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Show News Notes : From All Parts of UTAH f! Price. Sheriff Ray Demming was shot in the knee by Andrew Strakey and Strakey was shot in the side by Deputy Sheriff Beebe of Standard-ville Standard-ville while the sheriff and his deputies, depu-ties, Mark Olsen and Sam Garrett, with Deputy Beebe, were attempting to arrest three men supposed to be Strakey, Leo Boyle, an ex-convict and 0. J. Carney, suspected of holding up Emil Percion and a number of patrons pa-trons of the Standardville pool hall in Spring Canyon. Midvale. Extensive public improvements im-provements are being considered for Midvale. Within a short time it is expected work of paving Main and part of Center street will be under way. Trees are to be planted and other improvements begun on the property recently acquired by the city. Ogden. Frank T. Hirt was awarded award-ed the contract for the operation of j concessions at Lorin Parr park during dur-ing the summer months by the city commissioners. He is to turn 10 per cent of all receipts from all concessions con-cessions except the dance hall to the city. Provo. Purchasing agents of Utah' accompanied by various other business busi-ness men of Salt Lake county, visited visit-ed the Columbia Steel corporation plant at Ironton for the purpose of becoming more conversant with the activities of the new industry in the state. Ogden. Under search warrant granted by United States Commissioner Commis-sioner H. A. Soderberg of the northern north-ern district of Utah, $20,000 of the $120,000 alleged to have been embezzled em-bezzled by Lieutenant Ervine R. Brown, navy paymaster now under arrest at San Francisco, was found in a safety deposit box at the Ogden State bank. Salt Lake City. Two fine looking seals, bought by R. Art Gardiner, confectioner, at Santa Barbara, Cal. and donated to the city park department, depart-ment, were received and placed in a lake at Liberty park in the .vicinity of the old mill. They are the first seals ever to have been received here by the city park department, and will add materially to the attractions at the Liberty park zoo. They were caught from the ocean and shipped immediately to this city. Salt Lake City. The $50,000 check deposited in a Salt Lake Bank several sev-eral weeks ago by the Utah-Nevada Highway association to help defray ;osts of the Wendover highway from Knolls to Wendover has been transferred trans-ferred to the state treasury and is now available for use. Salt Lake, At a joint meeting of the Regents of the University of Utah and the board of trustees of the Utah Agricultural college held Monday Mon-day in the capitol, it was decided to leave the fees for entrance and tuition tui-tion at both institutions for this year the same as they were last year. Trovo, A shipment of nursery stock from Sebastopol, Calif., to Provo has been confiscated by District Dis-trict Agricultural Inspector C. J. Sor-enson, Sor-enson, in acordance with the ban prohibiting pro-hibiting shipments o this nature from areas In which the foot and mouth disease are prevalent. Morgan, Electors of this school district by a vote of 223 to 129, decided de-cided in favor of the issuance of $60,- 000 in school district bonds for additions addi-tions and betterment to the schools of the county. Of this total $33,000 will be utilized for construction of a gymnasium and home economics department de-partment for the Morgan county high school ; $11,000 will go to repairs and additions to a grade school at Porter-ville, Porter-ville, $7000 for repairs to the school at Milton, and $7000 for new equipment equip-ment for the school district. Ogden, Captain Samuel Paul, well-known well-known Utah figure, who came to Ogden Og-den November 5, 1SSS, and with a silver sil-ver trowel in hand laid the cornerstone corner-stone of the Ogden Union depot then being built, came back and with tne same trowel removed the copper box containing relics of thirty-six year" ago, which he had placed in the cornerstone. cor-nerstone. Parley L. Williams, who delivered an oration on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone, also returned here and delivered an address ad-dress upon the occasion of the cornerstone's cor-nerstone's removal. Salt Lake, Fire losses in Salt Lake during March totaled $4S."i9.54, or .0039 per cent of the property involved, invol-ved, according to the monthly report of Chief W. II. Bywatcr submitted to the city commission by Arthur F. Karnes, commissioner of public safety. The fires included twenty-nine buildings. build-ings. One false and five unnecessary unneces-sary alarms were turned in during the month. The percentage of fires in buildings caused by sparks on shingle roofs was given as 38 per cent. What are we doing toward having a Clean-Up Campaign Cam-paign in our community? We must organize in order to obtain the best results. J |