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Show Majgljpliiijiaj 1 News Notes I 0 From All Parts of 1 UTAH I Kaysville. The Kaysville Canning corporation opened its tomato campaign cam-paign last week. Within the next ten days the crop will be nearing peak production and the canning factories fac-tories of Davis county will be busy places. The quality of tomatoes this year is very high and the yield promises prom-ises to be enormous. Monticello. The state road commission com-mission has accepted the five-mile t'tretch of road between LaSal Junction Junc-tion and Big Wash. The commission pronounced it one of the best pieces of road in the state. Two of the cement ce-ment heads over culverts were not up to standard and the commission asked ask-ed that these be remade. The road is now open for traffic. This stretch shortens the trip from Moab to Monticello Mon-ticello about two miles and one of the worst bits of road on the whole journey journ-ey is done away with. Salt Lake City. It is estimated there are 427,508 American-born inhabitants in-habitants of Utah in 1925, compared with 388,644 in 1920. Of these, 345,-407 345,-407 are natives of Utah, compared with 314,006 in 1920. Of natives of other states residing in Utah in 1925, it is estimated there are 82,101. The largest migration is from Idaho, 9156, compared with 8324 in 1920. Califor-nians Califor-nians number 2949, Coloradoans 6953, IUinoisans 5847, Iowans 4783, Kan-sans Kan-sans 3190, Ohioans 3990, Pennsylvan-ians Pennsylvan-ians 3028, and natives of Wyoming 3G54. Salt Lake City. A channel 800 feet long, twenty-eight feed wide and four feet in depth was literally blown into the bed of Utah lake, when a charge of 2000 sticks of dynamite was set off at the mouth of the waterway connecting con-necting the lake with the city's pumping pump-ing station. Tons of mud, water and sand were raised by the explosion to a height of 200 feet into the air and deposited on the shores along the sides of the waterway. Three of the giant pumps were started immediately immediate-ly to draw the lake water through the new made channel and scour it out to make a free feed channel for the pumps. Ogden. The city commissioners have taken steps to curb high prices for refreshments sold at concessions of two circuses which will show in Ogden soon. It is expected that City Recorder J. Herman Knauss, Jr., will demand an agreement that nominal prices will be charged before a license licen-se is granted the show owners. Salt Lake City. W. J. Parker is chairman of the Democratic state committee. His election by acclamation acclama-tion at a session of the state committee com-mittee held in the Newhouse hotel, at which almost every county of the state was represented. He succeeds Harden Bennion, who resigned last March before qualifying for the position posi-tion of commissioner of agriculture, to which he was appointed by Governor Gov-ernor George H. Dern. . Ogden. The Utah Construction company has dispatched an advance camping party and a carload of horses to Salina canyon, where the company will build twenty-six miles of railroad track for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad company. Actual construction work will be under way as soon as preparation for it can be made, according to Warren L. Wattis secretary of the company. Bountiful Twelve persons were in- I jured and several others badly shaken shak-en up when the southbound Bamberger Bamber-ger Electric passenger train on which they were riding crashed into the rear end of a freight train just south of Bountiful. Logan. Kenneth C. Ikeler, formerly former-ly professor of animal husbandry at the Iowa state college, was appointed professor of animal husbandry at the Utah Agricultural college at the regular reg-ular monthly meeting of the board of trustees held at the college. Professor Prof-essor Ikler has been manager of a large commercial livestock firm in Towanda, Pa., during the last five years. Salt Lake City. Death made its second dramatic entry at the Utah State Fair grounds as an accompaniment accompan-iment to roundup thrills, when Roy Kivett, a rider in the steer roping contest, was almost instantly killed when his horse rolled on him. Kivett is the man who shot and killed Harry Edward Bowles at the first frontier roundup, August 29, 1924, within 200 yards of where he was killed. A large crowd of spectators looked .on as the steer came to the end of Kivett rope, throwing the steer in a headlon jerk, while at the same time horse and rider sprawled in a cloud of dust, the horse rolling completely over Kiv- ett, breaking his neck and crushing his skull. j Ogden. Two men who gave the j names of James Monroe. 2G, an irra ' moulder of Ogden, and Tom Mocrc, 40, of Pennsylvania heavily armed and with nitroglycerine and other ; safecracking necessities, were arrested arrest-ed by Oj'lc-n police about fifteen minutes after an explosion wrecked ! the safe of the Ogden commission 1 house ,23S Washington avenue. Dur- ing the day Moore and Monroe were : put under a heavy grilling by Chief of Detectives Robert Burk and Chief Allison, but refused to admit thai ' blew the safe. J |