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Show News Notes : i From All Parti of ! UTAH i 2 -. i'arminton. Hobi-rt H. Mi-Coy, ' rliarfil with munler in the nrst ile-(free ile-(free for the slaying of A. Hoy Heath in 'ul Vi-rrla, iJi'ciTrilicr 'i, 1'JlM, was found guilty here. Tilt; jury return-fwl return-fwl tlif verdict with a rec-orne-iurHtion for u HfTitence of lift: imprisonment, after exactly twenty hours of deli be ration. Salt Lake. William liilleter, a pupil pu-pil of KuK'enia V. Kaeire of the L. D. S. .School of Mu.mc, until he went ahroad to .study three years api, has won the medal offered in a contest in Switzerland as the best pianist in that country of his unc. Mr. Billeter is 21 years of aire. He has received ina;iy offers since winning this prize to do concert work ahroad. Moah. I''ive carloads of equipment lor the drilling of the John L. Shafer No. 1 test oil well, eighteen miles down the Colorado river from Moab, are en route to Thompsons. Two of the cars are loaded with rasing, shipped ship-ped from YounH'stown, Ohio, and the pipe is in 20, 15 1 2, 10, 8 and G inch tdzos. The other three care are loaded load-ed with gasoline engine, boiler, Ktrink'a of tools, tool dressing outfits and other paraphernalia for the rig and machinery, including the timbers for the derrick. All of the equipment is new material, and, with the exception excep-tion of the timbers, is from Casper, Wyo. Ogden. Construction of a bridge over the Virgin river at Roekville, Utah, has been completed by C. F. Dinsmore & Co. of Ogden, contractors, contract-ors, according to Burton F. Dinsmore, manager. Equipment has just been returned to Ogden after completion of the job. Salt Lake. Gasoline has gone up two cents a gallon in Utah and Idaho. Ida-ho. All of the leading companies operating op-erating in the two states announced the increase. In Ogden and Salt Lake, gasoline is selling for 25 cents per gallon including state tax of 2 rents. This is within one cent of the J 921 peak when gasoline sold at 26 cents including tax. Farmington. Selection of a jury for the trial of Robert McCoy for the murder of A. Roy Heath, Salt Lake business man, on December 5, has been completed and the taking of evidence begun. The case is being be-ing tried in Judge James N. Kimball's division of the Second district court. Ogden. -Six residents of Ogden valley had a narrow escape while driving down Ogden canyon in ac automobile when a boulder, practically practi-cally the size of an automobile, near the mouth of the canyon, rolled down the mountainside and partially wrecked wreck-ed the car. Salt Lake. A. E. Beveridge, assistant as-sistant manager of the state insurance insur-ance fund, who was charged with writing business for the Continental Casualty company during his employment employ-ment by the state agency, tendered his resignation to the state industrial commission. It was accepted by the commission, effective April 1, 1925. No action has been taken in reference to Charles Caine, manager of the fund. Provo. As a result of the continued contin-ued argument between the Utah Automobile Au-tomobile association and the Auto club of Utah, a sentiment has arisen in the southern section of the state for a state wide automobile organization organ-ization to be headed by F. D. B. Gay of Provo, well-known auto pathfinder pathfind-er of this state. Provo. It cost Utah county J319.322.55 to operate its county government gov-ernment during 1924, according to the annual report of Clifford L. Wright, county auditor, just presented present-ed to the county commission. The expenses were $10,216.03 within the budget set by the commission at the beginning of 1924. Salt Lake. Awards totaling $5,-302,987. $5,-302,987. GS have been made during the seven years' operation of the workmen's compensation law in Utah, according to figures for the period emiou June au. ivzi, prepared oy rne state industrial commission. Compensation Compen-sation was granted in 77,170 cases. Salt Lake. Utah declined to ratify rati-fy the child labor amendment tv. 'he constitution of the United States, the legislature in both houses rejecting the proposed amendment. It was slaughered in the upper house and the lower house declined to ratify it by a vote of 43 to 8. Salt Lake. Mrs. Minnette M. Woodruff, wife of Dr. E. D. Woodruff, Wood-ruff, former president of the Sa'.l Lake chamber of commerce, dil at the family residence, 95 East First North street. Salt Lake. Building construction in Salt Lake during January, 1925, totaled ? 128,200, according to the monthly report of W. D. Pinr.ey. city-building city-building inspector. This is slightly in excess of the total amount of a year ago, when the total was $102,-193.000. $102,-193.000. Ogden. Building activity in Ogden during January increased nearly 150 per cent over the corresponding month of 1924, according to the monthly report of City Building Inspector In-spector Carl C. Garff, compiled to day. |