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Show i News Notes : From All Parts of I UTAH iloab -Now that tlie roads in south, era San Juan county are a.'ain pass-uhlu pass-uhlu tor cars, the auto sta.u-e irom Monticello to l'.luff is again in commission. com-mission. The' stage meets the daily Tliompsons-Momicello stage and forwards for-wards mail and passengers to Bluff the same day they leave the train at Thompsons. It reduces the time for mail to reach the oil fields in San Juan county by twenty-four hours. Logan, A campaign to eradicate the poisonous weed which resembles parsley and which has already resulted re-sulted in the death of a 5 year old child and the severe illness of several others will be conducted within the near future by II. P. Mathews, crops and pest inspector. Castlegate, George Wilson, 34 years of age, one of the Hiawatha mine rescue team, who volunteered his services to aid the entombed miners min-ers at Castlegate Saturday night and was asphyxiated when a leak in his helmet let in the gas, was a native of Almy, AVyo., a coal camp. He had lived in Utah for thirty years. Salt Lake, The "American plan" open shop conference will hold i-next i-next semi-annual conference at Portland, Port-land, Ore., April 21 and 22, according to announcement made by A. (', Pees of Salt Lake, chairman of th. conference. Jit. Kmmcns, The actual construction construc-tion of the new $12,000 ward chapel at Mt Emmons will be started soon. Vernal. If the bond issue election elec-tion for $120,000 for school builings at Vernal goes over it is proposed to use $80,000 for a new modern county high school and $40,000 for schools in some of the smaller sections of the county. Salt Lake City. Twenty-three permits to construct new cottages at a total value of about $73,000 were issued by the County Building Inspector In-spector one day this week. Salt Lake City. Slinking in an outbuilding of a small farmhouse near the Summit in Parley's canyon, about eighteen miles from Salt Lake guards from the Utah state prison found Raymond M. Barrett, prison trusty Monday morning after he escaped es-caped from the prison Sunday morning. morn-ing. Ogden, The automobile license bureau established by the secretary of state to serve Ogden and Weber eojnty motorists during the rush ee.ison closed last week. K. Cheshire, Jr., was in charge of the local department. depart-ment. Nearly 0000 plates were issued is-sued during the last two months here. Ogden, A Weber county committee commit-tee of the L'tah Taxpayers association was appointed by the state committee at a meeting held in the offiiw of the Amalgamated Sugar company. Judge Henry Polapp, chairman of the state association, presided and announced the Weber county committee appointments appoint-ments and also outlined the functions of the committee. Ileber, Marion B. Lewis of Holier has applied to the state securities commission for a permit to operate aa auto line between Heber and the Park-Utah mine. Salt Lake, Sustaining a demurrer of the city to the complaint in action, the district court has dismissed the suit of Elsie P. Alder against Salt Lake City for $15,000 damages for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered through collapse of nleachers at Liberty park on Independence Inde-pendence daylast year. Park City, Pert Chew, 35 years of age, a miner for the King Consolidated Consoli-dated Mining company, was literally blown to bits, and his shift boss, Fred Pavis. ivas seriously injured, whim the former used his pick on a missed hole on the 11,800 foot drift of the mine. Kaysville, Mayor John G. M. I P.arn. s celebrated his sixty-rourtn birthday anniversary at his home last week. A dinner party for the immediate imme-diate family was given in honor of the event. Salt Lake, The International Smelting company was granted foreclosure fore-closure of a mortgage held on all the assest.s of the Utah Consolidated Mir I iug company, to satisfy the unpaid balance on a note given for sl.oOO,-i sl.oOO,-i 000 by onler of Judge L. B. Wight in ! the Third district court, j Ogden Cut flowers have been add-! add-! ed to the list of California products I upon which an embargo 'has been placed, it was learned by local florists I A-ho were advised by telegrams from i coast cities that flower shipments could not be made. 1 Salt Lake City. George F .Gibbs general secretary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ! died at an early hour Monday morn-i morn-i ing after an illness of several mon-I mon-I ths. He had been a faithful em-j em-j ployee in the church office since ho ! was 22 years of age, beginning under President Brigham Young and serving serv-ing for fifty-six years. Mr. Gibbs was probably the best informed man in the church administrative business affairs and one of the best informed on church doctrine. |