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Show j News Notes ra It's a Privilege to Live in 8 Utah j Ogden. The park commission of Ogden has recommended to the city commissioners that an offer of $40,-000 $40,-000 cash be tendered to Sanford Har-rup Har-rup and Chris Aadneson for the sanitarium san-itarium property at the mouth of Ogden Og-den canyon, according to Mayor P. F. Kirkendall. It is expected that the city commission will do this soon. Ogden. Because of the financial condition of Ogden city, the city manager man-ager form of government is all the more desirable, Mayor P. F. Kirkendall Kirken-dall told members of the Exchange club in an address upon city affairs. The poor financial condition is due to the "passing of the buck" from one administration to another, the mayor said. Salt Lake City. Apparently crazed with jealousy, Dr. Allan D. Bentz, young local dentist shot and probably probab-ly fatally wounded Miss Melba Brown, slightly wounded Harvey Kirk, and then killed himself by firing one shot from a small caliber pistol through his left temple and three into his breast. Salt Lake City. Andrew Garbis 36, suspected bootlegger and narcotic narcot-ic vendor, was shot and killed; Patrolman Pa-trolman S. H. Neve, 35, was wounded in the left breast and Albert Lewis, 15, a bystander, was shot through the left lung in a battle between officers and Garbis at the latter's home. Ogden. Building permits issued during month of August amounted to $101,550, according to the monthly report of City Building Inspector Carl C. Gariff. The total for the corresponding corres-ponding month of last year was $113,-200. $113,-200. Mammoth. The the return for taxation tax-ation purposes made by the Chief Consolidated Mining company to the 6tate board of equalization in 1924 was not a return at all within the meaning of the Utah law, is the charge made by Mammoth City, a municipal corporation, in action instituted in-stituted in the Fifth judicial district court in Juab county. The suit virtually vir-tually asks for a court definition of the terms "mine or mining claim" as it is found in the present mine assessment assess-ment laws passed in 1919.' Ogden. Movement of grain, principally prin-cipally wheat, from Idaho points and other sections through Ogden, is much heavier than usual, according to E. R. Alton, president of the Ogden Og-den Grain exchange. According to information received by Mr. Alton from railroad officials approximately 1000 carloads more have passed thru Ogden to date than had passed thru at the corresponding date of last year. It is estimated that this is 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 bushels ahead of last year. Salt Lake City. Butler B. Ramey, proprietor of the Semloh hotel and well known hotel man, died at a local lo-cal hospital following a brief and sudden illness. For more than twenty twen-ty years he was connected with a number of hotels of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City his been chosen the place for the holding of the 1926 convention of the National League of District Postmasters, according ac-cording to a telegram received by Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, from Rohn A. Israelson, postmaster at Hyrum, Utah, and president of the Utah organization or-ganization of postmasters. Salt Lake City. Approximately 500,000 acres of land will be surveyed survey-ed this year in Utah, according to G. D. Kirkpatrick, assistant federal supervisor su-pervisor of surveys. The supervisor based his estimate on the appropriation appropria-tion of $63,660 made for this purpose by the interior department. This is only about half the acreage surveyed in 1923, due To a cut in the appropriation. appropria-tion. Mr. Kirkpatrick estimated that there are between 12,000,00 and 13,-000,000 13,-000,000 acres still unsurveyed within the state. Logan. Walter Hall, former West athlete and University of Utah fODt-ball fODt-ball players, will coach freshman football and basketball . at the Uttih Agricultural college next year, according accord-ing to word given out by Coach E. L. Romney of the Logan college. Kay sville. The - Kaysville Canni ng i corporation opened its tomato cam- paign last week. Within the next i ten days the crop will be nearing peak production and the canning factories fac-tories of Davis county will be busy places. The quality of tomatoes this year is very high and the yield promises prom-ises to be enormous. 'Milford. Discovery of a large body of lead ore in the Moscow Silver mines company property promises to put this mine, situated in the Star district twelve miles from Milford, again in the steady production class. For over two years the company has been working diligently to find the ore bodies which in the upper levels have produced several millions. Al-though Al-though several times during this per. iod the company has opened up deposits de-posits of considerable productivity, rrobably at no time has the outlook been as good as it Is at present. |