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Show THE BEE HIVE STATE Suit has been filed at Ogden by Mrs. Florence Boulware against Gustave A. Muller, in which the plaintiff asks damages of $10,000. She bases the suit on assertions that Muller destroyed de-stroyed her peace of mind and otherwise other-wise caused her much embarrassment by writing love letters to her, in spite of her insistence that his attentions were not desired. War between sheepmen and the state is imminent at West Water, where flockmasters have defied the quarantine proclamation of Governor Bamberger, it is said, and driven several sev-eral hands of sheep fom Colorado into Utah without having had the animals dipped. The Christinas seal sale organization in Utah is larger this- year than for any of the previous campaigns. More than 600 persons are taking an active part as members of central, county and local committees. Every county in the state has been thoroughly organized. The biennial report of the state board of land commissioners indicates that more than $800,000 has been col-' leered during the past two years in interest in-terest on state land grant funds, which is a larger amount than in the preceding preced-ing biennium by more than $100,000. The movement for the reclamation of several millions of acres of lands In Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico Mex-ico and California by utilization of the waters of the Colorado river is endorsed en-dorsed in a resolutic "11 adopted by the Utah State Realty association. While the, Denver & Rio Grande on November 1 had but SS.l per cent of Its total equipment on its own rails, this has been improved since so that today it has, 100 per cent of the equipment equip-ment in commission on its own rails, It is claimed. At three convention held In Salt Lake, December 7, several hundred stockmen of Utah and neighboring western range states discussed the problems, financial and governmental, now facing the men engaged in the Industry. Joseph Wilkens. 50 years of age, was rendered unconscious for six hours and suffered a deep laceration of the scalp when a buggy In which he was riding was struck by an automobile on the road near Spanish Fork. Seven million dollars will have been paid out for sugar beets since October of this year to farmers of Utah and Idaho by the Amalgamated Sugar, company, when it makes its final payment pay-ment on December 15. An expenditure of $100,000 In surveying sur-veying public lands in Utah during the next fiscal year is recommended by the commissioner of the general land office, in his annual report to the secretary sec-retary of interior. Six months in jail and $1000 fine for having a still in his home was the punishment meted out to John O'Green of Mohrland, near Price, by Judge Till-mhn Till-mhn D. Johnson, of the United States district court. The prospect of attaining wealth through the discovery of oil wells in Utah has led to the filing of between 800 and 900 applications for prospecting prospect-ing permits under the mineral land leasing law. Grand county Is the only one In the state that did not hold its own In the decade 1010-1920. The value of the land and buildings in the county decreased de-creased in amount $430 in the ten-year ten-year period. Wireless telephone service between the f vest service building in Ogden and the aerial mall station grounds In Sail Lake probably will he established immediately after the first of the yenr. Lack of moisture and cold weather are making conditions bad in southern south-ern Utah, especially In the vicinity of Modena, according to the weekly re-, port of the weather bureau. Only one of the seventeen dairies conducting business In Salt Lake during dur-ing November, 1920, bad products which fell below the required 3.2 per cent standard for fats. Attention is called, In the biennial report of the state livestock board, to the menace of sheep scabies In Utah, from the presence of the disease In Idaho and Colorado. No streets will be graded In Ogden this winter, according to the action of the city commissioners In ordering the filing of a number of petitions for grading. To care for the schools of Utah In the year llll'.M'.l'JO the receipts aggregated aggre-gated .S!),8NI..'il'i3 compared with receipts re-ceipts of $(i,.-il 1,011 last year. The explosion of about ten gallons of gasoline wrecked the George W. Nelson glove cleaning establishment at Salt Lake. Farmers of northern P.oxelder county are juMliint over the prosperity attendant at-tendant to line weather and the large beet harvest. Utah has had but one Carey act project, the Delta Land & Water com- j puny, covering 25,814 acres. |