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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. I tah strawberries, are now 'on the market . Wheat and oa I s tun ti u ue in excel len t eorul il ion. A number of substantial residence and business houses are (icing erected at Wellington. On Friday last, .lune l. an army of "I:". i-n umera tors began the task of taking the twelfth census of I'tah. Kef men report that every thing looks favorable for a record breaking season in the honey yield, owing to the easiness easi-ness of the past ure. At tin; close of last week a little over SI .'1,000 had been paiil in for the relief of t he Seolield .sufferers and contributions contribu-tions are still pouring in. A u uld-t i i ne ra bbi t h nn t was indulged in at I'ai-owan one day last week, and Ki:! .scalps of Hie pest were brought in. A baniiiet and dance was had at night for those who indulged in the hunt. While David llultars, wife and son, of ('lark.slon. were crossing the big iron bridge which spans Hear river at lien, son, the struct lire collapsed, Mrs. Ilul-tcrs Ilul-tcrs receiving probable fatal injuries. Andy Anderson fell down a shaft in the llonoriue mine at. Stockton one day last week, but fortunately came in contact con-tact wi t h a t imber, which he caught, and escaped with a fractured rib and a few bruises. t ;,'fcrnor Wells declares the state will use every effort to capture and punish Uie murderers of Sheriff Tyler and Sum .lenkins of Grand county, and that suitable rewards will be olt'crcd. by the sta to. Kred Wilcox, a H-year-old Salt Lake boy, was thrown from his horse while watching the finish of the road race at Parinington on Decoration day, and received injuries which will doubtless result in his death. It is stated that '.'u.ooo laborers have been shipped out of Omaha to points in western Nebraska. Colorado, Wyoming', Idaho and I'tah this year to work oil the various railroads that are uovv indulging- in improvements. Tony Barker, formerly one of the shining lights in baseball circles of this slate, died at Salt Lake last week from diphtheria. The case was an unusual one as the patient was :):' years of age and was ill only a few days. The Democrats and Kepublicans of Sanpete county have decided to hold a , non-partisan convention at Kphraira ou J line lti, for the purpose of nomin ating- a candidate for t lie position of county school superintendent. Two jailers of Japanese working on the section were coming into Green river from work the other night on handcars, running a race, when a dog ran in front of one of the cars and threw two .laps under the wheels, the car parsing over them and injuring them seriously. The industry of making beer is on the increase in Salt Lake City, according accord-ing to the figures of the internal revenue reve-nue oflice. The receipts from the sale of beer stamps were over S2, 000 greater for the past mouth than for the tame period last year. A negro and a white woman applied for a marriage license in Salt Lake last week, but the clerk refused to issue the license, whereupon the pair departed de-parted with the assertion that they would keep traveling until they found a more complaisant county clerk. Ucbert Sykes, while at work at the llingham Junction auxiliary plant of the I'tah Sugar company, fell from tho top of the building a distance of over thirty feet, receiving injuries which have since proven fatal. Mr. Svkes was a resident of American Fork. Harry MelVrmott. a Salt Lake lineman, line-man, had a narrow escape from death while woaking among a network of wire. He received a shock of 2,000 volts, and lay unconscious on the wires until his comrades rescued him, and in a short time he was ready for work. Mrs. liertha Cardner of Aunabella has been adjudged insane and committed commit-ted to the asylum. This is the womau who recently jumped in a well, but was rescued before drowning. She has developed a suicidal and homieida mania. 1'avson's business men enjoved a ball game last week. Those on the west side of Main street played those j ou the east side, winning easily. That the game was a good one is attested by j the score :u to '.'ti despite the most i heroic efforts of both sides. The youngest traveler in I.iehtield is the :S-year-old son of Marticus Xielson. Last week he concluded to leave home and after a search lasting several hours was found rive miles distant, having walked all the way and waded an irrigating ditch is inches deep. At a mass meeting of citizens of Pay son attended by forty -six out of a to lal of i;.v: taxpayers, called to discuss the proposition of issuing .Slu.000 bonds 'o build a school house, it was decided by a vole of 34 to 12 to petition the school board to U, election. |