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Show I UTAH NEWS- The heavy snows last week damaged fruit trees in many sections by breaking break-ing them down. Four full grown bears and two cubs were captured in a canyon within nine miles of Salt Lake City last week. Ephraim will have three tickets at the municipal election, the third being composed of holters from botli parties. Thomas Allen, a Salt Lade plumber, fell from the loft of a livery bnrn last leek, striking on his head, sustaining injuries from which he died. The Hinckley creamery closed a very successful season last week. They will resume work in the spring on a much larger scale than heretofore. The salt companies are putting in new machinery to increase their output out-put next season. The past season has been the best I'lah has ever known for the salt industry. While playing "crack the whip" with other school boys, LHvood Rocbe, aged 9, of l'rovo, was thrown violently to ground and sustained a very bad frao ture of the collar bone. Light rains in the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains have reduced the tnow materially and perceptibly increased in-creased the volume of water coming from the mountains. William S. Fitch, United States pen sion examiner for Utah and Colorado, is in Salt Lake for tho purpose of looking look-ing into claims of Utah volunteers in the Spanish-American war. The colored people of .Salt Lake believe be-lieve they have been slighted by nol having been given a place on either ticket and threaten to run a ticket exclusively ex-clusively composed of colored people. One hundred and fifty-six citizens of Epanish Fork have commenced segregation segre-gation proceedings in the courts. They claim to live beyond the plattedportion of the city and petition to be detached. It is probable that the surplus left over from the fund raised for the purpose pur-pose of celebrating the return of the Utah volunteers, amounting to S3, 000, will be donated .to the lied Cross society. so-ciety. While taking a vapor bath at hia home, 53(i Fast Fourth South street, Salt Lake, Sunday, David Davidson, au aged man, was seriously burned by the explosion of a vapor lamp which he was using. S. A. King of Provo lias been ap-pointed ap-pointed judge advocate of the Utah National Guard. The selection makes the staff of the guard complete. Sev. eral new compauies are to be formed in the near future. Thomas J. Parker, a prominent sheep man, was killed in a wreck on the Union Pacific near Cheyenne, Wyo., on Monday of last week, while on his way east with a shipment of sheep. His body was brought back to Utah for interment. in-terment. Two Manti sportsmen killed a huge black bear in the canyon not far from town last week, after an exciting chase. The bruin weighed a little over 500 pounds, and his pelt was a beauty and-one and-one of the largest ever .seen in that section. Peter Rigtrup, a well known and popular printer of Spanish Fork, died at the Holy Cross hospital, Salt Lake City, last week. .Mr. Rigtrup had been operated upon for appendicitis and failed to recover from the effects of the operation. Madeline White, aged 3, of Salt Lake, is dead after eleven daj'S intense suffering suffer-ing from burns received while playing with matches. Her mother left her alone for a few moments, and when she returned found the little one enveloped en-veloped in flames. A stray Salt Lake cow Inst week ate up a pair of S3 lace curtains. The owner of the curtains had the cow arrested ar-rested for failing to pay for the meal, ami filed a claim of SS with the pound-keeper, pound-keeper, which the owner of the cow was obliged to pay. Healy Brothers of Alpine had their entire herd of sheep snowbound fer five successive days during the recentsnow storm, and bad to call for help from their townspeople to break a trail for the sheep in order to get them out of the mountains alive. David Graham Barclay returned to Provo last week after an absence of eleven years, during which time he has boon following the life of a sailor, the last two years on the gunboat Wheeling, cruising in the Philippines watching for insurgent supplies. Utah's next fair will have S11.00Q with which to commence business. The balance of $11,000 was arrived at by adding to the legislative appropriation of 510,000 the revenues of the late fair, aboutS0,300, and deducting the expense of conducting the exposition. The fine team of horses owned by Samuel Newhousc, of Salt Lake, which were shipped east a few weeks ago, carried off the blue ribbon prize at the Denver horse show and they have been entered to appear at the New York -hojse show on November J,X |