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Show DTAII NEWS. ?- Th Omshn Exposition medals won by Salt Lako exhibitors wers distributed distri-buted last neck. The newsboys of Salt Lako City Intend In-tend to start a night school In their . now home, recently established. The lco harvest on Utah lake Is In full blast. Tho product this year Is beautifully clear and about twenty Inches thick. The new Latter-day Saint meeting houso at Lalo, Hawaiian Islands, Is to bo dedicated during the visit thcro of President Joseph F. Smith. .ho merchants of Suit Lake City wcro engaged In closing up their books for the last your during tho past week, mid report a most excellent showing. Stato Treasurer Chlpman's report for December shows a balnnco on hand on December 31 of 8195,015.59. Tho receipts for tho month were 8134,050.84, while the expenditures reached a totul of 3317,100.27. Joseph M. Stoutt, cx-prcsldentof the Utah National bunk, appeared beforo United States Commissioner Twomey on the charge of presenting a falso statement regarding the condition of tho batik to tho comptroller of tho currency. Ho waived examination and was held to tho United States district court, the ball being fixed at 83,500, with M. II. Walker and A. llanaucr as sureties. County Attorney Evans of Utah county called on Harry Hayes rccontly In tho stale prison. Mr. Hayes In talking talk-ing over his chances for a pardon was very much opposed to receiving a pardon, par-don, claiming that If ho was liberated In this manner thcro would bo people who would still consider httn guilty of tho 1'ellcan 1'olnt murder. He wanted a new trial, when, ho claimed, ho would bo able to prove his Innocence John Woodman, the miner who had his feet and Angers badly frozen near Fatrllcld, nnd who underwent an amputation am-putation of tho members as a result, died tho- 10th lust, at the hospital in Salt Lake. Tho operation following Woodman's tcrriblo ordeal proved too much for him. Woodman had no relatives rel-atives In this country, being an Englishman Eng-lishman by birth. Ho was formerly employed at tho Sliver King In Park City. ' ' "--The fttato'land Uourd has approved tho appraisement inado of the land in tho section on which the state penitentiary peni-tentiary is located. In tho contest of Simon Hamburger against Atkinson and others, Involving a right of way of the Salt Lake .fc Hot Springs rail way through section 30, township 2 north, range 1 west, the board has uwnrded Mr. Ilambergorastrlpof laud thirty feet wide, instead of Ufty feet, as ho prayed for. Johan Swcn, n husky young Fin-lander, Fin-lander, lies In St. Mark's hospital, Salt Lake City, with his head swathed in bandages. These removed, tho cranium cra-nium has much the uppenrnnco of a pleco of undur-dono steak. Tho injury in-jury was tho result of tho Union Pa-clQo Pa-clQo wreck at Sunol, Neb., In which Swcn had the misfortune to bo. Ho was comlug to Salt Lake with his cousin, having met him In New York on his way from Finland. Another effort will be made, If Representative Rep-resentative Robinson of Kane county can carry it through, to have tho Arl-zoua Arl-zoua strip ceded to Utah by congress. The territory geographically and logically logi-cally belongs to Utah, tho Colorado river being Impassablo nearly the en-tiro en-tiro distance The strip has become n rendezvous for a horde of lawless characters by reason of Its Inaccessi bility, and southern Utah has paid for tho strip by the value of 11 vo stock that has been driven across tho Hue. In ordor for nn Arizona sheriff to visit tho strip it Is necessary to travel about 1,000 miles, going via Denver. It is easily appreciable, theroforo, that law und order cannot be maintained under existing conditions, lly right Utah should havo the strip. Attorney General Illsliop one day last week advised County Attorney Morris of St. Ueorgo that In ease u. olllccr duly olected falls to qualify by filing n bond nnd taking tho oath of olllco the old olllelal holds over for another term. Tho remains of Mrs. Charles Mo-Quowan, Mo-Quowan, tho daughtor of Judgo and Mrs. Minor, whoso sad death In Han Francisco shocked a host of friends in Salt Lake and elsewhere, arrived in Salt Lake January 13 nnd wero Interred at ML Olivet. After being out of tho banking business busi-ness for a number of years, Itenjamln O, Hnybould has accepted tho position of ciuhler of the Utah National bank, succeeding Mr. Addison 11. Jones. Tho retirement of Mr. Jouos was at his own request. Another order has been Issued by tho secretary of war reaffirming tho first order, which was recently revoked, re-voked, directing Major Henry P. Rlr-mtngham Rlr-mtngham to proceed from Porto Itlco to Fort Douglas to fill tho ofllce of post surgeon at this place. Tho Jackson day celebration by the Utah Democratic club was celebrated In Salt Lake City on Monday oveulng, January 7, nnd was addressed by Hon. J. M. Moyle, Judgo Judd, Hon, T. D. Johnson, Judgo Gilchrist, Hon, Moses Thatcher and W, M. Koylance. |