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Show Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers I SMOKING COSTS $10 SPOTTED FEVER FATAL CATTLE LOSS SEVERE RODENT BITES BABE DAIRIES IN DANGER BOISE, IDA. C. D. Owens pleaded plead-ed guilty in the court of Hugh Adair, probate judge for Boise county, coun-ty, to a charge of smoking on the Boise national forest and was fined $10 and costs of court. PRICE, UT. Expenditures totaling total-ing $llfi,n30.C2 have been made from the relief fund created nine years ago to aid dependents of the 172 men killed in the Castlegate mine explosion on March S, 1024 BOISE, IDA. W. H. Austeon, 100-ye.ir-old Owyhee eouuty prospector prospec-tor of Bruneau, died at a Boise hospital hos-pital of spotted fever. The centenarian centen-arian was well known as the oldest . Mason in Idaho. ErilRAIM, UT. Supervisor W. E. Humphries of the Manti national forest, states that an unusually large amount of cattle are dying from larkspur poison, on the south half of the forest this year. MAGNA, UT. Brain fever has struck down 50 horses here, and is spreading rapidly, it is reported. TROVO, UT. The attention of local health officers has been drawn to a case where a four-months-old babe was attacked in its crib by a ferocious rat. The babe, according to the report, suffered severe lacerations lacera-tions about its feet and toes as a result re-sult of the attack. HURRICANE, UT. The annual Hurricane Teach Day celebration has been set for August 31 and-September and-September 1. At this celebration the county 4-II club contest work in demonstrations, judging, health contests con-tests and exhibits will be held. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Twenty Twen-ty dairies supplying milk for the Salt Lake market have been ordered to reduce the bacteria content of ; their product or to cease selling it in the city. I SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The ) Utah state building program, soon to be launched, includes $010,000 for the University of Utah. $210,000 i for the state training school at j American Fork. $H0.OO0 for the sfhte I Industrial school at Ogden. $11.".0(K1 for the School for the deaf and Mind at Ogden: $120,000 for the Utah I state mental hospital at Prove, $2.-I $2.-I COO for the state fair. $i',o.000 for the national guard. $"!I3,000 for the Utah State Agricultural college at 1 Logan, and $20.t'00 for Weber col- lege at Ogden. a total of $1.0--3.0oO. i RENO, NEV. An asserted east-, east-, 'M love triangle climaxed with the : torture murder of Don Ley, n Chinese, whose body, hound with wire, and beaten over the head, was found In his automobile near a race track. i BOISE. IDA. Idaho has applied i for Its full allotment of SlO.OoO in federal relief funds for the present I quarter ending September "0. Park Carver, Idaho director of relief, said and explained that the amount was only one third of that spent during the preceding quarter because of a I now federal regulation. I SALT LAKE CITY. IT. With the payment of $1."0.000 to beet growers by the Utah-Idaho Sugar ! company, Oct. 1.". a total of $2,000.- ' 0(K) will have been paid out to the ( growers of Utah and approximately $.1,000,000 will have been paid out In the Utah-Idaho company territory. terri-tory. This contemplated payment will be made under the terms of what Is known as a participating ' contract. LOGAN", UT. 1000 applications for wheat allotment contracts under the government bounty plan of production pro-duction control have been mailed to Cache county fanners. BOISE, IDA.-Idaho has a Inspect Ins-pect of leading the nation In yield per acre of onions this year, a re-port re-port of J. II. .lacobson. federal crop statistician reveals. The crop for I the state was estimated at G.IS.ooO , bushels compared w ith 720.000 bushels bush-els last year, the reduction being attributed at-tributed to a reduction from l.i'.OO to l.foo ncres planted. IIEHER, UT. Wasatch county lias Imposed a quarantine upon horses in an effort to save animals In the county from nn outbreak of encephalomyelites, such as has oc-curcd oc-curcd In other -parls of the state. The quarantine was authorized by the board of county commissioners. BAUER, UT. Local mines have re-opened giving employment to. a large number of men. BOISE, IDA. In spile of hot weather, beans, tipples and sugar beets promise n bigger yield this year Ihan last, Julius II. .lacobson, federal crop slnlMieian, estimated, but other crops appear likely to he less. OGDEN, UT. Members of the executive board of tin1 Utah Slate Canning Crops association, at ft meeting In the Hotel Ben Lomond, voted to make an appeal to canners of Utah for nn Increase In the price of ail canned vegetables of 2." per cent liver t lie cent racl pi-ice llegolilll- e.l In March, '.:::;. KK'lll'IEI.D, IT. The lax levies have been set to apply In Sevier county for the year I'.r.It, which raises the coiinly levy three mills nhove last year. |