| Show A SPECIAL interest atta clies to the an cual reports of the life service v of the united states on account of the difficult and often perilous character of tho service rendered official reports and statistics bacomo interesting and even entertaining when they record alie brave and gallant deeds of the men who are deputed to the work cf saving life and property upon the stormy and dangerous aea coasts of the country work of this kind cannot be r perfunctory way and so it is impossible even in offilus Lul documents to squeeze out all of the and romance from of shipwreck and rescue that come within the survey of the govern ment agents the number of disasters to documental vessels within tho scope of the lito saving station operations during tho year as yet is then was on board these vessels per of whom only twelve were lost the number of shipwrecked persons who received succor at the stations wn to whom 1893 days relief in the aggregate was afforded the estimated value of the vessels involved in the disasters was and that of their cargoes making the total value of imperiled 9 of aliis amount was caved and djs lost the i number of vessels totally lost waa 74 1 th number of lives lost in proportion to tha number of persons on board the vessels involved is lees than ever before being only ona out of every two hundred and thirty two in the saving of property the exhibit is also very gratifying i showing more than eight dollars saved for every dollar expended senate on tuesday faulkner introduced the bill proposed in the housa last session by laird for the establishment of a pure food division of the department of agriculture to provide for the inspection of live stock about to be slaughtered at slaughter tei houses canning salting packing and rendering establishments alie carcasses or products of are intended for honmau consumption in any state or territory other than eliere clr or for exportation por tation to foreign countries and to prohibit the introduction of adulterated or misbranded mis branded food or drugs to be taken into any state or the district of columbia from any other state or territory or foreign country the bill is a good one and should be passed the idaho legislature is composed of a beet on wednesday wheeler of bingham county introduced a joint memorial to congress against statehood Stata hood for utah and praying for the creation of a legislative commission under a suspension of the rules the memorial was read the first second and third times and passed by a vote of twenty three to one dehaven a democrat perces county voting in the negative the council toola up the memorial yesterday and passed it unanimously congress will undoubtedly appreciate the talent of which the I 1 idaho legislatures have of late years been composed A DISPATCH from washington yesterday saya the house committee on territories today to day decided to call ap the bill of representative baker tor the admission of south dakota on january 15 under the resolution of the house making the question a special order from day to day after the baker bill is taken up it is proposed to substitute for it the omnibus bill agreed upon by the democratic caucus and bring the latter up every day until it ia finally acted upon by the house the committee decided to give a hearing on january to all persons interested in bills for the admission of utah A attempt will be margin the present congress to reduce poat ae to ono cent per it seems probable that such a reduction will not be a long time coming even if it should tail in the present cession at first the reduction would run the postoffice post office department part ment behind but it gouid not be for long every reduction made stimulates the amount of letters sent and thus brings the revenue up to the old point SOMETHING of interest to land settlers transpired in congress tuesday when the house committee on public lands ordered a favorable report on the hill to allow persona ft ho have been compelled to abandon or relinquish homestead entries on account of drouth or other good cause to take out another entry in place of the abandoned claim ane supreme court of wisconsin recently held that a broken ticket with th words not good if detached on it was bood if both pieces were shown to the conductor and awarded a verdict against the northwestern road of SOO for a passenger off under such circumstances THE republican publican Ee senate hag rejected thal bill to establish a home for disabled confederate soldiers aal sailous and passed hill amending the present pension laws by limiting the total amount to ba paid out annually to 50 KIVER is still notwithstanding the offer of made by the buffalo business mens association to the genius who shall control aad utilize its vast power now going to waste at an incalculable rate THE assistant doorkeeper door keeper of the en ate Capt Bassett has been in the ciu loy ment of the government 57 alf EQ received his appointment as page influence of camol web the eio grande will run its freights between denver and ogden shorter by twenty four hours than the present schedule and will put on regular local freights between springville Spring ville and ogden the companas comp anys volume of business is rapidly increasing the new time card takes effect sunday there seems to 09 plenty of individuals desirous to servo in the capacity of united states marshal for utah after march ath ex commissioner mckay is now said to be one of those who are doing their level best to get the appointment A basket has been placed in the window of a salt lake drug store with the following sign attached this basket is for the poor childrens christmas tree drop a pound of candy in it and a ia the kids laugh this ia good advice and should be heeded mr george smoot was united in matrimony to miss mary larsen en wednesday iu the manti temple A reception was the wedded couple at the residence of hona 0 Smoot the bride grooms father last evening have you heard the latest no chatis it why its all over tofu you dont say 1 what is it dudl oh the utah Commission has at last ad until april ast 1st and the members have all returned to their alstern homes with the of hon A L thomas who resides in the territory de ember SS will be christmas sun layat procter academy hall subject tho hyill be christine angele haa run a the jury in the hall insider rase at retired to room for orations erat ions p TO on monday aai the prepared verdicts for the various stages qt the crime for murder in the first degree down to not guilty were handed to them zearly half the audience left the expecting the jury would be out some time the other half remained expecting a speedy verdict the verdict was returned at and was found to be one of voluntary manslaughter this crime may be punished by imprisonment for an term not exceeding five years in the discretion of court december a fixed as for sentence A kuung roan w ile hauling ties for tha salt lake eavern at the head parleys canyon tuesday met with quite a dorioa the team b camf frightened by a tie falling on them and started to run ih rowing the drivel violently to the groi nd he sustained a compound fracture of the thigh th bone protruding through the tiesh if is thought by his physicians that amp i tation will probably be necessary the penitentiary deer was on a rampage monday and started after some salt lake children following them home and attacking their mother mrs grismon who came to the rescue the deer struck her with its head knocking her down and breaking her arm she would probably have been more severely injured biad not assistance Cr rived |
