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Show I News Notes I g From A 11 Parts of S I UTAH J Woods Cross Joseph S. Day of Woods Cross was returned to his family fam-ily after being absent for more than five months as the result of an attack at-tack of amnesia. He is said to have been traveling under an alias and to have suddenly remembered his correct cor-rect name when he heard the name of George Day mentioned. Upon his return Day said that he planned to have his name and address tatooed on his body, bo that he can be identified iden-tified in case of other attacks of Amnesia. Am-nesia. Day, who is a veteran of the world war, has suffered three such attacks in all. Brlgham City Exhalting the American Amer-ican Legion as the greatest force for good in the United States because its members are made up of those who are giving of service to God and country, as they did in wartime, and expecting nothing in return James A. Drain, national commander of the legion, le-gion, opened the seventh annual convention con-vention of the Utah department here with an address before a mass meeting meet-ing of legionnaires, members of the American Legion auxiliary and citizens. citi-zens. Salt Lake City. Impressive funeral funer-al services were, held at the Tabernacle Taber-nacle for John J. McClellan, Tabernacle Taber-nacle organist, who died at his home Friends, associates and persons from all walks of life attended and paid their last respects. t Vernal. The Whiterocks Irrigation company has a crew of ten men with teams at work constructing a dam forty feet high across Paradise creek, in the lower end of Paradise park, about twenty miles north of Lapoint. The scene of the activities is located in the Ashley national forest and the dam is being constructed under a forest for-est service permit. The company's development work to be completed this year calls for an expenditure of $18,000. Ogden. District Engineer B. J. Finch Fin-ch of the United States bureau of public pub-lic roads, who has returned from the vacation trip through Idaho and the Pacific northwest, says that road conditions con-ditions throughout the entire section are above the average for this season of the year. The trip covered a distance dis-tance of 3100 miles and Mr. Finch said that due to a lack of rainfall in western Idaho and eastern Oregon and Washington considerable deterioration deteri-oration is occurring in gravel roads. Salt Lake City. The Third district court is asked to restrain Salt Lake City and its officers from interfering with the conduct of pari-mutuel betting bet-ting on horse races in a suit filed with the county clerk, by the Utah State Fair association and others interested in mutuel betting at the state fair grounds within the corporate limits of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City. After serving more than thirteen years of a life sentence, Caleb Inlow, convicted of the murder of Eddie White in 1912, had his sentence sen-tence commuted and was freed from the state prison. Inlow is now being be-ing cared for by relatives. He is said to be suffering from tuberculosis and as his age is against him, it is not expected that he will live long. Vernal. Another industry will be added to the activities of the Uintah basin by a resident of Vernal before the snows of next winter spread their blanket. Henry Williams of this city recently acquired by purchase eighteen eigh-teen young coyotes, trapped two more, and intends to increase this number to 150 by October 1st, and then begin operating a coyote ' fur farm. He has secured a site for the farm in a box canyon six miles northwest north-west of Vernal, three of the walls inclosing in-closing the canyon, forming an insurmountable insur-mountable barrier to everything without with-out wings. Moab. Glen Nelsen, a sheepherder for the Winters Sheep outfit on the Book mountains, had the thrilling experience ex-perience of being attacked by a mountain moun-tain lion and his clothes torn from his body last week. Mountain lions seldom molest a man unless cornered corner-ed and wounded, but while Nelsen was hanging in a tree a freshly dressed dress-ed mutton the lion pounced upon him, riddling his clothes and inflicting a number of deep gashes on his breast. Nelsen was knocked unconscious by the blow and apparently the lion thought the man was dead, as it did not molest him after he fell. Joe Watts, Nelsen's camp mover, arrived at the camp shortly after the lion had made its attack, just as Nelsen was regaining consciousness. Ogden. The presence of a pound of hair in the intestines of Miss Lenola Reynolds, 19 years of age, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who died here proved to be a mystery to local physiciane. Miss Reynolds was visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Reynolds, Rey-nolds, and was taken seriously ill a week ago. An operation for appendicitis appendi-citis was performed, but revealed a perfect appendix. A hard lump in the stomach led physicians to perform per-form the second operation and the hair was found. |