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Show j Pithy News Notes From All Parts of I UTAH Salt Lake. A complete settlement of wage differences of the Utah Light and Traction Company was effected early Saturday morning. At a mass meeting of street car employees held in the Labor temple, a compromise wage scale proposed by the officials of the company was adopted by a vote of about 90 per cent of all concerned. This means a definite settlement that is declared by officials and employees to be satisfactory. Salt Lake. True revenue receipts to the state treasury during April were yG75,3f)C.i)0 according to cne monthly report of W. D. Sutton, treasurer. treas-urer. Of this the major portion was in fees for the registration of motor vehicles, totaling $3S5,31T. State and state school taxes yielded only ij,000 approximately, during the month, while the counties contributed another $45,000 in the form of state road taxes tax-es and appropriations for state road taxvs. Fees and miscellaneous receipts re-ceipts totaled .$93,000, and interest on land fund investments $47,000. Inheritance Inher-itance tax collections were $11,000. Moab The people of Blanding have to date expended $4,000 on the highway high-way to the natural bridges and with nn additional expenditure of $1,000 six miles of the automobile road will be completed. After July 1 Utah will be entitled to $1,246,883 in federal funds for' state roads, according to the advices re ceived by B. J. Finch, district engineer of the bureau of public roads. Salt Lake. In front of the military detachment at Ft. Douglas drawn up in battalion line, Col. F. V. Bugbee, commanding officer, presented the Italian C'roce di Guerra to Thom.is C. Neibaur of Logan Saturday afternoon. after-noon. The regular prescribed formal military ceremony, one of the most im- , pressive in the army drill book, was carried out in full. Mr. Neibaur, in a private uniform bearing decorations that any general would be proud to wear, stood with the commanding officer offi-cer and his staff while the battalion marched in review. The Logan boy wore the highest honor of his own government, gov-ernment, the congressional medal of iionor, as well as the Frencn Croix de Guerre, . the French Legion of Honor medal and several others. In the official offi-cial list of 100 American heroes of the world war his name is second on the honor roll. He served as a private in the lG7th Infantry, 42nd, "Rainbow ' division, and gained the gratitude of the United States and its allies for gallantry in the bitter fighting of the Argonne forest. Eureka. Shearing of sheep started at Jericho corrals this week, and it is understood that about 50,000 head wil be handled at this one point. A largo number of growers annually drive their sheep to Jericho for shearing shear-ing nnrf the wool is assembled and sold under the name of the Jericho clip. Logan. "Plant Sugar Beets" is the slogan the Cache County Farm Bureau Bur-eau adopted at a meeting called to discuss the beet situation. Trovo. A permanent organization consist'ng of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary and the Kiwanis club, with the three presidents acting as a steering committee, com-mittee, has been formed- The purpose of the new organization is to unify all civic bodies, to act as a clearing house for ideas originating in these three clubs, and to secure as far as pesible the economic and civic ad. vancement of Trovo. American Fork. After discussing with the Farm Bureau committee the budget for the coming year, a reduction reduc-tion from $178,000 to $145,000 was made by the Alpine district school board. A 9 per cent blanket cut in the wages of teachers and a 10 per cent reduction in the number of teachers teach-ers wil be made. Salt Lake City. The State Life Insurance, In-surance, company of Des Moines has been granted permission to operate in Utah. The company has a capital o .I'O 4,-105 and a surplus of $400,000. Monroe. Forty men and teams and 20 good citizens, with seed and farm implements, went to the Martin Sim-monson Sim-monson farm, prepared the ground ind phmted 40 acres, to grain and other staples. Mr. Simmonson imd two 3mall daughters died of injuries received re-ceived Friday in a gasoline explosion in a brooder bouse. Ri chf i el d K es al u tions protesting ,' gainst reduction in salaries for next .ear were adopted ny tne executive ommittoo of the Sevier County Teach-'1-3' associati n at a called meeting, he resoluthn declared salary cuts it this time would lower the standard J teachers in lh" district |