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Show " OTAH STATE NEWS' M Boprcscntatlve 19. O. LcaUicrwood H hns Introduced a bill appropriating & H $80,000 to purchase n slto nnd erect In H a public building at Leht, Utah. f . H Mining activity in ho Ophlr district ,'u jH continues to Increase. Tho working . H forces on n number of properties havo If H been enlarged recently, and the camp "H Is tnklng on the nppearanco of th w H old-time boom days. a Boys starting grass fires caused a I ' H blaze at tho Consolidated Wagon and H Machinery company wnrchouso at I HH Eighth South and Third West streets, M Salt Luke, Wcdnesilny, which resulted W H in n loss estimated to bo between $50,- Jj H XX) nnd $76,000. The loss Is covered f M iy Insurance. i ! H Mr. nnd Mrs. Clyde Gowcrs, each HO S . H rears of age, natives of Nuphl, weru , H nstniitlj killed at 2:80 o'clock on Wed- i H i acsdny afternoon near the old power 3 'H limit It. the canyon six miles cap o' K $H N'ephl, when tho nutomobllo In which ri 'H hey wcro riding left Uie grade and t B urncd turtle. s H Tho Wasatch Grading company vt j H t'rovo was Wednesday awarded (h3 f ,l rJ ontr.tct by mo city conunlsslou tOe A H I'ontructlng a concrete road In mrcet A H paving district No. 12 on West 0ntcr k H street from Fifth West street to tho H Denver ft Biv Grnndo railroad cross- 'Hfll rng on n bid ot $20,112.01. HH About nlnety-nlno case of appllc iFI for B battery, Utah nntlonal guard, J H reached Salt Lako Wednesday, con- ' " signed to tho property nnd disbursing I ,H officer, who stored them for tho time ;,. H being in tho state cnpltul. The now "i Bl equipment Included four four-wheel U H drive trucks of latest type. Ml Tho now tobacco dealers' bond and Ifl llcenso law Is forcing about 1000 deal- ' M H ors, or 35 per cent ot tho total num- M: H her In tho state, nut of business, d- kj M clnrcd Bobcrt O. Jones, commissioner I , H ot law enforcement of Idaho, on his H return from n trip to the northern part ( H of Uio state, whero ho checked up oa ' H tobacco and real estate dealers. t- B Salary of Dr. Gcorgo Thomas, presl- h HBl dont-elcct ot tho University of Utah, t M was placed nt $7000 a yoar by th 3t H board of regents In a special meeting1 ' f H hchf In tho Doserct Bank building st i , H Salt Lake Wednesday. All subsidiary ' j M funds which havo hcrotoforo been set ': fl iisldo for tho use of the president la j.i H nddltlon to his regular salary were . tv-- H abolished. ' M H County Attorney John B. Gordon of y M Tooele county arrived In Salt Lake , Mi H Inst Wednesday, and he will hold a !i , conference with District Attorney 13. A. Wi llogers with regard to probablo action L H In bo taken against tho members ot a "3 H mob which attempted to lynch M. S. H Goodiile, Postal Tolojiraph-Cuhlo com- ,1 v- !any operator nt wndpver, Monday j H afternoon. 1 H From the Ordcrvilln correspondent 1 'H of the Garfield County Nows tho paper C prints Information regarding road work ,- In that county and tho progress that i ll Is being made. It details tho visit of 1 M the members of the stnto road conunls- j H slon to Onlorvllle npd of their Inspec- J tlnn of the community, and subjects B not dealing with rondti on which the ' M commissioners spoke. JM Wnlter W. Sharp, Jr., IS years ot - H ago, who stolo $10,200 from tho Wes-t- ' "".H crn Loan nnd Building company lost M Junuary, was sentenced to an Indeler- 't ''1 mlnnte term In tho stato prison Wed- 1 nesday at Salt Luke by Jaidgo M. L. 1 M Illtchto in tho Third district court 'H Tho court announced that ho would 4 'M nmko a recommendation to tho atatr H boanl of pardons in Uio case. ttl About 20,000 acres, roughly speak- i H Ing, about one-halt of which Is tilready 'I '1 under cultivation, nro Included In th 4 ' now Carbon Irrigation district near K 1 Pino for which a largo majority of tho ' proposed water usors recently voted M at an election hero. Arrangements aro ' M now going ahead looking to nn ultl- ! J inato decision as to Uio best means of ' M obtaining water for tho new district H Tho members of tho stato road H commission nnd a representative H of tho federal engineer's office arrived H at Lognn Wednesday and accompanlod J H the county commissioners over tho H paved state highway from Wellsvillo H to Illchmond nnd tho proposed oxtcn- H slons partly provided for by tho ap- jH proprlatlons ot half of the required jH sum from tho fcalo of tho county's Is- , H sue of $000,000 In road bonds, provided , H an equal sum Is obtalnod from the fed- KH oral road fund. t ifl Dr. Gcorgo Thomas, state auporin ' S tendent of public Instruction, formVgflMnt ?fl hend of tho department ot commorc'" jV &fl and finance nt Uio University ot Utah, K vAM was recently elected president of th iHb Kfl university, the decision marking the Jflr M closo of nn executive session lasting Brfs fl thrco hours. Thomns Hull, acting see V- "ifl retnry ot the hoard of regents, stated fl jM officially that thoro were four Informal S fl nnd six formnl ballots nnd that Uio Mm l'M last official ballot showed 0 to 4. Fred W M W. Beynolds, licnd of the extension W -M department of tho university, receiving ; M tho minority vote, tL. fl "Wnrdon James Dpvlne ot Uio stato 9&9fljn orison and the members of tho board HjpwfrHH if corrections, oxcept tho governor; Hk jBmbH vere the guests of honor at a party 1fl jOTM itagod at the warden's homo and tha Bwiffl nrlsou offlcos Saturday night by tho WBmSV prison guards. Tho governor was iKBamfuM ubenc from tho city, IWraH Thu buslnoss men of Mnntl luva 'Bal organ I zed a volunteer flro department nHflcffl Several hundred feet ot extra hoso mBHhI ias been purchased. Sifturdny the or IsflnH an' atlnn was out tor Its first prso ImHH J co. IHoBi |