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Show Utah's admission into the Union will be verified. 1 Special Correspondence. Salt Lake's Midsummer Carnival. SALt Lake City, May'30, 1896. The Hermans murder mystery, the Democratic State Convention and the Hynds murder trial have been the principal subjects for conversation, con-versation, but one, during the past week in Utah's capital. The one exception is the Midsummer Carnival. It is on everybody's lips. Never before in the history of Utah has there been so much interest manifested man-ifested in a project. Never before have business men contributed so liberally to a fund, and never before I has the State at large shown so much enthusiasm over a celebration. It will be the first State celebration Utah has ever had. It is the first time that Utah has invited the world to participate in festivities arranged within her borders and for her own aggrandizement . During the three days' celebration there will be more' enjoyment massed together than there has been in any one year in any other place since the West be-amoc be-amoc part and parcel of civilization. Three grand parades, a grotesque parade, a graet ball, the grandest concert ever programmed, the most interesting band contest, the most magnificent fireworks display, the only floral festival, bycicle and horse races, excursions to the famed Great Salt Lake, Utah's brightest , and warmest orators, miles of floats, depicting the material resources of Utah, and the enterprise of manufacturers man-ufacturers and merchants, and last, but not least, Utah's most beautiful daughters, and thousands of her brightest school children will participate. parti-cipate. Salt Lake City will be a mass of bunting. The buiness houses will be handsomely decorated, private houses will be covered with gaudily colored lanterns and the national colors. By day the streets will be scenes of beauty, enterprise and enthusiasm; by night the houses will be illuminated and the peaks of the Wasatchbright with the fires of welcome to the thousands of strangers stran-gers a glad and prosperous people will ignite. From the East and the West, from the North and the South come tidings tid-ings of good-will and cheer. Utah's outside towns will swell the great throng by at least 20,000, and the predic tion that 50,000 people will unite with Salt Lake in celebrating |