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Show News Notes X From All Parts of I UTAH Manti, The bureau dairy committee commit-tee has purchased twenty head of dairy cows in Utah county. The twenty head delivered, cost $1790, and were distributed to fourteen men. Nearly one-third of the cows are Holsteins and the others are Jerseys. Logan, Farmers of the state are purchasing their dairy cattle in Cache county rather than sending east for their stock, according to William W. Owens of the extension division at the Utah Agricultural college and county agent leader. Ogden, Cache valley dairymen will exhibit at the fifth annual - Ogden livestock show to be held at the Ogden Og-den Union stock yards January 8 to 12, 1924, according to Secretary Jesse S. Richards, who visited purebred Holstein cattle breeders while in Cache valley recently. Provo, Two men alleged . to have killed five sheep belonging to Heber City men, and being herded in the Tintie valley, were traced to the main road leading out of Tintic valley, and were successful in their escape after officers from Provo had gone to the scene to try to locate them. iSalt Lake City, Gasoline tax has been demanded on a carload of "snowolene," a deodorized cleaning fluid shipped in from California recently re-cently for distribution among cleaning clean-ing and dyeing concerns, according to Secretary of State H. E. Crockett. The product he said is reported to be high test gasoline which has been deodorized. de-odorized. Provo, Work commenced Wednesday Wednes-day on a pipeline to bring the water from the newly acquired springs n Slate canyon to the State Mental hospital. hos-pital. Ogden, After changing the plans for the Ogden Union passenger station sta-tion a number of times and enlarging everal of the departments to be constructed, con-structed, it was reported in the railroad rail-road circles that it is expected the work of tearing down the south half of the burned structure will begin before be-fore January 1. Salt Lake, The postoffice department depart-ment Monday .Announced that it had leased for ten years new quarters on the north side of Second South, between be-tween Second and Third West itreets for use as an annex of the Salt Lake postoffice, the lease to cover all necessary neces-sary equipment. The lease is made with the A. Keyser company. Manti J. W. Shand of this city has been elected president of the Sanpete County Fair association for the year 1924. Andrew Christensen of Ephraim was chosen vice president and J. R. Witbeck, Spencer Mofet, and William McFarlane, all of this city, were elected elect-ed as a board of directors. Tho various committees will be selected at a luter time. Price, An increased rate of f0 cents a ton on coal and coke hauled by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad from Carbon county mines to Cedar City, to have been effective December 19, 192.1, was ordered suspended until March 5, 1924, by the public utilities commission. Morgan, The Morgan-Peterson highway, federal aid project No. 41, was recommended for approval ot the state road commission and bureau of public ronds, Monday by the en glneerlng department of the state road commission following 7.8 miles of gravel surface construction recently recent-ly completed. Suit Lake, Utah will send two ounces ot cement to the George Washington Wash-ington post No. 1, of Washington, D. C, the pioneer post of the American Legion ; to be used in tho laying of the cornorstone of the permanent homo of the post which will be hild by President Calvin Coolidge. Snlt Lake, Among 200,000 head ol sheep which have been trailing through Salt Lake county to wlntor feeding grounds on the western desert, de-sert, and among 105,000 coming into Utah from Colorado to spend tho win-tor win-tor on the eastern desert, not a Bln-gle Bln-gle case of Bcables has been found to date, it is roported by Thomas Rod-mond, Rod-mond, chief sheep inspector for the state board of agriculture. The In. Bpoctlon In Salt Lake county has Just boon comploted by Theodore McKcan and was made as a precautionary measure since no reports had boon received of scabies among these flock s. Ogden, Foes received by the secretary secre-tary of state during October and November Nov-ember nggregato : Gen oral fees, $1977.19, compared with ,f!IOll.'t. 17 in 1922; corporation tax, $S7,2(.M).:i."i, compared com-pared with .f(Ml,.ri07..'i:'i last year In the corresponding period. Moub, The board of commissioners of Sun Juan county at a special meeting meet-ing attended by the county attorney, assessor and clerk, decided to giant the petition of 121 tnxpnyoiH of the county praying for an extension ol twenty days In which to pay their taxes before they become delinquent Dry farm conditions during tho pant growing senson were so adverse that It wag Impossible, for ninny of tint tavpityory to rulHo the fund at the regular delinquent date, iind in con. ulderatlon of thli fact December 20 |