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Show UTAH NEWSREVIEW 1 The jury refused to convict Ray Samuelson of Salt Bake for a violation viola-tion of the Southwick anti-cigaret law. The case was the first that h;"s been tried in Salt Lake county since the law took effect. Metal signs marking the road to Dinosaur National monument at Jen-son, Jen-son, Ut., are being erected by the national na-tional park commission through efforts )f the Vernal Commercial club, to have the quarry of prehistoric monsters mon-sters preserved and improved. ... The sixth attempt at suicide by nf-leged nf-leged drag addicts within six months n the city and county jails at Ogden, -as made when Ray Horr, serving a entence of 100 days in the county lull, attempted to kill himself by cut-dug cut-dug a deep gash in his right forearm. ... The total of delinquent taxes In Salt Oake county this year was estimated y E. J. Groesbeck, county treasurer, o be approximately $1,000,000, or vlr-:ually vlr-:ually the same as last year. Receipts '.or taxes aggregate $7,207,370.01, according ac-cording to compilations made by the '.reasurer. A motion was passed at a meeting f the City Federation of Women's ?lubs at Civic Center favoring the reservation of Social hall as an nrt gallery where exhibits under the direction di-rection of the Utah Fine Arts society nay be exhfclted and thus save the historic building. Exhausted from exposure, and with feet bleeding from forty-eight hours of :easeles tramping through the hills icar Los Angeles, Oscar Thompson surrendered fciawelf to the harbor police. po-lice. Thompson, formerly of Richfield, Utah now of Los Angles, shot and kill-?d kill-?d his Bhnecin-law, his wife, and his shock m R. H. Risvedge ot the U. S. forest swrice, la his talk bfore the Klwvnls ;lub t Proro, said that there Is no R-bere ia the West a more wonderful Bountaia than Timpanogos. He sni ibit this mountain would become more popular each year and tourists -would com from all over the country to din lt w ' The relationship of the school of agriculture ag-riculture at the Utah agricultural college col-lege and the departments of agriculture agricul-ture in the local high schools was discussed dis-cussed at a meeting held at the Utah Agricultural college and attended by the faculty of the School wf Agriculture Agricul-ture and I. B. Ball, state supervisor of agriculture education. ... Construction of a new building for the fish and game department at the state fair grounds has begun to replace the one which was recently destroyed by lire. The work is being done by lav labor, under the direction of the department of finance and pur-chase pur-chase and the c o s t will be kert inside of the insurance received Cor the loss of the old structure. ... The federal government has acquired acquir-ed a property which was selected several sev-eral months ago as the site for a federal fed-eral building at Eureka, Ut. The property cost $4075 and $55,000 has ocen appropriated for construction, although al-though tnis may be increased when a measure now pending comes up for consideration. . Feigning unconsciousness, after being be-ing struck by a burglar. Miss Rose Wunderly, IS years, lay quitely on the foot of her home at 15-15 Second East street, Salt Lake, wlu'le the thug, who had struck her down, searched the room for valuables. The inst.mt his nack was turned she sprang to the library lib-rary table, svezed an empty revolver from the drawer and cowed the burglar, burg-lar, who fled. ... A iorce of ton men is at work on the trail which is beinL built to Timpanogos Tim-panogos cave in Am.'iietin Fork canyon. can-yon. The men are progressing at the rate of about 300 feet per day and about one month more will see the ' trail complete. The work is being lone from b'trh ends. A ledge of grr.n-ite grr.n-ite has been blasted from the mouth )f the cave. The poles and wires are ulsc being placed for lighting the cave. ... Upon announcememnt that the Agricultural Agri-cultural college would contribute $100; Olof Cronquist, $1''5. and the residents along the line an-'tiler $100. toward the changing of the voltage of the city's electric light line running to the practice farm for federal and other ro-'-ational students, the city commissioners commis-sioners ordered the work estimated t $?00 performed. The change will .nable the running of machinery by slectric power. ... Additional substantial financial aid was accorded fanners and stockgrow-?rs stockgrow-?rs of L'rah and Idaho when nearly f2.W'.c"KK) was approved ami made available by the war finance corporation. corpora-tion. ... The sight in the riirlit eye of Mpr-lan Mpr-lan l Thompson. 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frvd Thompson, Spring City. Ft., was completely destroyed when a (able fork in the hands of an older brother slipped and plunged into tho child's eye. |