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Show UTAH AIMS Twelve slates are to ho represented at the conference of livestock ass,,-elation ass,,-elation to be held In Salt Lake De comber U to 17. The states which have been Javlted to this conference by the California Cattle Men's association asso-ciation are Utah, Arizona, California Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada' New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Washington Washing-ton and Wyoming. Delegutes to the sixth annual con-ventlon con-ventlon of the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries, held at Chicago, October 20, 27 and 28, were greatly Impressed with the scenic attractions of Utah, expressing the opinion that the state will in the future be called upon to entertain increasing in-creasing numbers of tourists to the wonderlands. While having a race with the stork, Dr. It. E. Worrell and a nurse had a narrow escape when the automobile in which they were crossing the tracks in the railroad yards at Ogden was struck by a shunted freight car, which tore one side off the automobile, but the occupants of the machine escaped injury. One of the latest features in railroad rail-road parties made its appearance at the Ogden union depot one day last week, when seven young married women announced they were en route to Keno to obtain divorces. Their destination des-tination and the purpose of the trip was related to a railroad official. The Amalgamated Sugar company has announced that on November 15 it will pay out $3,000,000 for sugar beets purchased during the month of October from the factories in Utah and Idaho. This is the largest beet sugar payment ever made. Constitutionality of the Utah state prohibition laws under the national Volstead enactment was upheld last week in a decision handed down by Judge Harold M. Stephens in the criminal crim-inal division of the Third district court. One hundred and eighty-four cases were given treatment at the emergency emer-gency hospital at Salt Lake during the month of October. This is an increase in-crease of 32 cases over the number treated during September. Utah lines of the Southern Pacific railroad will benefit materially by the purchase of 5400 freight cars, 50 steel passenger cars and 70 locomotives to be put into service as rapidly as they can be constructed. Thousands and thousands of ducks, dead and dying, are found along the wnterholes, sloughs and lake west of Willard, in Boxelder county, according accord-ing to reports brought from that section sec-tion by sportsmen. A plan is on foot to establish automobile auto-mobile service between Zion National park and the Canadian national parks over a highway route via Salt Lake, Yellowstone park, Helena, Mont., and Glacier park. Two men and two women have been arrested at Salt Lake, charged with having attacked and beat David Clements, Clem-ents, of Denver, at Salt Lake, on September Sep-tember 2, robbing him of $2800 worth of jewelry. Alleged to have been but a few months resident in the state, Willie Brice, 24 years of age, and Roy Green, 22, both negroes, were arrested at Garfield, Gar-field, charged with registering illegally. ille-gally. Bero Wilson, aged 21, was shot and seriously injured on the street at Ogden, Og-den, when two men, passengers in a taxicab driven by Wilson, fired upon him without provocation, he claims'. The town board of Delta has sold its bonds for the sewerage system and received the money from the purchasers. purchas-ers. The work of installing the system sys-tem will be commenced at once. Contract for the Benjamin drainage district at Benjamin, Utah, embracing 4028 acres, has been awarded. The land will be drained at a cost estimated esti-mated at $125,000. Andy Bush and Jerry Smart, railroad rail-road workers, have been arrested at Salt Lake, charged with having participated par-ticipated in the robbing of J. H. Lee, a laborer, of $5. Expenditures of $422,534.25, in warrants war-rants issued on account of state work, constituted about 80 per cent of the total disbursements of the state during dur-ing October. Notice has been received ut the Salt Lake postoffice from the department at Washington that the sending of all raw hides through the mails is prohibited. pro-hibited. When his automobile collided with a horse at Salt Lake, Chick Conway was thrown from the machine, suffering suffer-ing "i.cerations and bruises about the body. One thousand, two hundred and seven! sev-en! v-six orphans of the Near East have been assigned to Utah by the Near East Belief committee of America. Final figures on the assessed valuation valua-tion of Davis county this year are $20,430,773, compared with $17,343. 3bo a year ago. Provisions to be made for the reorganization reor-ganization of the National Guard units of the states in the Ninth corps area, to which Utah belongs, will be the subject sub-ject of a conference to he attended by he adjutants general of the various states and the commander of the area, at San Francisco within a short time. To prevent overgrazing, half of the members of the Vernon Grazing association as-sociation have agreed to use the northern north-ern part and the other half the southern south-ern part of the Vernon division of the Wasatch national forest for their stock uext year. |