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Show I News Notes t From All Parts of Z UTAH j " Brigham City. Loran D. McBride, bishop of Hyrum First ward, was found dead at his farm at Blue Creek. His throat was cut with a razor. Officers declare all circumstances circum-stances point to suicide. A nervous breakdown with which McBride was Buffering is believed to be the cause of the act. Ogden. A large area of the Teton forest in the Jackson Hole country will be maintained in its' present state of wilderness, according to an announcement made by District Forester For-ester R. H. Rutledge, who returned recently from a month's inspection trip of the country with Chief Forester For-ester Colonel B. B. Greeley. Price. Albert Murray, 22 years of sure, unmarried son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Murray, a farmer of Duchene was crushed to death two miles west of Price, while coming from Helper when an automobile driven by James Hatch, proprietor of the Duchesne hotel, swerved from the pavement and turned turtle into an irrigation ditch. Salina, During the past week the Sevier Valley Coal company has re ceived its hoisting engine, boilers, pumps and other machinery and is now getting the various pieces? into working order on the company's properties in the Salina canyon. This machinery is valued at $10,000. The manager of the company, H. E. Lew-Is Lew-Is of Salt Lake, expects to have all the machinery in place and under power before September 1. Ogden. By a vote of the city commission com-mission the tax levy of Ogden city was increased one mill, which makes it now stand at 11 mills. Commissioner Commis-sioner Arthur F. Larson was the only one who voted against the increase. Salt Lake City. The season on snge hens, blue grouse, ruffled grouse nd prairie chickens will open September Sep-tember 1 and close September 10, both dates inclusive, D. H. Madsen, state fish and game commissioner, announced recently. The birds may be killed in all except Sanpete and Beaver counties. Murray, Fire which started from a lead-melting pot blaze in the back room of the Murray Eagle newspaper office, spread in the face of a high wind to seven buildings at the corner cor-ner of Forty-eighth South and State streets, Murray, causing damage estimated es-timated at $50,000. Provo. A reduction of one-tenth of a mill over the tax levy of last year has been made by the Provo city commission. This make3 the third decrease in the city's levy in the past three years, the levy for 1922 being 12 mills, while last year it was 12.1 mills. Salt Lake City James Nielson, 70, an inmate of the county infirmary, dies from injuries suffered when he was crushed in the elevator shaft of that institution. He suffered internal inter-nal injuries and a fractured pelvis. Logan. Contract for ' construction of the Chase-Bear River City gravel siu-face road was awarded by the state road commission to Olaf Nelson. Nel-son. The commission accepted the state road agent in Summit county. A successor was not appointed. Ogden. The man who was found unconscious, dying later from wounds inflicted by Herman Smith, colored, believed to have been Ralph Preston, is an ex-convict identified as Albert Lopez, alias Ralph Plumer, according accord-ing to information received by the police from the California bureau of identification. Murray. After thirty-one years of service the officers of the Progress :ompany of this city surrendered the rights and privileges of its lighting system to Murray City and taxpayers. taxpay-ers. Mayor Isaac Lester, Commissioners Commis-sioners James E. Clay and Gotleib Berger and officers of the Progress company culminated their many con ferences and negotiations during the past week and at the first of the month papers were signed transferring transferr-ing the franchise, all rights, title, interest, in-terest, poles, meters and distributing system of the Progress company over to Murray City corporation. Brigham City Ray Owens was arrested ar-rested and brought before Judge Fred J. Holton on a charge of obtaining ob-taining food without paying for it from Mrs. Richards of Collinston. Owens pleaded guilty, and was ordered order-ed to pay the amount due to Mrs. Richards, and was fined $15, which he paid. Logan. Cache Valley dairymen and ehibitors in various lines of produce pro-duce are making plans for showing their exhibits at the county fair to oe held here September 23, 24 and 25. Salt Lake City. A total of -.'60,000 copies of booklets' and folders, giving i wealth of information about Salt Lake City and Utah, has been print-?d print-?d and distributed in 1924 by the ?alt Lake City Chairbei of Commerce. |