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Show j News Notes I ! It's a Privilege to Live in I Utah I r''assitvaiSi'a Ogden. The first mayorality candidate candi-date to be entered in the race in Ogden Og-den is George E. Browning, former postmaster and prominent business man. Mr. Browning was waited upon up-on by a large group of citizens, chiefly chief-ly business men, who asked him to enter the race for mayor and pledged pledg-ed him support. Mr. Browning consented con-sented to their request and entered the race, it was announced following the conference. Salt Lake City. As a result of the rigid system of economy inaugurated by the city commission, city expenditures expendi-tures for August were $43,600 less than they were during the corresponding correspond-ing month of 1924, according to the monthly report of the city auditor. Murray. Stringent measures to curb speeders and in other ways to enforce observance of the traffic rules are being put into effect by the Murray City authorities, especially especial-ly on the state highway as it passes through the city. Price. A thorough chlorination of the entire Price City water system has been effected as a safeguard against possible spreading of typhoid in this community through contamination contamina-tion of the drinking water. There are eleven known cases of typhoid fever in the city. The first was drawn to hte attention of health authorities on August 16, and the total has slowly mounted since that time. Mt. Pleasant. A threshing machine belonging to the Thompson brothers of Mt. Pleasant was completely de molished by spontaneous combustion caused while threshing smutty wheat at Indianola. Two hundred bushels of wheat belonging to Peter Simpson was also destroyed. James Thompson who was operating the machine, had left it just a few minutes before the explosion and no one was injured. Salt Lake City. Carlos Ariza, for several years consul of the Mexican republic in Salt Lake, notified Governor Gov-ernor George H. Dern that he has been relieved of his duties here, and has been ordered to assume a similar simi-lar post at Calexico, California. Mr. Ariza, in his letter, also told the governor that his successor, Carlos M. Gaxiola, has arrived in this city and will assume charge of the local Mexican consulate immediately. Ogden. The park commission of Ogden has recommended to the city commissioners that an offer of $40,-000 $40,-000 cash be tendered to Sanford Har-rup Har-rup and Chris Aadneson for the sanitarium san-itarium property at the mouth of Ogden Og-den canyon, according to Mayor P. F. Kirkendall. It is expected that the city commission will do this soon. Ogden. Because of the financial condition of Ogden city, the city manager man-ager form of government is all the more desirable, Mayor P. F. Kirkendall Kirken-dall told members of the Exchange club in an address upon city affairs. The poor financial condition is due to the "passing of the buck" from one administration to another, the mayor said. Salt Lake City. Apparently crazed with jealousy, Dr. Allan D. Bentz, young local dentist shot and probably probab-ly fatally wounded Miss Melba Brown, slightly wounded Harvey Kirk, and then killed himself by firing one shot from a small caliber pistol through his left temple and three into his breast. Ogden. Building permits issued during month of August amounted to $101,550, according to the monthly report of City Building Inspector Carl C. Gariff. The total for the corresponding corres-ponding month of last year was $113 -200. Mammoth. The the return for taxation tax-ation purposes made by the Chief Consolidated Mining company to the state board of equalization in 1924 w'as not a return at all within the meaning of the Utah law, is the charge made by Mammoth City, a municipal corporation, in action instituted in-stituted in the Fifth judicial district court in Juab county. The suit virtually vir-tually asks for a court definition of the terms "mine or mining claim" as it is found in the present mine assessment assess-ment laws passed in 1919. Ogden. Movement of grain, prin cipally wheat, from Idaho points and other sections through Ogden, ia much heavier than usual, according to E. R. Alton, president of the Ogden Og-den Grain exchange. According to information received by Mr. Alton ! Ivom railroad officials approximately 1000 carloads more have passed thru Ogden tp date than had passed thru at the corresponding date of last year. It is estimated that this is 1 500.000 bushels ahead of last year. Salt Lake City. Butler B. Ramey proprietor of the Semloh hotel and well known hotel man, died at a local lo-cal hospital following a brief and sudden illness. For more than twen-ty twen-ty years he was connected with a number of hotels of Salt Lake Salt Lake City. Andrew Garbis 36, suspected bootlegger and narcot-ic narcot-ic vendor, was shot and killed- Pa-trolman Pa-trolman S. H. Neve, 35, was wounded in the left breast and Albert Lewis, In r u a bEttle betveen ofcer8 and Garbis at the latter's home. |