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Show UTAH NEWS. The White River L'tes are still threatening threat-ening to go to Colorado. The railroad property in Utah is this year assessed at 814. 457. 824. as against 81 1,446,758 for lHOS. An incendiary fire destroyed nearly all the stables a' Fort Duchesne, the loss to the government Oeiiig 64,000. For the first titnr. in twelve years, the state board of e ual i.a t ioc has decided de-cided not to change the county assessments. assess-ments. C. A. Nieisou. an Oregon detective, has been adjudged itisane by the Provo authorities lie imagined he was the Messiah. The Kiotlrrtnde Western will run a half-fare excursion front Colorado points to Salt I. tike and Ogden on August Au-gust 13th and 14th. James vers, member of the legislature legisla-ture from Summit county, has contributed contrib-uted 810,000 toward building the Catholic Cath-olic cathedral at Suit Lake. Anticipating a large attendance at the state fair, the management of the fair association has just ordered 75.000 tickets- 50,000 whole and 25.000 half A woman who hits recently been engaged en-gaged in selling liquor to Utes is being eagerly sought for by the officers, she having departed for parts unknown. The honoycrop in many parts of the state will be light this year. The backward spring is thought to be in a measure responsible for the. shortage. short-age. The I 'tali teachers who attende. the N. K. A. convention at Los Angeles are profuse in their praise of the hospitality extended to them by the poople of that city. A four-year-old boy of Mt. Pleasant fell feet first into a tub of boiling soap last week, but his clothing saved him from fatal burns. Xo wonder boys dislike dis-like soap. 'The Indian agent tit the White Rocks agency gives notice to all Utah sportsmen sports-men that it will not be safe to attempt to fish or hunt on the reservation without with-out a permit. An Oklahoma detective thinkshehas located l!ev. Francis Hermanns, who is wanted in Salt Lake City for murder, and has written for photographs of the missing minister. The Salt Lake food inspector savs a number of dairymen are embalming milk to keep it from souring, using substances that are injurious. The offending dealers will be prosecuted. There will be no lack of funds to give the returning Utah volunteers a magnificent reception. Governor Wells, from reports he has received, says the money can be raised in a twinkling. Last gear the total number of sheep in Utah was 1.590.735, assessed at S3,-801,721. S3,-801,721. This year there are 1.576,444 theep. which are valued at S2.S04.02S, the average value per head having fallen from 82.08 to SI. 81. The management of the state fair having offered a prize of S100 for the best picture exhibited, considerable interest in-terest has beeu aroused among Utah's trusts, both professional aud amateur, nd good results may be expected. A Salt Lake street car ran over a two-rear-old girl last week, she being seated in the middle of the track, and the bystanders by-standers expected to see her horribly mangled. The road-bed was low, however, how-ever, and she escaped wi thout a scratch. The tax levy last year was 4ls' mills for general state purposes and 3 mills for state school purposes. This year it is 5 mills for general state and 3 mills for state school purposes. The additional addi-tional half mill adds to the revenue of the 6tate S49.584. The assessment figures given out by the state board of equalization show that in 1898 there were 17.167 head of hogs in Utah, valued at S45.212, while at present there are 15,975, assessed, at 844,601, or S2.63 per head. This means four-footed hogs. The total assessment this year as re- I turned by the counties amounts to j SS4. 710, 729. as against SSS.742,135 last! year. Salt Lake county has the largest J assessment, S30. 283. 599. while San Juan ! has the smallest amount upon which to pay taxes, S222.09T. The Postal Telegraph Cable company . of Utah is the title of a new iucorpora- i tion. The capital stock is placed at ! 850,000. aud it is the intention of the ! company to proceed at once with the j exteusion of the company's lines into j Utah from Colorado. ! The Southern Pacific Railroad com- j pany has offered to pay for the trans- ! portation and installation of a state exhibit at the Paris exposition. Gov- i eruor Wells recommended au appropriation appro-priation to the last legislature, but it failed to act in the matter. Mining men of Utah are moving in J the matter of making a magnificent display of the state's mineral resources at Paris next year. The meagerness of the display which the government 1 will make is not satisfactory. The ex" 1 fcibit will do doubt be made. I |