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Show Intermoontain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers WEEDS ON INCREASE. HIGH TEST CATTLE. DOG DERBY CALL OIT. Al'TO CREMATES DRIVER. 7 FER CENT RATE ASKED. ASHTON, IDA. First call to the annual Ashton American dog derby February 22, has been sounded by the association. No charges will be made for sjiectators this season. Several leading mushers have already al-ready announced their intention of entering the 1033. races. MALAD, IDA. The noxious weed problem on the irrigated farms of Oneida county is becoming more serious each year. PItOYO, CT. Only 84, or .5 per cent, of the 15,375 cattle tested for tuberculosis in 1932, were reactors, according to a chart in the annual report of Utah County Agents Lyman Ly-man II. Rich and Anson B. Call, Jr. TONOPAII, NEV. Dr. P. D. Mc-Leod, Mc-Leod, CO, Nye county health officer, was burned to death when his automobile auto-mobile turned over and burst into flames thirty-six miles east of here. BOISE, IDA. The Arrowrock Irrigator's Ir-rigator's association has gone on record re-cord through resolutions adopted at a recent meeting in favor of assessing assess-ing and taxing mortgages, notes, and cash in banks and making 7 per cent the maximum rate of interest in the state. WEISER, IDA. State highway work has been suspended in the Weiser country, with the exception of keeping the highways free of Snow, until the close of winter. DRAPER, UT. Six-tenths of a mile of snow fence is now completed complet-ed along the highway between State street and Draper. The fence protects pro-tects the worst points along this section of road from the heavy drifting of snow, which caused extensive ex-tensive snow scraping during the recent windy weather. LOGAN, TIT. Births nearly doubled deaths during 1932 in Logan City, City Physician E. L. Hanson reports. During the year 859 births were recorded, as against 182 deaths, the records show. BOISE, IDA. Hunting ducks by the noise of an airplane has become a new sport around Boise strictly Illegal. Reports to local game authorities au-thorities indicated hunters were hiding hid-ing the sound of their shooting under un-der the roar of airplane motors as they roared along the mail route, which parallels the Boise river. BEAVER, UT Beaver valley farmers are becoming alarmed over the lack of rain and snow on the mountains and valley. All indications indica-tions point to a drought which will exceed that of 1931. PROVO, UT. In spite of the ad-Terse ad-Terse economic conditions which obtained in 1932, there was less crime in Provo, judging from the annual police report. PROYO, UT. Accidental deaths In Utah county numbered only 7 during 1932 as compared with 20 In 1931, a reduction of more than 400 per cent, according to the annual an-nual report of Sheriff E. G. Durnell. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. Every rural school in Fremont county is assured of at least a seven-month school term, according to E. Glen Cameron, county superintendent, as teachers of the various districts have agreed to take registered warrants war-rants and hold them until they can be cashed. BOISE, IDA. Northern Idaho had more than average snow fall during the four month ending Dec. 81, but southern Idaho fell short, a summary of snow fall compiled by II. G. Carter, Boise weather bureau meteorologist, stated. OGDEN, UT. Work has begun on the new $300,000.00 forestry building here. PRESTON, IDA. Further experimenting ex-perimenting with phosphate as a sugar beet fertilizer will be conducted conduct-ed during the coming spring by County Agent Chase Kearl. Success of last year's experiments on the Urven Larsen farm, on which 100 pounds of phosphate was used on 20 acres increasing tlie crop 10 tons per acre, accelerated further tests. BEAVER, UT. According to a report from Forest Ranger H. M. Christenseu there have been seventeen seven-teen mountain lions killed in the Beaver mountains during the past year, 10S coyotes and 8 bobcats have been reported killed which is not the total amount killed. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Immediate sale of 1,405,953 pounds of beans stored in the Jerome B. Rice Seed company warehouse since 1931, was permitted by five southern Idaho bean growers' agreements in the district court. The beans were stored stor-ed in the company warehouse when It went into receivership. PROVO, UT. Covering in detail the work of the Utah State Hospital for the last biennium, a report of the state board of insanity has been Issued. The report shows nn enrollment enroll-ment on July 1, 1P32 of 938 patients, as compared with 919 two years before. During the biennium, 001 patients were cnmmitlrd and 476 discharged and 100 died. The number num-ber of patients to each officer and emplove i shown to he 0.7 and the discharge percentage .25 of one per cent |