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Show UTAH NEWS. The demand fur cottages in Salt Ukf City for summer use is far ia ex :ess of the supply. Haying lias commenced in the Green River valley, ami a large tonnage will be handled this 3'car. The Salt Palace buildings are being apidly pushed lo completion, a large force of men being engaged in their obstruction. 'I he State Hoard of Loan Comrnis-iioncrs Comrnis-iioncrs are making arrangements to sorrow about 875.000 to pot the state m a cash basis. Prof. M. E. Junes considers the lake is having reached its lowest point, and lhat it is now rising. It will continue o for a series of years. Abe Majors will not be executed on she day appointed by the trial judge, the matter having been brought before be-fore the supreme court. The Utah Sugar company has commenced com-menced laying the pipe-line that will connect the auxiliary plant at Spring-rille Spring-rille with the plant at Lehi. The last company of the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth infantry left Fort Douglas l'h ii r day of last week, and the state jf Utah is now garrisoned by two troops of colored cavalry. John Sharp, state llsh commissioner, aas deposited 12,000 young grayling 3sh in East Canyon creek and Silver ake, and fisherman will keep an eye n these places in the future. The foundations for the new sugar factory at Hpringville are nearly all in nd bricklaying has been commenced. The scale house has been built, and rvork will soon be in full blast. Thirty - three street sprinklers are cept busy in Salt Lake City, a total of 1, 17(5,000 galons of water, in 1,310 loads, being taken out daily, covering 709 blocks, and yet the citizens complain jf dust. The swor dwhich is to be presented to Lieutenant Pearson, Utah's repre-ientative repre-ientative in the battle of Manila bay, is a handsome one and cost about $200, which sum was raised by popular subscription. sub-scription. Utah mining men will have a gold itatue of Maud Adams. the act l ess. made for exhibition at the Paris exhibition. The statue will be li fe.-size and will cost 8000,000, the material to be used coming com-ing from Utah aiines. It is reported that Captain A. A. abaniss of company K, Twenty-fourth nfantry, well-known in Utah, is to as mine command of the post at Spokane' nstead of going to the Philippines with his regiment. He lias been itationed at Fort Assinuiboine for a ti me. Near Good Hope, in San Juan county, coun-ty, on the Colorado river, a Cliff Dwellers' village has been discovered by Charles V. Clinton, of Salt Lake City. A number of mummies have been discovered, and an expedition is lo be organized to further investigate the find. The 22-nionth-old daughter of Mr. nd Mrs. Thomas Braby of Mt. Pleas' aut wis drowned on the 25th by falling fall-ing into the creek. Although there were witnesses to the accident, the little one was dead before assistance arrived, the body becoming caught under a foot-bridge among a lot of driftwood. The Mt. Nebo branch of the Sanpete Valley railroad is Hearing completion, and the line will be in full operation next week. The company has been hampered in its work by delay in receiving re-ceiving tics and bridge timbers, otherwise other-wise the line would have been completed com-pleted before now. A girl was badly hurt in a merry-go-round at Mt. Pleasant, one evening last week. A support for a horse she was riding gave way and threw her, but as her clothing caught in falling, she was dragged twice around the machine ma-chine before it could be stopped. She was bruised and cut, but no bones were broken. Miss Libbie Bromley of Springville, who was one of the excursionists to I Saltair on the 29th, had a narrow escape es-cape from drowning while bathing. As she was sinking for the third time a gentleman, name unknown, rescued ! her. j O. E. Emory, the Utah long distance ! champion, defeated Oscar Julius, the Swedish champion, iu a fifty-mile ' match race at Salt Lake last week, j Emory wou a S2i0 purse besides break- ' jng.all state records from two miles up ' to fifty. John M. Wilson of Provo is disp'.av-iug disp'.av-iug with much pride five large bear skins taken from bears killed in Utah. One is said to be the largest ever seen iu the state. Three of them are silver-tipped silver-tipped grizzlies, one a brown and the other a black. Three fishermen came into Provo last week with sixty pounds of trout, ! which they claimed had been caught ! with hook and line, and commenced I peddling their catch. They were : arrested fcr illegally catching fish and i fined S10 e.ich. |