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Show UTAH AfJTAlS Tli, public of Utah, us represented v consumers of coal, shippers litre lit-re passengers on electric interurlmn ILes anJ passenger between some joints on steam linos, is saving ut tlie rate of $'-.000,000 a your by reason of Jhe public utilities commission's refusal re-fusal to permitt increuses intrastate exactly as permitted by the interstate onnuerce commission. . summary of reports to the incvu-strinl incvu-strinl commission of Utah, compiled in the office of Curl A. Allen, state inspector inspec-tor of mines, and district engineer of the United States bureau of mines, shows that in all the mines of Utah, outside of coal mines and quarries, there was an average of 41)99 men employed em-ployed In 1919, and that they worked an average of 325 days. L. E. Whitmore of Price, newly elected elect-ed state representative from Carbon county, and J. Sterling McBctli of parson escaped death by electrocution when the airplane in which they were riding, one of the smallest monoplanes in America, crashed into transmission wires carrying 44,000 volts at Salt Lake, the plane being wrecked. Because the telegraph eompany had not obtained an answer to a message for him, Arthur Williams, 23 years of age, a laborer in Ogden, hurled a rock through the front window and later, when arrested, attempted to swallow-poison swallow-poison tablets, but was prevented by the arresting officer. Authorization by the state legislature legisla-ture will be necessary before Salt Lake county can appropriate money toward the cost of a state memorial to the Utah men who lost their lives in the country's service during the war, according ac-cording to an opinion by the county .-attorney. In spite of the fact that W. W. Wilson Wil-son gave up a quart of blood last week for his son, Dero Wilson, who was shot by Jack Pass and Gus Burr iu a taxicab at Ogden, October 31, young "Wilson, who is at the hospital, is reported to be in a critical condition. Although the aviator escaped Injury, the plane driven by Pilot Sharpnack was badly damaged in a forced landing .at Knolls, eighty-seven miles west of Salt Lake. While the machine was at an altitude of 11,000 feet, the gas line broke. All possible aid to save woolgrowers -of the intennountain section from financial ruin was promised the Utah State Woolgrowers' association by Senators Sen-ators Smoot and King, who addressed the members at a meeting at bait Lake. Joseph Thompson, 24 years of age, of Clarkston, was instantly killed just north of the sugar factory in Garland, when an automobile in which he was riding with four friends collided, head on, with a wagon and team. E. Henderson, 30 years of age, an employee of the Amalgamated Sugar company in West Weber, is in the Og-len Og-len hospital in a critical condition, as a result of being gassed in the purifying pur-ifying room. Abe Majors is applying for pardon to the state board of pardons and Joe Baktashi and Frank De Pretto for commutation of sentence. Each of the applicants was sentenced for murder. C. A. Elkins, employed at a battery Manufacturing concern in Salt Lake, received severe burns on his face when tar splashed in his face while he was in the act of molding some batteries. Three Millard county drainage projects pro-jects near Delta, embracing an area of 77,000 acres, will be completed by the end of next year. The three projects will cost approximately $2,300,000. It is expected by Major W. G. Williams, Wil-liams, adjutant general of Utah, that the hospital unit assigned to the Utah nntlnnnl minrd under the federal allot ment will be organized at Ogden. A silver loving cup has been presented present-ed to the Wasatch school at Salt Lake by the Utah Public Health association for winning in the modern health crusade crus-ade contest conducted last year. The second annual convention of the United Stockmen's Association for Federal Control of Public Grazing Land will be held in Salt Lake, December 6, 7 and 8. A course on the growing of small fruits has just been organized by the correspondence study department of the Utah Agricultural college at Logan. Ogden will probably be a member of a large interstate or intrastate baseball league next year if the plans of a number num-ber of the local fans succeed. Sale of 51000 worth of penny Christmas Christ-mas seals in one day is the plan of Rich county in attaining its quota in the seal sale this year. The Spanish Fork high school closed last week after running for a week "with a very poor attendance because of the beet harvest. Two passengers on a street car were injured at Salt Lake, when the car slid backwards down a hill, the brakes refusing re-fusing to work. W. C. Braun, aged 45, a bod carrier, was struck by an automobile at Salt Lake and fatally injured. Several hundred thousand bushels of wheat will arrive in Ogden within the next month for storage iu the elevators of the Globe Grain and Milling company com-pany and the Sperry Flour company in Ojjden. Two elevators have a capacity capa-city of 730,000 bushels each. The state supreme court has entered n oral order sustaining the demurrer f the Morgan county commissioners to the application of the Morgan county board of education for a writ of mandate man-date directed to the commission to corn-Pel corn-Pel it to raise the levy for school pur-Poses. |