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Show gjsisis1 isiaj'aisisaiE'aiaisiaisisisEEJEis) Mews Notes From All Parts of jjjj I UTAH I Salt Lake City. Directors of the Silver King Coalition Mining company com-pany declared a dividend of 25 cents-a cents-a share at a meeting held in the company com-pany offices. The disbursement will amount to $304,025 and covers the second quarter of this year. The regular reg-ular dividend of 20 cents a share was declared for the first quarter and paid last March. This is a five-cent extra dividend made possible by the high earnings of the company which is considerably in excess of this payment. pay-ment. The dividend Will be paid July 1 to stockholders of record at the close of business June 20. This will bring the total dividends paid by this company to $17,SS0,760. Delta. The Delta chamber of commerce com-merce has obtained a written agreement agree-ment from James A. Clover, Indian chief of the Goshute tribe of Indians of Baker, Nevada, to hold pow-wows, enter foot and horse races and furnish fur-nish stunts at the Fourth of July celebration to be held at Delta July 3rd and 4th. Ogden. Joseph M. Parker, manager mana-ger of the Sperry Flour company In Ogden, has resigned his position here to become general manager of the r California Prune and Apricot association, associa-tion, with headquarters in San Jose Cal., it was learned. He will assume his new duties on July 1. Provo. Fifteen days after being released re-leased from the Utah state penitentiary, peniten-tiary, where he had served an eleven and one-half months' sentence for burglarizing the home of G. W. Graham Gra-ham of Springville, Harry Schroeder returned to Springville and again burglarized tlje home, taking with him a passbook on a savings bank in El Paso, Texas, where Graham had $1000 on deposit, according to report. Schroeder is alleged to have been as-' sisted by Joseph DeLoux, who was released re-leased from the penitentiary on the same day as Schroeder after serving nine and one-half months on a third degree burglary charge at Ogden. Ogden. Fire broke out in the furnace fur-nace room of the police station and had gained considerable headway before be-fore being extinguished with chemicals. chemi-cals. Firemen raised a ladder to the second floor to rescue Frank Martin, 17 years of age, from the juvenile detention de-tention room, only to find the room vacant and the terse note written on a pillow: "Going west." Bingham. At a meeting of the town board authorization was given for the purchase of an American-La France combination pumping, chemical chemi-cal and hose cart, which is the latest thing in fire fighting apparatus. The cost will be $13,000 and will give Bingham a much-needed piece of equipment. Myton. Efforts are being made to organize a bank in Myton. John J. Morey of the Guaranteed Securities company of Salt Lake was here recently re-cently and discussed the matter with business men. Subscriptions amounting amount-ing to $20,000 already have been announced an-nounced by local and outside business busi-ness men and a further canvass is being made. Salt Lake City. The public utilities utili-ties commission of Utah permitted Elisha J. Duke to discontinue, on five days' notice, the automobile stage line between Heber City and Park City. Lloyd W. Hoskins has withdrawn without prejudice his application for permit to operate a stage line between be-tween Garfield and Bingham, by way of Arthur and Magna. Farmington. River Brothers of Los Angeles, have purchased the entire crop of cherries raised by the members mem-bers of the Davis County Fruit and Vegetable association. Four different differ-ent buying organizations bid on the crop, River Brothers' bid being the highest. The price paid was not announced, an-nounced, but it is said to be the highest high-est price ever paid for cherries in Davis county. This year's yield of those who have gone into the pool is estimated at from twelve to fifteen cars. Ogden. The road between Fredon-ia Fredon-ia and the Kaibab forest will be ready for use in about two weeks according to R. R. Mitchell, highway engineer of the United States bureau of public roads, who has returned from an inspection in-spection trip. Mr. Mitchell points to his trip from Kanab to Ogden, a distance dis-tance of 350 miles, made in one day, as an indication of the splendid highway high-way system between these two points. Salt Lake City. Erection of the fourteen-story Quigley building, modern mod-ern office structure, op the north side of Exchange place between the Boston Bos-ton Building and the Salt Lake Stock and Mining exchange, at a cost of $1,037,500, exclusive of the cost of the site, was announced by Charles A. Quigley, president of the Quigley Building company. Construction of the building has been financed by the Colorado Mortgage company of Denver Den-ver through Philip H. Pilchard, vice president f that company. |