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Show UTAH SIHTE NEWS Eepresontative E. O. Leatherwood has introduced a bill appropriating $80,000 to purchase a site and erect a public building at Lchi, Utah. Mining activity in the Ophir district continues to increase. The working forces on a number of properties have been enlarged recently, and the camp Is taking on the appearance of the old-time boom days. Boys starting grass fires caused a blaze at the Consolidated Wagon and Machinery company warehouse at Eighth South and Third West streets, Salt Lake, Wednesday, which resulted in a loss estimated to be between ?50,-000 ?50,-000 and $75,000. The loss is covered by insurance. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cowers, each 30 years of age. natives of Nepbi, were instantly killed at 2 :IS0 o'clock on Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon near the old power plant in the canyon six miles eay of Nephi, when the automobile in wnlch they were riding loft the grade and turned turtle. The Wasatch Grading eompanj of Provo was Wednesday awarded the contract by file city commission for contracting a concrete road in S reet paving district No. 12 on West C inter street from Fifth West street t the Denver & Iiio Grande railroad crossing cross-ing on a bid of $20,112.01.' About ninety-nine cases of supplies for B battery, Utah national guard, reached Salt Lake Wednesdi y, consigned con-signed to the property and di ;bursing officer, who stored them for 'he time being in the state capltnl. The new equipment included four f'.ur-wheel drive ti'urks of latest type. The new tobacco dealers' bond and license law is forcing about 1000 dealers, deal-ers, or 35 per cent of the total number num-ber in the state, out of business,, declared de-clared Robert O. Jones, commissioner of law enforcement of Idaho, on his return from a trip to Ihe northern part of the stale, where he checked up oo tobacco and real estale dealers, ( Salary of D.r. George Thomas, president-elect of the University of Utah, was placed at $7000 a year liy thu board of regents in a special meeting held in the Deseret Bank building at Salt Lake Wednesday. All subsidiary funds which have heretofore been set nsiile for the use of the president In addition to his regular salary were abolished. County Attorney .Tohn B. Gordon of Tooele county arrived in Salt Lake last Wednesday, and he will hold a conference. with District Attorney E. A. Rogers with regard to probable action to be taken against the members of a mob which attempted to lynch M. S. Goodale, Postal Telegraph-Cable company com-pany operator at Wendover, Monday afternoon. From Ihe Orderville correspondent of the Garfield County Xews the paper prints information regarding road work in that county and the progress that Is being made. It details the visit of the members of the state road commission commis-sion to Orderville and of their inspection inspec-tion of Ihe community, and subjects not dealing with roads on which the commissioners spoke. Walter W. Sharp, Jr., 18 years of age, who stole $10,200 from the Western West-ern Loan and Building company last January, was sentenced to an indeterminate indeter-minate term In the state prison Wednesday Wed-nesday at Salt Lake by Judge M. L. Ritchie in the Third district court. The court announced that he would make a recommendat'on to the state board of pardons in the case. About 20,000 acres, roughly speaking, speak-ing, about one-half of which is already under cultivation, are Included in the new Carbon Irrigation district near Pine for which a large majority of the proposed water users recently voted at an election here. Arrangements are now going ahead looking to an ultimate ulti-mate decision as to the best means of obtaining water for the new district. The menilers of the state road commission and a representative of the federal engineer's office arrived at Logan Wednesday and accompanied the county commissioners over the paved state highway from Wellsvllle to Richmond and the proposed extensions exten-sions partly provided for by the appropriations ap-propriations of half of the required sum from the sale of the county's Issue Is-sue of $000,000 In road bonds, provided an equal sum is obtained from the federal fed-eral road fund. Dr. George Thomas, state superintendent superin-tendent of public Instruction, formerly head of the department of commerce and finance at the University of Utah, was recently elected president of the university, the decision marking the close of an executive session lasting three hours. Thomas Hull, acting secretary sec-retary of the board of regents, stated OiTicially that there were four informal and six formal ballots and that the hist official ballot showed U to 4. Fred W. Reynolds, head of the exl fusion department of the university, receiving the minority vote. Warden James Devine of the stale orison and the members of the board -f correetinns, except the governor, Mere thc guests of boner at a party Maged at the warden' home and the i Tirisun offiees Saturday night by the I prisi-n guards. Ti b governor was absent from the city. The business men of MantI have organized a volunteer fire department Several hundred feet of extra hose has been purchased. Saturday the organization or-ganization was out for its first practice. prac-tice. |