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Show I IntermountaiiTTiiws -Briefly told for Busy Readers CHAIN STORES FILE Sill FOIU PETITIONS FILED HIGH PRICE FOR STEERS VALUATION K0I'S MORE POTATOES SHIPPED ! SALT LAKE CITY, tT.-Six I Utah towns recently submitted for-I for-I mal requests for public works loans I to R. A. Hart, federal public works engineer for Utah and Nevada. The towns, the character and amounts set forth in their loan applications are as follows: Lcvan, waterworks, replacements and improvements, $34,013.00; Spring City, new water- ' , t'XlO- Bingham iworks svsfem, .yio.-uu, & Canvon, sewer extension and improvements, im-provements, $50,000, and water tunnel, tun-nel, $10,500: Millville. waterworks improvements. replacements, $32 000; Duchesne, new reservoir and waterworks pipe replacements $30,738. SI ; Perry, new reservoir and pip? line replacements, $S,000. BOISE, IDA. Constitutionality of the state chain store tax was upheld up-held bv a decision of District Judge .Charles F. Koelsch, in a suit brought by Safeway Stores, Inc., and J. C. Penney company to escape payment of the tax. The suit alleged the tax was discriminatory and unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, as well as on other grounds. The act provides a tax of $5 to $500 a year on each store, the rate being graduated into the higher levels so that chain stores are taxed most, the maximum falling on chain stores of 20 or more stores. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Four petitions sponsored by the Utah League for Prohibition Repeal, the Crusaders, the Women's Association for Prohibition Repeal, and the Association As-sociation Against the Eighteenth Amendment, containing 2,417 names were filed by Ray Olson at the capi-tol capi-tol with Secretary of State Milton II. Welling. This brings the total on petitions filed with Mr. Welling, endorsing wet candidates for delegates dele-gates to the repeal convention to be held here in December, to a total of over 4,000. BRIGHAM CITY, UT. A car of choice steers was sent to the Ogden Union stock yards recently by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company from its mill in Garland, where feeding experiments ex-periments have been carried on for several months. The price paid was $5.25 per hundred weight. According Accord-ing to information received this was the highest price paid this year on the Ogden market. OGDEN, UT. Weber county commissioners com-missioners have adopted a resolution declaring a quarantine in Ogden Valley for 30 days during which time horses, mules and donkeys must not be taken into the district. The quarantine quar-antine resolution was adopted upon request of residents of Ogden Yal-ley, Yal-ley, in an attempt to prevent the spread of the brain fever epidemic, which has taken a heavy toll among horses in Weber and Davis counties. LAS VEGAS, NEV. A proposal to complete the sewer system by construction con-struction of laterals in the south and west side districts of Las Vegas was presented to the public works administration. The city commission commis-sion recently decided to make application appli-cation for the necessary loan on bonds already authorized, after a mass meeting of citizens whose prop-ery prop-ery was involved urged the action. The project will cost $11,0.00. NEPHI, UT The assessed valuation valu-ation of Juab county dropped from ?S,944,S93 to $7,S41,4S0, while the assessed taxes showed a relative drop from $208,768.05 to $240,041.11, a decrease of $28,753.04, according to the second report filed with the state auditor. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Establishment Estab-lishment of branch offices of the I federal reemployment service in ! three counties of . Utah has been l announced by Thomas R. Faddis, J assistant state director. Ray B. Xoung will be in charge of the Kane j county office at Kanab, James M. Sargent, of the Garfield county office of-fice at Panguitch, and a director probably will be named for the Sanpete San-pete county office at Manti. CALDWELL, IDA. Nearly 50 ministers of Baptist churches in Idaho were present when the Baptist Bap-tist minister's conference was held here. Approximately 200 women attended at-tended the session of the Woman's Eaptist Missionary Society of Idaho. Meetings of both organizations preceded pre-ceded the opening of the twenty-fifth annual state convention. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The present state prison population is 2S0, which is 20 inmates fewer than a year ago, Warden R. E. Davis states. SALT LAKH CITY, UT. Beekeepers Bee-keepers from Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada will meet In Salt Lake October 6. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss dis-cuss the federal agricultural adjustment adjust-ment act. SPRING CITY, UT.-Spring City the largest municipality in Utah without a water supply system has filed formal application with the federal public works advisory board i for a loan of $55,200 to install a cul- j inary waterworks plant. ! ! |