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Show Pithy News Notes From All Parts of UTAH Salt Lake. The entire structure of the slate water rights law ns it pe. , tains to adjudication by the state cn-' cn-' gineer is attacked by water users on the Weber river system who object to the serving of notices of- summons to uppear in the pending adjudication suit. Both Attorney General Harvey H. Cluff and State Engineer It. K. Cald well were advised recently that the water users contend the law is uncon. I stitutional. Salt Lake. A question involving the power of state road commission to construct, improve, or alter in any way roads or streets in incorporated cities and towns and the power of the commission com-mission to donate funds or render financial fi-nancial aid to sue1!! towns and cities for the construction, alteration or improvement im-provement of state roads, so called, has been submitted to Attorney General Gen-eral H. H. Cluff by the state road commission, com-mission, the real question being whether wheth-er or not the state should have paid my part of the curbing and guttering and several other Items in connection with the paving of a certain portion of Washington avenue in Ogden. Salt Lake. Three tons of fish taken from Utah lake were distributed to needy persons in Salt Lake at the city free employment bureau. The fisli were brought to t,he city by the Holm-berg Holm-berg brothers of Lehi, assisted by Salt Lake sportsmen. Every kind of fish in the lake, from trout to carp, were in the wagons. As soon as the facts became known, the heads of many families fam-ilies came at once and gratefully carried car-ried away sacks of fish. A local produce pro-duce company announces that a huge quantity of potatoes would be donated to the needy families of tile city In the near future. The company had ordered or-dered (ho potatoes, but dry rot set in and there was danger of the entire lot spoiling. The good potatoes will be selected and sent to the bureau for distribution. Mrs. Edward Bichsel. General Federation Director for Utah Salt Lake Roderick Wallace McNeil, Mc-Neil, who is said to have served eleven years in the Utah state prison for train robbery, IS fighting to break the $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 will of Neil McNeil in Boston. The will bequeaths the entire estate to St. Francisco Xavier college at Antin-gonish, Antin-gonish, Nova Scotia. He asserted that the estate of his father, Sector McNeil, has been mismanaged by Neil McNeil. Roderick McNeil went under the name of Ed. K. Fisher, alias Ed. Dayton, while in Utah. According to the police, McNeil held up a Rio Grande Western train nen-r Thompson Springs. He escaped, es-caped, but when he found that two others had been accused of th holdup he returned and confessed to the deed. He was a model prisoner, and although he was sentenced to serve seventeen years in prison he was pardoned at the expiration of his eleventh year and never reverted to crime. Salt Lake. Delegates from several sections of the state appeared before the state board of equalization on behalf be-half of the Utah woolgrower nnd urged upon the board the necessity for a lower assessment of grazing- lands. In many cases, the woolgrowers declared, the valuation of grazing land 'had been increased to such an extent, either by the assessor or by the state board of equalization, that unless sorr.ething " done to relieve the situation, the burden bur-den imposed on the industry would be wholly out of proporti n with its earning earn-ing capacity and the nluntion of other industries. Manti Sanpete county commissioners commission-ers took up with the state road commission commis-sion the question of maintenance or the Sanpete county end of the Eph-' raim-OrangevlUe forest road. They asserted that tlie money it would take to maintain this road, which is useo only a few months in the year, is badly bad-ly n eded on the valley roads, used til1 the year. Der'sion was deferred untl, it could be use rtained what the agree wient among county, state and federal governments is as to the maintenance of this hi git way. |