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Show jf" ' ij Pithy News Notes I From All PartM of I UTAH j-J Salt Lake. Contract has been lei for over 5O00 tons of oal for wintet use of state institutions. Salt Lake. University of Utah freshman class is expected to reach 1400 thin year. Salt Lake. Celery growers of Utah are to form a state organization. Utah will produce 150 car loads of celery this year. Murray. Mrs. Louise Zudnich, 29, mother of 10 children, tlie oldest of which is 31 years of age, was arrested by federal prohibition agents on a charge of having violated the Volstead Vol-stead act. 1 Salt Lake. Contract for the construction con-struction of the Levan-Chicken Creek road was awarded by the state road commission to the Paxton-Dorrity & Black company the low bidders in the recent competitive bids received by the state road commission. Salt Lake. Slight improvement in the potato markets bqve been noted during the last few days, and shipping ship-ping activities from Utah are being resumed, it was announced this morning morn-ing by E. E. Conklin, federal inspector in charge of the joint federal and state shipping point inspection service. Salt Lake. Twelve loans aggregating aggregat-ing $22,000 have been approved by John T. Oldroyd, state hind commissioner. commis-sioner. The loans are made from state school land funds to agricultural interests in various sections of the state, Trovo. Veterans of the Black Hawk Indian war and widows of veterans vet-erans whose pension claims have been rejected on account of insufficient proof under the pension act of 1917 may receive pensions under the recent Smoot amendment to that act provided pro-vided rejected claims now on file or new claims conform to the new regulations. regula-tions. Salt Lake If consistent work and county support will win, Millard county coun-ty will this year take first prize in the .second class county contest at the Utah state fair, declares A. M. McOmie, county agent, who is in Salt Lake for the purpose of making arrangements ar-rangements for the decoration of the Millard county booth. Provo In an opinion given to Milan H. Straw, county attorney of Utah county, Attorney General Harvey H. Cluff holds that the board of county commissioners should sit as a board of equalization of drainage district taxes each year, using the equalized benefit assessments as a basis of the equalization. The statute does not contemplate an annual assessment of benefits by the board of supervisors of a drainage district, it is held. Salt Lake. Funds to be provided by direct taxation in Grand and Morgan counties for public purposes this year will be greater than those provided under the levies in 1921, according to the reports submitted by the county coun-ty auditors to State Auditor Mark Tuttle. In Morgan county this year $135,543.58 will be raised as compared compar-ed with $130,103.S8 last year while in Grand the tax levies contemplate raising rais-ing $109,711.44 as compared with $104,672.64 in 1921. Salt Lake. Investigation into the operations of George H. Homer, who was taken into custody by Detectives Jack Brown and Tom Golightly, on the charge of having secured several hundred dollars through selling a liquid which he represened to be gin, will in all probability lead to his be ing charged with using the mails to defraud, department of justice agents hadling the case, asserted. The gin was said to be a fair grade of water. Fillmore. The value of the seed crop of Millard county last year was put at $1,000,000, and this year's yield; it is estimated, will be worth $2,000,-000. $2,000,-000. Salt Lake. The state road commission commis-sion has signed the revised project agreement covering the construction of the Helper bridge on the Priee-Castle-gate road. The agreement will now be submitted to the federal government govern-ment for its approval. Black Rock. The Scalane, deserl containing 1000 square miles may so-n be made productive. It is believed that a great underground liver flows under the deseri and experiments have found water in many places that can be put on the Isnd by pumping trr m t depth of only eight feet. |