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Show : News Notes From All Parts of J I UTAH j Salt Lake, "Figuring on a basil of the number of water connectioni In the city, the population of Sal' Lake City is nearer 141,700 than tht 128,564 estimated by the federal cen sus bureau," declared Mayor C Clarence Neslen, commissioner of waterworks, in discussing the population pop-ulation figures just announced by th federal bureau. Salt Lake, John A. Israelson, postmaster of Hyrum, was reelected president of the Utah branch of th National league of third and fourth class postmasters at the annual con, vention held in th federal building Salt Laka, The o&sdan Fur and Reclamation company of Nevada has sued the Utah-Idaho Sugar companj for damages of $50,000 for the alleged al-leged pollution of 3000 acres of land in Salt Lake and Davis counties. Tha suit has been transferred from tht Third district court. Pulp fron sugar beets ground at the West Jor dan factory is said to have caused the land to dry up. Salt Lake, A commercial junket through Eastern Idaho has been giv-en giv-en indorsement of the board of governors gov-ernors of the chamber of commerce. A crop survey of Idaho and Utah will be prepared by the industrial department. Plans for the trip nr being outlined by President Frank B. Cook, of the chamber. Logan, Erna Virchow, 14 years oi age lies in a serious condition in tha Cache County hospital as the result of wounds accidentally inflicted by an automatic pistol. Miss Virchow, who is an employee of Dr. W. B, Jones of Logan, was wounded in the abdomen wloJe examining an automatic auto-matic pistol belonging to the physician's phy-sician's son. She was alone in the house at the time but managed to telephone the hospital before she collapsed. Ogden, J. C. (Jack) Littlefield, who has been deputy collector of internal in-ternal revenue in Ogden for the last three years, has resigned his position and left for Denver, Colo., to accept a position as claims examiner for district No. 11 of the U. S. veterans' bureau. Provo, On a charge of having sev. eral barrels of hard cider in his pos. session, Milton Brown of American Fork was fined $50 in Judge J. B. Tucker's court. According to the evidence, Brown had the cider for vinegar but had no vinegar permit. Salt Lake Acting upon a report from Commissioner A. F. Barnes ol the department of public safety to the effect that the Salt Lake City firemen who demanded the removal of Chief W. II. Bywater as head of the fire department refused to appear hpfnrr him fnr n lmariiKr tht nitv commission denied the petition of the men that the chief be removed Ninety two fireman are expected to hand in their resignations. Ogden, Sale of the defunct American Ameri-can Packing and Provision company here to a local syndicate which has been pending since the receiver's sale several weeks ago was confirmed in the United States district court here by Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson. Salt Lake, Noble Warrum, former postmaster here, has been tendered the secretaryship of the Mexican gen. eral claims commission, it was learned learn-ed recently. Mr. Warrum has announced an-nounced that he will accept the offer. Salt Lake, Brigadier General Ulysses Ulys-ses Grant MeAlexander now stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah, has been se'iected for promotion to the rank of major general to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement on July 20 of Major General Grote Ilutcheson. The resulting vacancy in the grade of brigadier general will be filled by the promotion of Colonel Edwin E. Booth. I'rovo, According to the last national na-tional survey of building by S. W. Straus & Co. of San Francisco, Provo leads all Utah and Idaho cities of less than 25,000 population in the amount of building permits issued for the month of June. It also leads eleven California cities and four in Wash-Ington. Wash-Ington. Salt Lake, There will be no auto-mobils auto-mobils races following the state fair to be held October 1 to 7, it was an. nounced at the eapitol. The board was informed by the Milton Casteel attractions that it would be unable to stage the contests because its hank had refused financial assistance In carrying on this year's activities. American Fork, More than 400 people made the trip to the top o Mt. Timpanogos in the two hikes that were taken from Aspen grove last ' week. The daylight trip was in charge of the Brigham Young university uni-versity Provo and the Univer3it; yf Utah, v"iJi E. L. Roberts in chargf of the group from Provo and Profes sor James R. Griffiths leading the Salt Lake group. The moonlight hike was under the auspices of the Wasatch Mountain club of Salt Lake. |