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Show UTAH NWS. Work upon the Rio Grande Western's bw depot at Park City has begun. Th first crop of lucern will be lighter than usual, owing to the backward back-ward spring. The past week has been the best growing week of the season and all crops have made rapid advancement. John Miller, a Salt Pake man accused of assault and battery on the person of his landlady, Mrs. Olsen of fi!S South Second West, was fined The Know, which has been held in the hills by the protracted cold weather, is now being sent down to the vaCev, and many streams in the state are very high. Burglars entered the Oregon Short Pine depot at Provo one night last week and rahsacked the trunks in the baggage bag-gage room, securing a number of articles arti-cles of value. In some of the southern counties water is scarce, but over the greater portion of the stale there is an abundance abun-dance at present, and will be throughout through-out the season. s Troop (', Ninth United States cavalry, caval-ry, arrived from Fort Duchesne this week and is now stationed at Fort Douglas. The troop comprised 102 oOlcers and men. Utah stands eighth iu the list of states for railroad building during the first half of the year. She is credited with fifty-three miles of road, alio' which is the Utah &. Pacific. Dealers in tailoring cloths report sales 25 per cent better than last jear, and attribute the advanced sales to the fact that people have more money and can better afford to wear good clothes. Ex-Police Captain J. J. Donovan, of Salt Lake, is running a dray in Dawson Daw-son City and doing well. Mike Sullivan, Sulli-van, who was also a Salt Lake policeman, police-man, is there engaged in the saloon business and doing well. Five miles additional track of the Utah A Pacific will be laid immediately, imme-diately, completing the road to Me-Cnna Me-Cnna station, the terminus of the road. The extension to Los Angeles will be by another company. Will C. Cleghorn was arrested in a half-dressed condition on the streets of Salt Lake. He is undoubtedly insane. in-sane. When arrested he said he had just called upon Brigham Young's first wife, who, he said, was a personal friend of his. He also believes he has been on earth 11,H8S years. Salt Lake county found an unexpected unex-pected aggregation of poor people when it attempted to assess some alleged al-leged wealthy citizens for large sums of money supposed to be in bank. After examining a number of them the commissioners volunteered to pass the hat to relieve the distress thev found. Mrs. James Pack and two children were thrown from a buggy in Parley's eanyon near Salt Lake, last week, the team becoming frightened at an approaching ap-proaching train, and overturned the vehicle. Mrs. Pack sustained a severe fracture of the arm and was brought to Salt Lake on the train. The buggy was demolished. Lieutenant Pearson of Draper, who was on the Olympia at Manilla when Dewey sank the Spanish fleet, has returned re-turned home on a visit. He was given a great reception by his neighbors and I relatives. He says the Utah boys are ! all anxious to get home, as the cam- I paign around Manila has been a hard I one. Mrs. James Milligau of Smithdeld oinmitted suicide on the 20th by drinking carbolic acid. She had been derauged for sometime past and a close waU-h had been kept over her. but on this occasion she succeeded in securing a bottle of eurbolie acid and swallowed the deadly poison before the family realized what she was doiug. President Jessie M. Smith of the Utah Woolgrowers' association and ex-Senator Arthur Browu have gone to Deuver to meet Colonel V. T. S. May, forest superintendent, and have a talk with him before continuing on to Washington to call on the secretary of the interior regarding the question of pasturing sheep on forest reserva tions. Company A. Twenty-fourth infantry, numbering sixty men, returned from the Coeur d'Alene country last week, where they have been on duty since the riot. They will have but a short rest before being sent to the Philippines. Philip-pines. ! The Salt Palace will be under roof j this week, and it is intended to have ! the structure completed by Pioneer ! day. Bas-? ball grounds anil a bicycle J track are being constructed. The j bicycle track will be ready for .races on the Fourth. John Lawson. section foreman of the ! Short Line at Milford, fell off his j velocipede, and was run over by an ' engine before he could get out of the way. He was brought to Salt Lake j where he underwent the amputation j of a leg. He will recover. I |