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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Suit has boon filed at Ogden by Mrs. Florence BouKvure agaln-t Gustave A Muller. in which the plaintiff asks damages of $10,000. She bases the shIl on assertions that Muller destroyed de-stroyed her peace of mind and otherwise other-wise caused her much 'embarrassment by writing: love letters to her, in spite of her insistence that his attentions were not desired. War between sheepmen and the state is imminent at West Water, where flockmasters have defied the quarantine proclamation of Governor Bamberger, it is said, ar-1 driven several sev-eral bands of sheep fom Colorado into Utah without having had the animals dipped. The Christmas seal sale organization In Utah is larger this year than for any of the previous campaigns. More than COO persons are taking an active part as members of central, county and local committees. Every county in th Btate has been thoroughly organized. The biennial report of the state board of land commissioners indicates that more than $800,000 has been collected col-lected during the past two years in interest in-terest on state land grant funds, which Is a larger amount than in the preceding preced-ing biennium by more than $100,000. The movement for the reclamation of several millions of acres of land in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico Mex-ico and California by utilization of the waters of the Colorado river is endorsed en-dorsed in a resolution adopted by the Utah State Realty association. While the Denver & Rio Grande on November 1 had but 88.1 per cent of its total equipment on its own rails, this has been improved since so that today it has 100 per cent of the equipment equip-ment in commission on its own rails, It is claimed. At three convention held in Salt Lake, December 7, several hundred stockmen of Utah and neighboring western range states discused the problems, financial and governmental, now facing t." men engaged in the Industry. Joseph Wilkens, 50 years of age, was rendered unconscious for six hours and suffered 8 deep laceration of the scalp when a buggy in which he was riding was struck by an automobile on the road near Spanish Fork. Seven million dollars will have been paid out for sugar beets since October of this year to farmers of Utah and Idaho by the Amalgamated Sugar company, when it makes its final payment pay-ment on December 15. An expenditure of $100,000 in surveying sur-veying public lands in Utah during the next fiscal year is recommended by the commissioner of the general land office, in Ills annual report to the secretary sec-retary of interior. Six months in jail and $1000 fine for having a still in his home was the punishment meted out to John O'Oreen of Mohrland, near I'rif e, by Judge Tillman Till-man D. Johnson, of the United States district court. The prospect of attaining wealth through the discovery, of oil wells in Utah has led to the filing of between BOO and 900 applications for prospecting prospect-ing permits under the mineral land leasing law. Grand county is the only one in the state that did not hold its own in the uecade 1010-1920. The value of the land and buildings in the county decreased de-creased in amount $430 in the ten-year ten-year period. Wireless telephone service between the forest service building in Ogden and the aerial mnil station grounds In Salt L-.lke probably will be established immediately after the first of the year. Lack of moisture and cold wenther are making conditions bad In southern south-ern Utah, especially In the vicinity of Modena, according to the weekly report re-port of the weather bureau. Only one of the seventeen dairies conducting business in Salt Lake during dur-ing November, 1920, had products which fell below the required 3.2 per cent standard for fats. Attention is called, in the biennial report of the state livestock board, to the menace of sheep scabies In Utah, from the presence of the disease in Idaho and Colorado. No streets will be graded in Ogden this winter, according to the action of the city commissioners in ordering the filing of a number of petitions for grudnig. To care for the schools of Utah In the year 1919-1920 Uie receipts aggregated aggre-gated .n,8R4,3(J compared with receipts re-ceipts of $(5,511,011 last year. The explosion of about ten gallons of gasoline wrecked the George W. Nelson glove eleanlng establishment at Salt Lake. Farmers of nr-thorn Boxelder county are Jubilant over the prosperity attendant at-tendant to fine weather and the large beet harvest. Utah is had hut one Carey act project, the Delta Land & Water company, com-pany, covering 25,814 acres. Alberto Herrera, formerly employed as a janitor at the Los Angeles ffc Halt Iake station at I.yndyl, Utah, Is charged wifh robbing the mails in u complaint filed last week. There are inort than 100,000 taxpayers taxpay-ers in the state of l.'tah, in the opinion of the state board of equalization, formed from estimates furnished to it by county officials. Mrs. Ban Johnson was fatally injured in-jured at Ogden when an automobile struck her, the machine skidding and triking the woman as she was crossing cross-ing the street. |