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Show ntermountain News Briefly Told by Busy Readeri ! SLITS ML'ST BE tSED ; BATHERS ARE WARNED TAX BENEFITS SCHOOLS ( SCHOOLS OPEN ALU. 31st. FIVE ARRESTED IN CASE j WALLACE, IDA. Joe Wayne, Evelyn Miller, Walter Sundquist, and Keneth McAulley were arrested arrest-ed here and charged with stealing cars at Billings and Uvingston, Mont, robbing a cafe of $34 and holding up a service station near Sheridan. BOISE, IDA. Through the medium med-ium of taxes which are paid by the employes of the Union Pacific in Idaho and the huge sum paid for the same purpose by the company itself, there is provided one of the principal sources of finnncial support sup-port for the schools in the state as well as for the county and state governments. $2,350,01)5.28 is paid annually by the Union Tacific for taxes in Idaho. Employes, them- selves, on their homes and personal property pay an additional large sum. KAN'OSH, UT. Use of 15 second feet of flood waters from Swanzey creek in Millard county, to supply 60,000 head of sheep and 100 horses has been applied for at the state engineer's office by the Fountain Green Woolgrowers' company. NEPHI, UT. Deputy Sheriff G. H. Judd reports here that l warned forty boys, swimming without with-out suits In Burrison's pond, north of Nephi, that it is against the state law to swim in state waters without with-out suits. He stated that those who were found in the pond from now on without suits would be arrested. BEAVER, UT. KENNET BLACK-ner BLACK-ner of Beaver had a third operation performed at a San Francisco hospital, hos-pital, in which both of his legs were taken off to the hips. These operations opera-tions were made necessary due to poisoning. LOGAN, UT. School will open Aug. 31 in the Cache county school district, according to a recent announcement an-nouncement The entire calendar has not been made up yet, but will be finished at one of the next board meetings. PROVO, UT. 1500 persons attended at-tended the Utah county farm bureau bu-reau picnic at Geneva. PROVp, UT. The Provo city commission authorized the retirement retire-ment of $50,000 worth of waterworks water-works bonds of a series of $100,000 dated Sept. 1, 1921. The remainder remain-der of the issue, $50,000 was refunded refund-ed at 4 3-4 per cent interest. OGDEN', UT. Doctors have advised ad-vised against the use of Ogden and Weber rivers by bathers on account of infection. OGDEN, UT. The U. S. District Engineer reports good progress being be-ing made on 15 road projects in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. MOSCOW, IDA. Passage of a state cigarette tax, with proceeds to be used for educational purposes, pur-poses, was suggested at a meeting of nearly 80 Idaho school officials at the summer session at the University Un-iversity of Idaho. BOISE. IDA. The third annual Western Idaho State fair, the premier pre-mier exhibition of livestock and farm products, will be held here Sept. 2, 3, 4, and 5. McCALTa IDA. Payette lakes will furnish the water from Idaho which will be mingled with water from the other 47 states in die union un-ion and will be used to christen one of the largest commercial liners lin-ers ever constructed In an American Ameri-can shipyard to be launched this fall by the United Stales Lines. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Tabulation Tabu-lation of Utah's mineral production produc-tion for 1930 has been completed by the Bureau of Mines. The report re-port shows that Utah had 103 producers pro-ducers during 1930, as compared with 130 during 1929. Production decreased from 19,831,975 tons to 11,041,841 tons for the same comparative com-parative years. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The state tax levy has been fixed by the state tax commission at 8.2 mills an Increase of .9 of a mill over the levy of 1930, which was 7.3 mills. The levy is divided as follows: General fund, 2.4 mills; state high school fund, .2 mills; state district school fund, 5.0 mills. The 1931 levy Is based on a valuation valua-tion of $020,500,000 as compared with a valuation in 1930 of $727-000.00. $727-000.00. GOODING, IDA. Non operating operat-ing power sites pay faxes now in Gooding under the now law that hns been pnssed. Assessable value of farm lands was decreased 10 per cent at a recent meeting of I lie county board of equalization. The adoption of this new l:iw increased increas-ed county valuations $132,025. OGDEN, UT. A contract has been signed by Weber county commissioners com-missioners with the state road commission com-mission for the construction during dur-ing 1932 and 1933 of the county portion of the Huntsville-.Monte Crlsto road. BOISE, IDA. Weiser national forest has been closed to hunting by order of the regional forester, with headquarters at Ogden. Continued Con-tinued dry weal her has left the forest particularly dry, and shoot- lng of firearms is declared to be a very grave fire hazard. |