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Show i ga'eisi'EiSMaJSJSjJH&isiei 1 News Notes I I From All Parts of I I UTAH rasjsrsjiBnsrprsRtaiciiis Logan. The third annual Hiph School day, to he. held at the Agri. cultural college May 7, promises t0 surpass the celebrations of past years. To date ten high schools ol the st.ile have entered Btudents lt the contests to be conducted, an() competition In the typewriting contest which is being featured, has grown from three schools to ten. Salt Lake City. Dr. E. G. Peter-son Peter-son was reappointed president of tin Utah Agricultural college for n, coming academic year by the board of trustees of the institution, which met at the capitol. Monticello. Emil Zwicher, preSi. dent of the Eastern San Juan Tele phone company reports that his com pnny will soon have its line extend-ed extend-ed to Dove Creek, where it will con-nect con-nect with the Colorado lines and give the people of eastern Utah i direct telephone connection with Colorado. Col-orado. Heretofore the only way nies sages could be sent to Colorado was by telephoning to Thompsons and then to Grand Junction. Richfield. A real estate transac-tion transac-tion of sonie magnitude was consmj. mated when the city of Richfield transferred the fair grounds to Seviet county. These grounds are situat ed within the city limits and embrace twenty acre, together with all the buildings and appointments of the fair grounds. Salt Lake City The next Utah state fair will be held from October 1 to October 7, inclusive, it was decided de-cided at a meeting of the new board of directors of the State Fair asso-elation asso-elation at the state capitol. Prove The wonders of Timpaniv gos cave in the American Fork can yon are to be exploited through the medium of the Fox Film corporation according to information received by Professor Harrison R. Merrill of thi Brigham Young university, who, with Professor Lowry Nelson, has beet negotiating with the movie concert to have pictures of the famous cave broadcasted throughout America. Salt Lake City. Gasoline importer! into Utah, placed in a Utah station and subsequently drawn from the supply at that station and shipped into another state, must still pay the Utah tax, it is held in an opinion giv-enby giv-enby Harvey H. Cluff, attorney gen eral. Murray. Entering the state high school debating competition for the first time in its history, the Murray high school carried off the honor; by a two-to-one decision in the first debate of the triangle against the Cathedral high school of Salt Lake, in the Murray high assembly room. Cedar City. The Utah Iron Ore corporation is making excellent headway head-way at the Desert Mound west o( this city about sixteen miles. This company which has been shipping ore to the northern smelters at the rate of 300 tons daily, finds the call bo great that it is compelled to strip a larger area of overburden so that 500 tons daily can be maintained. Provo. A new business block is to be constructed on East Center street by Alex Hedquist. The contract for the structure has been let to D. W Davis. The building will have j thirty-eight-goot frontage and a deptt of 100 feet, with a full basement. Coalville. Pedro Cano, convicted of the murder of June St. Clair it Pf.rk City, March 15, 1923, will die at the hands of a firing squad at tbe state prison on the morning of Ma? 15. This date was set by Judge William Wil-liam M. McCrea, sitting in Coalville the scene of the trial. Salt Lake City. All transportation equipment and automobile busses, de-st de-st rowed in the recent fire at Mam moth Hot Springs, Y'ellowstone Pw will be immediately replaced, accord ing to an announcement from Hora j M. Albright, superintendent of trje ! Y'ellowstone National park. The mc' j tor equipment has already been or j dered and delivery guaranteed j June 18. the date fixed for the off' clal opening of the park. j Ogden. The intermountain district ! of the forest service is a veritab'' j paradise for nlmrods and fishernK1 ; it is shown by the statistics contafr ed in the game census for 1924 of tt district compiled by S. B. Locke, 'or' i est examiner, in charge of public: lations. The district comprises ITtst-; Idaho, western Wyoming and nor; ern Arizona. i Salt Lake City. Richard Phi"'? Morris, business man, clubman 3n" ; former mayor of Salt Lake, died , the Glendale sanitarium in Los A' ; geles, of bronchial asthma. He is : been In failing health for sever' years, but had been confined to lt: , sanitarium only ten days before t1' i death. Mr. Morris had left Salt in June, 1924, for the coast 'lieI'i he had been active in business UP the time he was taken seriously i'1 ! Several members of his family v''' lth him when he died. I |