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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Sugar beets are being planted and aro coming up to a good Maud. There is now an excellent prospect for a good crop of all kinds of fruit. Utah produced TS7,25S short tons of coal during 1 i'.i'.i, the product for 1 -'.is beino; 5.'i'.i,7'iO short tons. Smallpox hai d isn ppeared from the vicinity of K'ooshareiii. Out of foiiy-two foiiy-two cases there was one death. Wool buyers are Hocking to the .southern .south-ern part of the state, the pries paid ranging from l.Vj to I0: . cents. A telephone exchange is being installed in-stalled at Spanish Fork and will be in operation within a week or ten das. The store of the Draper Mercantile company was burglarized last week, a large ft uiou n t of plunder being taken. At Lund fully 3, 000 sheep were being sheared each day until the storm came, which has caused a cessation in operations. opera-tions. There are 500 acres of sugar beets in tho vicinity of Spanish fork, just beginning be-ginning to make their appearance through the soil. There is a movement on foot among tho Grand Army people of Salt Lake to build a .suitable home for all the soldier organizations of that city. The state board of edncalion has decided de-cided to hold examinations during the summer in Logan, Ogdcn, Salt Lake l'rovo, Manfi and Cedar City. A Frenchman named Bernard ran am nek at Scolield one day Inst week anil made things ext rcinely lively until overpowered by the marshal. A lino vein of coal has been discovered discov-ered in the foothills about three miles from Moroni, the vein measuring four feet, the quality being first class. The board of education of Panguitch have decided upon tho erection of a twelve-room modern school house., the plans having already been accepted. A month ago there were thirty-one eases of smallpox iu Hoytsville, but at present there are only seven eases, and in a weeks' time that vicinity will be free from the disease. The efforts of the teachers of Farm-ington Farm-ington to prevent the early closing of the public schools have been crowned with success and the schools will be kept open for the full term. On April 2:i the ground iu the vicinity of Green River was covered with snow, which the oldest settlers say never before be-fore was known to happen at this time of the season in this section. ' The sowing of wheat and oats has been completed, and both of these crops are coming up and growing nicely, while the fall wheat continues in good condition. Early potatoes are also, being planted. Dr. F. II. Simmons, of l'rovo, who was charged with failing to properly label a bottle of carbolic acid, the drinking from which caused the death of George Choule3 last November, has been acquitted. While Thomas, Sellers of Scotield was returning to his home after dark he was assaulted by two men and beaten into insensibility, kicking him in the face and ribs, a long-standing enmity being the cause of the attack. During a sham battle between members mem-bers of the National Guard at Salt Lake, Sergeant Knudson shot Private Parry in the arm, the missile being a piece of soap, with which the cartridges were wadded, indicting a slight flesh wound. Two gypsies, a man 'and a woman, have been arrested and lodged in the Mauti jail, charged with the murder of the two Peuueys, father and sou, who disappeared some time ago while on a prospecting trip in the mountains near Kanosh. The Chicago Tribune makes the statement state-ment that "Governor Wells of Utah is a student of experimental chemistry and spends much of his leisure time in his laboratory." This is doubtless a piece of startling news to Utah's chief executive. Arthur S. Wallace of troop I. Ninth cavalry, stationed at Fort Duchesne, quarreled with Fred YVaddell, the company com-pany cook, when the latter struck his antagonist a biow over the head with a potato masher, inflicting injuries which proved fatal. A well dressed middle-aged woman of Mill Creek asked for and was grauted a night's lodging at the Salt Lake police station, she having missed her conveyance convey-ance homeward and preferring to sleep at the city jail rather than pay for her bed at a hotel. Daniel Elton, a Salt Lake cigar-maker, cigar-maker, while throwing a baseball, broke the bone in his right arm just above the elbow. He did not strike the arm against any object, but with tho j twist given it iu throwing the boue j was snapped square of:". j A picture of the bandit killed a short time ago by Utah officers was sent to Surveyor General Hanson of Wyoming, who declares the likeness is that of George Currie, the notorious llole-in-t he-Wall band ., thus settling all doubt as to the identity of the dead man. |
