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Show I News Notes 1 fj It's a Privilege to Live in S I Utah I Salt Lake City. Ralph W. Seybolt, for whose execution the district court has four times fixed the date did not face the firing squad. Acting Act-ing Governor H. E. Crockett in conference confer-ence with the state board of pardons of which he is chairman decided to grant the convicted murdered of patrolman pa-trolman David Crowther his second reprieve. Ogden. The U. S. reclamation service ser-vice has not yet decided whether to build a high dam or low dam at American Amer-ican Falls, Idaho, hence the concrete operations on the dam have been suspended sus-pended for about thirty days, according accord-ing to W. L. Watis, secretary of the Utah Construction company, which is building the dam. The construction of the wall on the east side of Snake river has been completed to a height specified for the low dam. A coffer dam on the . west side of the river also has been completed and excavation exca-vation is now under way. Salt Lake City. The application ol the town of Huntsville for permission to charge a flat rate of $1 a month for each water service connection was dismissed by the public utilities commission com-mission tif Utah on motion of the applicant. ap-plicant. Park City. Drilling into a missed hole while working at the Silver King Coalition mine, Fred Sundell, 25, and Riley Lake, 26, were injured. Sundell was taken to a Salt Lake hospital. The charge struck him in the face, injuring his eyes. Lake suf-ferred suf-ferred slight injuries. Salt Lake City. Harry L. Finch and Arthur L. Barnes, incumbents, and P. J. Moran and Berkley Olson were nominated as candidates for city commissioner, as shown by the complete com-plete returns In the primary election here. Alvin Keddington, present city auditor and Frank P. Walts were the successful candidates for auditor. Price. Believing that the salaries paid to city officials at the present as well as in the past, are so small as to be ridiculous and are not sufficient suf-ficient to so much as compensate them their bare expenses while acting act-ing in their civic capacities, members of the city council have decided on an increase for the next two years. Bingham. All employees of the various mines in this district are expected ex-pected to be inoculated against typhoid ty-phoid fever. Notioes to this effect have been posted and the mining companies assume the expense. Price. Prediction is made by O. P. Madsen, county agricultural agent, that the Carbon production of sugar beets during 1925 will approximate 6000 tons. This would make the crop just twice that of 1924, which figures just disclosed show ran about 3000 tons. . Ogden. With the completion of Gibbons pass in Idaho, now under construction by the W. S. Craven Construction Con-struction company of Ogden, the automobile au-tomobile route between Ogden and Spokane, Wash., will be approximately approximate-ly 200 miles shorter than the present auto route, according to B. J. Finch, district engineer of the U. S. Bureau of public roads, who has returned from an inspection tour of Idaho. Provo. An explosion at the Republic Repub-lic Creosote company's plant destroyed destroy-ed two stills and otherwise damaged the plant to the extent of about $500. Four men who were working in close proximity to the stills miraculously escaped injury when the explosion occurred. Coke and tar were sent 230 feet into the air. Salt Lake City On last Monday morning the work of razing another 3f the historical landmarks of the city was started. The church historian's building at 60 East South Temple street will yield to the march of progress pro-gress and in its place will be built the eight-story medical arts building which will cost $350,000. The historian's histor-ian's building has stood for sixty years and has been closely associated with the history of the L. D. S. church. In 1917 the office of the church historian was transferred to the new church office building and ;ince then the Utah Conservatory of Music has occupied it. Of late the building has housed several musical studios. Salt Lake City. Comparatively cheap chicken feed and particularly god prices for eggs are proving stimulating stim-ulating to the poultry industry in Utah. This situation has created a strong demand for pullets, which the market cannot supply. All poultry-men poultry-men who have what In other years might be considered surplus numbers Df pullets are holding them and won-Jering won-Jering if they can obtain more. I Salt Lake City. Removal of the municipal waterworks from city politics pol-itics by placing this department un-3er un-3er a board to be elected and to have powers analagous to those exercised over the school system by the board of education and the furtherance of legislation to this end, was indorsed by the board of governors of the chamber of ccrmmerce in considering a report submitted by the chamber's committee on municipal water supply, covering the results of more than fifteen months' reaearch. |