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Show UTAH NEWS. The president has i.isued a proclamation procla-mation setting asido the Fish lake forestry reserve, consisting of 109,920 acres. The soldiers at Fort Duchesne are being paid this month with checks sent out by the quartermaster's department. depart-ment. The I.'tah volunteers in Manila are not so anxious to be discharged now that active operations against the Fil-pinos Fil-pinos have begun. The city council of Salt Lake is considering con-sidering the proposition of compelling fortune-tellers and clairvoyants to pay a license of Si 00 a year. Klias H. Parsons of Salt Lake has been appointed a special army inspector inspec-tor and will proceed to inspect unserviceable unser-viceable quartermasters' property. Cattlemen are busily buying up all loose stock around Cireleville, and one wonders what will be left after they get through. Cattle are not so high as a year ago. Senator Rawlins' bill providing an appropriation for a public building at Salt Lake City will probably receive the favorable attention of the national house of representatives in a few days. The secretary of war has discharged Second Lieutenant Orrin R. Grow, Utah volunteers, light artillery, from the service of the United States, to take-effect March 15, the date of the expiration of his sick leave of absence. Judge Ililes has overruled the motion of Addison 1!. Jones to quash the information in-formation charging him with attcmpt- ing to murder Joseph M. Stoutt on December 9, 1898, at Salt Lake City, and Mr. Jones will be tried in the near future A salt bed has been discovered near Gunnison, and the owner will commence com-mence at once to develop his find. The find is along the same belt as the Salina and Willow creek salt beds, but is the nearest to the railroad of any salt in Utah. Senator Rawlins has presented in the senate the memorials of the Utah state legislature favoring the passage of the Wolcott bill, creating a new judicial district of the states of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Montana. Mon-tana. President McKinley has granted a commutation of two years of the ' sentence of Richard II. Cabell, who was convicted in Utah in 1898 of embezzling em-bezzling nearly 510,000 of government money and sentenced to four years imprisonment. Bank clearings in Salt Lake during the week ending Thurday February 23, as reported to Bradstreet's, show an increase, in-crease, as compared with the corresponding corres-ponding week last ear, of 35.1 per cent. But six cities iu the United States exceed ex-ceed this gain. The farmers of Cireleville are becoming becom-ing apprehensive of a dry season for future crops, that section having had no snow thus far this season. The temperature has been so pleasant for some time that many have commenced spring ploughing. The city council of Springville has declined a franchise to a local electric light company, declaring that they believe iu the municipal ownership of an electric power plant, and will endeavor to have the city put in an electric light plant. The Utah & Pacific is now about forty-five miles out from Milford. This leaves but thirty miles to be constructed to reach the proposed terminus at the state line. At the slow rate of one-half one-half mile a day the road could be completed com-pleted by May 1st easily. Frank Mcliride, ex-assistant postmaster post-master at Salt Lake City, who was convicted several months ago of embezzling em-bezzling government funds from the postoiliee and sentenced to eight years in the peuitentiary has been granted his freedom pending the decision on his appeal. EUvin Karen, an inmate of the county jail at Provo, came near losing his life last week by ptomaine poisoning, he having eaten some moat that had been cooked for some time and that had evidently evi-dently become decomposed. Prompt action upon the part of the attending physician saved his life. The county attorney of Rich county addressed the attorney-general asking if ordinances passed by the'eounty court of Rich county prior to statehood licensing merchant, are still valid. The answer was, that if properly passed in the first instance and not since repealed, they are still binding. The Mt. Nebo Creamery company has been incorporated with a capital stock of 52. 500 in shares of S5 each. The object of the company is to carry on a general manufacture of butter and cheese. The principal place of business is Mona, in Juab county. Leandor Anderson, who was serving a sentence in the Moab jail, succeeded in regaining his liberty last week by the judicious use of a hammer, a case knife and a stove poker. After he made his escape he stole a horse and has not since been heard from. |