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Show UTAH NEWS. Tho force of un-n at work on the rtah & Pacific will be doubled during the month. Tho ne.w roller mill at Parowan is about completed and will be running in a few days. The Rio Grande Western has advertised adver-tised for bids for making a grade eight mile up Provo canyon from I leer Creek. The president Iihs approved the bill fur a public building at .Salt Lake City. The bill carries an appropriation of 8 I. ',0,0011. The total precipitation for the past month was :!.'.H inches. The number i( clear days was 10; cloudy, 10; partly cloudy, M. The highest temperature during the past month was .',1 degrees, on the 19th, anil tho lowest 10 degrees below zero, on the t'ith. The people of Pine Valley are compelled com-pelled to postpone planting crops at present, owing to the fact that the ground Is too dry. The attempt to discontinue Rich-field's Rich-field's high school was met by a perfect storm of opposition, and the school will be continued. Governor Wells has appointed Miss Louie Whittaker of Provo, as Utah's representative at the Oread institute, a cooking and training school at Worcester, Wor-cester, Mass. Tlio winter has not been unusually severe on cattle in this state, and where the cattle and sheep were in good condition con-dition the loss has been very light. The majority of reports show fewer cattle and sheep on feed than a year ago. The population of I'ayson was last weok enlarged by the addition of ten new families, who came from the east to take up their homes in Utah. With the advent of warm weather, Pay-son Pay-son conBdently expects a substantial growth. The appointment of a successor to (). K. Grow as second lieutenant of battery H has been deferred for a time. Governor Wells has cabled Major Young at Manila, asking that the latter recommend some one for the appointment. 1 The prospect of a railroad into the Uintah reservation will make it attractive attrac-tive to the settler, and it will not be surprising if an important town will spring into existence on the western border of Uintah county in the next few years. .loseph Jackson of Toquerville ended up a big spree by falling from his horse and laying outdoors all night in the bitter cold. When he was found in the morning he was so overcome from the effects of the alcohol and cold that he died in a short time. Property-owners and residents of Capitol hill, Salt Lake City, are making mak-ing a strong pull for the placing of the proposed salt palace on the Capitol grounds. They urge that the site is a commanding one, from which a vie w of the entire city can be had. Sheep in the counties south of Salt Lake have wintered fairly well, about the only thing lacking on the ranges was there being so little snow as to require holding the flocks near the hills so they could get drink. The deserts des-erts have been very dry and dusty. Sheriff Kelly of Deseret has just received re-ceived notice that two women have been seen between Clear lake and Fil-more Fil-more in the cedars. The mail driver reports having seen them twice, and when seeu they ran and acted very strange; it is thought they are lunatics. The two-year-old son of D. A. Johnson, John-son, of Moab. was burned to death while playing about au out-door fire. The mother had gone into the house for a moment aud when she returned the clothing of the little one was in flames, and before she could reach the child it had been fatally burned. The will of Wilford Woodruff, late president of the Mormon church, has been admitted to probate. The usual line of testimony respecting the making mak-ing of the instrument was introduced, and A. H. Woodruff, Wilford Woodruff and John .Taques were appointed executors, ex-ecutors, in harmony with its terms. Seven Salt Lake City boys, ranging in age from 8 to l." years, have been arrested on a charge of stealing forty gallons of liquor from a wine cellar. The boys had stolen the liquors at different dif-ferent times and goue to a secluded spot and "enjoyed a high old time." to use the language of one of the "gang." The citizens of the eastern portion of Washington county have petitioned the county commissioners to call an election elec-tion for a fence law for the county. The object is to enable turning out large herds of cattle and compelling the farmers to fence against them. A Carbon county man was sent to jail for three months for unlawfully appropriating a shaving mug worth 50 cents. His three motherless children child-ren are left without a protector while he serves out the sentence that has been imposed upon him. |