogden office of the internal revenue department, succeeding suc-ceeding A. G. Gundersen, who was in charge temporarily after the departure depar-ture of J. C. Littlefield, who accepted accept-ed a position as claims examiner of the veteran's bureau at the district office in Denver. Logan. The Utah Agricultural college will open for the fall quarter September 29, according to an announcement an-nouncement contained within the general gen-eral catalog issued by th'S college, which is just off the press. Logan. Special committees were appointed recently by the board of directors ctf the chamber of commerce commer-ce to aid in securing funds for the equipment of the Cornegie library, to outline and conduct a program for the observance of National Defense day, and to arrange for a program for entertaining the Salt Lake business1 busi-ness1 men who will visit with the chamber of commerce on September 1st. Provo. C. S. Leaf, expert swimmer swim-mer and instructor at the Provo high school, successfully swam across Utah lake, a distance of eight miles. Cloyd Booth, one of Leaf's pupils, swam with him for all but one miie at the beginning. The swim was made in four hours and thirty-five minutes, and is said to be the record long distance fresh water swim of the state. Castlegate. The Castle Cate-Du-chesne highway is to be kept open during the coming winter, the Duchesne Du-chesne county commissioners und the government garage people at Price having concluded a deal by which this will be done. Ogden. Theron Robison, Universi ty of Idaho student, who received s broken neck while diving in the swimming pool at Como Spring re sort in Morgan, died at the Dee hospital. hos-pital. Living nearly three days with the broken neck was considered re markable by the physicians. Moab. Information received fron authentic sources states that whei the hit of the Crescent Eagle oil wel ix miles west of Thompson reachec i depth of 3120 feet a steady increase in-crease of oil a. id gas was in evidence After 3150 ffet of the gas pressure was sufficiently strong to raire the 'ools in the hole and xr.e gas con'in ued blowing so strong thr.t the drill er was forced to pall the tools ou-. of the hole and shut in the well. Th.-gas Th.-gas is of high Detn leum content. |