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Show Intermourstain News - Briefly Told for Busy Readers CLOSED GARAGE KILLS. KEROSENE FATALITY'. STATE LOSES ON LOAN. BOTH FEET LOST. SHEEP MEN TO MEET. TWIN FALLS, IDA. J. L. Hodges, Hodg-es, Twin Falls farmer, was found dead iu his garage, the victim of carbon monoxide poisoning. His body was lying on the floor beside the car. The doors of the garage were closed and the motor was still running. BURLET, IDA. Only 52700 was ever paid on endowment fund loans in Cassia county amounting to 554,505, according to a survey of farm loan foreclosures in this county prepared by the bureau of public accounts. ELY, XEV Both feet of Belt-ranee Belt-ranee Jaurenguenberg, Basque sheep man from Eureka county, were amputated am-putated at a local hospital. His feet were frozen early in December. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The slate association of county clerks, assessors, auditors and treasurers will hold its annual convention in Salt Lake February G, Paul V. Mohr, county clerk of Cache county, and president of the association has announced. SALT LAKE CITY, L'T. The executive ex-ecutive secretary, of the Utah Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis association reports that $0233 has been collected by the association asso-ciation from its annual Christmas seal sale. She reports that the collection col-lection of $11,000 necessary for the associations program in Utah next year appears certain. CEXTERFIELD, UT. This city will be drawing interest on $15,000 of its own bonds for the present. Several years ago the town bonded itself to construct a waterworks system . Five years ago it took rj $7000 of the issue and now hay paid off $8,000 in bonds which sf have five years to run. f MOSCOW, IDA. Thirteen n " are doing research work in the iversity of Idaho school of forestry this term. Some of the projects areV" being worked out iu cooperation with the U. S. forestry department. Some of the more important projects pro-jects are the belter utilization of wood, window sash preservation by ' use of chemicals, a study of match stock materials, and a study of the parasites which attack the white pine blister rust. BURLEY, ID A. The Smith-Hughes Smith-Hughes students iu the high school are preparing many outdoor activities activi-ties for the winter. The boys will hold a rabbit poisoning drive in January in the vicinity of the farms south of Burley that border on the open domain where jackrabbits are becoming nuisances. The poison for the campaign will be supplied by the county commissioners and the j county agent's office. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The story of America's prehistoric population pop-ulation is told in a film directed by A. C. Cooley, in chaifj'ie local office of the Un jJj Ind i an service. The pKit scctton of the film has been cor'.pleted. A piece of textile, tex-tile, 4000 years old, used in the burial rites, forms one of the interesting inter-esting exhibits. Pottery and stone implements also are described and exhibited. BOISE, IDA. Heart disease continues con-tinues as the greatest single cause of death in Idaho. During November, Novem-ber, various forms of heart disease caused 59 of the 344 deaths. The death total includes 22G males and 11S females. Epidemic and infectious infec-tious diseaces resulted in 38 fatalities, fatal-ities, 13 being attributed to tuberculosis. tuber-culosis. General diseases caused 38 deaths, 23 resulted from cancer. Nervous disorders were fatal in 37 cases, cerebral hemorrhage leading lead-ing this classification with 27. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Securities Se-curities commissioners of 11 western west-ern states will assemble in Salt Lake in a group meeting early in April it is announced by S. P. Stewart, Stew-art, director of the Utah securities commission. The group is. one of three into which the national association asso-ciation of securities commissioners is divided, and the sessions at Salt. Lake are expected to bring up for discussion problems dealing with western types of securities, including includ-ing those concerning mining of precious pre-cious and semiprecious metals, and oil drilling. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Water users of the 11 western states will convene here February 8 to 10, to discuss drainage, taxation, legislation legisla-tion and other problems of common interest. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Inmates of the state penitentiary are now utilizing their idle time in study and class work and listening to lectures by prominent scholars. The prison school, established under 1he supervision of the University of Utah extension division has an enrollment en-rollment of 49 of a population of 321 and is still growing. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Those who are sightless may enjoy reading read-ing notable works that have been printed in Braille and are on file at the Salt Lake public library it is announced by the librarian. The hooks, totaling 010, are available for blind residents in all parts of the state. Besides 45 residents of the city who use them there nre several who receive the books by mail in oilier Utah cities. ITtOVO. UT. A new and larger post office building is being planned plan-ned for this city. |