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Show III ! UTAI1 STATE KEWS. R';l' Contrncta for tlic bullulnrj of a now 'fO' I J ill at J'iovo have been let. H j Typhoid fever Ifl epidemic In Hlch- M J- pcld nud other portions of Scvlcr H county, B ' The prediction Is made that dour B p vlll advance soon, owlug to ndvaucod H 4j When prices, M ' " t- There Is Raid to ho a scarcity of M j J touchers In the small towns In many H""!iA fiarts of tho stntc. H J I W. S. McCornlck of Salt Lake has Baal JWA feen elected a director of the Oregon B' fll .Khort Line rnllwny. M I 1 The government erop report places M 'l j Iho average yield of Utnh spring wheat M I t 24.2 bushels per ncro. bbbbbI H , 1 Utah hus eoventy-five tnllcs of new ' j railroad track credited to It for tho econd half of the present year, m Senator Clark cf Montana denies fl i the reported sale of tho holdings of H ' 1 the San Pedro to the Short Line. B j . The Ladles' Literary club of Salt B t Lake has adopted a resolution asking H I Tor the strict enforcement of the cur- fl few law. H W. P. Head, of Salt Lake City, has H h x bcen elected n member of the exueu- U y, I tlvo commlltccof tho American Street M v I Hallway association, H 3 St. V, Le Sleur claims the discovery B of a mountain of opalson Indian creek, PHh Jda., and hus broiightdown a thousand HBh of the gems to 1'rovo. HBl Safe-blowcri destroyed the safe at B the Sierra Nevada Lumber company's Bh w (j otllceat Salt Lnko last week, and se- m v ' cured about 400 in cash. H Any reglstrur who rcfusescs to rep- Jstcr any legal voter upon demand, Is made liable to a Quo of from S100 to 81,000, and a year's Imprisonment. HkV , A sugar factory Is to be erected at kV i or uear Malud, and it Is baid the Short H j Llnu will build a branch from Ilrlgham H ' City to the factory, vlu Corrlnuu and H j Uear ltlvor City. The Indians under Agent Myton, at White Hocks, draw an annuity from HkV tho governmaut of 88X60 for every H jiember of the tribe, juvenile or adult, B" upproxtmatimr 870,000. H ' The public schools of MantI were Kb j opened Monday for the first time, this H "I year, owing tn the prevalence of con- ' tngious diseases which have swept the , city for so mo time past A sneuk thief entered tho bakery and confectionary store of James Stevenson at Sprlngville Sunduy afternoon and took ucash box contain BV log $28 In coin and bills. HkV . , Qrcat Salt Lake was two feet and BV ' eight Inches below the zero mark on H. f the Sth, and tho Saltulr pavilion was H entirely on dry land, tho water having BV receded beyond tho flroworks stand. BVl Tho nine-year-old daughter of Amos HkS 'Thornton of American Fork, while playing 'around a bonfire with other BV children last week, was burned to BS death, her clothing having caught Ore. H ,. The Deep Creek country is Just now H furnishing a Held of operation to the H knights of the road In the direction of BV horsa stealing. Within a space of ten ' days three valuable horses have been HkV BS James Holly, one of the early set- HkV tiers of Sprlngville, died last week from tho ciTccts of a paralytlo stroke! HkM '. which he sustained several months ago. HkVJ The deceased was a native of England HkVJ and was 80 year old. HkV lnsuranco companies operating In Kalt Lake have raised Insurance rates Bh in tho business section, alleging that HkVj fccarclty of water and luck of tiro fight- Hj I ing facilities muko risks too great al H, I I present rates, lluslness men say tho H? L ! ralso is tho result of a combination of H s i tho cotnpunloH. H " ', Frank Croft, aged 12, of Deseret, H ' while hunting rabbits accidentally 1 nhot hliPbolf through tho calf of tho H leg. lie hud forgotten to let tho ham, incrdown and a small twig caught and H discharged thu wenpon. lie was two H miles uwuy from homo and hud a hard B pull to reach home. HBV Thu county superlntunduntof Bchoola H 1n Utah will usk tho legiNluture to re. H peal the prcceut school law, and uhol- B sli district school timteca und replaco B thum with a county school board to H tiuvu charge of ull tchools in tho H county. H George Wnde, principal of the Mound H 1'art bcliool at Ogdeu, whllo lu a dc H ' lirium of fover 'J'uesday of lust week, H f secured a revolver and bhot hlinseU H i i through the breust, dying sevtn hour H j later, Mr. Wudu was suffering from H ' typhoid fever. ; Two reservoirs will he constructed 1 ' on the upper Weber valley to btoro the H ., surplus water that runs to waste In H Iho bpring. Tho undertaking will bu H nccoinpllshed by nn association of tho irrigation companies which taku B n liter from th& river, HHh George Smith, a western pioneer, t died at Marysvale last week, ag?d TW. B Jle crossed the plalnb in 1605, followed B milling In several western states, and B ff lato yeirij ongaged In the (Val ..'rocery business, first at Sallnu, theu ul Holknap htid Marysvate. sbhb 'j ' At tho recent cjuuiterly meetlntr of B 1 the state board of horticulture It was LCi.V decided to wage a vigorous warfare HyAR against tho San Jose scale In Utah Hf '1 orchards during the next ninety days, Hi 'i' Vhe scale Is known to exist in rjBM ..g orchards In Weber and Utah counties' BBHBBHHHsll.MM |