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Show UTAH NEWS. The Sixteenth regiment, formerly st ai ioned a t Sal t Lake, has been sent to II unt'-vill)', Ala. The I." f -.tli Fcctling Company, located at tin: l'tah Sugar packing grounds at Li-lii, are feeding 800 head of cattle. Two Salt Lake blacksmiths engaged in a duel with hammers as weapons, anil both came out with badly battered bat-tered faces. The wheat yield of the country sur-rouii'iing sur-rouii'iing C'jllnston is unusually heavy, many of the farmers threshing from :;,0H0 to 4,000 bushels, James I'oulson, the Pleasant (trove man who killed his father some time ngo, is now on trial. His attorneys have put in a plea of self-defense. I-'iftcen new recruits arrived at Fort Douglas one day last week. They will fill up the ranks thinned out by the Spanish bullets before Santiago. The font fact for hauling the Twenty-fourth infantry home was awarded to the West Shore, tho Rock Island, the I'riion Pacific and the Short Line. The .'tilth anniversary of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was fittingly celebrated by the colored people of Salt Lake City on tho 22nd i list. The fruit crop in Grand county is far above the average this year. One buyer has been shipping four carloads daily to Denver and other Colorado points. The secretary of the interior has ordered patented to the I'nion Pacific llailway company a list of lands containing con-taining 240 acres In tho Salt Lake City district. Tturglars blew open the safe in the store of William M . Roy lance at Spring-vine, Spring-vine, but secured nothing of value. The explosion, however, demolished two large plate glass windows. A three-yenr-old child of Mrs. Mary Miller, of Knreka. upset a candle, which ignited its clothes, and before its mother could come to the rescue it had received injuries which proved fatal. The sugar factory at Lehi passed the million pound mark at the eud of the eleventh day's run. a record which is regarded as phenomenal. Nearly all of the output thus far has been sold. Sam Lee, the Salt Lake Chinaman who was convicted of burglary, has beeu sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary. He only secured 50 cents from the house he burglarized. George McKee, convicted in Uintah county of cattle stealing, will serve out his four year's term in the penitentiary, peni-tentiary, the supreme court having affirmed the sentence of the lower tribunal. tri-bunal. Goldie Hrowu and Jack Dennsion, who robbed the saloon at Saltair of S;t7Vt.20, have been sentenced, Brown receiving three years in the penitentiary peniten-tiary and Dennison four months in the county jail. Work on tho Utah & Pacific will commence at once. Part of the outfit of Contractor Hendricks has been shipped to Milford. and the work of shaping and leveling up the road-bed will be begun in a few days. The Parowan school district has decided de-cided to build a new brick school house to cost in the neighborhood of 511,000. The bricks are now being burned and the rock for the foundation founda-tion is being quarried and hauled. llrigadier General Green, while en route from Manila to Washington, dispatched the following telegram to Governor Wells: Will pass through Ogden tomorrow; regret being unable to stop. Would like to tell you personally of splendid work done by Young's and Grant's batteries at Manila." O. II. Hewlett and Gus Anderson had a thrilling experience near the Summit on the Utah Central. They were on their way to Salt Lake, having . driven from Vernal, and when withiu 100 yards of the summit the train from Park City rounded a curve just as they were about to cross the track a short distance from the approaching train. Anderson jumped from the wagon, while Hewlett whipped the team and fcot across just in time to escape being hit. Joseph Anderson, of Granger, while loading a repeating shotgun, accidentally acci-dentally discharged tho weapon, the load of shot passing through the left side of his neck and just missing the windpipe and jugular vein. His recovery re-covery is doubtful. Mr. John Heck, of l.ehi. i about to have his grapes harvested: the crop will not be quite as good this year. ! owing to the lack of water, but he will have a large amount, and the fruit will be transformed into wine for the home market. The cotton crop of St. George is turning out nicely, and the picking is being actively carried on. The cotton industry of Dixie is bueoming a most important one, and has proved a profitable profit-able crop to the farmers u ho have eiig:i;.'i'd in it-cultivation. |