Show UTAH NEWS Mercur Is to have u telephone exchange ex-change Forty ltvo alloans werc natural I ml at Provo on tho 1th and nth 4 025032 acres ot nubile lands have boon surveyed In Utah this year Tho military deuaitment of the AgrIcultural Ag-ricultural College hiS all attendance of 109 Mrs J B Rawllniis wife of State Mine Inspector has been granted a divorce I Utah county furnished live bands and soven drum corps for the Republican p Repub-lican rartlflcation e I Charles Friedman a Colorado cattle 2 rustler badly wanted has been arrested 11 v arrest-ed In Ulntah county and removed to Denver The International Fire Chiefs in session at Augusta Ga have decided that they will hold their next coven tlon in Halt Lake The Logan Council passed a resolution resolu-tion denouncing the newspapers for demanding the resignation of OIly Attorney Reavlll A miner employed In the Wasatch mine at Coalvllln was Instantly killed on the 5th lust by top coal falling on him lie leaves a wife and live children chil-dren John Starr of Nephi a inaniacand at the point of death from the elTectu of being stung by a spider while working work-ing in a cornlleld lie is 30 and married mar-ried Mayor Baskln of Bait Lake City has temporarily suspended Capt Donovan of tho Police force pending the investigation in-vestigation of charges preferred by Chief Devine of the lire department A meeting of the Territorial Irrigation Irriga-tion society was held in Salt Lake tho 5th It was urged that societies be organized every county with a view to securing Irrigation legislation Itfairlleld l on the line of tho Salt tko cv Mercur railway will have a depot owing to Increasing shipments from Camp Floyd district The station sta-tion will be completed In two weeks Willis Isaacson a 12yearold boy of Weber county was shot In tho face by Charley Clark another youth while hunting The charge entered his breast and face but will not be fatal Selectman Geddes of Salt Lake has reported that there are 100 families comprising 500 persons who are dependent de-pendent upon charity now and the number will Increase as tho season advances The trial of Coughlln and George has been set for Oct Ulst at Ogden It I Is expected there will be a stubborn light and a lengthy trial Col A U Hays of Ogden has been appointed to defend them Sheriff Pope of Ulntah county arrested ar-rested Clarence Wood ward alias Henry Hen-ry Johnson In Salt Lake tho Oth on a charge of wholesale horsesteal i rig It is charged he sold one of the horses to Sherlll McKellar of Tooelo county I The sheriffs of Utah have effected an organization and will work more systematically lu apprehending evildoers 1 evil-doers Hardy of bait Lake county was elected nresldent and Wrlulit of fr J Weber and lirown of Utah vice pivsl dents Tliu first annual session of the eisteddfod eis-teddfod proved to be an unexpected success rite Tabernacle was unable to accommodate the throngs attending attend-ing It was a great liuanclal success The next session will probably go to I Denver Tho Republican territorial ratlll cation under the auspices of the territorial ter-ritorial committee was held In Salt Lake the evening of tho Gth Hundreds Hun-dreds of dollars worth of fireworks were burned and considerable enthusiasm enthu-siasm engendered Alfred Llnd of Ogden who was three weeks ago pardoned from a six months sentence for Indecent exposure expo-sure was arrested again tho 4th for attempted rape on a six yearold child Charge not sustained but was lined 390 and ninety days in prison for indecent In-decent expesure The San Francisco Examiner prints a story to tho effect that a newly Hedged Salt Laker by the name cof Gray 1 NorrIs has a very active senatorial sena-torial bee in his bonnet lie came to Utah from Washington D C The Examiner states he drew on Collls P Huntington for 20000 with which to run his campaign Others were favored J fa-vored for similar amounts I Marcpllus Nelson a Salt Lake attorney I attor-ney has been held to the grand jury in the sum of 1000 on a charge of stealing a ladys watch and chain the articles having been found In his cellar cel-lar lie spent four months of last I year In jail An Idaho olllcial says Nelson Is wanted In that state for deeds perpetrated before coinhig to ZIon A large number desert land entries en-tries have been made In Washington county along the Rio Virgin river where a number of citizens have or gatiled to take out a big ditch near Rockvlllc The purpose Is to takeout a lich ten miles long to cover fifty thousand acres of land It Is Jo largest lar-gest project of the kind ever undertaken underta-ken In southern I Utah The session of Conference just closed clos-ed Is said to be the most gratifying Inlpoint = of attendance and Interest over held So crowded was the city of Salt Lake with conference visitors and those attending the eisteddfod and Republican ratification all com lug In conjunction that tho throng could scarcely be accommodated About fifty people slept In chairs at one hotel being unable to secure beds at any price The rate war between the railroads helped to swell the attendance at-tendance r J |