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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The smallpox scaru hai subsided, tha disease now being unili:r control. The different pleasure reiorti of the the htal.e are an ticipa ti ng a heavy business. busi-ness. Never since tin; days of the boom ban there bt-tn Mich activity in building as at present. Fruit tren inspectors say the more marketable grades of apricots were destroyed de-stroyed by the recent cold spell. From all over the state comes the plaint that good carpenters are hard to get, they being in great demand. It is not believed the fruit crop, with the e.xroption of u prico! s, will be vory greatly injured by tin: recent storms. The public si-hools of Manti have reopened aflcr an enforced vacation of several weeks occasioned by the smallpox small-pox .scare. The Utah delegates to the TranH-Mi.ssissippi TranH-Mi.ssissippi congress at Houston, Texas, will probably visit the City of Mexico before returning home. Ford G. Ilarclay, a young Englishman English-man who recently resided in Salt Lake, Is reported among the killed in an engagement en-gagement with tl 10 Boers. A pet bear owned by a Salt Laker went on the warpath last week and after chasing' a couple of policemen for a block was dispatched by a butcher. Charles E. Merrill, of Logan, who pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful unlaw-ful cohabitation, was sentenced by Judge Hart to pay a line of S50, which has been paid. George Hunt was tried in Salt Lake last week on a charge of grand larceny, convicted and sentenced to two and a half years in tho state prison. Tie had robbed a man of a key and a knife. Tho Christian Union of Salt Lake, which last year made it interesting for Sunday liquor sellers at the pleasure resorts, has decided not to interfere in the matter this season. Klisha Teck, Jr., of Lohi, has sued the Oregon Short Line for 825,000 damages dam-ages for injuries received by being struck by a train on defendant's road while crossing ir a wagon. Deputy Sheriffs Dowse and Goldman of Salt Lake last week recovered and returned to the owner a horse and saddle sad-dle that had been stolen from a Plain City farmer over a year and a half ago. Two fifty-gallon tanks of naphtha in a sealed boxcar at the Kio Grande Western Wes-tern freight depot in Salt Lake exploded, ex-ploded, badly wrecking the car and scaring those in the immediate vicinity, vicin-ity, but no one was hurt. News has reached Fort Douglas that one battalion of the Twenty-third infantry in-fantry has been assigned to station at the fort and will arrive in July. The Tweuty-fhird has been on active service ser-vice in the Philippines. A contract has been closed by which the United States navy department will purshase 10,000 tons of Castle Gate coal, to bo delivered at Mare Island navy yard, California. This coal will displace the product of the Cardiff mines of Wales. Mrs. Margaret A. Caiue, secretary of the Utah silk commission, has sent out a letter which will iuterest those who are engaged and intend to engage in the culture of silk. She says that as the time for raising silk has come, those who are taking up the work should send requests for eggs, which can be obtained from the commission free. P. J. Donohue of Salt Lake and H. C. Baeoru of Montana have purchased a miue in Mexico, the records of which show that it was discovered in 1070, aud has been idle for nearly 100 -ears, but durimr the 12." years it was worked it produced S2, 000, 000, 000. The cases of John C. Graham, the postmaster who was recently removed from office at Provo, and Brigham H. Huberts; charged with unlawful cohabitation, cohab-itation, have been continued, that of Graham for the term, aud the Roberts ease till the 3Hh iust. Simon II. Adler committed suicide at the Provo depot by swallowing sis drachms of carbolic acid. Adler was chargen with embezzling SI30 from the New York Life lusurauce company, of which he was formerly an agent, and preferred death to disgrace. John D. Skerry, one of the oldest settlers of Spanish Fork, was found d,ad by one of his neighbors. He was sitting up in bod with a cigarette in ! his fingers. The cause of his death was acute alcoholism. He was a bachelor, aged 5'.1. aud lived alone. It had been decided to celebrate Dewey day iu the Xephi public schools, but since the admiral has entered the political arena, and after a heated dis- j cussion, the school teachers have de- j cided the celebration shall not take ! place, in the schools at least. Before July 1 the state of Utah will have floated an issue of ri:'.00,000 worth j of bonds to pay otf the bonds optional i for redemption at that date. These bonds are the second series issued by the former territory, bear 5 per cent i annual interest and were sold in 1S90. |