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Show : News Notes : t From All Parts of UTAH : Ogden. Traffic signals at the intersection in-tersection of Washington avenue at Twentyfourth and Twentyfifth streets have proven so successful, that they also will be installed at Twenty-third street and Twenty-sixth street, Chief of Police Curtis L. Allison stated. The signal lights at Twenty-fourth street and Twenty-fifth street have been operated by traffic officers in booths but when the two additional ones are installed, they will all be operated from a central point from one switch. Three Mexicans from the state prison pri-son were taken east by D. H. Mccormick, Mc-cormick, United States immigration inspector for Utah, for deportation as undesirable aliens. They were C. Marcial, 17; P. Lopez, 19, and A. Aguilar, 17. Eight other convicts from other states in this territory were also included. Provo. Sixteen head of elk will be shipped from the Jackson H0I9 wild game sanctuary to the corral at Springville, where they will be cared for until spring, when they will be taken to the hills back of Mt. Timpan-ogos. Timpan-ogos. Brigham City. A new born baby girl, cold in death, was found wrapped wrap-ped in a towel alongside the Oregon Short Line tracks, about four miles north of this city. The infant was picked up by Section Foreman M. D. Murphy and his men as they were passing over the rails on their way to work. Provo. 'Among the early improvements improve-ments to be made in the city will be the installation of 1000 feet of twenty-inch cast- iron pipe to replace the old wood-stave line in the northeast section of the city, according to Commissioner Com-missioner George Billings. The Commission Com-mission placed the order for the pipe, which will carry the main pressure int the city. Salt Lake City. Pedro Cano, sentenced sen-tenced to be executed at the state prison January 30 for the murder of June St. Clair at Park City shortly after midnight on March 15, 1923, has failed to obtain clemency from the state board of pardons. Cano's petition to have his sentence commuted com-muted to life imprisonment was unanimously unan-imously denied by the board after it had considered the case in executive session. Park City. Representatives of churches and fraternal organiations met the past week and appointed soliciting so-liciting committees to raise funds from business houses and the mines and mills for the relief of Councilman Council-man A. H. Addy and George Street and their families, who were burned out of house and home recently. It was also decided to give a benefit ball for the unfortunates in the near fture. Ogden. There will be virtually a peach crop failure in the vicinity of Ogden and Brigham City next year as a result of the recently extremely cold weather, according to tests made by Leroy Marsh, state agriculture inspector. in-spector. Twigs taken from nearly a score of orchards and placed in greenhouses green-houses indicate that 98 per cent of the buds were frozen, he said. Tests made in Utah county were reported as showing similar damage. Bingham. The Montana-Bingham mine, which has been closed down for more than a year, will resume operations opera-tions at once with J. E. Bergh in charge as superintendent. This property pro-perty contains both lead and copper ore and was a steady producer even in 1921, when only one other property was operated in this district. Ogden. Efforts to obtain an appropriation ap-propriation of $85,000 for the building build-ing of an ormory in Ogden will be renewed by the chamber of commerce and to this end Senator John S. Lewis Lew-is has been asked to lay the proposition propo-sition before Governor Dern. This was rejected by Governor Mabey two years ago and not placed in the budget. bud-get. Salt Lake City A city zoning bill recommended by the Salt Lake zoning zon-ing and planning committee was approved ap-proved by the board of governors of the chamber of commerce with ar amendment and will be introduced ir the lower house of the state legisla ture by Representative Nephi Hansen a member of the committee. Logan. Five men were honored by Scabbard and Blade, a national military mili-tary fraternity, at the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college, when, in ceremonies conducted con-ducted by the officers of the local chapter, they were pledged to become members. The entire R. O. T. C. unit at the college was assembled in the Smart gymnasium to witness the ceremonies. cer-emonies. Salt Lake City. The 1927 national convention of the American National Livestock association will be held in Salt Lake, according to an announcement announce-ment made by John M. Macfarlane, president of the Utah Horse and Cattle Cat-tle Growers' association, who returned return-ed from the national convention at Albuquerque, N. M. President Macfarlane Mac-farlane said that while no vote was takfn on the 1927 meeting, delegates voting to hold the 1926 convention at Phoenix, Ariz., expressed themselves unanimous in favor of this city for the 1927 convention. |
