The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-03-03
UTAH STATE NEWS

pack Of fruits ana vegetables eAceeueV
100000 cases In 1920.
1t is announced that the cost Of
pupil in conducting the schools OF
Grand county averages S75.5I.
Utah ranks fourth in the states In
the production Of canned peas, and
fifth In tomatoes, It is claimed.
The Ulntah school district is to
have the University Of Utah extern
sion school again this year, to open
about August l.
Preparations are being made for the
convention to be held at Salt Lake
City, June 20, OF the American Insti-
tute Of Electrical Engineers.
Extensive improvements in the Og-
den telephone system, which win rep
resent an expenditure of about $780,
600, are planned In the near future.
The Klwanis club bf Logan was or
ganlzed last week, the club having the
necessary fifty members for the char
ter with large number of prospective
members.
japanese farms In Utah are valued
at $1,950OO0, and consist of S34S
acres In 1873 farms, according to sta
tistics prepared by the agricultural
statlstlclan.
Fred Blackburn Robson, II years Of
age, Of Salt Lake, was instantly killed
In an automobile accident near Pleas
ant Grove, his car crashing into a tele-
graph post.
As result of volunteer work, Delta
has nearly two miles of well surfaced
streets. II Is estimated that the work
done would have cost at least $1,000
had 1t been done by contract.
Judge Richie, In the Third district
court at Salt Lake City, has issued a
temporary injunction restraining Utah
carriers from increasing interstate
rates on coal, ore or passengers.
The main streets of Delta were i'm
proved by volunteer workers last
week, between 80 and 100 teams being
used In hauling gravel. All OF the
work was, without expense to the
town.
Range trouble which has been brew
ing between transient sheep and cattle
men eliminated In clash near Moab
last week. when Charles Glass, negro
cowpuncher, shot and killed II French
sheepherder.
Michael j. Nelligan, IS years of age,
roadmaster of the Bamberger Electric
railroad, who was injured In alight-
ing from one Of the trains of the com
pany near Beck's Hot Springs, died at
Salt Lake hospital.
Dependency overeslckness and IN
ability to obtain work Is believed to
have caused Mike Rega, 80 years OF
age, to kill himself by shooting ut his
home In Salt Lake City. He leaves a
wife and seven children.
Chesley Gunderson, Of Price, has
been advised that he has been Sc
lected winner in the competition for
the appointment to West Point Young
GundersOn was one Of eleven In the
examination In Salt Lake.
A voluntary cVt In wages of struc.
tural iron workers, stationary engl.
neers and carpenters from 80 10 IS a
day, effective March /, has been de-
termined upon by the Salt Lake union
organizations Of those lines.
Kidnapped from her home in Salt
Lake last June, Viola Wells, aged 70,
has been located In Arizona. She was
taken to Arizona by Jose Monterao, a
Mexican, who is under arrest, and will
be brought back to Utah for trial.
Fred G. Brown, alias james Berg
sted, "a years Of age, was arrested at
Las Vegas, New. on the charge of
robbing the Grantsvile Deseret bank.
February p OF war savings stamps
and Liberty bonds amounting TO $4l35.
Colin McMurphy, who has con.
tract for building the new auto road
through the Tintic Valley, much OF
which has already been finished, ex-
poets to resume work within the next
few weeks, or just as soon as the
weather will permit.
The county commissioners of Grand
county have been notified by the state
board of equalization to insist that all
horses and cattle In the county be
assessed this year. It being claimed
that only 40 per cent Of such animals
were assessed last year.
Officials of the Utah State Farm bu.
reau and the Utah-Idaho Sugar com.
pany have concluded an agreement ON
the price basis of the 1927 sugar beet
contracts, At the present price of
sugar the farmer should receive 5000
per ton for beets, as compared with
the Si2 minimum last year, 1t was an.
nounced.
Sustaining the public utilities com.
mission In It's order abrogatlng prefer
entail rates granted by the Utah Power
X Light company In special contracts
with about fifty Of Its largest power |
customers the supreme court has DO. !
MED the appeal OF the United States
company to have the com.
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