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Show UTAH -STATE NEWS. . Salt Lake City owns realty and build logs valued S1,'jo;),000. Among the new featares at the com Sng State fair will be a Belgian hare exhibit. Many, sheep are being shipped from . the southern part of the state to the eastern market. Sugar has advanced in price to ST.10 p per 100 pounds, the highest price i "reached in years. John B. Rogers, paymaster's clerk in the Philippines, will shortly visit his borne in Salt Lake. The Utah Posted, a newspaper in the Scandinavian language, will shortly appear in'Salt Lake. ' Oa the proposed cut-off route of the Oentral Pacific the distance from Ogden to the lake will be fourteen miles. Professor Evan Stephens, leader of ttie tabernacle choir, will arrive home from Europe about the 15th. He has been touring Europe and visiting the Paris exposition. , ' Ex-Goverhor West of Utah will take the stamp ia, California for McKinley (and Roosevelt He does not like the isilver plank in the Democratic platform. plat-form. - , The census reports of the state have been completed and sent to Washington, Washing-ton, Supervisor Pratt states he is well pleased with the thoroughness of the work done by the enumerators. John C. Willey, shippi nj clerk for Auerbach & Co., Salt Lake, who it is claimed has stolen thousands of dollars worth of merchandise wbile employed by them,' was given a jail sentence of six months. , Two carloads of fruit a day are being shipped out of Provo to eastern markets. mar-kets. There is an unlimited demand, and ten carloads as easily as two could be duplicated in many towns if fruit growing was made an industry. ' Mrs. E. E. Shepherd, a prominent . W. C. T. V. woman of Salt Lake, in a mass temperance meeting Sunday night declared woman suffrage to be a failure, because it had in no way puri- j ke1 pontics or aided in suppressing evil Professor Joseph J. Daynes, organist at the tabernacle for thirty-three years and a half, has sent in his resignation to President Snow. He states that the increasing demands for organ recitals, to gratify visitors, interfered with his music business. .; : The number of Alines in tho rd. oorder's ofiice of Salt Lake county during the past twelve years number 140,000. Probably double that number have been made during the past fifty years, but until twelve years ago they were not numbered. For the first time since 1862 it is now possible to drive a vehicle from the , eastern mainland to Antelope island in the Great Salt Lake. The lake has shrunk rapidly this summer and tbe water is not over bub deep from a point near Sears' Salt works to the island. George O. Smith, a well known and highlit, respected citizen of Draper, was found 'dead in bed last week. Not feeling well, Mr. Smith law down at 10 o'alock. Shortly before 3 his wife, becomjng uneasy at hi long sleep, went into the room to arouse him, and was horrifiied to find him cold in death - Mrs. Joseph Fisher of Mill creek was thrown violently to the pavement and - rendered unconscious by a collision of her rig with a street car in Salt Lake. The rear wheels of the vehicle were crushed. The car men were held blameless, as tho lady suddenly emerged from behind a dray and drove directly in front of the car. - Utah has the distinction of having the first full-fledged Filipino soldier in the United States army. This is Ful- ! gencio Romero, who came to Fort I Douglas from Manila with Company I, Twenty-third regiment, a month ago. I He has enlisted as a regular and has been made tho bugler of the company. Captain T. C. Bailey, formerly department de-partment commander of the G. A. R. a widely-known and highly respected resident of Salt Lake, passed away Sunday. He had been a sufferer of Bright's disease and for months past had been cou fined to his room. " ! - , , A Salt Lake bicyclist who got funny :-- and attempted to run his wheel between be-tween a man and his wife who wera walking on the sidewalk succeeded in knocking both to the ground, and in turn was soundly thrashed and had his wheel kicked to piece beside. |