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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers FIVE CENT FAKE OKEH. PREFER UTAH ALFALFA FORECLOSURES HALTED RESURFACE OLD TRAIL BEAUTIFY STAR VALLEY TOCATELLO, IDA. Initial ar-rangements ar-rangements are being made here for about three hundred reservations for the annual Rotary district assembly as-sembly and conference, which opens May 4th. COErJR D'ALENE, IDA Flavil-la Flavil-la I'ineo, S2, known as the sister of the original of Mark Twaiu's famous fa-mous fiction character, Tom Sawyer, Saw-yer, died here recently. Mrs. Pineo was a native of Ottawa, 111., and reported re-ported as the last living member' of the immediate Sawyer family. MOSCOW, IDA. Beryl, the only recognized ore of berylium, has been found In considerable quantities in Latah county mica deposits which In the past have produced commercial commer-cial mica valued at more than one hundred thousand dollars. BOISE, IDA. The law repealing the "gin marriage" provision of the marriage license laws of Idaho will go into effect on May 1. This will be In time to allow Idaho to reap the benefit of the May and June weddings. BOISE, IDA. The Old Oregon Trail between Boise aand Mountain Home is to be resurfaced this summer. sum-mer. PROVO, UT. Farmers, who purchase pur-chase alfalfa seed for planting this spring should be careful to select varieties grown in the state and not southern grown seed, according to the county agricultural agent Reports have been received that alfalfa al-falfa seed produced in Arizona and southern California is being sold in the state. Tests have shown seed In more humid localities do not produce pro-duce as good results as the Utah variety. BOISE, IDA. Gov. C. Ben Ross has issued a proclamation suspending suspend-ing mortgage foreclosures for sixty days. The governor in his proclamation proclama-tion invoked the authority of the banking and mortgage holiday law enacted by the last session of the legislature. OGDEX, FT. The five cent fare has been adopted permanently by the local street railway. SALT LAKE CITY, FT. Vigorous Vig-orous measures will have to be followed fol-lowed to check the increase in deaths from tuberculosis due to the depression, it was declared by Miss L. Stracham, Xew York, director of child health of the National Tuberculosis Tuber-culosis association, on her arrival for a visit in Salt Lake. BOISE, IDA. A reduction of water wa-ter rates for residents of the city of Jerome has been approved by the public utilities commission. OGDEX, FT. Committees of the Utah Canners' association and the Utah canning crops committee of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation fed-eration have announced that they had reached an agreement on the prices of tomatoes for the season as follows : No. 1. $ft.50 n ton and No. 2, ?I a ton. Last year No. 1 tomatoes toma-toes brought $10.ut) a ton and No. 2, $(.50 a ton. BOISE, IDA. Salary reductions for state employes ranging from 12 to 25 per cent have been approved by the stale board of examiners to make a saving estimated by Governor Gover-nor Ross, chairman of Ihe board, at "In excess of ,f200,0l) for the bi-ennium." bi-ennium." SALT LAKE CITY, FT. More than .$100,000 in federal funds will be loaned Flab and soul hern Idaho poullrymen this spring through the Poultry Finance Corporation of Utah to be used in the purchase and feeding of baby chicks, It Is indicated indicat-ed by reports received here. TllEUMOI'OLIS, WYO. Mrs. V. Brldger Halm, the last surviving child of Jim Bridget-, famous Indian Scout, trapper and guide, died here recently at the age of 81 years. Mrs. Halm was the daughter of Bruiser's Bruis-er's second wife, u Fte Indian woman. OGDEX, FT. Support, of the Ogd:n r'.ver reservoir project should be given by Ugden business and professional pro-fessional men and lis adoption by the Fulled Males government shott'd be urged. Dr. William l'elei'son of the Utah Stale Agricultural collo-'o, declared at a weekly meeting of lht Rotary club held here. RICHFIELD, FT. The Sevier district schools are co-opera I lug with the Soul It Sevtor chapter of the American Eel Cross In raising the $70 quota of the local chapter for relief purposes in the eanh-quake eanh-quake disaster region In California. Cali-fornia. ST'. AVl'lld.NV, IDA.- A chlerl-linior chlerl-linior Installed o:i the water system of St. Anthony is declared as lil.e'y lo slop lire typhoid culhreak reported report-ed hoe. AFTiiV, WYD. Star valley resl-den.'M resl-den.'M anliceinle irak'ng this a re-curd re-curd yeer i;i h.mu les ul i ileal ion, with tree phMilmg ose ,,f lis major !!,, e: s. A it."' ,enc"s have lava made w lib (hi- Ml" r'ateni'enl of Hie s1 ale e!'c 'in.'id fa fit at A floti, lo supply valb'.v ivai'enls villi I r es Vor I ranspla nt sc.. |