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Show UTAH SEWS. There has been more money made in Utah mining stock the past week than for many years past. Rabbit hunts are becoming the rage throughout the state and many of the bunnies are being de.sti-03'ed. The F. & M. Co-op store at Ferron was robbed on Sunday night and considerable con-siderable mnnev anil rroods taken. The Denver it Kio Grande's gross earnings for the first week of December Decem-ber were S1S5.Q00, an increase of S22,-300. S22,-300. The Utah baseball team at Manila leads in the race for the valuable cup offered by a prominent American citizen citi-zen of Manila. Christmas trees have been selling much cheaper this year than last, the dealers having made arrangements for large shipments. The return of Majors Young and Grant from their trip to Japan and China is chronicled in the last issue of The American Soldier, published at Manila. Notice of location of nine claims of lithographic stone, situated near Pleasant Valley Junction, have beeu filed with the county recorder of Utah county. A large number of cattle and horses are still on the range in the vicinity of Sage, but the recent cold spell will prooaDly cause tneir owners to round them up. The Utah Democratic club has decided de-cided to use the money in its treasury with which to purchase two bonds of S500 denomination issued by the Mormon Mor-mon church. The boss barbers of Salt Lake are organizing a union and will make a uuiform rate of 15 cents for shaving and 35 cents for hair-cutting, thus doing do-ing away with the 10 cent shops. A number of gray wolves were killed near Sage during the past week. These big wolves have been seen in large number recently, and they have made numerous attacks upon cattle and other stock. The fifth annual meeting of the State Teachers' association will be held in Ogden, December 28, 29 and 30. A lengthy program has been prepared in which the leading educators of the state will take part. John Craig, a prominent contractor of Salt Lake City, dropped dead from heart failure Saturday evening. The deceased was well known throughout Utah, having built some of the largest buildings in Salt Lake City. The Deseret National bank and the Deseret Savings bank have each decided de-cided to take Sno.000 of the church bonds, and Cashier Cannon of Zion's Savings bank is of the opinion that that institution will invest in S100.000 worth, but no definite action has yet been determined npon. Lieutenant Mills is lying very near death's door from an attack of malarial fever in Honolulu. Lieutenant Mills is first lieutenant of the company of volunteer engineer recently recruited in Salt Lake City. lie was formerly lieutenant governor of Idaho and later state engineer of that state. The Utah & Pacific has made ar" rangements to have a dozen or more wagon-loads of the best coal of Iron county brought to its line to be tested on the engines for a determination of its steam qualities. The company is at present having Sanpete coal delivered deliv-ered at Isephi for its use. On the Uintah reservation lives an Indian who for twenty years has refused re-fused to live indoors or wear any clothing. cloth-ing. Over twenty years ago he accidentally acci-dentally killed his mother, and the tragedy preyed upon his mind until reason was dethroned. He goes about stark naked, in all kinds of weather, and shuns all human habitation. What is regarded hy citizens of Utah as the best joke of the season is an item that is now going the rounds of the French press. The item is as follows: fol-lows: "According to the Journal dc Medicine dc Bordeaux of October 2nd, a French traveler in his tour of the world discovered at some twenty kilometers kilo-meters from Salt Lake City a lake whose borders were marked by an abundant crj'stalizntion during the winter. The translucent irregular crystals were found to be composed almost al-most exclusively of the sulphate with traces of chloride and carbonate of sodium. so-dium. Here is a sufficient quantity of saturated Glauber salt water, the Jour-j Jour-j nal remarks, to purge the whole of Europe." Glen, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kecse, of Eureka, was choked to death by a piece of candy being lodged in his throat. The accident acci-dent occurred at tho home of X. D. Ilowen. where a number of little ones were eating candy. W. E. l'crrit. a private in battery A, has been sentenced to a year's confinement confine-ment and forfeiture of $12 per month of his pay for abusing and threatening Captain Grant. The offense occured some time ago, but no such serious punishment was looked for. |