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Show I News Notes 1 tj It's a Privilege to Live in 3 S Utah 1 IgK'5EE7S1?S:d! ' Moab.- Long-standing and oft-repeated predictions that some day Utah would become an important producer pro-ducer of oil received their first and most important justification when the Midwest-Utah Southern test of the Big Six dome came in. Salt Lake City. There have been thirty-five deaths from automobile accidents ac-cidents in Salt Lake from January 1 to November 7 this year, according to a United States department of commerce com-merce report received here. Automobile Automo-bile fatalities during this period are higher than the total of 34 in 192-1, and 20 in 1923. During the period of January 1 to October 31, 192-4, there were 29 deaths resulting from automobile accidents. Logan. All evidence in the case of the restriction of the corporate . limits of the city of Smithfield was completed before Judge Melvin C. Harris. Judge Harris took the case under advisement and will announce his decision at a later date. A number num-ber of land owners of Smithfield petitioned pe-titioned to have the city limits restricted restric-ted so as to not include their property. prop-erty. Logan. Extensive preparations for the annual Cache county- poultry show which will be held durnig the last week in January are being made. The committee of the chamber , of commerce is co-operating with the poultry association in holding the' show. Use of a building on Center street, owned by Joseph Davidson, has been secured. Salt Lake City. Appeal from the decision of Judge L. B. Wight of the Third District court, which declared the Redd racing law unconstitutional will be taken to the state supreme court, according to Attorney General Harvey H. Cluff, and carried through with due dispatch and in time to be heard at the February term. American Fork. Fox farming, a new enterprise for this section of the state, became a reality with the arrival ar-rival from the east of twenty pair of foxes, shipped to Robert L. Ashby, owner and manager of the farm. Mr. Ashby recently returned from a trip to Prince Edward Island,, where he visited some of the largest fox farms of Canada. Mr. Ashby has five acres-of acres-of ground north of the city enclosed and the kennels were in readiness to receive the foxe3. Logan. Cache county business men have underwritten $3500 toward an investigation in-vestigation to be conducted by W. M. Green, engineer . for the federal bureau bu-reau of reclamation, under a joint agreement covering the Salt Lake basin reclamation project. The check for this amount has been placed in the hands of the bureau, and is added to a like amount furnished by Cache county commissioners. Washington. Senator King of Utah, will introduce a number of important bills, on which he will urge action at the session this winter; some bills national in character and some applicable applic-able locally in Utah or to the west. Among the local bills are the following: follow-ing: Appropriating $1,250,000 to acquire ac-quire adidtional ground and enlarge the federal building at Salt Lake City. Appropriating $250,000 for enlarging the public building at Ogden. Bills appropriating various sums for public pub-lic buildings at Price, Nephi, Cedar City, St. Geore, Bingham, Fillmore, Manti, Beaver, Moab, Tooele, Duchesne, Du-chesne, Farmington and Coalville. Appropriating Ap-propriating 5"0,000 to be expended by the secretary of the interior,' eithe. at Ogden . or in connection with the University of Utah, for the erection of a suitable plant to test the oil shales found upon the public domain, with a view to utilization of their oil content. Provo. More than 100 teachers participated par-ticipated in the first regional district teachers' association conference in this city. Themes and questions were discussed and resolutions and recommendations recom-mendations of various special committees com-mittees touching on taxation, expenditures, expen-ditures, teachers' welfare, contracts, tenure and retirements, professional standards, ethics, publicity and parent-teacher association were adopted by the conference. Salt Lake City. As a result of a recent decision by the supreme court of Utah, the industrial commission is making it part of its routine action to ask each workman injured in an industrial accident to apply to the commission for adjustment of his claim. This is done in case, at some future date, dispute may arise between be-tween the workman and the employer or insurance carrier as to the amount of the benefits to which the injured workman is entitled. Ogden. Some of the stock of the famous Utah herd of Holstein cattle assembled early this fall and sent to various expositions out of tho state-have state-have been sold to breeders of Japan, according to Gilbert Thatcher, secretary secre-tary of the Utah Holstein Breeders, association. The stock sold to Japanese Japan-ese buyers,. Includes the three-year-old cow, Swandale Pontiac Selma and two other choice heifers, by I. M. Cooley of Ogdeu. The Utah Sciiooi for the deaf and blind also sold a number of head of pure-breds |