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Show UTAH NEWS REVIEW A motorman in Salt Lake saw a passenger pas-senger about to steal the fare box from his car as it stopped at a railroad crossing. He shouted at the man and pretended to be drawing a revolver. The man jumped off and escaped. Utah factories produced $500,000 morth of paints, varnish, etc. in 1920. rians are being formulated for the erection of a county hospital at Cedar City, Utah. Approximately 200 children from the Orphans' Home and Day Nursery, Kearns St Ann's Orphanage and the Neighborhood House enjoyed such a treat as seldom comes their way when they had the opportunity of being the guests of the Elks at the matinee performance per-formance of the Elks' charity show in Salt Lake. Twenty-five automobiles were donated by members of the club for the transportation of the children to and from their homes. Movement of foods held in cold storage stor-age plants In Utah has been decidedly outward during the month ending November No-vember 30, according to the monthly report published as required by law, from the office of the state board of agriculture. The notable exceptions have been In fresh and cured meats and in condensed milk. Of the latter It Is reported that there are now 100-000 100-000 pounds in cold storage. Report was tmade at the regular meeting of the Montlcello Commercial club that $40,000 set aside by the state to be used as loans to farmers of San Juan county will be available for relief re-lief of the stringency in this locality as soon as the lands concerned can be reappraised. Use of the money sot aside for this county has been delayed through a misunderstanding with regard re-gard to the matter of land appraisal. Ogden civic organizations are planning plan-ning to adopt the community chest plan, from which funds for charity work will come Instead of from subscriptions. sub-scriptions. After being Idle for several weeks while extensive repairs were made, the giant clock on the city and county building In Salt Lake has again been started. The clock has been equipped with new chimes and a new striking apparatus. The clock bas been completely com-pletely overhauled for the first time since the city and county building was built. Plans for extending the activity of the Utah division of the National Federation Fed-eration of Music Clubs were discussed by the board members of the state branch when they met recently in Salt Lake. The federation not only includes choirs, musical clubs and singing societies so-cieties of various kinds, but the individual in-dividual members of each. Hay sheds containing twelve tons of hay and a large barn belonging to Sidney Vincent, Sr., at Provo, were destroyed by fire recently. The fire was believed to have started from spontaneous combustion. The loss is estimated es-timated at about $400 with no Insurance, Insur-ance, When Lnther Skeen, a district farmer, farm-er, was placed on preliminary hearing to answer a charge of shooting wild ducks after sunset a conflict between the federal and state hunting statutes was disclosed. The federal law permits per-mits shooting of migratory birds for one-half hour after sunset. The state law says no migratory bird may be "shot, pursued or killed after sunset." In Tlew of this conflict, Skeen, who admitted ad-mitted guilt, was let off, after paying costs of the court procedure. w War of extermination Is to be waged on the rabbit pest 1b Kane county. The rabbits have taken possession of a large part of the county and they are devastating crops, grass and trees. m m m Proprietors of all large firm of Salt Lake that use horses for haulage purposes have agreed to discharge all drivers who abuse their team, according accord-ing to an announcement of Dr. A. S. Kendall, general superintendent o tie Utah Humane society. A citizen of Sandy, Utah, wtoie in Salt Lake was accosted by a man who asked him for a ride. After going a few blocks the owner of the car was forced to drive as directed, and after reaching a secluded spot was robhed and left standing while he watched the bandit ride away in his car. The annual report of the federal power commission shows that, up to date, six applications for power permits per-mits have been filed, covering projects in Utah which represent a primary de- I velopinent of 918,615 horsepower, but which would ultimately develop 1,212,-65 1,212,-65 borsepower. |