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Show HEWS STORY OF MI WEEK A Complete Histay of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World. try-' INTERMOUNTAIN ' According to word received from Ma'riette lake, the snow lmd ranched A depth of 10S inches on the level 'there. This is the greatest depth Reached since the big winter of 1913. ithe wind has drifted and packed the Snow to a depth of 30 or 40 feet in ifiany of the canyons, and the snow Completely covered some of the dwellings dwel-lings and barns. A little New York girl who desired Information about wool growing requested re-quested it by letter from the Billings, 1 Wont., school authorities. The request jjtras turned over to James E. Eea, a Sheepman, who wrote the New York Ifcirl a letter of many pages, describing describ-ing wool growing completely in terms understandable by a child. Mr. Rea received a letter from the girl's father fath-er a short time ago, thanking him, stating that the information had had wide circulation even among grownups, grown-ups, and adding that New Yorkers found it difficult to understand the (painstaking efforts of a strange adult to supply a schoolchlld with Information. Informa-tion. ' Walter Mason, of Weiser, Idaho, In competition with high school stu-. stu-. Jents from every state in the Cnior, took first place in a contest conducted by the American Jersey Cattle club, on an essay on "Why the Jerseys 'Are the Best Breed for the State in Which I Live Idaho." Writer Is 17 years of age and is a student at the Intermountaln institute. Following the recent big storm, n nowslide occurred a short distance below Philip's Station, near Lake Ta-hoe, Ta-hoe, Nevada, completly demolishing a summer home there, and leaving a bank of snow across the road forty feet deep and twenty-five feet wide. One-falf million pounds of wool .of the 1920 and 1921 clip , sold in Em-mett, Em-mett, Idaho, at 27I4 to SO cents a pound. Part of the wool was In storage stor-age in Portland, selling at 27 cents, part In storage in Boston sold for 31 cents, with tags and black wool out. It is said that thirty moonshiners throughout Nevada have combined their Illicit distilling activities with the selling sell-ing of stolen beef, reducing the overhead over-head upon the liquor manufacturing and perhaps making a neat profit on the "side line." Many stills are located in the mountain ranges throughout the state. GENERAL An American has been awarded (lie 10 guinea prize offered by the Tall Hail Gazette for the best suggestions on how to make London "the magnet of the world," Miss Alice Young of MIshawaka, Ind., the winner, based her suggestions on what is done In America Amer-ica to make towns attractive. When discussion of a definite federal highway program for Utah for 1921; came up before the stnte road commission commis-sion the commission Ceclded that one of the most important features of the frntlre state road program Is that of maintenance. A careful consideration will be given to this matter before (reconstruction (re-construction program for the present year is mapped out. In filing their Income tax returns for the year 1921, taxpayers must remember remem-ber that taxable IncAne Is not necessarily neces-sarily cnh. Where services are ptild for something other than money, the fair market value of the tiling tnkon in payment Is the amount to be Included In-cluded in Income. For example, the value of merchandise received by a clerk of a grocery More ns part payment pay-ment for his services must lie reported fis Income. Ounpensa f Ion paid un employee em-ployee of a corporation In slmrou of Htock Is to bo Inn led as ff the corporation corpora-tion Bold the slock at IU miirket value and paid the employee In cash. Promissory Prom-issory notes rwelved In payments for services and not merely ni security for such pnymcnl constl'iite Income to the amount of their fair market value. Living quarter and iiiouIh furnished ts compensation for KervireH are to be reported as Income. A hotf-1 clerk given H room and Ids meals as part payment for his nervlros Is required to report ns income (lie umount he would fifn e lo pay for board ami lodging el'.ewliere. To avoid penalty returns must be Misl on tr before midnight tanrrh I IV WASHINGTON Prime Minister Llyod George announced an-nounced in the house of commons that the BrltlBh protectorate over Egypt has been terminated and that Egypt was free to work otut such national institutions institu-tions as might be suited to the