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Show UTAH iNUWS. I'arowan will have a new roller mil' in the near future. Last month there were employed by the Oregon Short Line between 3000 and 4000 persons. Senator Cannon and Rawlins and Kepivsen tati ve King will itnJ the holidays at their respective homes. The surveyors in southern Utah are busy near- Cedar City loeating lines, presumably to tap the coal and iron near there. The large t-O.OOO-pound.s capacity coal cars recently built atSalt Lake by the Oregon Short Lino are proving a great success. The oflieia Is of Springvillo have begun be-gun a crus.ule against liquor sellers, arid are making it extremely warm for .violators of the law. Augustus Kobbins, a I'Yenehman, was tried at i'rovo, the charge against him being that he was insane. The judge's decision was: "Not crazy; only a I'Yenehman." Salt Lake City marksmen are organizing organ-izing a grand rabbit hunt to take place near Oxford, Idaho, on January 2. 'The proceeds of the hunt will be devoted de-voted to ebaritablo purposes. ! 'The demand for church bonds con- tiiuies. Various corporations throughout through-out the state are among the applicants, besides the numerous individuals. It is said at the church office that there Is no doubt but the demand for the bonds would bo largely in excess of the issue. Commencing January 15, the Rio Grande Western Railway company will reecivo five new boxcars a day from the Missouri Car and Foundry company. com-pany. 'This order has been placed in anticipation of the enormous crops to bo raised in Utah during the coming season. There will bo no turkej-s raffled In the Salt Lako saloons this week or next, nor at any other time. This is the order issued by Chief Pratt, and while it is unvveleome to the saloon man it is extremely gratifying to the man who plucks and sells poultry for a livelihood. John Gammon of Provo had a narrow nar-row escape from death while returning from a hunting exposition with several sev-eral other boys. One of the boys in ' the crowd accidentally discharged his gun and the ball entored young Gammon's Gam-mon's thigh. Good nursing will bring the lad through. Judging from the number of Christmas Christ-mas presents mailed from the different f tab postoflices this year, good times have indeed come again. Never in the history of the state have so many parcels been handled by the postoffices as during the past week. The house committee on publio build, ings and grounds has decided to make a favorablo report on the Kawlins bill for a public building in Salt Lake City, The report will be presented immediately immedi-ately after the holiday recess, and Salt Lakers hope to see the building under way in a short time thereafter. The public school children at Park City have in the past been in the habit of clubbing together and buying suitable suit-able presents for their teachers. This year, however, at the suggestion of the teachers, the fund raised by the children child-ren will be used for the purchase of food and clothing for the deserving poor. Secretary of State flaramond has issued is-sued to lirigham II. Roberts, congressman-elect, and to Robert N. ISaskin, justice-elect of supreme court, certificates certifi-cates of election. The certificates are lithographed, and bear date of December Decem-ber .10. Thej- were issued in pursuance of law and the orders of the state canvassing can-vassing board, the recipients having been declared elected by a plurality of votes. . A Provo man has received a souvenir of the Cuban war in the shape of a cane. The wood is red cedar from the floor of the tower of Morro castle, Santiago San-tiago de Cuba. The cap is a sea shell taken from the ba- under the sunken Merrimac. Inlaid near the top of the cane is a small stilletto, taken from an old helmet in one of the archives of Santiago, a small machete from an old armor breastplate and small pieces of wrecks with monograms. The outside brass ferrule is from a shell of one of the rapid-firing guns, and the inside ferrule a part of a spyglass taken from the deck of one of the Spanish cruisers, and other pieces of material in the cane have a history. Chief Engineer West states that the coal now being used on the Utah & Pacific railroad from Sanpete is excellent, excel-lent, and several more carloads have been ordered. This will prove of great benefit to the Sanpete Valley road. Albert S. Snowdenof Salt Lake City, who enlisted in the Fourth United States cavalry on May 27 and afterward after-ward went with his command to the Philippines, is dead at Manila. The immediate cause of his death was malarial ma-larial fever. |