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Show UTAH NEWS. The total wheat crop of the .state will exceed that of last year. Tho second crop of lucern has been cut and is up to the average. During 1 SO 7 -8 the inmates of the state penitentiary made SI, 147.21 worth of socks. The Black Hawk veterans will hold their reunion at the Provo lake resort tit is week. The teachers of Utah county h-'ld their summer institute at Cnstilla Springs hist week. l-'ratik Connors has been formally charged with the murder of Officer William Strong of Provo. Palmer liilcy, a Snyder lad, is in a critical condition as the result of falling fall-ing from a runaway horse. Building continues throughout the state and there is not an idle carpenter or brick mason to be found. The implement men of the state report re-port the sales of harvesting machinery much heavier than last year. There is but one sen timent expressed in all lines of business, and that is that the fall trade is a record breaker. Ex-Senator Arthur Brown has become almost totally blind, but h is physicians hope to eventually restore bis eyesight. The bank clearings in Salt Lake City last week showed a gain of 06 per ceut over the corresponding week of last year. About twenty-five of Utah's veterans of the Civil war will attend the national encampment at Philadelphia on September Sep-tember 4 to 0. A salesman representing an eastern millinery house says that his sales in Utah this year are fully double what they have been. By September 1 the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephoue company expects to have a line operating- from Salt Lake City to the coast. The board of county commissioners of Utah county have let the contract for building a county infirmary, the same to be completed by January next. The bee men of Ashley valley are doiug a thriving business this season. The yield of honey is said to be immense, im-mense, and is being disposed of at a fair price. Cleverly executed counterfeit dollars with the date ISfKf or 1808 are being circulated cir-culated throughout the state. The ring is perfect, but the coin is light and the metal feels greasy to the touch. It may be some time before the location loca-tion for the slate fish hatchery is settled. set-tled. Three locations are under advisement, advise-ment, one in Salt Lake county, one in Utah county, Hud the third in Morgan county. Thomas Hunt, a 12-year-old lad of Mouroe, climbed a tree and when a distance dis-tance of twenty-five feet from the ground a limb broke and precipitated him downwards, inflicting severe but aot necessarily fatal injuries. The Utah batteries were the most effective artillery in the service of the United States, either volunteer or regular, reg-ular, during the war with Spain and subsequently in the Philippine insurrection. insur-rection. Utouians never do anything by halves. The present prosperity in Utah is based upon u solid foundation, and it is the opinion of conservative business men that there is not the slightest danger dan-ger of a collapse such as was witnessed in lS'.i.'t. The wealth of Utah will increase in-crease with each succeeding day. This is the first year in twerty that the mulberry trees have not proved a nuisance. In former years the berries have fallen on the sidewalks, littering them up and causing much trouble. The failure of the crop this year is generally gen-erally attributed to the late frost. Poll tax delinquents now wish thev had paid up. The tax is only S.'i. but the court costs are S- execution CO cents, service of summons SI. 40 and service of the executiou S2.40, so thai it costs the delinquent just SU.40 to square himself with the poll tax collector. The attorney genera! has rendered an opinion concerning school elections in which he declares that the law requires that the polls must be open for four consecutive hours per day at a school election, and if they are open for any shorter time the election is invalid. The Provo electric light plant employs em-ploys the highest voltage known, a voltage of 40.0(1(1 being used to transmit power to Mereur. a distance of thirty-live thirty-live miles. The line is working perfectly per-fectly and has experienced no interference interfer-ence from lightningoreleetricnl ..tonus. An electric line between Salt Lake ami Ogden is among the probabilities, an eastern syndicate proposing to build the line providing local capitalists will subscribe to one-half of the stock. It is thought the amount desired, SOUO.UOO, can easily be raised. A four-year-old Gunnison boy tickled the heels of a '-gentle" horse with a switch and was lucked in the head, :rnshing his skull so thata teasponnful ;if brains oned out. Despite his terrible ter-rible injuries he is recovering; and will toon be ready tjtry it again. |