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Show Pithy News Notes ! From All Parts of I UTAH ' Moroni. Local sportsmen will organize or-ganize to prgtect game and fish from improper exploiting. . Spanish Fork. A building is to be erected in the city park for the use of auto tourists. Ogden. A fifty thousand dollar quoto for the business district to apply on the Weber gymnasium has been raised. Salt Lake. Noxious weeds are to be buttled to the death by the state crops pest comissioner. New plans for eradication are being laid. Salt Lake. George E. Price, charged charg-ed with keeping trout less than seven inches in length, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine. Logan.- A temporary organization of La Socite des Quarant Hommes au Hints Cheveau, the society that will put French frills on the Logan post of the American legion has been effected. ef-fected. Salt Lake. The report of the predatory pre-datory animal campaign shows that during March, April and May 1, 416 animals were destroyed, which included in-cluded four mountain lions. Signs of only one wolf wera found in San Juan county. Salt Lake. During the five years that the state insurance fund has been established, the amount paid in premiums aggregates about $1,000,000, $310,000 has been paid in benefits to Injured workmen and the assets of the fund nre $176,000 in excess of liabilities. lia-bilities. Provo. Joseph Van Smith, for many years a resident of this city died at his home after a stroke of apoplexy. Mr. Smith was horn in Salt Lake City January 11, 1848, being one of the first boys born in the Salt Lake valley. val-ley. His parents came to Utah with the second company of emigrants. Salt Lake A state Income tax law, reasons for its adoption and soma considerations which must be weighed closely before such a law is enacted were considered at a public hearing held tiy the state tax commission at the capitol. The hearing was adjourned, ad-journed, subject to the call of William Bailey, chairman of the commission, which has the duty of recommending recommend-ing to the next legislature steps for the revision of the state's Xr xation system. Salt Lake. Meetings are being held to lay plans for the great Diamond Jubilee celebration of the arrival of the pioneers in Salt Lake valley. Holliday. Fire started by an aluminum alum-inum die casting machine in thie Baldwin Bald-win Radio factory in East Mill creek damaged the plant to the extent of $5003. ' . Salt Lake. Over three times as many births were reported to the city board of health as there were deaths during the past week. Births totaled 83 and deaths 25. Delta. The people of Delta are now being entertained in the evenings by the radio station set up in the Mercer building by D. H. Miner and M. V. Parshali. .' Beaver. Tariff rates on transportation transporta-tion of freight between Milford and Beaver have been reduced to 35 cents per hundred pounds by the public utilities commission, the order to this effect having just been made. . Salt Lake. In order to work out the possibilities of using the vast amounts of salt that are available in Utah, in the metallurgical treatment of large deposits of low grade and complex ores as well as other problems, six fellowships have been awarded by the University of Utah department of metallurgical me-tallurgical research. 'SJx out of thirty-five thirty-five applicants were awarded the fellowships. fel-lowships. These were the men with the highest scholarship and best references, ref-erences, and they represent the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Missouri and Utah. Ft Douglas. H. Seholts, former .-on luctor of the Queen of Holland's br-nd and now a warrant officer and bandmaster in the United States army, will direct the triweekly band con-ivrts con-ivrts at Ft. Douglas ordered by General Gen-eral U. G MacAlexander for every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoon after-noon during the summer months. Scholtens is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music at The Hague and of the Institute of Musical Arts of New York. Before coming to America he was for seven years conductor con-ductor of the royal Holland cavalry hand, known u the "Queen of Hoi. band's Eod." |