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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Reader TAX PA1EBS PROTEST AUTO MISHAP FATAL DRY YEAR LOOMS EGGS ON. INCREASE BIG CONTRACT LET LOGAN, UT. Approximately 350 Cache valley tangible property own-erg own-erg adopted a resolution demanding a moratorium on tax payments for 1932, at a mass meeting in the Logan junior high school. LANDER, WYO. Mrs. Wynn Davis, 38, of Lander, was killed Instantly and her small daughter injured in-jured when the woman's automobile hurtled over an embankment north of Fort Washakie. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Salt Lake's important watershed at Brighton had only eight Inches of snow on the ground at the close of November, eompared with 21 inches a year ago. The latter figure la practically the normal, according to reports kept by H. K. Burton, superintendent of waterworks, and indicate that November was one of the driest in history. LOGAN, UT. The annual decorating deco-rating of the city for the Christmas holidays has been carried out as a community project. BEAVER, UT. Improvement, work on the Beaver city water system sys-tem has been completed. An additional addi-tional supply of spring water has been furnished the city, by constructing con-structing concrete intakes at the head of a number of small springs. RICHFIELD, UT. According to President R. P. Howard of Sevier County Fish and Game Protective association, 400,000 more eggs from Eastern Brook trout have been taken at Fish Lake so far this year than were taken last fall. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Utah State Bar association will hold its annual meeting here on January 21st. OGDEN, UT. Cattle are being trailed over the mountains from Rich county to the Ogden market, instead of to some point on the railroad. The third herd of cattle numbering 250 head arrived in Ogden Og-den recently. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Contract Con-tract for the Icelander Wash federal feder-al aid project of 14.02 miles has been awarded to the Reynolds-Ely Construction company of Spring-ville, Spring-ville, which submitted the low bid to the state 'ad commission at the capitol. Total cost of the project. Including materials, engineering, and other details supplied by the state will be S123.C73.91, of which $102,-457.78 $102,-457.78 will go to the contractors for labor. SALT LAKE CITY, FT. Rats cause a tremendous economic loss In Utah and the country as a whole each year. Though there is little danger of a bubonic plague in the relatively dry and cold climate of Utah, rats are carriers of this dread malady and are active in spreading pneumonic plague, septic pneumonia and epidemic jaundice In man and In perpetuating trichinae in swine. They also spread a numbrr of other diseases of both man and animals. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The annual convention of the Utah State Farm Bureau will be held in Salt Lake City, January 19, 20 snd 21, it Is announced by Tracy R. Welling, executive secretary. The Utah Farm Bureau convention this year will draw the largest attendance in its history, in the opinion of the secretary. secre-tary. He bases this conclusion on the fact that the bureau during the past year has drawn into the organization organ-ization all the co-oi"eratives in the state, making the bureau membership member-ship upwards of 20.000. PRESTON, IDA. No marriage license has been Issued in Franklin county since .Tune and only $15 has been received from those issued prior to that time in 19".2. according accord-ing to John A. Kofoed. Since the passage of the "gin marriage law" In 1931, those desiring marriage licenses have gone to other states, he said. Only five licenses have been Issued this year, while before the passage of the bill there was an average of two a week issued. May holds the record for 1I1S2, with two licenses, February, April and June . each having our. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. For the first time In the history of the state, the school population as disclosed dis-closed by the annual census taken of all children between the ages of six and sixteen, as of October 81, shows a decrease. The drop, altho small, reveals a shifting of the population toward Pacific coast centers, according to Dr. C. N. Jensen Jen-sen slate superintendent of imbllc Instruction. IDATIO FALLS, IDA.-The county coun-ty Jail has a record breaking number num-ber of Inmates. OGDEN, UT. Fifty bags of California Cali-fornia walnuts which were brought Into Ogden by truck, were seized, according to Lolioy Marsh, district agricultural agent. Mr. Marsh said that the mils were unfit for food and thus violated the ordinances of the state agricultural department BOISE, IDA. Idaho will reverso lior colors In license platen for Ifl.'iH and all the letters and figures will bo large, a change from this year, when the eounly designations wer small. |