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Show Pithy News Notes From AH Part of UTAH I Logn. Ilnnford McNldor, national commantlor of tha American Legion, will bo tlio principal speaker at th fuortti annual department convontlo of tho Utah depnrtmont of the legion, According to the nnnoueoracnt mado by Dr. H. W. Illack, department comman. dcr. nt a meeting of Legionnlres, at which tho flrat plans for tho conven. Hon woro made. Tho convention will be hold In Logan Soptomber 21. 22 and 23. Monb A floor in ono of tho rooms of San Junn county's now courthouse collapsed under tho weight of 70,000 pound of flour stored by th Monti-cello Monti-cello Milling company during tho wet ipring season. Salt Lake At a meotlng held la Durango, Colo., at which ovory section of tho San Juan basin In Colorado nnd Utah was represented, assurance wis given by tho Los Angelos syn. dlcnto In charge of tho financing of the proposed southern outlet railway extension that upon the completion of the land subscriptions under tho now contract tp a net sum of J3.000.000, Immediate, construction will bogln. Ogdon. Utah chaptoro of tho American Ameri-can lied Cross, moro than thirty in number hold tholr first regional conference con-ference at Ogdcn this week. Hlnckloy Conditions In Millard county nre very favornbto for a large lecd crop. Ogdon Utah Construction company tt Ogdon has boon awnrdod seventeen wd one-linlf miles of grado by tlio Oregon Short Line betweon King's nill and Modhury, la Idaho. Salt Lata J Tho Industrial coramls. lion of Utah has awarded $3,702.00 each, In payments nt tho rate of $12.12 i wook, to two widows of men who (vero fatally injured in tlio course of employment. In tho caso of Mrs. Emma Em-ma Hfiber of Payson, widow of IL A. ilubor, thore nro five dependent child-' ten surviving, and in tho caso of Mrs. Itoxle Jewell of Salt Lake four. In each caso funeral oxponsos nre award-ed award-ed in addition. Ogdon Old folks of Ogden nnd Wo. ber county will huvo tholr annual reunion re-union nnd outing Juno 23 nt Lorln Farr pnrk, committees of tho four takes of tho Mormon church announced announc-ed Sunday. All men nnd women over 70 years of ago will bo special guests. I'rlco Jack Cavo, nn employee of the McCunes Forwarding company, was caught in tlio Price Commercial Savings bank. A revolver nnd twelvo rolls of one-cent ploces worth 00 cents each wero found on his porson. Salt Lake. Tho city rocrontlon grounds, of which thoro nro ten, have opened officially for tho summer sea-ton. sea-ton. Salt Lake. One hundred Utah portsmen held o, meeting hero last week. A state-wldo offort to linvo Strawberry valloy loft open for fishermen fish-ermen was launched. Richfield Utah possesses radium deposits which some day may prove ?f inestimable value in helping to furnish the wdrld's Bupply of tho Precious metal, according to Frank L. Hess, geologist of the United States Wlolcnl survoy, who mado a trip through southorn Utah In company with V. C. IlelkoB, statistician is chargo of tho goological survey. Soldlor Summit Incurrence about two miles west of hero on tho right f way of Denvor & Wo Grando "Western "West-ern railroad of what Is declared to bo eno of tho strangest froaks known to Kologlcal Bcjonco is causing delays the traflfc of that railroad. , A mountain is slipping on Its Internal "rata resulting in an uphenvol lie-"cath lie-"cath tho tracks of tho railroad nnd wowing them out of lino. In places we track Js roportod to have been raised tou feet, twisting-the stool rolls Wcl making tho rond bod Impnssnoie. "vo stonm Miovols und two dltchora fe working on the mass of earth and rack clearing it away. Salt Lake. Utah's own Maude Mams has earned tho grntitudo of J08 popo by the generous gift last 'at wt-ok of her 200-acre estate at ? Itonkopkomli, L. I., for the use ' tho llomnn Catholic Sisterhood of , Ur lQy of tho Concnle, according to "vices from Now York. Miss Adams B ftot a Catholic. |