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Show H UTAH STATE NEWS H Utah's pencil crop will bo n' light H one this scaHon, as compared with Uio H yield of previous yearn. H A special grand Jury Is being selected H In Salt Iaka City for tho purpose of H investigating tho alleged food trust. H Tho second session of tho Trans- H Missouri Dry Farming congress will bo H held In Salt Lake Jan. 23, 24, 25 and 2G. H The principals of tho Salt Lake H schools threatened to go on a strike, H and their salary was Increased $10 a MM There will bo but Utile fruit put up Hfl by tho Salt Lake housowlvcs this sea H on, owing to the extreme high price H Tho statu board of examiners met H Inst week and approved bills amount- H Ing to $ 1,900 for tho rrrcjit guard cl- H campment. H Uurglars looted tho tailoring ostab H llshment of Ocorgo W. Putnam In M Halt Lake City, securing about $1,000 H worth of goods. H "Mother Jouch" was the speaker of H the day at the Park City Labor day H relebratlon, which was one of tho big H gest celebrations ever held In tho H Rrnest Uolln, of Salt Lake City, was H struck by an automobile, whllo ho was BLH driving to town In ti buggy, bis rig bo- H Jng demolished and llolln suffering so- H Injuries. H Fifteen thousand peoplo attended thu H Labor day celebration at Lng'ion, H whllo 10,000 were at Saltnlr. Ii.bor H day Is tho closing day cf tho season H lor these resorts. M Tho trial of .Mrs. Annlo T. Ilrndloy, Indicted for tho murder of former H Senator Drown, of Utah, which was H sot for October 7, prnnnbly will bo H postponed until November 11. H The number of men employed In tho fl coal mines of Utah In 1900 wns 1,572, M ngnlnst 1,301 In ldOfi. mid 1,370 In 11)01. H Tho nvcrago working tlmo In 1900 was M 288 days, ngnlnst 217 In 1005 and 291 H in B J. W. Dlom, a contractor, living In H Salt Lake City, committed nulcldo on H tho Cth by shooting himself In tho H abdomen. Iluslness worries and tin H nnrlal reverses furnished tho motive H tor tho suicide. H 'Utah carried oft tho honors In con H noctlon with tho Intorstato exposition H of land and forest products nt '.ho lr- H ligation congress. Utah was given H seven trophies, seven cash prizes and H one Durham bull. H Luther Durbnnk, tho celebrated hot- H turlat and horticulturist, declares that K- ' tho Utah exhibit of ponchos at tho Na-H Na-H tlonal Irrigation congress In Sacra- H Bicnto was composod of tho finest M Xrult ho had over seen In California. B Tho constitutionality cf that portion B of tho now Juvenile court law passed HBb by tho last legislature requiring adults H contributing to tho del'uquency of chll- H dren to appear before tho Juvenile H court will bo tested In tho district and H supromo courts. H Tho proposed $1,000,000 passorr- B gcr station to be erected In Salt 1-nko M City for tho Short Line and Salt I-aku H route will In alt probability stand on H Immense concrete piles driven to n H i-reat depth Into tho clay subsoil of tho H Oregon Short Lino yards. H Nearly two miles of marching men M paraded tho stroets of Salt Lako City H In observance of Labor day. Tho lino H wna a little more than twolvo blocks H long and contained moio than 2,000 H when finally It returned to Fodorn- H tlon hall, whenco It started. H The secretnry of the treasury has ro- H Jocted all bids for tho extension to tho M public building at Ogdeu, Utah. Tho H reason that they wcro not acceptable H wr on account of now drawing of H xpeclficntlons for Uia further enlarge- H jr.ent of tho building which Is to bu H That litigation In Snll Lako Is In H creasing much moro rapidly than tho H population Is shown by tho August ro- H port of the county clot!;. During the H past mouth his receipts wore $3,905.38, M us compared with $1,817 for tho corn-it- H pending mouth last year, or an Increase H or J2.H8.38. M At the first meeting of tho Utah M State Poultry nssoelatlon, held In Salt H Lake City last week, it was decided H by tho association to gut In lino and H make tho poultry show one of tho H features of tho fair this year, putting H it upon n much higher plane than It H has been heretofore. H Tho State Humnno Sorloty, at a H meeting held Inut week, decided that H rourslng Is cruel, but desplto their H decision, It Is probable that tho Rrent H national dog matches will bo held In H Salt liko City next mouth, when tho H fastest hounds In tho country will bo H cent after thu rabbits. H A bam belonging to Councilman H ChrUtlnn Madsen, of Mnntl, was struck H by lightning and destroyed by tiro, Tho H barn, which contained twenty-live or H thirty tons of hay, u fine surrey and H farm wagon, and other vehlcloa, was to H tally destroyed, and only by bard work H was tho homo saved. H Governor Cutler will Lo required to H call a convention of reproentatlvo cltl- H :ciih froi tho towns and cities of tho H thiid class of Utah for tho purpose of H discussing tho matter of public town H libraries. The rcquei l- to romo H from the ofllco of the stato superln B tendent of public Instruction. H Arningeirents have been completed H by lomc of tho enterprising ranchmen H of I.lnwood, Utah, whoreby a stern- H wheel Btoainor will bo rut Into service H on Orceti river, ruunlne between Un- M wood and Oreen Itlver City, The boat H has been ordered and vlll bo peculiar H ly adapted to Uie shallow waters. |