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Show . . i UTAH NEWS. Lieutenant llriant II. Weils has departed de-parted for Manila to join his regiment. The supreme court has just concluded the largest calendar ever heard at one ti me. Real estate men throughout Utah report the market bet ter tha n for many yea rs past. A parly of twenty lioston bankers Were sight -seeing in Salt Lake City one Jay last u eel,. A dozen new brick residences are being creeled in Goshen, beside a new meeting house and seliool house. Private., I'arl hingliam and Smith of the rough rid.-r-, ha ve been discharged and returned to their homes in Heaver. Contracts l evi- been let by the state board of eo, tit! ions for supplies for the penibn I iaiy Millieieiit to last one year. Mrs. I.uella M. Patterson of Salt Lake, has been appointed mat ron of I he western Shoshone Indian seliool, N cvuda. Lattery I has been ordered to Angel Island to do garrison duty. Carbines will be issued at onee. The boys all welcome the change. The sugar factory at Lehi consumed ISO Ions of beets one day last week. The capacity of the plant was supposed to be only 3nu tons per day. Sail Luke's chief of police is making it warm for poker players who persist in playing despite the recent edict against gambling in the capital city. The Cattle Feeding company at Lehi last week .' hipped 701) head of fat stock to the market, and immediately replenished re-plenished their pens with a like number. num-ber. Ten freight ears broke loose from a train at Lehi ,1 unet ion and smashed Into In-to a special I rai n standing on the track, demolishing, the caboose and derailing several cars. Iiufns Smith and Peter Clark have been pardoned from the state penitentiary. peniten-tiary. Smith killed a fellow soldier in IS'.H, and Clark "got bis man" at Park City in 1800. While n circus was in Lehi, one young man lost $ 15 at the little shell game, another had S15 taken from his , hand, while two others lost fli5andS17 I respectively. ' The captors of Maxwell, the Spring- ville bank robber, have received notice j' that warrants have been drawn for the payment of the S.M0 reward ottered for the capture of the desperado. The Clerk's union of Salt Lake City contemplates demanding the closing of stores at 0 o'clock p. m., except on Saturdays. Some of the leading merchants mer-chants have expressed a willingness to s make the change. Some of the farmers of Springville have been made happy by the receipt of their checks for the first payment on this season's beet crop. This payment pay-ment was only for the beets put in during September. A pair of holdups tried to relieve a Salt Laker of his wealth near Beck's Hot Springs, but the gentleman from the city whipped up his horses and ran over one of his assailants, thus frustrating frus-trating their designs. A letter received from a member of the Utah cavalry says it is rumored in camp that the troopers will return to Kan Francisco about November 15, and that they will then be sent to Camp Kent, where they will be mustered out about Christmas. The Union Light and Power company of Salt Lake, will proceed at once with tho erection of a plant for the manufacture manu-facture of gas, with a capacity of 250,-000 250,-000 cubic feet yer day . The improvements improve-ments to be made will cost between 610.000 and 820,000. Postotlice Inspector Sutton is pursuing pursu-ing his quest for the thieves who cut open and got away with the contents of the Frisco mail pouch at Milford. Payment has been stopped on a number num-ber of drafts aud checks which were in the pouch in question. Don Hickman, a miner in the employ of the Overland at Sunshine, lost an eye and wasoiherwise seriously injured by the explosion of a shot that failed to explode at the proper time. Hickman Hick-man used a pick to locate the shot, with the result above staled. Major General Kent, commanding the Twenty-fourth infantry at Fort Douglas, Doug-las, is preparing to depart for the east, he having been informed of his appointment ap-pointment as a brigadier-general in the regular army. He will probably be assigned to duty ia New York. Preston Merrill, a bi-year-old boy of Logan, while hauling grain the other day was thrown to the ground, the front wheel of the wagon passing over the upper part of his body, breaking several ribs aud fracturing his left arm. John Lilquist and John Falquist. two Fiulandcrs of Fpper Bingham canyon, engaged in a fight which terminated in Falquist shooting Lilquist twice in the head. Both bullets glanced from the skull and did only slight damage. Lilquist Lil-quist will not prosecute his assailant. |