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Show Interrnountain News --Briefly Told for Busy Readers SHEEP ARE LOST. JOBLESSP ASK WORK. LOWER KATES MADE. PLAN NEW INDUSTRY. WOOL SOLD IN OREGON. CALDWELL, IDA. A new 30 thousand egg capacity hatchery is to be opened here in February. BOISE, IDA. Recent snow falls took the life of ten per cent of the Utah and Idaho sheep being wintered in the country south of Elko, Nevada. Forage is buried beneath be-neath heavy snow. Approximately 10,000 sheep are wintered in the area. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. As the first step in transforming the east side of Great Salt Lake into a fresh water body, the engineers are arranging for a number of tests to determine the character of the bed. OGDEN, UT A party of Utah canners attended the national convention con-vention of the National Canners' association in Chicago. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Steps to open a way for an agreement among the water-users of Salt Lake county for a satisfactory method of handling the waters of Utah lake, which are used to irrigate practically all of this county as well as part of Utah county have been announced by the state engineer. en-gineer. NAMPA, IDA. Appropriation to build a school building at the state school and colony at Nampa will be asked at the next session of the Idaho legislature. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Two hundred jobless men paraded thru the streets here recently demanding demand-ing work and not charity. Their leader voiced their demand to the city council. OGDEN, UT. Initial steps were taken at a meeting of the Weber county Medical society to purchase a site and erect a medical and dental arts building for physicians and dentists of the city. PROVO, UT. Because he mistook mis-took a bottle of poison tablets for one containing headache tablets, James McBride, 32, died here a few days ago. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A new schedule of lower freight rates on livestock in six western states, including in-cluding Utah, and portions of the five other states iu the western area, went into etiect recently, according ac-cording to local traffic officials. CALDWELL, I D A. Possibility that teachers' salaries in Canyon county school districts will be reduced re-duced and other reductions in expense ex-pense made was indicated in a call for a meeting of school trustees. BURLEY, IDA. Last pool of turkeys of the Idaho-Oregon Turkey Tur-key Markstiug association were shipped a few days ago, the birds bringing $975. BOISE, IDA. A total of 3-40,000 pounds of Idaho wool held by the First National bank of Idaho, of Boise, was sold in Portland. The largest sale was 470 bags, which sold at sixteeu and one-eighth cents per pound. PRICE, UT. By order of the slate board of health, all dogs in Helper and vicinity are under the strictest quarantine for rabies and all peace officers of the county have been instructed to enforce the quarantine. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Resources Re-sources and liabilities of the 05 commercial banks, three trust companies com-panies and three savings banks operating op-erating as state institutions, were $112,047,002.60 as of last December 31, while the corresponding figure for the close of business of 1930 was $130,173,031.00. LEWISTON, IDA. Because the laws are considered unnecessary in view of the federal statutes against ' liquor and are a burden to the taxpayers, tax-payers, a petition to the Idaho legislature leg-islature asking repeal of the Idaho liquor law will be circulated thru-out thru-out the stale in the near future it is reported here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Every department of the Utah Poultry Producers' Co-operative association showed an earning last year, according ac-cording to the general manager. It is estimated that earnings will increase in-crease in 1032. BOISE, IDA. During 1031, Id-ahoans Id-ahoans purchased 5320 new cars and 102S new trucks, according to information on file with the state department of law enforcement. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Approval Ap-proval of the erection of 12 monuments monu-ments during the coming summer has been voted by the Ulah Pioneer Pio-neer Trails and Landmarks association. associ-ation. Two landmarks will be added ad-ded in coopera'ion with Idaho, one at the old Fort Hall, and one at Snake river crossing at Idaho Falls. A monument will be placed at Ti)e Springs in northern Arizona Ari-zona and one at Ilenefer, on the old Mormon trail. BOISE, IDA. Luscious Idaho potatoes, filled with Idaho butter, biscuits made from Idaho flour covered with Idaho honey, Idaho apples, is the menu which featured featur-ed the Pasadena, California, Ki-wanis Ki-wanis ehib' anmnl Idaho potato day lun'-licon ibis month. rO!'Ax'i:i.LO, IDA. Pres. Gray of the Union Pacific railway, has itnn'anic..l the cooperation of that road in a campaign to develop rcsour -t-. of Idaho. Markets for grontcr Idaho crops are to ny enlarged. |