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Show I News Notes 1 From All Parts of 1 UTAH J ' r ""-' "a, . t : ' . ' , t r - ! : 1 - Vi Kred "Buck" Diron intermouniain Lennis champion. Dixon Is a student t tho Brit'lmm Young university. Salt Lake City To C. E. Hawkins, our.ty assessor of Utah county, goes ho credit thin year ot beinpr the first assessor to set his report of the total assessment of property under his jurisdiction into the offices of the state hoard of equalization. This record rec-ord is all the more remarkable be-eause be-eause Utah county is one of the largest larg-est in the state. In fact, this year, as is pointed out by Ii. E. Hammond secretary of the state hoard, Utah county pre oiisos to surpass Weber 'or the , first time and to take the place of being second only to Salt Lake county in assesahle wealth. Bingham The Utah Copper company com-pany will do much construction work this summer. Present plans call for changing tho county road in Carr Fork and the construction of a bridge near Cottonwood gulch. Permission to change the location of the road has been already obtained from both the county and the town of Bingham. Bing-ham. American Fork. E. C. Shepherd, new Wasatch forest supervisor, who succeeded Dana Parkinson, was in nmerlcan Fork this week arranging for the opening of Timpanogos cave Mr. Shepherd announced that additional addi-tional lighting, trail resting stations and camping ground improvements are to be made at once. The cave s now open and some visitors have nade the trip this season. Ogden. John K. Hardy, of Salt r,ake, was elected president of the hoard of trustees of the Utah State ndustrial school at the first meeting f the new board held at the school. Dr. Jane W. Skolfield, only woman nember of the board was elected vice president; Frank J. Stevens of Og--)en, was made treasurer, and D. R. Forsha was re-elected secretary. Provo. In order to still maintain Provo's reputation for having the lowest fire losses in the United States, and with a determination to continue to give the city the protection protec-tion that the . growth justifies, the city commission has decided to purchase pur-chase a new truck. Salt Lake City. As a feature ol International boys' week the city commission granted the petition of Salt Lake Post No. 2 American Le-gian, Le-gian, that the reins of government tie turned over April 2S to high school bors in order that they may visualize visual-ize the responsibilities, of the future. Representatives of the petitioners appeared ap-peared before the commission. It is planned that the East and We3t, L. 0. S., Granite and Jordan high schools each elect a city commissioner. commission-er. They will meet for organization under guidance ot the commission, assign each other to the various city departments and get an insight into city government. Similarly groups ot bovs will go to the capital as legis-:ators, legis-:ators, it was explained. Salt Litke City. Satlair. Utah's 'amous bathing resort was completely complete-ly destroyed by fire last week, the less being estimated at over ?250,000. Officials of the company state it will be rebulit as soon as possible, and will be much more elaborate. Salt Lake City. Korse racing wil t:ot be allowed on the Lagoon mile track or on any other track located in a rural community so long as the present racing commission, composed of B. F. Grant, chairman; James IL Waters, secretary, both of this city and Gage E. Rodman of Ogden hold! office, according to a policy unoffi ! eially adopted by the commission. j Ogden. The gates of the Utah ! state prison has closed behind Lor ! eazo Hadley, 72-year-olct farmer ol i West Weber. The venerable prison : er was convicted of a statutory crime ! gainst a 13-year old girl, and his appeal to the state supreme court i has been denied. A damage suit was brought against Handley by the girl's I suardian and a judgment of S 10.000 I rendered against him by default i Handley recently petitioned the Uni. 1 tfd States district court for bankruptcy. |