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Show UTAH SEWS. The, citizens of Lchi celebrated "Peace day" on the 1st. The recent rains have put an end to the water famine in Salt Lake, City. The contract has been let for a modern mod-ern water works system at Fort Douglas. Doug-las. Private A. lams has been honorably discharged from the (tali Cavalry troop. Five hundred and nineteen students are now enrolled at, tin: Stale University. Uni-versity. Charles A Lainbourne has been promoted pro-moted from 87:;u to S-TiO as a carrier at Salt Lake City. A party of about. 100 editors from Georgia were in Salt Lake City the fore part of the week. Governor Wells returned home Oct. 'i from a three weeks' trip to through the Yellowstone park. The quarterly salaries of the forty-four forty-four state ollieials, clerks and deputies amounts to 1 i),.V.".t. I 5. Citizens of Mereur have organized a brass baud which they intend to make one of the finest in the state. The sugar beet crop this season is above the average, some farmers raising rais-ing an average of J.'!,1. tons to the acre. George L. N'ye, of Salt Lake, has been appointed supreme court reporter to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation res-ignation of Joh n M. Tanner. There are about, 500 poll tax delinquents delin-quents in Salt Lake, and the clerk of the street department is preparing to sue them for the amounts due. The Newsboy 's I 'nion of Salt Lake, ai'o making an effort to found a home for tho homeless uewsbo3'S. The citizens citi-zens lire materially assisting them. In the Poulsen patricide case the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. Young Poulsen killed his father while the two men were engaged in a light. The Utah Sugar company has paid its eighth dividend to its stockholders. The amount was 5 per cent and hereafter here-after dividends of 2 per cent will be sent out each three months. Articles of incorporation have been iiled for the Tropic Co-operative Mer- cantile &. Manufacturing Institution Tho plnee'of business is Tropic, Garfield count', and the capital SI 0.000. That prosperity has struck the camp of Eureka is evidenced by the number of new buildings that arc going up, nnd the improvements being made in the way of painting, repairing, etc. William Brodie, the Eureka merchant mer-chant accused of raising a check from Kioto SI. 000, has been bound over to await the action of the district court, lirodie's store is in the hands of the sheriff. Lieutenant Briant II. Wells has been ordered to Manila, where he will join his regiment. For the past two months Lieutenant Wells has been instructing in-structing the members of the Utah National Guard in military tactics. Anetta Jensen, an aged Sandy woman, wo-man, has been declared insane and sent to Provo for treatment. She was discovered walking about the streets one day last week with no clothing on except an aprou and a sun bonnet. The origin of the fire at Beck's Hot Springs still remains a mystery. The otlieers who are working on the case state that there was no doubt that the lire was started by incendiaries, but who they were and what motive led them to set the tire are questions yet u nanswered. Ncplu Packard, the Springville nurseryman, nur-seryman, is exhibiting a peach which measures 11 inches in circumference and weighs 11 ounces. It is a new variety which he has originated after several years of experimenting. He he has given it the name of "Utah Queen.'' .Major General F. V. Greene, in his report of the battle at Manila says: "The Utah gun on the road fired 14 shots at block house 14. with good effect, ef-fect, as was subsequently ascertained upon inspection of the work. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Grow and the detaehmeut deserve great credit for the commendable manner man-ner iu which the piece was served and pulled through the mud, without the assistance of horses.' Edmund Le Grand, of Salt Lake, committed suicide atChicago Junction, O., by shooting himself through the head. He had been a resident of Salt Lake for six years and was emoute to France on a pleasure trip. No cause is known for the deed. A Provo man has received an aligator from an admiring friend in Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Fla., and will place the repeile in Utah Lake. This may cause the small boys of Provo to steer clear of the lake, during the bathing season at least. The Home Fire Insurance company of Utah, paid its forty-second dividend to stockholders, the amount being l.'-j per cent on th capital of S'.V.O.Ouo. The Home company celebrated its twelfth anniversary, its organization, dating from September 30, lSa(5, |