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Show UTAH NEWS. A. coal famine is threatened In Salt Lake City. Mail Is not allowed to leave Emery aw, on account of the prevalance of smallpox. There Is a smaller per centage of the nnemployed in Utah just now than at aay time since the boom days. Policeman Randolph, of the Salt Lake orce, is in possession of a club said to hare been made from Aguinaldo's harp. Prof. George R. Mathews of the University Uni-versity of Utah died last week in California, Cali-fornia, where he hail gone in search of health. The farmers of Mapleton and Spring-villa Spring-villa have received their third and last payment for beets, amounting to about 13,000. The demand for coal throughout the state was never known to be so great, and mine owners are finding it difficult to fill their orders. Smallpox has broken out in Emery, Emery oounty, at last reports there being four cases, in two of whioh the aisease was very uuu. A company has been organized for the purpose of leasing the gas fields south of Salt Lake City, and a number ot new wells are to be driven. The state agent of an eastern boot and shoe house says his house has advanced ad-vanced their prices 10 per cent, and that prices will go even higher. A great quantity of frozen and partially parti-ally frozen wheat was disposed of to stockmen in Salt Lake last week at from 43 to 45 cents per bushel. Vloe-President Dodgo is quoted as saying that the Utah Central will soon be made a standard gauge line and that new rolling stock throughout will be installed. Homer Brown, of Park City, is dead as a result of injuries received in a oaveln In the Silver Kinp mine November Novem-ber 80. He was formerly a member of the Utah volunteers. A meeting under the auspices of the George Washington Memorial association, associa-tion, to commemorate the death of George Washington, was held in Salt Lake Sunday eveuing. The publio schools of Spanish Fork have reopened and the smallpox scare Is dying out. The patient has recovered, recov-ered, and the members of the Lindsay dramatic troup released from quarantine. quaran-tine. At a meeting of the exeoutiva committee com-mittee of the Utah Wool Growers' Association, As-sociation, held last week, fifty representative repre-sentative sheep owners of the state annnlnt. oc rl ..1 o o f frt f. a TWf Worth convention. The Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Manu-facturing Society has received the gold medals awarded to exhibitors at the late fair, and they are being engraved as promptly as possible. It is believed that all will be delivered by Christmas Fred Collins and Albert Smith, members mem-bers of Utah battery C, who had na ohance to meet the enemy during their last service, left for the Philippines last week to re-enter the service. They expect to be assigned to the Sixteenth infantry, in which is a number of Utah boys. For the purpose of repelling a remote posiibility of an epidemic of smallpox in the homes and in the schools of Salt Lako City, the board of education committee com-mittee on teachers and school work has ileclded to enforce wholesale vaccination. vaccina-tion. The conference of the governors of the arid states, which was to have been bold in Salt Lake last week, was indefinitely in-definitely postponed because of the fact it was discovered several of the governors gover-nors interested would be tmable to be present The medical superintendent of the State Insane asylum reports that on November 30 there were 291 inmates of that institution, 145 of whom are males and 140 females. Three were admitted during the month, one male and two females. The directors of the U tah Sugar company com-pany have declared a special dividend f I per cent. This, with the regular quarterly dividends of 2, per cent, makes the total dividends for the year just closing 13 percent, and also leaves a comfortable surplus on hand. Several cases of scarlet fever are reported re-ported from Dry Fork, fifteen miles northwest of Vernal, one case having proven fatal, and the town has been quarantined and the schools will be closed until all danger of a further spread of the disease has passed. Letters are being received by the sectary sec-tary of the state fair association asking for space at the fair to be held next fall, and it is expected the display next year will eclipse all of the previous exhibitions. ex-hibitions. The interest taken so far in advance is indeed gratifying. The deposition of Governor Steunen-korg Steunen-korg of Idaho has been taken to be used on behalf of the defense in the case oi Captain Fred J. Mills, charged with the killing of J. C. O'Melveney. The governor gov-ernor testified to the previous good reputation of the defend""- |