aspirations aspira-tions of her people. Oral arguments In the two cases brought by Alexander Howat and other labor leaders against the state of Kansas Kan-sas to. test the validity of the state statute creating the court of Industrial relations, were concluded n trio supreme su-preme court. Jloorfield Storey, as counsel for Kansas, insisted that Hie state had the same right to protect itself it-self against strikes as U had against Invasion by a hostile army: Declaring the people should havs recourse to the courts to settle their disputes, he insisted in-sisted that labor unions had no rights by strikes or otherwise greater than those of other citizens. A ship subsidy estimated at approximately approxi-mately $32,000,000 annually, to be provided pro-vided for principally by the divergon of ten per cent of the nation's customs receipts, would be paid to the oiwners of American ships engaged In foreign trade under a bill introduced in the senate and house. The measure incorporates in-corporates a subsidy plan proposed by the shipping board and endorsed by President Harding In a message road td a point session. Taking its first ratification roll call on the series of international covenants negotiated during the arms conference, the senate ratified without reservation reserva-tion or amendments the treaty with Japan confirming American cable and radio rights in the island of Yap a few days ago. Elminatlon of the cash feature of the soldier bonus bill, but under a plan which would enable former service men to obtain funds from banks an adjusted ad-justed s.t vice certificates immediately after they were issued, i3 under consideration con-sideration by majority members of ths house ways and menus committee as a possible solution of the bonus problem. Charles W. Morse, New York shipbuilder, ship-builder, his three sons, Erwin, Benjamin Benja-min and Harry Morse, and eight otheri alleged to have been associated with him in connection with wartime shipping ship-ping contracts, were Indicted by the federal grand Jury on charges of "conspiracy "con-spiracy to defraud" the United States and the emergency fleet corporation. The Pan-American conference of women, wo-men, to be held In Baltimore, Md., April Ap-ril 20 toi 29, in connection with tho third annual convention of the National Nation-al League of Women voters, was Indorsed In-dorsed by Secretary Hoover. FOREIGN The probable early resignation of Premier Lloyd George Is foreshadowed by the Inily Telegraph, which suys that Mr. Lloyd George is much dissatisfied dissat-isfied with the present positlun nml that he feels he is not receiving the loyal support to which he Is entitled as head of the government and that his Influence in the house of commons Is seriously weakened. The Gentian government Informed the reparations commission In Paris that the fifth- ten-day payment of 81,000,000 gold marks was made In accordance with the temporary schedule sche-dule rocently adopted by the commission. commis-sion. Princess Mary, the only daughter of King George of England wa united In marriage to Viscount Iiscelles, n few days ago. It was a great national event which will live long In the memories mem-ories of the vust throngs whone unre-utrnlned unre-utrnlned plaudits greeted England's princess as she passed through fesllve streets to the altar In stalely old Westminister West-minister abbey to become the bible of an English commoner, A score of persons were Injured, one of them mortally, .when pennants of tho ancient village of ( 'ampagniino, Italy Just outside of Koine, Infuriated against the aulhorllles for failure to tmnsfer certain hinds to them, made an attack on the public buildings. Carabineers Car-abineers wore hurried to (ho scenn and a murder of shots were fired In an attempt at-tempt to restore order. The temperance societies of Knu'bind ore gathering their forceH for a cain-Irf'ign cain-Irf'ign against excessive drinking among factory glrlH. According to Miss Newton, New-ton, the organising secretary of tin-P.ritlHh tin-P.ritlHh Women's Temperance association, associa-tion, wine parties among these young girls are a regulnr feature of their lives, ami I lie sltuntlon Is becoming the despair of 8''lal workers and employers employ-ers alike. As a result of Arthur Crlffllh'B visit In Iuidon, Winston Churchill will niovo In the bouse an amendment to lbs Irish bill Hint the oleetlou be held Instead In-stead of "ns soon as may bo" t' "not more than three months nfter the jiiis nu of il.U t .ill." |