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Show AROUND THE CIRCLE. UTAH NEWS NOTES FROM EVERY POINT IN THE TERRITORY. All In Condensed Form With Items itll eretl From Our N't'tghbors - Ml liclef, Terse and Pointed Kead aud Keep Yourself Posted. A new schoolhousc is to be built iu the Third ward at Provo. Two bears, in charge of two Ereuchraen, were exhibited in Iiebt-r ball on Monday n.ent to a good sized audience, and the per-formanee per-formanee was pronounced very jrood. William Faraday of La Plata, had a stick and three-quarters of giant powder iu his l boot Monday night. While eating lunch a I "V spark from the pipe of a miner Ignited the I Ipowder and badly burned Faraday's leg. I yTUe patient is doing well, ft other big lind for Provo is the discovery p. . J large deposit of lithographic stone in mountains east of town. The discovery . made by F. W. C. Hathenbruck. Mr. i. has subjected the atone to all the pre- scribed acid testa! and " '('s 'a'r rival tlie bavarian stone. He says the supply is inexhaustible in-exhaustible and bu will proceed at once to put it ou the market. Under date of March i-'d a Spanish Fork correspondent writes: "A trial of great criminal importance was tried before Justice John P. Joues last evening at the city hall. It oems that during the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Morgan from their homo on the 17th iust., attending 1111 evening party, that some unknowu villain drooped the carcass of a decomposed pig in their well. The next morning on going to the well for water the hog was discovered in the well. Mr. Morgan rery wisely informed the city marshal of the rascally act and desired oil assistance in finding, if possible, the lu ll-born perpetrator. perpetra-tor. Immediately Mr. Williams, the marshal, mar-shal, commenced operations and was successful suc-cessful in traciug the pig from where he laid, and In securing strong pointed circum-stancial circum-stancial evidence of an ominous nature. A -s M' Simiii.'iis was Hrresk'il on lot 'r- - charge, and after a very scurching trial was released. While some of the circumstances In the 1 ase tended to implicate him iu some way with the awful deed, yet nothing sure and confirmatory was shown, indeed, an alibi was proven beyond doutit. The nerpe trator Is at large, yet despite his calloused heart, retribution will catch on the wing ere long. Dunng the trial Prosecuting Attorney Creer delivered one of the most logical, consistent con-sistent and connected pleas we ever heard from him Notwithstanding the attorney's eloquence and consistent conuections of facts, Justice Jones, after a very careful review re-view of the presentations, dismissed the de- fendant. NEVADA NOTES Six young Piutes of the. Walker Lake reservation are taking a business course at the Stewart institute. State Printer Eckley, who hns been quite 111 at his home in Carson, is better, aud will soon be around again. In eastern Nevada the winter was above the average in severity, while from Baltic Mountain west it was abnormally mild The spring is also wet in the eastern part of the stale, whereas it has been very dry in western west-ern Nevada. VlliyU 11 Times: About 20,000 head of sheep ha've been shorn in the past two weeks at Clifton. ' "The bulk of these sheep belonged "to Mills ,v. Ffanaen. Mills drove through here Wednesday 11 band of ;10()0 beep which will be shorn at Steamboat Springs. Rev. F. L. N'ash, for seventeen years pastor pas-tor of the Presbyterian church at Watson-ville, Watson-ville, ('al . fi ohout to pull up stakes, nnd on the lirst Sabbath ill April will assume the pastorate of the church in Virginia City. The Cettft'tll Wewtdftn says Some day the f'-riile lands of Reese River valley, in the neighborhood of Trout creek and Mill creek, will tie irrigated by tho storage system of saving and utilizing water. Natural reservoirs reser-voirs exist in the canons, requiring but little labor to convert to usefulness. L. H. Taylor, chief engineer of the Honey Lake Valley Land it Water company, is in Reno on his way to California. He says Work is progressing on the Long Valley res-un res-un mm ci voir, hut, it is not expected to store watt r Until roll sTVWTn". TTo i r,. rwir, when completed, com-pleted, is expected to store water to irrigate 50,000 acres ol land. IDAHO NOTES. Poeatello is to have a new hotel. It is quite probable that company C, of the Fourth infantry', which lias for a number num-ber of years been stationed at Botes barracks, bar-racks, will soon be transferred to another post. Idaho will furnish the block into which the last imi! of the Woman's building a' ' World's fair, will lie driven. This n.-ii gethcr with a medallion, is to be given by Montana, and it will be drived by a hammer supplied by Nebraska. A movement has been inaugurated by the ministers of Botse to place Idaho on record a- favoring the closing ot the World's fair on Sunday. A petition is to be circulated through the state for signatures, praying thai the gates of the exposition be closed on that day. The Poeatello city trustees have adver Used for bids for a new bridge across the I'ortncuf river at the foot of Center street that will be a credit to the city; the long neglected streets are being graded and the nuid holes II Hod in, and lust (where it should tome) a new city cemetery has been arranged ar-ranged for. The saloon keepers of Boise claim that , the high license law passed by the last legislature leg-islature is unconstitutional, and they pro-pose pro-pose to make a test :-asc. Ou the fiirst dav c April the license of a well known saloon man Will expire, and he will refuse to pay the ISM license, says theStodwnUM. A pros edition will naturally follow, and if a decision deci-sion adverse to the saloon man is rendered the case will lie carried to the Supreme court. |