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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The creamery at Lehi Is handling dome 2,000 gallons of milk per day. Salt Lake's garbage crematory was destroyed by fire last week, the loss to the city being about 0,000. Manti capitalists are figuring on an electric light plant there, to be put up at a cost of Sio.ooo. Richfield will have v. grand celebration celebra-tion on July 21th. Dr. Carl Maeser will deliver the address. The Republican convention for the Sixth judicial district will be held in Marysvale on August 0th. The auditor of the war department has allowed items of SIS2.10 aud .$.14.02 on account of Utah war claims. The exchange of through registered mail pouches between Milford and Salt Lake City has been discontinued. Fully 4,000 tourists have arrived in Denver within the past week, thu major portion of whom held tickets for Utah points. The director of the census reported the latter part of the week that no re- j turns had been received at yet from Utah and Idaho. Weber county has sent in a claim to State Auditor Richards for 8174. Ifi, half of the amount of bouuty for killing kill-ing squirrels for the three months end- ing June 30th. j Articles of incorporation have been ; filed with the secretary of state by the Gunnison Co-op., organized to conduct a general merchandise business, with a capital of SO, 303, in 810 shares. Forty-five head of horses were sold at Castle Rock recently, at an estray sale, the sum received for the entire bunch being $103. The animals were sold at from 25 cents to 831 per head. A big naphtha launch has been installed in-stalled on Utah lake for the purpose of carrying passengers, aud the promoters promo-ters of the enterprise are of the , opinion it will prove a financial success. suc-cess. The first crop of this season's Utah honey is on the market. It is said to be. better than that of former years, and the indications are that the supply sup-ply will be more abundant than heretofore. here-tofore. Lieutenant White, who is in com mand at Fort Douglas, has received orders to prepare the troops under his charge for the tiip to China. It ia probable they will depart for the Orient within a mouth's time. The three pieces of statuary in bronze, the Indian, the Trapper and the pioueer group, to be placed with the Urighara Young monument, have arrived from New Y'ork. They will ba put in place on Pioneer day. William Harper and wife, Ida Harper, Har-per, charged with the murder of tlm two Penneys, of Kanosh, have been set free, the authorities having decided decid-ed there was not evidence enough against them to hold them for trial. Gordon Carter, a 10-year-old Salt Lako boy, while climbing a tree, fell to the ground, falling ou a sharp stick which penetrated his leg just above the knee joint and broke off. The little lit-tle fellow was almost dead from loss of blood when discovered, but with proper nursing will recover. A big wool deal was closed up last week when a Boston firm tied up 700,-000 700,-000 pounds, or about thirty-three carloads, car-loads, the sellers being" as follows: Deseret Live Stock compan3', 325,000 pounds; Wrathall clip. 125.000; Hatch Bros., 45,090; Egan clip, 25,000; Anderson Ander-son fc Bates, 125,000; Robbins Bros., 60,000 Members of the Utah batteries have arranged to give a representation of the battle of Manila at Calder's Tark, Salt Lake City, on July 1'ith aud 20th. It will be a state day, arrangements having been made with the railroads to bring people from all parts of the state at reduced rates. John Schwartz, a prisoner iu the Salt Lake county jail, died on Wednesday Wednes-day night iu the padded cell, where he had been placed while suffering from insanity superinduced by alcoholism. Schwartz had been arrested on a criminal crim-inal charge, and it is supposed the sudden suspension of the use of stimu-, lants caused his death. For jurors aud witness fees for the quarter ended June 30th warrants were issued by the State Auditor as follows: Weber county, S.41.10; Sevier, Se-vier, S218.90; Utah, 8309.00; Box Elder. 894; Wayne, 830; Sanpete, SOSO.OO; Summit, Sum-mit, S252. The school census of Lehi, just completed, com-pleted, shows a school population of 1012. Of these, 51.1 are boys and 497 are girls. These figures show an increase in-crease of 45 over last year, euounrh to fill another room aud employ another teacher. John J. Davis aud Martin Foster were cunght in a caveiu while working work-ing in a gravel pit in Salt Lake Cty, and covered with four feet of dirt. Foster escaped with slight injuries, but Davis was bovcrely crushed and fnuy not survive the shock. |