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Show Pithy News Notes I From All Parts of I UTAH I Salt Lake. The entire structure of the state water rights law ns it pertains per-tains to adjudication by the state engineer en-gineer is attacked by water users on the Weber river system wlio object to the serving of notices of summons to appear in the pending adjudication suit. Both Attorney General Harvey H. CluiT and State Engineer R. E. Caldwell Cald-well were advised recently that the water users contend the law Is unconstitutional. uncon-stitutional. Salt Lake. A question Involving the power of state road commission to construct, Improve, or alter in any way roads or streets in Incorporated cities and towns and the power of the commission com-mission to donate funds or render financial fi-nancial aid to sucli towns and cities for the construction, alteration or improvement im-provement of state roads, so called, has been submitted to Attorney General Gen-eral H. H. Cluff by the state road commission, com-mission, the real question being whether wheth-er or not the Btate should hare paid any part of the curbing and guttering and several other items In connection with the paving of a certnin portion of Washington avenue In Ogden. Salt Lake. Three tons of fish taken from Utah lake were distributed to needy persons in Salt Lake at the city free employment bureau. The fisli were brought to the city by the Holm-berg Holm-berg brothers of Lehi, assisted by Salt Lake sportsmen. Every kind of fish in the lake, from trout to carp, were in the wagons. As soon as the facts became known, the heads of many families fam-ilies came at once and gratefully carried car-ried away sacks of fish. A local produce pro-duce company announces that a huge quantity of potatoes would be donated to the needy families of the city in the near future. The company had ordered or-dered the potatoes, but dry rot set In and there was danger of the entire lot spoiling. The good potatoes will be selected and sent to the bureau for distribution, dis-tribution, i u rf M Mrs. Edward Bichsel. General Federation Director for Utali Salt Lake. Roderick Wallace McNeil, Mc-Neil, who is said to have served eleven years in the Utah state prison for train robbery, is fighting to break the $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 will of Neil McNeil In Boston. The will bequeaths the entire estate to St. Francisco Xavier college at Antin-gonish, Antin-gonish, Nova ScOtia. He asserted that the estate of his father, Sector McNeil, has been mismanaged by Neil McNeil. Roderick McNeil went under the name of Ed. K. Fisher, alias Ed. Dayton, while in Utah. According to the police, McNeil belli up a Rio Grande Western train near Thompson Springs. He escaped, es-caped, but when he found that two others had been accused nf the holdup he returned and confessed to the deed. He was a model prisoner, and although he was sentenced to serve seventeen years in prison he was pardoned at the expiration of his eleventh year find never reverted to crime. Salt Lake. Delegates from several sections of the state appeared before the state board of equalization on behalf be-half of the Utah woolgrower and urged upon the board the necessity for a lower nssessment of grazing lands. In many cases, the wonlgrowers declared, the valuation of grazing land had been increased to such an extent, either by the assessor or by the state board of equalization, that unless something ? done to relieve the situation, the bu.-den bu.-den imposed on Hie Industry would be wholly out of proportion with its earning earn-ing capacity and the valuation of other industries. Manti Sanpete county commissioners commission-ers took up with the state road conunis-sinn conunis-sinn the question of maintenance or the Sanpete county end of the Kph-raim-(irani:eville forest road. They asserted tliat the money it would take to maintain this mad, which is used only a few months in the year, is badly bad-ly needed on the valley roads, used all the year. Decision was deferred until it could be ascertained what the agreement agree-ment among county, state and federal governments is as to' the maintenance of this higHway. |