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Show l News Notes t From All Parts of UTAH Provo. Effective March 15, travelers trav-elers on the Denver & Rio Grande Wes-tern railroad will be permitted ten day stopovers at either Provo or Thistle, according to the announcement announce-ment of H. M. Cushing, district passenger pas-senger agent of Salt Lake City. Ogden. Five persons were slight' ly injured when a part of Denver & Rio Grande Western train No. 1, running from Denver to Ogden was derailed at Roy Thursday. One day coach and three Pullman cars left the track, while the engine and mail car remained on the rails. Salt Lake City. The milk campaign cam-paign for the Near East relief is nearing a close, the Utah committee announced last week. Utah has raised rais-ed 6500 cans of condensed milk to be sent to the striken people of the Near East, in cooperation with tne nationwide drive. Provo. A petition requesting the city commission to rescind its action of January 15 in lowering the pool hall age from 21 to 18 has been signed by 2000 Provo citizens, according ac-cording to reports and will be submitted sub-mitted to the Provo City commission shortly. Salt Lake City. Reporting on an audit made of the accounting records rec-ords - of the state industrial school for the period beginning April 1, 1922, and ending December 31, 1923, when John M. Mill's resignation as superintendent became effective, W. T. Reid, deputy state auditor, finds that the accounts exhibit "a decided improvement," over the previous period. per-iod. Salt Lake City. Half a million trout fry of the eastern brook variety varie-ty are being taken from the Tim-panogos Tim-panogos hatchery and planted in the Strawberry valley by the state fish and game department. "Vgden Work on the new $125,000 addition to the Elks home of Ogden lodge No. 719 Is expected to be started start-ed within the next month. Bingham, Fire which broke out in the change room on the 400-foot level of the United States mine Tuesday, was quickly communicated to timbers in. the mine and gas was so quickly generated that the shift was forced to seek the open air. Assistant Superintendent Taylor was overcome by the fumes, but soon recovered and is not feeling any 111 effects from his experience. The fire was soon put out. Salt Lake, Nearly 800 persons, representing re-presenting Rotary clubs of Price, Spanish Fork, Provo, Ogden, Brig-ham, Brig-ham, Logan and Salt Lake, gathered at the Hotel Utah Tuesday to celebrate cele-brate the nineteenth anniversary of Rotary. Salt Lake, Governor Mabey has signed the deeds by which the state of Utah quit claims to the federal government any title to the lands on which the proposed bridge across the Virgin river at Rickville will stand. The bridge is to be built out of an appropriation made last year for improvements im-provements to highways in and near Zion national park. Park City, Howard Hout has asked ask-ed the permission of the public utilities utili-ties commission to resume the regular reg-ular automobile stage line service between be-tween Salt Lake and Park City. Salt Lake, License plates for the 110 vehicles owned by the Thoenix Construction company and the Utah Power and Light company have been obtained from the motor vehicle department de-partment of the state at a cost of $1356.38. This is the lagest number of license plates issued to any corporation cor-poration in the state, the construction company being a subsidary of the power company. Heber City, The highway through the Strawberry valley from Heber City of Duchesne, for the first time in history, is open to travel at this time of the year. Ogden, Heber T. Wheelwright, chauffeur of the police department who shot and killed Efton Reid, an Innocent youth of Orangeville Tuesday Tues-day night while the latter was flee Ing from officers in the heart of Og-den's Og-den's business district was suspended by Chief of Police Curtis L. Allison. Ogden, After two attempts to explode ex-plode the mammoth charge of dynamite dyna-mite at Lakeside failed on Friday, the big blast was shot off Saturday. A dynamo car furnished enough voltage volt-age to explode the huge charge whi ' had been placed under the mountain and the experts who witnessed tha blast said it was perfectly executed. The explosion behaved just ns had been planned, with merely a rumble no material flying into the air, but the gigantic listing power loosening tens of thousands of cubic feet ot ballasting material. Salt Lake, The citizens' military camp will he held at Fort Douglas this year from June 12 to July 11, according to advices received from the headquarters of the Ninth Corps area at the Presidio at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Cal. Provo, Fires were started in the Columbia Steel corporation's coke ovens Friday for the purpose of heating heat-ing the brick. The fire will be retained re-tained for sixty days, after which the ovens will be in readiness for opera Uons. |