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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The official canvass shown that the 70t at th e recent election wan 87 per tent of the vote cast in li'.'H. Last week a certificate of election was issued to Congressman Iving and he departed for Washington to take up bis duties at the capital. The Utah delegation in attendance at the recent Trans-Mississippi congress, con-gress, held at Houston, Texas, are now visiting in the City of Mexico. flishnpC. A. Madscn, president of tho .Sanpete-Sevier Sugar company, says that a sugar factory will he in operation opera-tion in Sanpete county by 1001. Congressman King'i plurality over Mr. Hammond, as shown by the official canvass, is 4,l!.r7. Hamlin, the Socialist Labor candidate, received a total of 6:J7 votes. The postoflice at Spanish Fork was burglarized on the night of the 18th, a number of letters, stamps, coppars and ahecka being taken, one check being for $r,00 and one for $150. A Salt Lake Chinaman gives a most unique excuse for tho poor condition of a half-starved skeleton of a horse he has been driving, declaring the animal is suffering- from insomnia. The Burlington surveyors have completed com-pleted the survey of that line into Weber canyon as far as Devil's Gate, and it is reported that work on the roadbed will begin within the mouth. The winter just past has been the mildest and dryest ever known in the deserts in the western portion of Utah, and on this account nearly all of the tlocka have been driven to the mountains. moun-tains. The evaporation from Great Salt Lake during- the course of a year is, according accord-ing to the records, eighty inches. If it were not for this heavy evaporation the entiro valley would ba inundated in a few years. The outlaw killed by a sheriff's posse on Green river has been identified as George Currie, one of the men implicated impli-cated in the train robbery on the Union Pacific railway near Wilcox-, Wyoming, about a year ago. Captain J. G. Doolitte, the Salt Lake ageut of the Frisco line, has departed for England with a carload of Utah horses, which have been Eclected by Mr. Doolittle for their fitness for service ser-vice in the Trausvaal. State Fish Commissioner Sharp has made arrangements for a shipment of sea salmon, which he will, as an experiment, ex-periment, place in the brackish water at the mouths of the rivers flowing into the lake, he believing that sea salmon will thrive there. The new Utah Society, Army of thfe Philippines, an organization composed of the former members of the Utah battories, entertained their friends at a grand ball in Salt Lake City on the 10th, at which Governor Wells led the grand march. The officers of Butte declare that Edward Marshall, the man captured by Salt Lake officers recen tly, is the man wanted for the murder of Mrs. Creech at Butte, Mr. Creech having identified him by a photograph, and he will be taken to Butte for trial. Lars P. Peterson, of Spaoisli Fork, suicided last week by hanging himself iu a chicken house. The serious illness of his wife, added to the fact that he has been mentally weak for the past two years, is regarded as the cause for the commission of the deed. The employees of the Salt Lake City Street Railway have been granted an increase of one cent an hour, and are now wondering how the company can stand it. In a hundred years this increase in-crease would amount to Sf,3i0 to each man employed by the company. Charles Cooper, ouo of the veterans, who helped to lay the foundations of 8alt Lake City, is dead. He was famous for his work as an image maker, and as a plasterer his work on the walls of the Temple and the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake does him great credit. In a week or so State Fish Commissioner Commis-sioner Sharp will start out with 50,000 trout for the streams iu Morgan county, 15,000 for the streams in Tooele couoty 15,000 for Juab county, and 20,000 for Summit county. In a few years Utah should be a fisherman's paradise. The plan of making the city prisoners prison-ers of Salt Lake work on the streets has been abandoned, it beinj argued that their labor cost more than it was worth to the city, and Zion will no longer be blotted from the itinerary of the festive hobo. Major Grant says that the statement made in a document purported to have been written by Aguinaldo saying the guns of the L'tah artillery were captured cap-tured by the Spaniards aud retaken and returned by the Filipinos, is an anti-expansion lie, pure and simple. Joe Loyud, formerly employed by the Utah Sugar company , has taken charge of the irrigation department of the Grand Island, Neb., sugar company, the company having decided to make the experiment of irrigating its beets, an4 wishing it done on the Utah plan. |