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Show UTAH NKWS. Flagstones will be laid on all the walks at Fort lJoii:!a.s this week. The Emery Choir of l.'.o voie.- participated par-ticipated in the Li .I'-'h I fod content. While the Eisteddfod was an urtistie hllooe.vi it i-t thought that the recoipttl will not equal t he e : p.- II ses. Lieutenant Penner Smith of the Utah cava b y ha i re -.igned. and Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Kimball will take hi-, pbi.et. Over 'Mu i-iirt of freight, d. stilled for Halt Lake, went held in ftgden during the rush of p.-i ---uy er ti-aliic the past week. Many new bn i 1 d i u gs are being erected erect-ed it) Vernal, whieh gives evidence of hctlcs times, in lhat .section of the country at least. A Springvi 1 h- ma n thiw year raised over son bushels of potatoes from a piece of ground a trille less than three-fou three-fou rt.lis of a u acre. The travel over the different, roatl.-i running into -Salt Lake lias been heavier during the recent conference than for many years past. A coal war is on in Salt Lake City, aud ttie consumers arc tatting advantage advant-age of the light to lay in their winter's supply of the black diamonds. W. P. Noble, the man reported to have been murdered in Wyoming, has returned to Salt Lake City, and insists most emphatically that he. is alive. The safe in the iiicrcan ti ie department depart-ment of Messrs. Ilotson & Son at M inersville, was blown open by burglars burg-lars and about SI, "oil iu coin taken. Articles of incorporation have heen filed by Welsh, Driscoll it Buck, doing a general merchandise business at Park City. The capital stock is placed at $-10,000. A young man named David . llowels had his foot badly mashed w hilo working work-ing iu the mines at Castle Gate. It is not thought that amputation will be neeessa ry, however. Masons are at work on the basement walls of tho new Congregational church at Park City, and it is expected that a new bouse of worship will be erected thereon soon. Lioutcnnnt Wygant, sou of Captain Wygnnt of tho Twenty-fourth infantry, in-fantry, is in command of company G of the Third infantry, now at the scene of the Indian troubles in Minnesota. Min-nesota. If the Short Line places an agent at Sage, as is now rumored, the telephone line will be extended to that place. 'This would prove a great convenience to the merchants and citizens gen-erall gen-erall v. The fruit display at the Hall of Relics, Rel-ics, Salt Lake City, is pronounced by visitors to bo the finest ever offered in tho state. The beneficial effect of spraying is pointed out by those in charge of tho exhibit. The annual meeting of the State Fish aud Game Protective association was hold iu Salt Lake City the fore part of the week. Reports of the past year's work were considered, new officers offi-cers elected and ways and means discussed dis-cussed for the better protection of fish and game. Until the lesislature meets none of the counties in the state will be able to secure recompense from the state for half salaries paid to county treasurers, treas-urers, attorneys and assessors and their deputies for the last two quarters quar-ters of this year, for the reason that the appropriated ftiud is exhausted. The managers of the fruit exhibit held in Salt Lake City say that there is one hundred fold more discussion by visitors about fruit culture than last year, and the exhibitors express the determination to make abetter display next year. A curiosity is on exhibition in a window in Salt Lake City iu the shape of a four-legged Plymouth Kock rooster. roos-ter. Tho hindmost pair are rudimentary rudimen-tary and do not reach to ihe ground. It is said to have two clearly defined backbones. Park City had two fires in one day ast week. But very little damage was done, the department extinguishing extinguish-ing both fires before they had gained very much headway. Defective flues were the cause of the conflagration in both instances. The Utah Sugar factory turned out 1,360 bags of sugar in 24 hours one day last week, the largest amouut. by 173 bags, ever turned out by the factory fac-tory iu the same space of time. The run for the season is something over 2,000.000 pounds. I. Henry Elkren. a Norwegian sailor who was mustered out of Dewey's command com-mand last January, is in Salt Lake City visiting his mother. Sailor Elk- . ren says Admiral Dewey is a splendid splen-did disciplinarian and altogether a winsome commander. The Utah Millers' Mutual Fire Insurance In-surance Company is the name of a new organization. The millers claim that from the new company they can get the same amount of protection from fire aud lightning for 50 per cent less than they are now paying. |