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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The law placing a $1 bounty on coyotes went into effect last week. An electric light plant is being installed in-stalled at Spring City, it being the intention in-tention to have the system in operation opera-tion by June 1. The directors of Saltair Beach have flecided to continue the "dry" policy, nd no intoxicants will be sold at that resort this summer. C. L. Hutchlngs of Brooklyn received re-ceived bruised legs and right arm and a fractured rib by being kicked by a horse a few days ago. The report comes from the northern portion of Sanpete county that the grasshoppers are hatching out in places in greater quantities than ever before. Levi Green suicided at Layton last week, shooting himself while under the influence of liquor. Green protested pro-tested that the shooting was accidental. acci-dental. E. S. Bates, a cook on a Rio Grande Western dining car, while standing Dn the platform, while near Soldier Summit, fainted and fell from tho train, receiving severe bruises. It is claimed that wine producing grapes can be raised in this state at less cost than in California, and that Utah has thousands of acres of land that could profitably be used in grape-ralslng. grape-ralslng. -.. Pupils of the Bryant High school of Salt Lake City last week published a paper, a single issue of which netted its publishers $000. The money Is to be used In helping pay teachers' salaries. An Athletic club is to bo organized In Salt Lake City, which will have backing to tho nmount of $20,000, and It Is tho Intention of the promoters to put In bids for some of the big fistic contests. Grasshoppers are hatching out in such great numbers In parts of Sevier county as to cause considerable alarm. The pests have already attacked young and tender plants on a number of farms. J. W. Morrison, a piano tuner of Salt Lake, has fasted thirty days, suffering suffer-ing from a strange loss of appetite. He worked the first nineteen days, and says he feels no 111 effects, except ex-cept a slight weakness. A corps of engineers under the direction di-rection of State Engineer Doremus, is at work on the preliminary surveying survey-ing for the system of waterworks which is to be put in at Mt. Pleasant during the coming summer. Francis Tiernan, who came to Utah in 1SS9 and orgauized the Utah, Nevada Ne-vada & California Railroad company, which proposed to build a line from Salt Lake City to the coast, died in Now York City on the 15th. An Ogden woman last week found a small bit of gold In the crop of a chicken which had been sent her by her husband from a ranch in Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The gold was submitted to an assay er and found to bo worth ?1. The difference between the Stonecutter's Stone-cutter's union and Salt Lake federal building contractors has been settled, and what might have been a general strike that would have paralyzed the building operations of the capital city has been averted. |