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Show UTAH NEWS. The state auditor has commenced drawing" warrants for appropriations made by the legislature. .Scarlet fever and diphtheria has been raging in Mt. 1'leasant, and despite the rigid quarantine established a number of new cases are reported. The city of Salt Lake has contracted with Studebaker Bros., for twenty-five new hprinkling carts, to be delivered within the next thirty days. The Ctah and Pacific is nearing Htateline, and the contractors now believe be-lieve they will have finished their work before the l'.tli of May. The little one-year-old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel I'.ushnell, of Meadow, drank a cup of lye one day last week, and died in a few moments in terrible agony. No new cases of small-pox at Fort Douglas have been reported, and the quarantine being rigidly enforced, there is no fear that the disease will spread. State Game Warden Sharp states that there are thousands of quail of the Dixie species on Antelope island now, whore a small bevy was takeu a few years ago. Stockmen of Spi-ingville have sent a representative east to purchase a ear load of shorthorns, it being the intention inten-tion to int roduce a better breed of cattle cat-tle in that county. About forty California quail are to be turned loose near Fah'vicw, Sanpete county, ami in a few years it is expected ex-pected that section will become a sportsman's paradise. The newly created ollice of district attorney will not lack for applicants. There are already fifteen or twenty applicants for the position in each district, dis-trict, with several yet to hear from. Farmers who held on to their potatoes pota-toes are reaping a harvest now. Last fall many carloads were shipped at about ;iO cents per hundred. Now the price has risen to 80 cents per hundred. hun-dred. Corporal John T. Kennedy, of battery bat-tery A, 1; tah artillery, who succumbed to dysentery at Manila, enlisted from Park City. He was 2li 3'ears of age, unmarried, and came to Utah from Ottawa, Canada. F. J. Hills, a miner employed at the Pleasant Valley mine at Scolield, is in the hospital with his back badly strained and two of his ribs fractured, the result of a car striking him, and knocking him down. Scarcity of oats in the Ashley valley has made L'nele Sam look elsewhere for horse feed, and several tons of oats have been shipped from Orangeville to Fort Duchesne. They will cost the government S'3 per hundred, delivered. The governor has vetoed the eight-hour eight-hour bill and the bill relating to pub-lio pub-lio printing. The printing bill provided pro-vided that all public printing should be executed within the state, county or municipality for which the work was done. The attorney-general has rendered an opinion that if an oflicial uses a railroad pass, he has no right to make a claim against the public treasury for traveling expenses, holding that he should only be reimbursed for what he actually expends. A petition for the pardon of Harry Hayes, convicted of a triple murder at Pelican Point on April 1, 1890, will come before the board of pardons about April 15. Hayes will base his petition upon the -ground that George II. Wright committed the crime. Governor Wells has vetoed the item in the appropriation bill giving 88,000 to the salt palace project. The promoters, pro-moters, however, say the palace will be built, and some of them even insist that they never desired financial aid from the state, except from individual citizens. Three haudsome new business blocks are being erected in Mt. Pleasant. Iu addition to these improvements the city is now putting iu tine stoue pave-meuts pave-meuts at every crossing on Main street and is regrading the streets iu accordance accord-ance with a recent survey made by the city surveyor. A relic of the old mule car days has appeared on the streets of Salt Lake City. The car has been fixed tip as a moveable restaurant. The owner drives up to the curb, eouueets with the electric elec-tric light, and does a "land-office'' business while the restaurant men grind their teeth. Plaus are under way for a state fair to be held in Salt Lake City at the Exposition Ex-position grounds, beginning on the first Tuesday in October and ending on the following Saturday. The various committees will begin work at once in their departments. The Springville young man who held up four youug bloods of that city, just for a joke, has been released, the judge deciding that he was not guilty of intent to commit robbery. lie will probably refrain from jocular robbery in the future, however. |