Show UTAH NEWS considerable interest Is being mant manifested 1 in the coming state fair major grant declares it as his on that general otis oti has managed the ropa ign in the philippines ex well ivell work on the plans and specifications A t the four our state university buildings a 18 going forward with commendable ircena utah apples are now on the market rhey are superior in size and quality to lo any of those that have yet been imported the utah pacific has finished work ln n the extension to the utah line the last spike being driven at noon on luly july 31 t the one year old daughter of 0 alfred rates bates of american fork drank a quantity of lye and is dead after eight months suffering A cloudburst at ferron ferran ou on the alt did considerable damage to growing crops and the light bridges across the small streams the city council of gunnison has let I a contract for the construction of a city ball to cost and to be completed by november 1 20 the school enumerators of provo have finished their labors and find in that city 2173 children of school age 1091 1094 boys and 1079 girls young ducks are plentiful in the sloughs along tile the lake and the game warden is having a hard time keeping the lads from slaughtering and trapping the little fellows the seventeen months drought in dixie has been broken by one of the finest rainfalls rain falls known in years and everyone feels jubilant as tile the outlook is now indeed promising complaints come from portions of beaver iron garfield and sevier counties that potatoes are riot not doing well the plants seem to be going to tops at the expense of the tubers A salt lake cattle buyer last week purchased 1000 head bead of cattle from oregon parties the bovines representing a cash value of about being shipped to salt lake city extensive preparations are being made tor for the reception of the volunteers at every town and hamlet in the state the day of their return will be a holiday and day of rejoicing generally august 2nd and was observed as iceland day at spanish fork by about ice leaders landers who sang iceland songs and made iceland speeches to their hearts content the day closed with a banquet and ball the black hawk veterans will hold their annual campfire camp fire at the provo lake resort august 24 25 and 29 26 invitations to attend the campfire camp fire will be sent to all veterans of the different wars now in utah state auditor richards richard has made the discovery that for the past year an illegal method has been pursued in the certification to the auditor of the amounts to be paid by the state for juror and witness fees and mileage some miscreants recently stole 1500 feet of copper wire from the salt lake city street railway company which is valued at the cars had been discontinued on the alic line in question bit the poles and wire had not been taken down county attorney putnam has decided to file a charge of murder in the first degree against benbrook the slayer of burt burl morris despite the fact that the committing magit magistrate had held him for the lesser crime of manslaughter the union pacific land department has recently told sold john 11 II white 2537 acres near salt lake acres of summit county land has been sold to forest N stillman and W V 3 lindsey has come into possession of acres in davis da vis county an action has ha been brought in salt lake city to declare thomas madden dead madden disappeared in 1892 leaving 1000 to in the hands of a friend for investment and now his relatives want the money distributed among themselves according to the statutes madden is in dead having absented himself tor for seven years robert cobley aged 16 was killed in a peculiar manner on the ile iia had gone to the station for the mail and sat al down under the mailbag mail bag and fell asleep the arm of the car reached out for the bag and in returning to it its place struck strack him in tho the head it Is told that a provo joker slipped a pair of texas steer horns over the the horns of his neighbors jersey cow one day latov last w eek and when the neighbors wife went out to milk she gave an exhibition of what a woman looked like with the jim jams richard II 11 ralph Ital who died from typhoid fever while en route home from the philippines enlisted kallsted with the utah battery from kuteka he n was born in cornwall england janu ary 1 1873 and had lived in the tintic di airiel riel A for a number of years where when he be had an excellent record |