Show UTAH STATE NEWS i according to tile the railway ago age only 47 7 miles of railroad track was laid la in utah during the past year the richfield Eich field post postoffice office has bee been n ad d danced from a fourth class to a third I 1 class office the change taking effect on the lat i the california excursion ot of the tab ler nacle choir chair next march is now no an ea assured fac fact tall all the preliminary arrango arrange imenes having been made i 1 the members of tile the salt lalie lake mining I 1 stock exchange closed the first year of ithe ithe new century by a banquet at the knutsford Knut stord hotel covers lor for sixty being paid laid A vollin voluntary tary weather station has abeen established at johnson lu in kana cape county with joseph chatterly in charge this is the sixty fifth station in utah i A number of idaho sheep men are their flocks on the desert in JO this year while utah sheep aro are from idalio idaho during the summer months 1 senator kearns who has just returned led from washington speaking of the building of the th san pedro railroad from california to salt lake declares that I 1 the tha road will surely bo be built the constitutionality of the inhere tance fence tax law will be tested by the heirs of james SI Pic picketts betts of salt lake who left an estate of ithe state claims under the law joseph P andersons an ephraim lad jad 5 years old was painfully injured by falling upon a pair of scissors friday the scissors penetrated his hasab abdomen to a depth of one and one half 1 inches apostle brigham Brig liam young who left salt lake two weeks ago to visit mexico for the benefit of his health is tick bick at fruitland froitland Fruit land N M with a complication of stomach and nervous troubles james 11 II anderson a salt lake carpenter suffered tile the amputation of a leg last week from the effects of blood poisoning caused by a scratch received while oiling a floor three weeks ago the proposed intermountain inter moun tain baseball base ball league comprising teams from salt lake ogden pocatello Po calello great falls relena helena and butte has been abandoned and it is probable a utah colorado league will be organized in the superior court at tacoma the receiver of the metropolitan bank was directed to accept the offer ot of charles charlea we namee to take lake the assets and property of the back and pay the depositors and creditors in full arguments in id the case instituted by governor wells to compel the payment of an increase of salary according to the law pabs parsed edby by the legislature were made in the supreme court last week decision was reserved the university of california iles has been asked to recommend to the phil commission several men qualified by experience and ascii ilisie training to take lake charge of agricultural experiment peri ment stations in the philippines salt lake will have improved postal facilities within at few weeks the business delivery district will be enlarged and more frequent deliveries will be ba made the mounted service in the outskirts will also be extended lieutenant frank G blines the young salt laker who recently received a commission in the regular army has distinguished himself by assisting in quelling a dangerous riot which broke out among the unassigned troops at the Pre presidio sidia near dear san franciseo francisco wednesday night A dispatch from selena salem oregon r reports that the mormon elders were held up rod and reli relieved cled of a small sum of money last week almost under the nose of the police while they were looking for the offenders who have been terrorizing the outskirts ot of the city by numerous holdups A check tor for six cents drawn by the utah otah sugar company to A C larson representing the net proceeds from his sugar beet crop has been received it at I 1 salt lake bearing about fifty endorsements tle check has been traded as a a matter of sport and has been sold cavral times limes for a dollar for the year 1900 1000 tile the mines of park city paid in dividends out of a total dividend by all the mines of 0 the state of in 1901 the park city mines have to their credit in dividends the sum of an increase over 1900 of A wholesale jail delivery was prevented bythe by the confession of a released prisoner who told the authorities that the prisoners in the salt lake jail had planned escape saws had been smug aled into the jail by friends of some of the prisoners sheriff storrs of provo Is in receipt of a photo at 0 M 13 lemmon the man serving Berv Dg a sentence in llon flono olula luls who was suspected of being wright tile the pelican pelican point mur murderer deren the photograph shows no resemble tie between e s two men |