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Show UTAH NEWS. The Populists have endorsed Judge W. II. King, the Democratic nominee, for congress. Mr. and Mis. Leopold H'erlhimer .celebrated the golden anniversary of their marriage at Salt Lake the '.'(itli. Lieutenant lleorge W. Ilibbs, of I'.at-tery I'.at-tery A, has fallen heir to a snug little for tune in Massachusetts, his former home. The old Kort Thorn berg military reserve, re-serve, m ar Vernal, long since restored 'to the public domain, has been ordered -Htirveyed. Morcton I'Yewin, the well known English bimelalli.st, was in Salt Laki) last week getting pointers from L'tah Vimetallists. Apostle Lund, who was mentioned tin a Kepu M ican nominee for Congress, declined to permit his name to go lie fore the eon ven tion. Major R. W. Young has purchased and shipped from Manila to (lovernor Wells a Spanish cannon cast in 77ti, as a present to the state. James Wilson, alias Charles Read, suspected of having murdered a policeman po-liceman at Des Moines, is detained in the Salt Lake county jail. Provo is again infested with tramps, who have been committing numerous petty depredations anil causing the ollicors a great deal of trouble. Shcepherders at vernal recently held a meeting in which it was agreed to stand for seven cents per head for shearing instead of six as formerly. Roland Harris, who escaped from lha reform school several months ago, was captured in Salt Lake last week, where he had recently arrived from Montana. J. P. Kelley, a Park City miner, was struck on the head by a rock which fell from the bucket while hoisting, and pain fully though not seriously injured. A buildingat Torrey which was being used for school purposes was burned down on the STlh tilt. The school was in session w hen the lire was discovered but no one was hurt. G. N. Kimball of Ogden, who has been promoted to a First Lieutenancy in the Thirty-lifth infantry was an ollicer in the Utah troop of cavalry during dur-ing the .Spanish-American war. Salt Lake City, at au expense of about SMWO, is having surveys made to determine the cost of building levees to raise the waters of Utah Lake, with a, view to increasing the city's water supply from that source. The question of whether judges o( the last election hold over for the special congressional election has been decided by the board of commissioners of Salt Lake count' that they do, and appointments will only be made to fill vacancies. Mrs. Hatch Murray of Vernal, who has only been married two or three months, is suffering from insomnia and nervousness, and at times it takes the strength of two or three men to hold her on her bed and prevent her from doing violence to herself and those who are attending her. She has been acting act-ing quecrly for some time, but no notice was takeu of it particularly until she broke out violently and proceeded pro-ceeded to demolish her household effects. ef-fects. E R. Chase of Park City, was found dead in -bed at Anaconda, Mont., last Wednesday. He was prominent in mining circles, and formerly traveled for the I'nion Iron works of San Francisco. Fran-cisco. He was a drummer boy in the Jsiuth Michigan cavalry in '(i5. Frank Edwards, who escaped from the pen iu 1 Si' T with Laut, Tracy and llimvii, by holding up a guard while engaged in digging a water trench a mile east of the pen, is just finishing a term in the Missouri peu and will be brought back to Utah. The present indications are that ft sugar plaut will be installed upou an ideal site midway between Ephraim and Mauti, where there is sufficient water power for such an enterprise. Tests have demonstrated that the soil of Sanpete valley is adapted to raising a first class paying crop of beets. Miss Mary Teasdel. a Salt Lake girl who lias been studyiug in Paris for the past three years, has won high honors iu the world of art, and oue of her pictures has been accepted by the jury of selection for the Paris exposition, and it is to be hung at the Grand Palais ties Heaux Arts with all the finest contemporaneous con-temporaneous art works of the world. Answering a telegraphic inquiry if he would accept a nomination for Congress Con-gress by the Democrats, ex-Senator Frank J. Cannon replied from New York that he would not. Several delegates del-egates had been instructed to vote for his nomination. Residents of Plain City and Harris-ville, Harris-ville, Weber county, have formed a company to build and operate a cheese factory. Preliminary steps have beea taken and the erection of a Euilable building will soon be undertaken at a convenient locution. |