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Show I News Notes : J From All Parts of UTAH I'ayson, I'ayson has Increased Its tor levy from 1 -l.fi mills In lDJ.'i to 13 mills this year iicordin to u statement state-ment filed with the state l :i rl of 1 1 j al 1 1 1 1 m. Four and five-tenths mlllH Is for contingent expenses 1.5 mills for water, 2 mills for streets and fiidemilkH, C mills for Interest and sinking fund anil 1 mill for lili-rnry. lili-rnry. Ogden, Quick action on tlin part of Deputy Sheriff J. J. Murphy prohsihly eaved the life of Mrs. Floyd Halli-tcnn, Halli-tcnn, who a'tempted Btiicide at tlie Weher county Jail by swallowing el(,'ht hlchlorldo of mercury tablets, which she had concealed in her clotlilnK. Of?den, Three women were painfully pain-fully Injured and eight more badly shaken up when n lumber scaffnldinj; on which they were standing to watch b boat race at the Hermitage grove, In Ogden canyon, collapsed, pitching them Into a muddy culvert ten feet below. I-ogan, Further appreciation of LoKan's noted aviator was shown when Lleutonnnt Kusscll L. Maughan was Initiated as n meiuhcr of the local Elks lodge and was presented with a gold case in which to carry Ills membership card. A large num. lcr of Elks belonging to the Logon lodge, a well as visitois from Provo, Twin Falls, Boise and I'ocatello, Idaho were present. Salt Lake, Salt Lake City was among the taxing units reporting 1024 levies to the state board of equalization. equaliza-tion. In n letter of transmittal from Alvln Keddington, City Auditor the board was officially advised that Palt Lake City's levy for this yea.-' will be 11.3 mills the same as in 1923. 'Salt Lake Utah will collect $1,-TriO.OOO $1,-TriO.OOO during 1924 from gas tax and motor vehicle licenses and fees, dividend divi-dend .$050,000 for the former aDd $500,000 for the latter, nccording to an estimate made by II. E. Crockett, secretary of state. Provo. Utah county will require $876,230 to operate the Nebo, Alpine find Provo elementary grades and high schools during the coming year according to the budgets of the respective res-pective districts. Of this amount $477,057 must be raised by taxation, while $399,233 will be received from other sources. Price. The Price river is so low that primary users are getting only ubout 40 per cent of the amount of water which they would have in normal nor-mal years, accoring to Reid Jarman, assistant to the State engineer's office. of-fice. Ogden. H. H. Holt, cowboy forger, for-ger, who was arrested in Pocatello and later returned to Ogden, after he had assaulted and beaten into unconsciousness uncon-sciousness Deputy Sheriff Clarence E. Porter at the Weber county jail, following which he made his escape, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do bodily harm in a complaint issued by County Attorney David J. Wilson. Ogden. Matt Smith, alleged swindler swin-dler and confidence man, who is wanted her for jumping his bail cf $5000 in the district court about two years ago while facing a charge or having buncoed Matt A. Johnson of Butte, Mont., out of $20,000, is unncr arrest at Montreal, Canada, according to word received by Postmister Ru fus A. Garner from Canadian postal officials. He was arrested there with a iiumber of other alleged swindlers it is said. Ogden. The board of city commissioners com-missioners have appointed William C Howell, brother of former Judge James A. Howell, Ogden attorney, to succeed I. N. Fulton as clerk oi the city court. Mr. Fulton was drowned drown-ed in an automobile accident in Ogden Og-den canyon on July 24. Salt Lake City. The industrial commission has decided that John Marchetti, who was killed in the explosion ex-plosion at the Utah Fuel company's No. 2 mine at Castlegate on March 8, left no dependents. The employer was directed to pay $938.40 into the state treasury for the employees' combined injury and benefit fund. Salt Lake City. The tax levy for state and state schol purposes was fixed by the state board of equalization equali-zation at 7.3 mills, as against 7.4 mills in 1923. The rate includes 2.4 mills for the genertil fund, 4.7 r.-iills for state district schools and .2 of a mill for state high schools. A reduction re-duction of one-tenth of a mill was made in the state district school tax, while the others remain the same as last year. Bgham City. Brigham City will he'd its annual "Peach" day festival this year on September 17. By reason rea-son of an epidemic from impure water in this city last year, the peach festival was held at Lagoon. Through the laying of a steel pipe line to tie source of Brigham City's water supply, sup-ply, this city now has water as pur6 as is to be found anywhere, and thG people here are determined to mak6 this year's celebration surpass that of U previous occasions of the kind |