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Show Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers NEW ROAD WORK. RAIN SAVES FOREST. HAS NO COUNTRY NOW. TEN PER CENT ( I T MAUE. WAR ON THE PEDDLER. MISSOULA, MONT. C 1 o u d s pouring rain in the Selway country helped crews fighting fires to establish estab-lish coutrol of various blazes burning burn-ing in the northern Idaho woods, most of which had already been corralled cor-ralled in a fashion to prevent further spread. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The state industrial commission has ordered or-dered the payroll changes necessary for compliance with the recent order or-der of the state board of supplies and purchases, ordering a 10 per cent reduction in all salaries in excess ex-cess of ?90 a month. BOISE, IDA. Road construction activities, utilizing ,$1,550 000 of a $2,502,112 emergency federal aid fund for unemployment relief, will begin in Idaho soon. The state receives re-ceives $1,505,912 for highway construction. con-struction. Forest highways receive $614,000, park roads $210,000, Indian reservation roads $53,000, and pub-lie pub-lie loans $119,200 of the total emergency emer-gency fund allocated to Idaho. POCATELLO, IDA. Authorities are busy clearing Pocatello streets of outside peddlers who, according to charges filed by the Chamber of Commerce, have been selling their produce at prices considerably lower than those of established merchants. POCATELLO, IDA. Claiming he is "a man without a country," William Wil-liam F. Elliott, 50, Canadian war veteran, has asked Sheriff Woodward Wood-ward to have him deported to Canada. Can-ada. Elliott said he has been ordered or-dered to leave the United States by immigration authorities, but Canada refused to recognize him due to his long absence from his native land. LOGAN, UT. The tax levy for Logan district will be the highest in history, this year, according to the statement of County Assessor R. S. McQuarrie. The total levy this year is 45.S1 mills compared with 45.05 mills in 1931. OGDEN, UT. Officials of this city applied for the location of one of the Home Loan banks for Og-den. Og-den. FTiOVO, UT. Utah county's tax levy for 1932 has been set at 7.97 mills as against the 1931 levy of 8.23 mills. BEATER, UT. The Union Pacific Pa-cific Railroad company is planning plan-ning to erect a large storage cellar for potato crops from Milford and Minersville. BOISE, IDA. Reports indicate an abundance of water and good range conditions in the Boise national na-tional forest. Livestock men with herds and flocks in the forest are enthusiastic over conditions prevailing prevail-ing among their stock. RICHFIELD, UT. The schools of Sevier county will open October 17 and the length of the school term has not yet been decided. OGDEX, UT. Twenty-two mining min-ing claims have been staked off in the territory two and one-half miles north and east of the Hermitage in Ogden canyon, where a lode of gold bearing quartz was recently found. The claims have been filed in the county recorder's office. BLACKFOOT, IDA. Two persons per-sons were painfully injured and two others escaped injury when an automobile in which they were riding rid-ing crashed into a horse standing on the highway five miles south of Blackfoot. BEAVER, UT. Graveling of the ten mile stretch of road from Wildcat Wild-cat canyon to the Millard county line on highway 91 has been started. start-ed. WEISER, IDA. Property owners own-ers and water users of the Weiser Irrigation district decided at a recent re-cent meeting to build a new Intake canal approximately two miles in length, together with a diversion dam and headgate In the Weiser river riv-er to insure a permanent supply of water to the district. The project is to cost $12,000.00. MANTI, UT. A destructive frost, the earliest on record in this vicinity, vi-cinity, destroyed 14 acres of peas on the lowlands at the Kjar ranch and at the experiment farm at Ephraini. SEATTLE, WASH. In the pockets pock-ets of the coat of 81-year-old John Stonehanks, when he dropped dead ln the public library here, were found a crust of bread and a shriveled shriv-eled apple core. Ills clothes were soiled and ragged. The body was taken to the public morgue where seven bank books were found In the clothing, showing deposits of $10. 0(10 in seven Seattle banks. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Crop prospects pros-pects are exceptionally good, in the Twin Falls, Jerome, Wendell region, according to the district crop Inspector. Inspec-tor. Grain yields are average, and potatoes and alfalfa are producing abundant ly. CALDWKIJ,, IDA. The Canyon county commissioners have mmlo application ap-plication for a $10(1.000 loan from the government lo conduct road work, so that Ihe unemployed In county may work for I heir living rather than receive charily. |