Show ITEMS OF INTEREST floating fragments on the sea of events tins young ladies of se vior co are talking of organizing a brass band THE beavor woolen factory declared a dividend 0 15 per cent on saturday last they havo decided to a roller floering flouring flou ring mill after the latest designs in a short time A locomotive ran off the track at sandy on saturday there aras no interference with and the only loss was ake time taken to got tho iron horse back on tee track OB the salt lake eastern in parleys canyon has been suspended for the present the weather is so cold that it is too expensive to go on with for the present IT is said u parties will soon go east for tha purpose of floating bonds for the extension of the valley railroad to arizona where con lection will bo mado with tho alantic pacific railroad Os friday jesso gardner of springville Spring ville utah county was discharged from the penitentiary whore ho hansel red a term for living with his wives ho was sentenced to three months and was hold thirty days for tho costs IN utah during 1888 thero were thirty seven miles of railroad built this has all been narrow gauge and virtually by iho same parties though twenty two miles are credited to tho salt lake and fort douglas in its lines to mill creek andI Tort douglas and fifteen miles to the salt lake eastern from the junction with the salt lake fort douglas toward park city MONDAY afternoon chief justice sandford issued the following order to mr dark clerk of the third DIs court you aro hereby designated to at once take possession of the dockets records files and all papers i and property belonging to the office of the clerk of the supreme court of tha territory and take caro 0 iho same until a suitable person is appointed to anch office christian P nielsen Niel ses of moroni county wad released fraai the penitentiary he has served a terai of three months for living with his wives ho was aeo held thirty days for the costs he had baen informed by the clerk of the firpi district that ft was upwards of 80 and as ho could not pay this amount ho was kept whereas his friends could have raised the smaller amount had it not been for the eleria mistake A consisting of E E cowdell thomas scofield james dean and K curfew all holding important positions in tho beaver factory havo leased the factory at kingston chite county for civo years this has spindles aad six looms and tho new company will purchase additional machinery to make it equal to othar concerns of tho kind in utah and they will run it on first class principles ELDER H GEACE of nephi reached salt lake city sunday evening on his return from a mission he left homo april 23 1887 and want first to iowa in which state ho labored five months he boxt went to debraska Xe braska and labored in that state about seven months his next field was kansas in ho the remaining period of his mission tho prospects for baptisms in that part of kansas in chieh elder grace has been laboring aro A branch has boon organized there THE pennsylvania lines will make an inauguration rate to washington and return east of chicago at 1750 the railroads between chicago and th kiver mako an excursion rate for their part of the trip at 1250 while between the biver and utah the roads agree on a round trip rate thus making tho entire excursion rate from utah common points 70 the rio grande will have two special cars for tho tourists and ona party will go cast from pueblo and a second from denver february or will be the day to start and tickets over the pennsylvania lines are good for iho return not later than march ath THE right of way through los angeles city to tho los angeles salt lake and atlantic railway has been granted the franchise having absen signed thursday bv mayor john bryson this matter has been pending for some timo and has received more or less attention from the press and publicS This road is to be albranch of the union pacific company that corporation has for a long timo been anxious to be relieved of doing business in california with the the central pacific it has a road into southern utah and now that the work of securing tho right of way to the pacific Ocea ahas been completed another route connecting the east with the extreme west is one of the enterprises that will no doubt be pushed to completion in the bourse of time IN uintah county there is a large deposit of gilsonite which is really a fine dry asphaltum it is mined hauled about eighty miles to the railway at price and shipped east for manufacturing paints lacquers and varnishes G 0 baxter 0 st louis has a general agency for its sale for these purposes only and has been sending it to all parts of the united states and to paris london and berlin factories the out of the territory for tho year 1888 aggregated gre gated about three thousand tons the mines a organized in salt lake city there is but littile expense in mining but tho distance to hadj by team makes the cost on ears considerable tha company receives about 80 per ton on the cars TUESDAY aveling avening hon john sharp and le grande young esq left salt lake city for the east tasy will be in boston on the irth and attend the meeting of the union pacific directors the principal business to bo brought forward affecting this region is the extension ex of the road from milford to california there seems to bo Q very probability that this step will be favorably and that within a few months operations will commence on the extension another subject for discussion is the transfer of the utah northern when it shall bs made into a broad gauge into malad valley thus retiring from cache valley As to changes relative to union pacific interests in salt lako city if any aro made it is probable that the utah central will become the representative of the U P and will maintain its position as a distinct organization THE clip of utah wool for has been about pounds and was of a fair quality the hard winter notwithstanding in 1887 the clip from utah was pounds showing an increase of abent pound however utah in reality has shipped about our enterprising local dealers adjoining territories and purchasing wherever a desirable clip can bo found making utah in 1888 perhaps the eighth aag Sta tein the united states certainly a very gratifying outlook for the future the present arico of wool and mutton indicate that the season of 1889 will be ono of prosperity and profit now blood will bo introduced into all the herds the sheep industry will bo developed enormously or and utah will stand forth one of the great wool producing territories not only ia quantity but in quality there have been shipped and driven put of the territory during the past season near fat mutton kansas city chicago and omaha have taken most of them still nebraska has several herds still within her borders being fed for the spring market abc which time mutton sometimes brings more than beef |