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Show UTAH NEWS. Sanpete county baseball enthusiasts are organizing a county league. Utah's contribution to the metal output of the world in li!)S was valued at 81 t,B.'.4,23.'..f)7. Utah's state flower, the sego lily, is in evidence on the hills, but in limited rjuan tlties so far. Denver papers publish a story to the effect that the Rio (Jrande Western will build a branch sixteen miles long at Price. There is some lively bidding in the southern part of the state for the branch experiment station of the Agricultural Agri-cultural college. The wool clip of Utah lias practically been disposed of, it bringing from 11! to lr ceuts. Twenty-one carloads were shipped from one point last week. Tho Danish citizens of Halt Lake county, on Monday last celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of constitutional liberty in Denmark. A bamboo cage containing four monkeys was received from Manila by a Salt Lake gen tleman last week. They will be placed in the Lagoon managerie near Salt Lake. A multi-millionaire of I'ennsylvaniai will in the near future erect a residence in Salt Lake City that will cost $135,-000, $135,-000, and will be one of the most costly residences in the west. All the laws enacted by the Third legislature became effective on June 1, more than three weeks late, owing to the fact that the printing contractors had not finished their work. Nearly the entire issue of the Utah Sugar company bonds have been disposed dis-posed of, there being but 1,000 shares of the M,r00 remaining. The initial payment of 10 per cent, on the new issue is-sue of stock was made last week. The circus people left one of their attractions behind when they departed from I'rovo. The bearded lady, it seoms, has been gradually becoming insane, and at I'rovo she became violent vio-lent and was committed to the asylum at that place. George M. Cannon has just completed a history of Utah banking, which will published in the lihodes Banking Journal, in which the interesting fact is developed that the first gold eagles minted in the United States were minted in Utah. Hon. Thomas Kcarns has donated 850,000 to St. Ann's orphanage, with which to purchase a tract of land and erect a commodious new building. Of this amount S2.r.000 has already been paid and the balance will be paid as soon as it is needed. Callin K. Stokes met with a painful accident in Salt Lake on Decoration day. While alighting from a moving 6treet car he fell, and a trailer passed over his foot, crushing it so that it was necessary to amputate the member just above the ankle. A special meeting of the Utah presbytery pres-bytery was held in Salt Lake City last week, at which all the Presbyterian ministers of the state were present, except four. A pastor was provided for Springville and Rev. II. II. Mc-Creery Mc-Creery was chosen as pastor at large to labor in the state. Guck Ying, the Chinese girl who occasioned oc-casioned a sensation in Celestial circles in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago by leaving home and then refusing to see her husband, Ong Hoy, is now in a mission home iu San Francisco, preparing prepar-ing for a mission to her native land. A benefit game of base ball was played in Salt Lake last week for Samuel R. Skidmore. the mail carrier who was seriously injured in a runaway run-away some time ago, the receipts from the sale of tickets aggrugatiug S4S2.70. Policemen and firemen were the opponents oppo-nents in the game. Charles Bishop, who was sent to the penitentiary from Frovo on June 12, lSi7, to serve eight years for burglary, escaped from the state penitentiary on the 30th ult. He dug through the floor with a staple screw and thus gained entrance to the work shop, where he secured necessary tools to effect his escape. Colonel Willard Young, who was in command of the second regiment, United States volunteer engineers, returned re-turned to his home in Salt Lake last week. He will leave for New Orleans during the week, having accepted a position with a company that has the contract for a new drainage sj-stem in the Louisiana metropolis. Sowing and planting has been completed com-pleted in nearly all portions of the state. Fall wheat is doing well, but will not yield as much as last year. Spring wheat and oats continue in good condition, while lucern is generally doing well. Residents on the banks of Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood s,y their fears of damages by high water have passed. The unusually un-usually cool weather caused the snow in the hills to melt gradually, and the streams while high have not become dangerously so. |