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Show News Notes I t'j a Privilege to Live in j I Utah I Ogden. Important storm Inward a contract between the Unlti.-d .States reclamation service and the Weber River Water T.'nora' association for the construction of tlie Kcho dam, llrHt unit of the Salt Luke banln project pro-ject were taken when three canal companies amended their articles of Incorporation bo an to meet lnul re-QulremcnU. re-QulremcnU. bait Lake City. Mileage allowed lor private automobiles In state ser-Tlce ser-Tlce will be changed on September '0 from the schedule which has been In uh for the pant three years which will mean a large Having to the Btate K the hoard of examiners approves 4he schedule, which was transmitted !to It by the department of finance and purchase. The schedule places all automobiles Into three classes. I'rlce. The Jury In the case of M. Kuruuma, who was on trial for the murder of Y. Ishdaka on March 1 at Helper, which was given the case, reported re-ported their Inability to agree, the Jury standing eleven for conviction to ono for acquittal. The Jury was discharged. Kuruuma will be retried It Is believed at tho present term of court. Ogdon. That the Utah state herd of llolutelns, on exhibition for tlio first tlmo at Illackfoot, Idaho, was tho outstanding exhibit In tho IIol-Blelii IIol-Blelii division, Is the statement of C. 8. Totter, president of the Utah Ilol-nfeln Ilol-nfeln HreedorH association, and Jesse F. Itlchards, secretary of the Ogden chamber of commerco, who Just returned re-turned aftor attending the eastorn Idaho Ida-ho district fair ill that city. ' Salt Lake City. William Magee, 18 year old Jockey, was almost Instantly killed at the fair grounds race track when tho horse upon which he was riding bolted Into the fenco circling tho outsido ot the track, throwing his rider headon Into the boards and posts, crushing his Bkull and breaking his nock. The youngster, whose homo was In South Edmonton, Alberta Alber-ta Canada, was brought here recently by Charles Emmert for the purpose of riding tho horses which compose the Mrs. C. Emmert stable At Vancouver Vancou-ver he is said to have been the leading lead-ing rider until he left for the Winnipeg Win-nipeg meeting, whence he came to Salt Lake with the Emmert string. Myton. Charles Wale, a farmer, re-Biding re-Biding five miles west of Myton, was severely burned while trying to enter his home and save valuable papers, after the building had been set on fire by a bolt of lightning. Delta. Mrs. Ludwig Jorgensen Is preparing to erect a restaurant, garage ga-rage and hotel at Marjum pass on the Grand Central highway, fifty miles west of Delta, where tourists can find excellent accomodations. ! Price. Two-thirds of the cement work has been completed in the out- 1 let tunnel tor the rock-fill dam which Is soon to be constructed near Sco-field Sco-field in the Price River Water Irrigation Irri-gation district. This tunnel, driven through the rock formation on the south side of the proposed damslte, will be lined to a depth of eight inches in-ches throughout its length. The completion com-pletion of this work in three weeks time will find directors of the district making an inspection before the water wat-er is turned into the tunnel. They have been informed that the valve gates for use In tho tunnel are now en route. When installed they will have a discharge capacity of about BOO second feet under 50 feet head, and will be operated by means of a mechanism set in the gate shaft immediately im-mediately above the gates, and at a point two-thirds down the length of the tunnel. Salt Lake City. Frank Roberts, about 65 years ot age, night watchman watch-man for the Purity Biscuit company, for the past six years, was fatally injured in-jured when he was crushed by the carriage ot the freight elevator on the second floor of the plant. He was found caught between the second floor and the floor ofthe elevator by Arthur Mitchell, foreman of the biscuit bis-cuit company. Salt Lake City. Ralph W. Sey-boldt Sey-boldt will face the firing squad at the state prison October 23 to pay the penalty for the murder of Patrolman David' H. Crowther on October 12. 1923. This is1 the fourth time an execution ex-ecution date has been fixed for Sey-boldt Sey-boldt since his conviction on a charjre of first degree murder the April following: the commission of the crime. The pronouncement was made by Judge M. L. Ritchie of the Third district court. Salt Lake City. J. L. Strathorn, engineer en-gineer and soils investigation expert of the bureau of soils. United States department of agriculture, and W. G. Harper, also an engineer iu the same service have arrived in Salt Lake and will begin a soil survey and analysis of the area lying between this city and tho Great Salt Lake. Their report re-port will have a great importance in the final decision o? the United States bureau of reclamation with reference re-ference to what is known as the Tay-lorsviile Tay-lorsviile and terminal unit of the Great Salt Lake basin project. |