Show UTAH NEWS three now new gas wells are to ie be sunk in the gas fields south of salt lake an extensive trad tract of country contiguous to vernal is to bo sect ionized this spring uintah county shipped four carloads car loada ot of honey the past season beside supplying the local market the first consi consignment ament of trout em eggs gs for the state slate fish hatchery has arr arrived 1 v ed and been placed in the troughs it is expected the railroad grade will be finished and trains bo be running from belknap to Marys valo rale by march 1 no new smallpox cases have developed at payson and tho the quarantine is to be raised and the schools opened A case of smallpox has developed at salem balem utah county but the authorities do not fear a spread of tile the disease the business men of vernal provided a christmas tree for several hundred children which was duly apar appreciated by the little ones the amounts paid for leather shoes harness and other leather goods shipped into utah aggregate abrogate more than a million dollars annually inu ally the past year lias has been one of prosperity with the brick makers of tho the state they finding it almost impossible to fill 1111 all their orders twenty two makers of cheese report their product for to lie be pounds it requires ten pound milk to make a pound of cheese haworth the man now confined in in the davis county jail charged with the murder of watchman sandall I 1 it said aid to be on the verge of insanity work is progressing favorably at the university grounds brick Is being laid at the normal building and foundations are going in at the physical building history ni story of the be utah volunteers is the title of a book to be published in the near future it is to be a history of the volunteers written by the volunteers themselves lehi which for the past two years has baa been a prohibition town will in the future haie baie licensed saloons the citizens having baring decided that the prohibition laws were a failure the publio schools of richfield have reopened utter after a four weeks vacation 1 three weeks of which was owing to the smallpox seare scare there is no further fear ear of the disease in that vicinity A hide bide and pelt dealer estimates the export from utah of hides the past year at fifty carloads valued at and the pelts at over forty carloads worth bringing the total up to the deposits of guano on one of the islands of great salt lake are estimated at not less than tons and it has been decided by the courts that these deposits may be worked as placer claims albert adair aged abed ii 11 of provo while climbing on a passing walon tell fell under a hind bind wheel and his was so badly crushed that be succumbed to his bis injuries despite the best of medical attendance ll the fees paid into the office of the secretary 0 of state mainly for actions and insurance during the past year anointed to 3 an increase of about over 1603 1898 this Is equal to a tax of 3 lo 10 of a will mill on all the taxable property of the state A consignment of lafayette dolla dollars rs was received by a salt lake bank last la st week and the souvenirs soon found their way into the pockets of tho the citi cili tens lens the coin is the weight and fineness of the average silver dollar but it tells sells tor for twice that sum gum two of spanish forks school maam S grew tired of tile the enforced vacation caused by the smallpox scar scare e and were e married last and now theres there I 1 any ny number of school baams who donld like to secure a position in that town roy koy jones aged 8 of spanish fork while playing was kicked in the tom atom delaby mh by a playmate but concealed his injuries from his parents until inflammation had set act in and after a week intense stif suffering fering the little fellow succumbed to his bis injuries the total amount of capital invested la in thirty three utah creameries crea meries in i twenty five fire of these report their production of butter in 1809 at pound probably about cows are required to supply these creameries crea meries with milk george J duke of provo will vill not believe that thirteen is an unlucky number as there were thirteen applicants for or the position of fish and game war den of utah county and mr duke was appointed the other twelve dont like that number however john le roy koy thompson an 8 year old salt lake boy died last week from blood poisoning while skating the skill on one of his feet v was as abraded and the dye from his overshoe entered the tore sore in less than a week from the 16 Ident ho he was wan dead |