Show intermountain intel mountain news briefly told for busy readers CITY W briety UTY PLAN FREE INSECT PESTS DOG CUSE OF SUIT GRAIN ACRES ST GEORGE UT the leluti fi catlon of the and public grounds of gt st george la Is underway in earnest with a concerted move ment on foot to uproot the old cot conwood trees and replace them with trees recommended by the city shade tree commission UT disturbed by the reported presence of large num bers of grasshopper eggs in the fields and along ditch banks of of the irrigation company are taking the leid in starting a community drive against the pests the hoppers came out in greater numbers last spring than usual in the brush lands on the west side of the valley OGDEN UT grain acreage in northern utah and southern idaho will be approximately ten per cent higher this year than last accord ing to the manager of the inter mountain district for the farmers rational national grain corporation MURRAY UT effle hawkins has filed suit against samuel goff who runs the dog pound in murray tor for 1500 1 as a result of having been bitten by a roving dog last december the complaint asks for actual damages and 1000 punitive damages on the ground that the city and its dog catcher were negligent in permitting a dog she alleged was a vicious animal to roam the streets without a muzzle and permitting the canine to bite her SALT LIRE 1 CITY UT livestock in ten western states where drouth and winter storms have robbed them of their feed will be kept hept alive until spring by free gov wheat A list of distressed states was given the red cross by the agriculture department it in eluded north and south dakota montana iowa minnesota ie ne braska wyoming idaho utah and new mexico farmers in those dis tricas hard hit by crop fal failures lures and low prices have found it dif ficula to tide their stock stoel over the winter the wheat taken talen from the 40 bushels donated from farm hoard board stores by congress will be shipped as soon as farmers have made known their needs and ar range ments have been made with railroads for transportation SALT CITY UT there was a decrease of in 1 the amount of wages paid by corn coin banies reporting to the industrial commission in the fiscal year 1931 as compared with tl e amount paid in the fiscal year 1930 it Is an bounced by the chairman of the in du dustral commission IDA it Is reported that the tonnage of the 1932 sugar beet crop is expected to approach that of last year and that hopes akrep held that the prevailing low prices for refined sugar will not continue BOISE I 1 IDA D A idaho produce shipments were 2733 carloads dur ing february of this year a cone cons demable reduction below february of a year ago a report 0 of ri rill roa roads s to the public utilities commission discloses total utah and idaho shipments for the month were which compared with for 1941 1931 a reduction of 1594 shipments tor for the two months this year were and were carloads in the same period of 1031 A large part of the reduction Is in the movement of the potato crop NAMPA IDA the 1932 potato crop area in this district Is estimate ed by potato dealers at acres or the same as that of last year it Is reported that the area of the crop in the united states will be more thin 30 per cent less than that of I 1 last ast year CALDWELL baldiv ELL IDA J middle MI addle brook nampa citizen commenced serving out a sentence of 15 days imprisonment in the canyon county jail here for spanking his wife GUNNISON UT the gunnison Gunn lson sugar company will be the only su gar manufacturer in utah to pay beet farmers a guaranteed minim am um in 1932 it was decided at a meeting held by company officials with directors of the gunnison Gunn lson beet growers association providing the farmers grow acres or more BOISE IDA the bureau of highways have advertised for bids on grading and surfacing two miles of the north and south highway north from in idaho aoun coun ty bids will be opened soon BURLLY IDA indications are that all surplus hay on ahe mini doka project will be disposed of this winter baled hay Is now being shipped to utah wyoming and nevada BLACKFOOT IDA stockmen Sto elmen of southeastern idaho have fixed 40 per month and board as the wage to be paid this season beason A similar wage was decided on at the idaho wool growers conven tion in pocatello adi ID die to un im usual moisture conditions through out southern idaho at present it is likely that dry farm Ns heat acre age will be increased perhaps 25 per cent this year in the dryland dry land sections of the upper snake river riter valley |