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Show Intermountaln News Briefly Told for Busy Readers TAXES ARE PAID. POWER PLANT PROFIT. MANY GAIN CITIZENSHIP. HUGE LION IS CAUGHT. RIFLE SLAYS OWNER. PROVO, T.'T. Predictions of a wholesale tax delinquency this year failed to materialize, according to the county treasurer, who reports that 70.35 pvr cent of the tax charge was paid as compared with 7S.S per cent in 1931. SPRING VILLE, TJT. The local municipally owned power plant showed a net profit of $17,500, during dur-ing 1932, according to the reports of the city officials. Receipts for the year amounted to $28,500 and total expenses $11,003. SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. A total of 173 residents of Utah were granted grant-ed United. States citizenship during the 1932 fiscal year while 111 others oth-ers filed declarations of intentions, tates the annual report of the commissioner com-missioner of naturalization. KANOSH, TJT. A. Ahlstrum, a government trapper, caught a huge lion in Corn Creek canyon a few miles from this city. OGDEN, UT. An old English copper coin, a tuppence, minted in the days of King George III, and bearing the date 1797, is being shown here. The coin weighs almost al-most an ounce and has been out of issue for over one hundred years. JEROME, IDA. F. W. Chote, 44, was killed by the accidental discharge dis-charge of his rifle, it was decided after an investigation of his death. MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA. The dairymen of Elmore county are beginning be-ginning to test their cows on the mail-order p'lan toward elminating those cows that are unprofitable. EPHRAIM, TJT. Markton oats outyielded all other varieties in a yield test conducted on the muck soils of the Sanpete Experimental farm near here. The test included six varieties that had previously been tested at the central experimental experi-mental farm at Logan and which are now being tested in twelve different dif-ferent counties in the state. BEAVER, UT. Pack rats have come from the mountains into town and are reported to be doing considerable con-siderable damage in various cellars and homes. Ordinary poison bait used us-ed for mice does not seem to harm these rats. BOISE, IDA. Ermine top the list of fur-bearing animals in the Boise national forest with an estimated esti-mated total of 3200, the forest report re-port indicates, but deer lead the list of all wild animals with an estimated es-timated total of five thousand. PRICE, UT. Representatives of civic organizations of Price and Helper have voted unanimously to conduct an invitational intermount-nin intermount-nin school band contest in 1933. During the past two years the tournament tour-nament has been conducted as a Price city project, but the next contest con-test will be designated as being sponsored by Carbon county. Invitations Invita-tions will be sent to bands in Utah, Colorado, Idaho and other inter-mountain inter-mountain states. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A report from the 3305 corporations doing business in Utah in 1931, or authorized to do business in the state, have reported to the state tax commission total income of $l,SOS,349,G0S, but total deductions from that income, as allowed by law, of $1,8G7,570,0G6. As reported, the corporations show a loss of $59,221,-298, $59,221,-298, for the year in question. RICHFIELD, UT. A slight increase in-crease in tax receipts this year over last was regarded as showing a more favorable condition in the county as a whole in the opinion of county officials. BURLEY, IDA. All farmers who expect that they will want seed loans from the department of agriculture should notify Terry E. Burnham, Salt Lake, manager of the seed loan office, or the county agents. This action is advisable so that congress may be advised of the amount that will be required and an adequate appropriation made. OGDEN, UT. The application of KLO of Ogdcn for permission to Increase In-crease its power wave has been refused re-fused by the federal radio commission. commis-sion. The application has been investigated: in-vestigated: the increase Is found justified, but Utah, under the federal fed-eral radio act, has more than Its legal nllotment of power, and for that reason the application was denied. de-nied. RENO, NEV. In the emergency relief loan funds passed by the RFC recently the sum of i?IS.:!H) was included in-cluded for Nevada. The Nevada loan Is to be used in three counties. The money will ' for use in .lamiary and February. BOISE, IDA. Fanners of Idaho have received .f'J.10 1.000 in loans ot Roconsl ruction Finance ('orptirallnn money, through the Agricultural Credit corporal inn and if Is predicted predict-ed that many more loans will be arranged. ar-ranged. Most of the mnm'.v has been advanced for the feeding of livestock. live-stock. l'OCATlOld-. IDA. The counly I treasurer has received a check from the Oregon Short Fine railroad of .fl I2,!M I. (II us payment, for one half of the railroad's taxes for I'.le'J. |