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Show Pithy News Notes ! From All Porta of UTAH i ll ' ! i Trice A steel bridge Is to be erect- -. ed at Helper over the Trice river. . Cedar City. Articles of incorpora- i tion have been filed by Iron County i Railroad. ' Salt Lake. Adverse effects of the '. railroad situation are beginning to make themselves felt in the state road situation with particular reference,, to the two big Jobs of construction work now under way in Carbon and Juab v , counties, respectively. Heretofore the supplies of sand and gravel for the cement surfacing, which are being 1m-ported 1m-ported into both counties from Salt ' Lake county, and chiefly from the state gravel pit at Mount, have been . kept moving, and thirteen mor cars of these aggregates on the way. How-ever, How-ever, greater difficulty has been experienced ex-perienced In the shipment of cement, . the greater portion of the supply of which comes through Ogden from the Ogden and Union Tortland cement plants at Baker and Devil's Slide, respectively. re-spectively. Efforts were being made to obtain cement from the Utah Tort- v land Cement company's plant is Salt Lake. This plant furnishes about 25 per cent of the supply, - Salt Lake. "The Victory highway, t a great memorial in honor of the coun- try's valiant sons, will soon become the paved Main street of America,", B'ea Blow, manager of the Victory ! Highway Association. Incorporated said upon his arrival In Salt Lake on his way to meetings scheduled for Nevada. Mr. Blow told of the pro-gress pro-gress made by the association In the ; two years ot Its work for the new transcontinental artery and ot the -plans tor the further material development devel-opment of both the memorial Idea which the road is to engrave In history his-tory and of the physical betterments needed l band the country from coast to coast with a single broad hard surfaced road. ' Salt Lake. G troop, HCth cavalry, Utah National Guard, which has been stationed at Helper since June 15, when it was sent into Carbon county to quell coal strike disturbances, has been ordered back to Us headquarters at Brlghara City. In addition, some thrty-seven men whose presence st . home is urgently desirable, have been released from further duty in the coal fields at the order of the governor, and returned home. , Ogden. -A special meeting of the state board of pardons has been set for Tuesday, August 22, at which time the case of John Cerar, convicted ot murder la the first degree, In Carbon county, will come up for final action. The man is at present under sentence , of death, his appeal to the supreme court having failed to obtain a reversal rever-sal of the verdict Cerar is applying for commutation of the death sen. tence. Salt Lake. State officials, beads ot departments and Institutions, are invited in-vited by Governor Mabey to put forth ; renewed efforts to cut their expenws tor the remainder ot the present blen-niura blen-niura so that they will make In ea. u case a considerable saving on the a, propriatlons allowed them. Salt Lake Reduction ot four-tenths of a mill in the levy for maintenance of Salt Lake's school system was agreed to by members of the Iniard of education and the county comuiis. ' rO. The levy will be 8.1 mills, as against 8.5 mills in 1921. Salt Lake. Fifty automobiles carrying car-rying residents of Murray, Holliilay and Mid vale,' paraded the business section ot Salt Lake In protest aainbt ' the recent Increase In telephoue rates ordered by the Utah state public utilities utili-ties commission. Salt Lake. A committee headed by.W. It Wallace, chairman of the Utah Water Storage commission, an 1 A. II. Cfcr!t''n "will "eek to ralsa $10,000 by subscription as a part or $1.000 needed to match $15,000 offered of-fered by the federal government fnr the survey of the Weber-Provo an t Dear Man's gulch Irrigation projeits. Richfield. A .G. Young, contractor on the Piute road project between Marysvale and Junction, a dlstan e of twelve miles, reports that the hcay grading on the project Is completed and that surfacing will begin at on o. He expects to have the work completed complet-ed befoie Cold weather. The project calls for gravel construction an J the grade is twenty-four feet wide. Spanish Fork. Over 5000 pco; le at-tensed at-tensed the Indian Wars Veterans en-campmentlast en-campmentlast week. Salt Lake. Arnold nanaon. six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. II. !?. Hanson, was knocked down and k'llt-t by an automobile said to have ben driven by C. It McDonald of Evan-ston, Evan-ston, Wyo. Sprlngville. Clifford Marsh, 20 years of age, of Mapleton, was hi! ten by a rattlesnake, but Is 6t of dnn.'er. The young man was walking through an alfalfa field 'when he s'.cvped on the rattlei md was bitten. . |