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Show iiTuipi Utah held first place In co-operntlvo household marketing lust year. It is anonunced that the total Utah pack of fruits und vegetables exceeded 1,000,000 cases In 1020. It Is announced that the cost of n pupil In conducting tho schools of Grand county nvornges 75.57. Utah ranks fourth In tho states In tho productlou of canned peas, and fifth In tomatoes, It Is claimed. Tho Uintah school district Is to havo the University of Utah extension exten-sion school again this year, to open nbout August 1. Preparations are being made for tho cooventlon to be held at Salt Lnko City, Juno 20, of the Ametlcnn Institute Insti-tute of Electrlcnl Engineers. Extensive Improvements In the Og-den Og-den telephone system, which will represent rep-resent an expenditure of nbout $100,- 000, aro planned In the near future. Tho KIwnnIs club )f I.ognn was organized or-ganized last week, the club having the necessary fifty members for tho chnr-tcr, chnr-tcr, with a largo number of prospective members. Japaneso farms In Utah are valued at $1,050,000, and consist of 8343 acres In 133 fnrms, according to statistics sta-tistics prepared by tho agricultural statistician. Fred Blackburn Boblson, 17 years of age, of Salt Lake, was Instantly killed In un automobile accident near Pleasant Pleas-ant drove, his car crushing Into n telegraph tele-graph post. As u result of volunteer work, Delta lias nearly two miles of well surfaced streets. t Is estimated that the work done would have cost at least $3000 had It been dono by contract. Judge llltchle, in the Third district court nt Salt Luke City, has Issued a temporary Injunction restraining Utah curriers from Increasing Intrastate rates on coal, oro or passengers. aiiu iiiiiiu BireuiH oi uuiiu were improved im-proved by volunteer workers lust week, between 50 and 100 teums being used In Imultng gravel. All of the work wust without expense to the town. llange trouble which has been brewing brew-ing between transient sheep and cattlo men culminated In u clash near Moab last week, when Charles Olnss, a negro cowpuncher, shot and killed u French sheepherder. Michael J. Nelllgnn, 58 years of age, roadmabter of tho Bamberger Electric railroad, who was Injured In alighting alight-ing from ono of the trains of tho company com-pany near Beck's Hot Springs, died nt a Salt Lake hospital. Despondency overslckness nnd inability in-ability to obtain work is believed to have caused Mlko Itcgn, 50 years of age, to kill himself by shooting at his homo In Salt Luke City. Ho leaves a wlfo and seven children, Chesley fluiulerson, of Price, has been advised thnt ho 1ms been selected se-lected winner In the competition for the appointment to West Point. Young (Itinilerson was ono of eleven In the examination In Salt Lake. A voluntary cut In wages of ntruc-tural ntruc-tural Iron workers, stationary engineers engi-neers and carpenters from $!) to ifS a day, effective March 1, luis been determined de-termined upon by the Salt Lake union organizations of those lines. Kidnapped from her homo In Snlt Lako last Juno, Viola Wells, aged 12, has been located In Arizona. She was taken to Arizona by Jose Monterno, n Mexican, who Is under nnest, and will bo brought back to Utah for trial. Fred C. Brown, nllas James Borg-sted, Borg-sted, 21 years of uge, was nrrosted at Las Vegas, Nov., on the churgo of robbing the Grantsvllle Deseret bank, Februury 21 of war savings stamps and Liberty bonds amounting to fllSTi. Colin McMurphy, who hns a contract con-tract for building the new auto road through tho Tlntlc Valley, much of which hns already been finished, expects ex-pects to resume work within the next few weeks, or Just us soon us the weather will permit. Tho county commissioners of drnnd county huve been notified by tho state board of equalization to insiKt timt mi horses and cattle In tho county bo nssessed this year. It being claimed that only 70 per cent of such nnlmuls woro nssossed hist year. Officials of the Utah State Farm bureau bu-reau and the Utah-Idaho Sugar com-pnny com-pnny have concluded an ngroomont on tho prlco basis of ttio 1021 sugar beot contracts, At tho present prlco of sugar tho farmor should receive $n.0t per ton fur beets, as compared with tho ?12 minimum last your, it wus announced. an-nounced. Sustaining tho public utllltlos commission com-mission in its order abrogating preferential prefer-ential rates granted by tho Utah Power & Light company in special contracts with about fiftj of its lurgost power ciistoiiierK. the siiproiiiu court has denial de-nial the mpii.mi1 of the r.ili,.,! Slates S '"' ' !" to Inn., ih.. .nm- '' '. iiuiiirvd. SMMISTSIiailM-' |