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Show f News Notes : X From All Parts of UTAH f I Salt Lake. The citizens' military camp will he held at Fort Douglas this year from June 12 to July 11, according to advices received from the headquarters of the Ninth Corps area at the Presidio at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Cal. Ogden, lleber T. Wheelwright, chauffeur of the police department who shut anil killed Efton Ileid. an innocent youth of Oi-ungeville Tuesday Tues-day night while the latter was fleeing flee-ing from officers in the heart of Og-.ien's Og-.ien's business district was suspended by Chief of Police Curtis L. Allison. Prove, Fires were started in the Columbia Steel corporation's coke ovens Friday for the purpose of heating heat-ing the brick. The fire will be retained re-tained for sixty days, after which the evens will be in readiness for operations. opera-tions. Ogden, After two attempts to explode ex-plode the mammoth charge of dynamite dyna-mite at Lakeside failed on Friday, the big blast was shot off Saturday. A dynamo car furnished enough voltage volt-age to explode the huge charge whici Had been placeu under the mountain and the experts who witnessed the blast said it was perfectly executed. The explosion behaved just as had been planned, with merely a rumble no material flying into , the air, but the gigantic lintiug power loosening tens of thousands of cubic feet cJ ballasting material. Salt Lake, Thirty-five hundred persons were guests of the Salt Lake police department at the thirteenth annual policeman's ball at the Auditorium Audi-torium Thursday night and the affair af-fair was successful far beyond the hopes of those in charge. Ogden. The board of trustees of the Dee hospital have authorized the expenditure of $40,000 for an addition addi-tion to the present Dee hospital. The structure originally cost $150,000, and was improved to the extent of $190,000 three years ago. The meeting meet-ing held was presided over by David A. Smith. Park City. So fine has been .'the weather for the past ten days, ana so light is the snow in the mountains that automobile traffic has been resumed re-sumed between Park City and Heber City, and roads are reported in good shape. It is reported that Park City-Salt City-Salt Lake stages will resume passenger passen-ger traffic within the next few days. Salt Lake City. John T. Oldroyd, state land commissioner turned over to W. D. Sutton, state treasurer, $205,144.88 as receipts of his office during January. Ul this $131,Y1Y.S4 is returned investments and $73,627.-04 $73,627.-04 is interest on investments and rentals on state lands. Ogden. The Sperry Milling company com-pany which operates a large flour mill in Ogden, is contemplating doubling the capacity of- the Ogden mill or the erection of another plant in California, former Mayor Frank Francis stated in an address to the Rotary club. Mayor Francis said that the company looked with favor upon Ogden for the new venture because of the many possibilities this city and its surrounding country offers. Ogden. A bond election to determine deter-mine whether or nut the Weber county coun-ty school district Khali erect a high school at a cost of approximately $300,000 will be called in the near future, it was announced at the office of the county board of education, following a conference, of the board and others interested. Salt Lake City. Moses Evans, handcart .pioneer to Utah in 1856, died Thursday at the family residence resi-dence at the age of 88 years. He was born in Glamorganshire, South Wales, December 20, 1835, and came to Utah in Captain Martin's brigade in 1856. For many years he worked in the Mormon church blacksmith shop and was later connected with the Utah Central railroad. Coalville. Because of motor trouble, troub-le, .Air Mail Pilot J. W. Sharpnack, flying between Salt Lake City and Rock Springs, Wyoming, was forced to land ten miles east of Coalville, in Chalk Creek canyon, at 7 :35 o'clock Thursday morning. The plane was undamaged and Sharpnack sal fered no injury. Ogden. Bids for the new Ogden passenger station of the Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad will be sent to the head offices at Omaha and it will be several sev-eral days before a decision is announced, an-nounced, according to W. R. Armstrong, Arm-strong, chief engineer for the Oregon Short Line railroad. |