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Show UTAH NEWS. Carl Millen, of Big Cotton wood, last week captured alive a monster wild cat, which he disposed of to a Salt Lake furrier. The outlook lm next year's wheat crop is very bright, and both farmers and millmen anticipate a prosperous neason. Some symptom.'-: of Mnokleg are said to have appeared around Jensen among th poor cattle and some fears are felt on thin score. Tooele valley is becoming a great dry farming district, and the acreage tliid Reason will be double that of any prtvious year. Two more new bnilness houses are to be erected on Main street, Park City. That city is enjoying a substantial building boom just now. Helen Gould has presented the Sheldon Shel-don Jackson College, of Salt Lake, with a check for (5",000, with the assurance that "there is more to follow." Tho Lehi Sugar factory ran 125 days during the season just closed, and converted con-verted 52,025 tons of beets into sugar, an average of 410 tons per day. Plans have been submitted for the new court house to bcuorected at Vernal. Ver-nal. The building will cost S14.000 and will be modern in every respect. Fred Holes, of Spanish Fork, died last week of smallpox, he having been ill two weeks and the disease having been treated at first as chickenpox. While Utah's citizens are just now enjoying ideal spring weather, the weather observer declares tho coldest spell of the season will occur during February. The next encampment of the G. A. R. veterans will be held in Ogden during the latter part of February or the first of March, the date having not yet been decided upon. The sum of 8)5, 010.02 state school monoy has been distributed to the several sev-eral districts in Sanpete county, being B2.9G per capita, Sanpete county having a school population of 5,277. The telephone company has placed heavy orders with eastern manufacturers manufac-turers for construction and operating material, in preparation for extended work when sprir" opens. The thirteenth annual exhibit of the Utah Poultry association was held in Salt Lake City last week, the show being be-ing regarded as the best one by long odds ever held in the state. V. K. Thompson, of Nephi, left last week for the Cape Nome, Alaska, mining min-ing district, which he expects to reach about tho middle of May, taking in Skaguay and Dawson enroute. An entertainment and banquet was (fiven in honor of the old folks of Mt. Pleasant on the 10th inst., fully 500 persons, many of whom were between 70 and 80 years of age, being present. Inquiries have recently been received from points in Montana by Salt Lake firms, asking as to the advisability of investing in lands in Utah with the idea of raising lucern seed. Considerable money made in Montana will be put into Utah land early this spring, and the lucern seed industry, already a big item in the revenue of the state, will be greatly increased. Salt Lake has been selected as one of the places to be touched by the horseless horse-less carriage of the American Automobile Automo-bile Advertising Co. in the overland trip of one of its vehicles, from New York to San Francisco, starting about the first of April. Mrs. Sarah Hannah Shires Iloward, who camo to Utah iu the early 00's is dead at Salt Lake. She was the wife of Thomas Howard, who operated the first paper mill iu Utah, and who made the first paper ever manufactured west of the Mississippi river. W. G. Hutchinson and Alex Anderson, Ander-son, while working a mining claim adjacent to Manti, attempted to thaw out some dynamite, when it accidentally accident-ally exploded, aud that they were not Instantly killed they regard as simply a miracle. Ex-City Recorder Fred Stevens of Park City is dead after an illness of several months. Mr. Stevens was an old Comstocker, and came to Utah some twenty years ago, being for a number of years employed at the Ontario mine in Park City. E. YV. Penney and son George, who left Kanosh on November 14 for a two weeks' prospecting trip into the Wah Wah range of mountains, have not been heard from since and it is feared they have either perished in the mountains or been foully dealt with. A number of trout kept in the show window of a Salt Lake restaurant died last week in a mysterious manner, the entire school dying within thirty minutes min-utes after a thin stream of white substance, sub-stance, evidently lime, had entered the tank from the city water pipes. It is said the quarantine regulations In the southern part of the state have been flagrantly violated, largely because be-cause people refuse to believe theprev-alent theprev-alent disease is smallpox, and timorous officials hesitate to stand up in the face pf public opinion and enforce the law. |