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Show UTAH NEWS. The Z. C. M. I. of Salt Lake will tpend soiiif.f hing over 100,000 in improvement-! a nd additions to its building build-ing during the present year. Governor Wells has issued a proclamation procla-mation calling a. spcr-iul election foi April 2, at which will be selected a Miccessor to lirigham H. Itoherts. The first rase of smallpox in Millard county is reported at Ilurbank, in tin extreme west of the county, and th patient has been properly quarantined An tin ti-vurci na tion league has beer established in Salt Lake, the object oi the league being to secure the passag (f laws making compulsory vaccination unnecessary. The state fish and game eommissionei reports tho tish hatchery in good con dition, anil says they are raising 850, 00( brook and lake trout, and they an growing nicely. In Salt Lake, during the year 1300 fiOO permils for new dwellings, store! and warehouses were issued, while 211 permits for additions and alterations were also issued. His estimated that 1 'tali farmers will plant 8,000 acres to sugar beets this season, which will be almost doublu the acreige raised last year, which is conservatively placed at -1,400. It is stated in railwny circles that Senator W. A. Clark of Montana is liguring with the Utah & Pacific people on the proposition of buildiug1 the extension ex-tension through to Lincoln county, Nev. The Manslield-M urdock company ol Heaver is a new incorporation, the capital cap-ital stock beiug placed at $20,000, ths company intending to conduct a gen. oral merchandise business at Beavei City. It is said the great mining camp o) Park City has never been iu a mor prosperous condition. Every miner is employed, every house is occupied am! a look of prosperity pervades the entire district. Captain F. J. Mills, the slayer of J, C. O'Melveney, has forgiven his wife, and the twain, with their two liltlj children, have departed for the west to begin life anew. They will probably settle in Honolulu. The bodies of six of the Utah bat terymen killed in the Philippines am enrou te to Utah for burial. They arei Harry A. Young, John G. Young, John T. Kennedy, W. G. Goodman, George H. Hudson and Charles II. Parsons. Itishop M unford of Beaver was las! week fined $ for violating a city ordi. j nance hy tearing down posters announcing an-nouncing a masquerade ball, he having taken this method of showing his displeasure dis-pleasure regarding the proposed ball. The report that two deaths had oc. curred from smallpox in Payson proves to be a canard, as there have been nc deaths, all the patients have almost entirely recovered, and there is no danger dan-ger of a further spread of the disease. When the public schools of Salt Lake reopened last week, less than 40 per cent of the enrolled pupils were in attendance, at-tendance, largely owing to the fact that the school board had decided to refuse to admit all pupils who had not been vacciuated. James It. Look wood, the proprietor of a 5 cent barber shop in Salt Lake, lias been sentenced to five years imprisonment im-prisonment iu the state penitentiary, he having pleaded guilty to the charge of enticing a, l."-year-old girl to his shop and ruining her. At Fish Springs. Joseph Crismon came near losing his life while examining examin-ing a blast which he had previously fired, but which exploded a second time, filling his hands full of rock, one piece, the size of a marble, going clear through his hand. While Mrs. Crockett and two children, of Spauish Fork, were riding on a wagon loaded with wood, the wagon tipped over and one of the children was crushed to death beneath the load, while the other was seriously and the mother slightly iujured. K. W. Penney and his son George, ot Kanosh, who set out twelve weeks age on a mining prospecting trip, expecting expect-ing to be gone about a week, have not yet returned, and though the country has been thoroughly scoured by searching search-ing parties, no trace of them has been found. The new city council of Salt Lake has decided to increase the wages of laborers labor-ers employed by the city, and henceforth hence-forth the men are to receive S3 for a day of eight hours, instead of SI. 75 as heretofore, while men with teams will receive S3. 50 instead of S3. In Beaver county the summer frosts cut the hay and wheat crops short, and the last lucern crop su ft'ered. and unless there is more snow in the hills before spring sets in. the range feed will be mighty scarce during the coming summer, sum-mer, say local stockmen. Agricultural entries at the land office were scarcely ever so numerous as they have been during the past week. In Garfield county alone there were eighteen eigh-teen entries, aggregating 2.000 acres, most of these being in a bunch, the land lying southwest of PauguituJp. |