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Show UTAH NKWS. The sugar beet crop is the heaviest on record. Sunn yside eoke will soon be one of I.' tali's important products. The canning factories throughout the state are now running at full capacity. A number of substantial new business busi-ness blocks are to be creeled in I'rovo this fall. Sunday ball playing is now tolerated In Salt Lake ( it y and the --fans'' are jubilant. I'Mi-in laborers arc at a premium in Davit county, the demand far exceed ing the supply. Twenty thousand people attended the state fair Friday, breaking all previous records. The acreage of sugar beets in Davis eminty next year w ill be much larger than ever before. Halt. Lake dealers sold over 1,200 refrigerators, re-frigerators, equal to twelve carloads, during the past year. Several large Salt Lake business concerns con-cerns will erect warehouses on streets reached by the railroads. October earnings of Utah railroads will show a great increase, with the new branches doing a fine business. The prohibition movement has struck Spanish Fork so forcibly that a prohibition prohi-bition ticket will be placed in the field at the municipal election. Ten cars of fat lambs and weathers were shipped from Goshen to Denver last week, while N'ephi parties sent four cars to the same market. A fine station building is to be built by tho Rio Grande Western at Sunny-tide. Sunny-tide. Work has already commenced on a hotel and a number of dwellings. Articles of incorporation of the Lehl Creamery company have been filed. The capital stock is $3,000, or 8,000 shares, and the stockholders are all Lohi parties, The fifth annual meeting of the Utah State Medical Society was held in the capital city last week, at which the election of ollicers and a board of five censors occurred. Sultana, the big lioness in Hagen" back's show at the Salt Lake salt palace, pal-ace, attacked her keeper last week badly lacerating his shoulder and inflicting in-flicting serious injuries. Hon. Jesse Collins. Member of Parliament Par-liament from Birmingham, and under secretary for home affairs, was in Salt Lake last week, lie is delighted with the west and Utah in particular Tho bids of W. IT. Roney, of Chicago, for the library, normal and physical buildiugs of the State University, of S:i6,S7U, S44,4iir and S35.48S. have been accepted, and work will soon be begun on them. The Walker site for the public build-iug build-iug at Salt Lake City will become the property of the government in a very short time, the title having been examined ex-amined and found acceptable to the government. The lake level reading at Garfield Beach for October 1 was r foot S inches, or one foot lower than on the same day last year, four inches lower (han two years ago. and one foot lower than the lowest lake level known. The Utah & Pacific railroad has filed a copy of its mortgage for $072,000 at Beaver. It is the same mortgage filed tome weeks ago at Cedar City, and, as explained at the time, is to cover the bonded indebtedness of the line. An unknown man was killed on the Union Pacific railroad one day last week at a point about three miles west of Huford station. He had evidently , been stealing a ride on a freight train-and train-and falling to the track was cut to pieces. Governor Wells, in an interview in New York, said: "Unlike most states of the west, Utah owes her wealth primarily to agriculture. Contrary to the prevailing belief, agriculture comes first and the miuing industry afterwards." after-wards." State Auditor Richards last week issued is-sued six warrants, aggregating Si. 800. for work done in improving the roads in various counties. The amount is chargeable to the special appropriation made by the last legislature for road - improvements. The Navajo Indians held a fair at Bluff, nv the southeastern part of the 6tate. on St.rjtember 21 and 22. Farm products aud blankets were the principal princi-pal exhibits and a number of prizes were awarded. The citizens of Bluff entertained the red men royally. Frivate Ellis Joh nson. of battery A. Utah National Guard, who fell asleep while on sentry duty at Camp Wasatch, for which he. was tried by eourimartial and dishonorably discharged, has been restored to the company by a general order of Adjutant General Burton. Secretary of State Hammond has re- J ceived a certificate from the secretary of the silk commission that thirty-nine parties, mostly residents of Utah county, coun-ty, had produced 1.U40 1-3 pounds of silk in the cocoons, entitling them to the bounty of 55 cents per pound. |