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Show UTAH NEWS A new postoftice has been established it Ransom, Cache county. Annie E. Wilson of Salt Lake City has been granted a pension of 83 per month. Governor Wells commissioned two notaries last week. They were Nils P. Rasmusscn of Juab county and Joseph J. Snell of Salt Lake. Major Henry Page, recently appointed ap-pointed commissary of subsistence in the volunteer army, has departed for his station in Porto Rico. ''he young ladies of Price played a game of base ball with a nine composed of young men. The score stood 18 to 16, in favor of the ladies. The clearings for August in Salt Lake reached a total of 87,129,198 as compared with 80,302,642 for the corresponding cor-responding month in 1897. The Woodmen of the World, Pacific jurisdiction, next head camp session and circle session of the Women of Woodcraft, wiil be held at Salt Lake. The North Cottonwood has been stocked with 2500 trout, received from Colorado, and the stream has been closed to fishermen for the next three yeara. Michael Holland, the largest individual indi-vidual owner of sheep in eastern Utah, has sold 7,000 head of sheep to Taney Bros. The price paid was 83 per head, thus the transaction involved the exchange ex-change of 821,000. Ben West met with a very serious accident ac-cident at the Yankee mine, in American Ameri-can Fork canyon. While working inside in-side a large rock fell on his head, rendering ren-dering him unconscious for a time. He is, however, slowly recovering. George Gifford, a fireman on the Rio Grande Western, fell from a moving train while discharging his duties, and was fatally injured, dying soon after reaching the hospital. He was 34 years of age and leaves a family. After hearing the evidence in the case against Max Seufert, charged with involuntary manslaughter in running down and causing the death of George Halsett, at Salt Lake, the examining magistrate decided there was not sufficient suffi-cient evidence to hold Seufert for trial. Louis Woolsey, the 9-year-old lad who was arrested recently in Salt Lake on a charge of house-breaking, ha been bound over to await the action of the district court. The young burglar admitted that he had obtained small sums of money from the till of Mr. Savage at different times. Failing to secure bonds he went to jail. The expenses incurred by the state of Utah in the recruiting and enlistment enlist-ment of volunteers for the war aggregated aggre-gated S945. Governor Wells has forwarded for-warded to the auditor of the war department de-partment a statement, with receipted vouchers appended, showing the ex- penditures in detail. The auditor ha announced his readiness to take tip the properly presented claims of the various vari-ous slates and Utah's will be paid in its turn. Confined in the Keogh-Hosmer hospital hos-pital in Salt Lake at present is A. J. Kenyon, who came very near having his light put out in the Stewart mine a few days ago. Ken3'on, who was employed em-ployed as a miner, had missed a shot and after a short interval was returning return-ing when it fired, a fragment of rock striking him on the arm and breaking that member, while another piece reached his head, inflicting a painful wound. A very distressing accident occurred September 2, by which Emil Seheen-feldt, Seheen-feldt, a child 3 years of age, was cut in two and instantly killed by the Short Line special while leaving Garfield Beach. The boy had started out in search of his father who was working in that vicinity, and becoming tired, he sat upon the track, when the train ran over him, with the above result. re-sult. The boy is the son of FUmil Schoenfeldt and grandson of Counselor Sehcenfeldt of Salt Lake City. The 12-year-old son of Alfred Doutre of Warm Creek, while playing with a pistol shot himself through the thigh and died from excessive hemorrhage. The boy, with an older brother, was twenty miles away from home when the accident occurred. While workmen on the Rio Grande Western near Snringville were digging a posthole they discovered a human skull, which is believed to be that of Squash Head, an old Indian who committed com-mitted suicide iu that locality in the early history of the town. Joseph Campbell, who claims to have his residence in Salt Lake, was found in a demented condition in Cedar Valley, Val-ley, and sent to Provo for treatment. The doctor pronounced the trouble a case of apia, which he thinks was brought on by a sunstroke. Curt Smelser, one of the members of troop I, of the Torrey rough riders, who went away from home at the time the men enlisted, has returned to Salt Lake, having been discharged by sickness, sick-ness, which incapacitated him from further duty- |