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Show UTAH NEWS. The hony Industry will be greater In Utah this year than ever before In the history of the state. The ta.vpayer.i'of 1'afowan have voted a one per cent tax for 1 for the purpose of building a new school house. The contractors on the ('tali and Pact Pa-ct fio expect to reach St.atdirie by May 13. The road is now beyond the fifty-fifth fifty-fifth mile post. The county commissioners of Salt I. (lice county have decided to reduce the liquor license fee paid by the saloons sa-loons of that county. Huntington lias been chosen as the place for holdiug the summer institute of Kmery county, and the school will commence about the first of June . The people of San Juan county are longing for a snow storm, while the people in the northern counties would be glud to have a little more sunshine and less snow. The work of excavating for the new academy buihling at Kphraim is being rushed. It is expected that the new building will be completed in time for the next term of school. Farmers in Ashley valley are in high glee over the prospects for good crops. There will be plenty of water this year, and Home people are apprehensive of high water In the near future. The city of Springville has purchased the properly of the Mapleton Canal Iteservoir and Irrigation company. This is the first move in the direction of an extensive reservoir system for .Springville. President McKinley has asked Gen" oral Otis to recommend a member of the Utah battery whoso service in the Philippines entitles him to the appointment ap-pointment of a second lieutenant in the regular army. Albert VV. Ilartviksen, of troop E, Fourth cavalry, who was accidentally shot and killed at Manila on March 10, was a Utah boy. He formerly lived at Sandy and was IS) years old when he enlisted at Fort Douglas. Ex-President Joseph M. Stouttofthe Utah National bank of Salt Lake City, lias been indicted by the federal grand jury on the charge of making false returns re-turns of the bank's condition to the comptroller of the currency in August, There is a ease of smallpox at Fort Douglas. The patient has been isolated, iso-lated, however, .and the post author-Hies author-Hies are confident that the disease will not spread. A private named Jenkins is the victim of the disease, and the caso developed on Tuesday of last week. The governor will within the next thirty days, in accordance with the new law, appoint district attorneys for the Fourth, Fifth. and Seventh districts, not more than two of them to be of the same political party. They will hold their offices until the first Monday in January, HHH. Sanpete valley presents rather a lively appearance just now, with hundreds hun-dreds of fanners and teams being busy in spring work. Much grain has already been put in and the ground blocked out for irrigating. The acreage acre-age of cultivation promises to be unusually un-usually large. A prominent California bee-keeper, who last season brought 300 colonies of bees to Utah, will in the near future return to Utah with 300 more colonies, and make his home here. A friend will accompany him, bringing 1,000 colonies, lie says Utah is one of the best states iu the union for apiarists. The now state board of land commissioners, commis-sioners, as appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate, is composed com-posed of the following gentlemen: Mr. Wesley K. Walton of Kich county, Thomas D. Rees of Sanpete county, Isaac C. McFarlane of Washington county, l!yrou Groo of Salt Lake county, coun-ty, Fisher S. Harris of Salt Lake county. A young man of Springville last weelt held up four young men of that city, relieving them of some small change, lie was arrested the next morning and admitted his guilt, but stated he did it just for a joke. The magistrate could not see the joke, and he was bound over to the District court. Antonio Carro held up a store-keeper at Helper last week, taking a suit of clothes and some uuderwear. A posse was immediately organized, who started start-ed after the would-be bandit. He showed resistance and a fight ensued In which Carro was severely wounded. He is now iu a Salt Lake hospital, where he will be taken care of until he recovers sufficiently to stand trial. The Richfield Commercial and Savings Sav-ings bank is being organized by Richfield Rich-field capitalists. The capital stock is S20.000, but this amount will probably prob-ably be increased in a short time. The bank will open up for business about May 1. The Rio Grande Western has completed com-pleted its waterworks improvements in the yards at Springville. A ten-inch waterstand has been put in on the main line, enabling them to make shorter stops there. The pipe is the largest on the line. |