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Show UTAH NEWS. Another gas well ha been fonnd bear the Salt Palace ground la Sail Laka City. Hon. Aquilla Nebeker and Henry M. Ryan will build a smeller in the Buckskin Buck-skin mountains having a capacity A forty tons a day. O About 7, 000 rabbits were killed for the poor of Salt Lake, near Kelton, but the weather wai so warm they would not keep. The bank clenriny-i of Salt Lake City tor November were about '1,000,000, acceding those of last year for tho iitmr period by more than-5).', 000, 000. The residents of Deep Creek are anxious to have telephone communication communica-tion with the other parts of the itate, and are endeavoring to have a line built. The hand of Kot.e Ilai'inau,a 17-year-id Salt Lake, girl, wan so badly ruvhed in a collar and cuff mac hine in a laundry last week that amputation way be necessary. A published roster of the Utah batteries bat-teries with a view to religious rating, hows two Gentiles to one Mormon, the figures being, non-Mormons, 231; Mor-juons, Mor-juons, 113. , The Rio Grande Western has a corps oi engineers surveying in Garfield county on an extension toward the iron and coal fields in Iron county and on to the coast. An epidemic of scarlet fever has been raging in the School for tho Deaf and Blind at Ogden. There have been eleven cases, and one death. There have also been a number of typhoid fevor cases. The smallpox situation in Sanpete county is improving, and the fear of the spread of the disease has disappeared. disap-peared. A majority of the schools of the county have resumed, after having been closed two weeks. The will of the late Auditor Swan of Salt Lake has been declared invalid, because it bore no date nor acknowledgment. acknowl-edgment. It failed to mention the maine of his last wife, and a friendly nit was brought to have it set aside. Charles E. Schewed, a German, c-rared by morphine and whisky, took possession of the mailing room in the offices of the Rio Grande Western at Salt Lake last Friday, and smashed all the furniture, throwing it out of the transom. Officers had to break a window and capture him, although he made no resistance when cornered. A tomato can filled with layers of black and giant powder, with a dynamite dyna-mite cap in one end, was taken from a room of a Salt Lake lodging house which was recently oocupied by two . aien who claimed to have found the komb on the Rio Grande railway track ear the Salt Lake depot. Mrs. Mary Gorf, a pioneer, died at her Wome in East Jordan last week at the advanced age of 84 years. Her husband and brother survive her, and she also leaves three sous, two daughters, forty-aeven forty-aeven grand-children, eighty-two grent-g-rand-children and two great-great-grand-children, making a total of 136 descendents. Captain Brereton, late of the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fourth, stationed at Fort Douglas, committed com-mitted suicide at Santa Tomas, Philippine Philip-pine islands, last Saturday, while deranged. de-ranged. General Otis telegraphs he first manifested insanity November 29. Ho was wounded at San Juan while lending the regiment up the hill after the fall of Colonel Liscum. James D. Moore, who claims to be a Member of the Colorado volunteers who lately returned from fit Philippines, was found at the Short Line depot at Salt Lake with every indication of morphine poisoning, lie was taken to a hospital and will recover. He was -without money aud had been asked to leave his boarding house because he ould not pay. A fund has been raised to send him home as soon as he is able o travel. William M. Roylance last week hipped a train of potatoes to the northern market. The train was a special and contained fifteen cars, loaded with 10,000 bushels of potatoes. The train was made up in Spanish Fork, Provo and Pleasant Grove. This is the first trainload of potatoes ever shipped out of the state. Every car carried a placard advertising Mr. Roy-lance's Roy-lance's business. Mr. Roylance will leave here in time to reach the destination desti-nation of the train by the time it gets there so as to see to the proper delivery deliv-ery of the goods to the consignee. Oscar Eliason, the Utah wizzard, was shot and killed in Australia last week. Beyond the bare announcement announce-ment which came in a message to Paul Hammer, his brother-in-law, nothing is known. Eliason has been on a tour of the world for two years, and has met with success. Jim Nack and Lee Sing, Chinamen mployed on the Southern Pacific section sec-tion gang at Kelton, quarreled over a fame of cards, when Sing secured a butcher-knife and stabbed his opponent o th heart, killing him Instantly. |