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Show UTAH AIMS Farmers in the Sugarville community commun-ity are having much trouble with wild horses, which have appeared in large numbers and are doing much damage to the crops. The animals visit the fields at night, and (be farmers, who have been trying to kill them, are meeting with difficulty in locating them during the daytime in shooting range. Nathaniel Flinders, aged II, was strangled to death in bis home at Og-den Og-den while playing with some boy friends. The boys tied Flinders to the post of his own bed wilh a leather belt which was placed around his neck. IHiring a 'few minutes the. boys were out of the house the boy attempted to move and he fell and choked to death In place of an alleged road up Daniels Dan-iels canyon that formerly crossed the canyon creek thirty-six times, and which was the bugbear of all whose business compelled 'them Ho travel that way. the state and federal governments gov-ernments are now completing a road that crosses the creek not at all. The highway is nearly finished. In compiling reports from the various vari-ous school districts tif the state, showing show-ing the summer activities under the twelve-month plan now in operation in Utah, Francis W. Kirkhtim, slate director of vocational education, found that twenty-seven districts this year have employed some instructors for the twelve "months. This year the assessed valuation of the state is about $71. ",.000.000, on which a tax of 2.4 mills is levied for state school purposes, which will produce pro-duce a revenue, rougilily, of $1 .710,000. To this will be added the revenue from the state school land grant, which runs in the neighborhood of $300,000. It has been learned that James S. Hickman, formerly of Eureka, who served a term in the Utah state prison for killing jjavid Hutchinson, also of Eureka, in 1912, is charged with the murder of his wife in Oklahoma. Hickman killed Hutchins with a knife during a quarrel. Potato day was observed at the Timponogos school, Trovo, one day last week, and each pupil contributed one or more choice potatoes for the occasion. When they were measured it was found that more than eight bushels had been contributed. Zion National park will close Octo-oer Octo-oer 15 after what those interested declare de-clare to be a very successful sieasou. During the fall and winter, roads leading lead-ing to the park will be improved and placed in good condition be.'ore the season opens next year. 'The school population of the state of Utah for 1920-21 is, officially, 130.39S. - The total school population of the state last year was 12S,S4G. The largest increase in any district was in the Salt Lake City schools, being be-ing 9G0. ' Preliminary plans for the creation of twelve irrigation districts have been worked out. These twelve projects include in-clude eight counties, as follows : Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Morgan, Summit, Wasatch, Utah and Tooele. The fourth synod of the Pacific province of the Protestant Episcopal church will be held at Salt Lake City next year, it was voted at the closing business session of the synod at Seattle. Se-attle. Eddy Martin, convicted of grand larceny, and E. J. Markham, convicted of robbery, . tire the only persons appealing ap-pealing for pardon to the state board of pardons at the October meeting. - Six carloads of Indian ponies, 202 in all, passed through Ogden last week en route from Ross Fork, Ida., to Pe-taluma, Pe-taluma, Calif., where they will be used as feed for chickens. The Layton municipal authorities are graveling some of the principal streets of the town. Contracts will soon be awarded for a half-mile of concrete sidewalks. The secretary of state has collected in the 'last quarter !?24,924.23 in motor mo-tor vehicle license taxes, bringing rhe total for the present year up to $302,-919.49. $302,-919.49. Decision has been made by the public pub-lic utilities commission of Utah permitting per-mitting the city of Nephi to increase its rates on electric light and power. A two-day community service celebration cele-bration was held in Ogden last Friday Fri-day and Saturday, concluding with community singing in Lester park. The University of Utah has completed complet-ed its plans for the opening of the course in life insurance fundamentals, through its extension division. Utah national guardsmen will receive re-ceive a stihslant ial increase in pay if plans formulated are adopted by the next stale legislature. Receipts lo the state treasury during dur-ing September were !?4."i7.09'i .(l."i, according ac-cording to the monthly statement of the (Stale treasurer. The Ulah County Medical society has indorsed a free clinic for Provo, and Ihe plan to establish it in t he 'new high school building is meeting with general favor wilh the physicians of the city and county, as well as with school teachers and parents. ! Filing of Ihe Farmer-Labor and the Socialist party slate tickets with the secretary of slate revealed Ihe fact that the two tickets have the same candidate, .1. Alex llevan of Tooele, , for Uniled Stales senator, and John : O. Wallers for representative from the First district. |