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Show : News Notes t From All Parts of I UTAH : Spanish Fork. Although escaping with his life after losing his way a ml wandering all night in the sno.v near Spanish Fork when the temperature temper-ature was below zero during the recent re-cent cold wave, Thomas Hudson, 77 years of age, of Castle Dale, was so badly frozen that he was taken to Salt Lake for treatment at the L. D. S. Hospital. It is said that it would be necessary to amputate his right foot. The other foot, although almost al-most in as bad a condition probably will be saved. Salt Lake City. A report to the city commi.ision Wednesday from the city engineer shows that all bids submitted sub-mitted on the proposed city drainage canal laterals and the two siphons under the Jordan river, are above tha estimate of cost made by the city engineer. en-gineer. The lowest bid was $10,000 in excess of the engineer's estimate. As a result, the city virtual!;- decided decid-ed to do the work itself, but iltferr.""-! action for advice from the city atto" ney on the legal aspects of the matter. mat-ter. Ogden. Forest highway funds available for the construction of forest for-est highways in Utah during the fiscal fis-cal year 1925 totals $163,000, all of which can be expended during year ending June 30, 1920. In addition, the sum of $146,000 may also be expended ex-pended during the period named plus a tentative apportionment of $120,-1100 $120,-1100 to the state, providing- it also puts up $120,000 for cooperative construction con-struction of forest roads. This was the information imparted the state road commission by the forestry service. ser-vice. Salt Lake City. Enginemen and firemen on the Oregon Short Line railroad are apparently determined to ignore the proposal of the management man-agement relative to a change in working conditions in line with the five per cent increase in wage granted grant-ed by the railroad labor board in its decision handed down November 29, it became known in railroad circles here. Ogden. The Ogden police have gotten out a petition calling for an increase of $10 a month in wages.. The firemen recently had a petition ut for an increase of 10 per cent in choir wages. Ogden. Louis Samuel Chadwick, North Ogden farmer, was killed when a roof of a shed, caused to collapse by the weight of snow, fell upon him, breaking his neck. Salt Lake City Ice on the rails, resulting from farmers overflowing the siphon under the tracks, caused the derailment of the Denver & Rio Grande Western freight engine near Sterling, Utah, under which Engineer-John Engineer-John Gertzenschlager was crushed to death, according to the statement made by Denver & Rio Grande railroad rail-road officials. Provo. One of the first projects the newly elected officers of the Provo Pro-vo chamber of commerce will foster will be that of a better lighting system sys-tem for the business section of the city, according to Ed. S. Hinckley, secretary of the chamber. Ogden. The loss of deer on the Kaibab national forest because of the stringent grazing conditions and what promises to be a severe winter win-ter is bound to be heavy, according to District Forester R. II . Rutlejlge of the intermountain district who has returned from the Kaibab forest, where he went early in the month to supervise the drive of several thousand thous-and deer across the grand canyon. Salt Lake City. The biennial report re-port of Mark Tuttle, state auditor, for the fiscal year ending last November No-vember 30 shows under a compilation headed "Where the Money Goes," a total of state expenditures during the year of $10,53-1,288.86. This means that, exclusive of those items which may be classed as reinvestment of stave trust funds or as receipts from temporary loans the state issued warrants totalling the above amount. Salt Lake The contract for the construction of the Pacific Fruit Express Ex-press company's shops at Nampa, Idaho, has been awarded to H. P. Nielsen and T. G. Rowland, Logan :ontractors, according to an announcement announce-ment made by the General Contractors' Contract-ors' association of Utah. The consideration con-sideration was $213,000, with stipulation stipu-lation that the work begin in the -pring. Salt Lake City. Salt Lakers who advanced funds for the construction of the air mail service hangar writ not be reimbursed as the result of the defeat of an omnibus bill in the house of representatives at Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, Wednesday, according to advices to Salt Lake. Ogden. James Morehead Brown, oldest resident of Ogden and only surviving son of Captain James M. Brown, founder of Ogden, died at his home, 2843 Wasftington avenue. He was a little more than 90 years of age. |