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Show UTAH NEWS. Another big shipment of Utah flout to China will be made in tho near future. Subscriptions amounting to nearly 8 1 0,000 have al ready been pledged fur stock in the Halt palace. The sugar faetory at Lehi lias let a contract for 300 acres of beets in Spanish Span-ish Fork for next season. This season Gunnison produced 100,000 bushels of grain and about 75,000 pounds of lucerne seed. The Utah and Paeilic has been completed com-pleted to Sulphur Springs and passengers passen-gers are being carried on the construction construc-tion trains, which make regular runs every day. Bogus silver dollars have been discovered dis-covered in circulation in Sal t Lake City, tho appearance and ring of the coin being very deceptive. The imitation, however, is merely silver plated. State Auditor Morgan Richards lias reported to State Superintendent Park that 8210,00 1. Id of the stale school fund remained on band on December Mst. Tho sum will bo apportioned at onco. Tho biunnial report of the superintendent superin-tendent of tho state school for the deaf, dumb and blind shows that the entire cost of maintenance of the school for tho past biennial period was 855, 480.57. Major Henry P. Birmingham, brigade surgeon U. S. V., captain aud assistant assist-ant surgeon U. S. A., has been relieved from further duty in the department of Porto Rico, aud ordered to Fort Douglas for duty. Tho biennial report of tho trustees of tho state industrial school shows that sinco the opening of the institution institu-tion 19(1 boys and 30 girls have been committed. During the past two years 41 have been committed. On the 3rd inst. , George W. Bartch was sworn in as chief justice and Itobcrt N. Baskin as associato justice of tho supreme court. Charles S. 7-ano, the retiring chief justice, administered admin-istered tho oath of ollice to each of the jurists. August Larson, who struck a "missed shot" while working his mining claim near Tleasant Green, has succumbed to his injuries. He was horribly mangled by the explosion, his scalp being torn, his eyes blinded aud both hnnrfo almost severed. The past year the farm at the state prison produced 4,150 bushels of potatoes, pota-toes, 115 bushels of turnips, 000 bushels uf parsnips, 389 bushels of oats, 1,375 bushols of carrots, 550 bushels of beets, 45 bushels onions, 425 tons hay, besides fruits and vegetables. Librarian L. P. Palmer of the state law library has submitted his report for the year 1S9S to Governor Wells. The report shows thatOOl volumes were accessioned last year, making 8,219 new on tho shelves. 404 books were purchased pur-chased last year at a cost of 51,840.20. President L. W. Shurtliff of the commission com-mission in charge of Utah's exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi exposition, last week drew from State Auditor Richards Rich-ards the last warrant of 51,000 out of the appropriated sum of 58,000 for tho commission's and exhibit's expenses. George Willis, tho Mt. Tleasant safe cracker, who escaped jail by digging a tunnel, has been recaptured. When he made hiseseapet he had shackles on his legs, which prevented him from makintr-?ieadway aud resulted in his being' overtaken by tho sheriff. John Woodman, the man who was found near Fairfield, December 23, badly frozen and crazed with pain, has suffered the loss of both feet and the fingers of both hands, the amputation being performed at Salt Lake City. When Woodman was found at Fairfield Fair-field he was gnawing his froen fingers and was in a pitiable condition. The Pelican Point murder mystery is being revived and Harry Hayes may yet be proven innocent of the charge of murder. The wife of George W. Wright, a former resident of Salt Lake City, declares that her husband was the murderer, aud the matter will be thoroughly investigated by the frieuds of Hayes. The biennial report of the attorney-general, attorney-general, tiled with Governor Wells last week, shows that during the past two years more than 300 distinct questions have been officially answered in written writ-ten opinions, besides the numerous consultations in which advice has been given orally. The attorney-general asks for the appropriation of funds with which to hire an assistant. The Tarpey application for the lease of SOO.000 acres of land aloug the line of the Central Pacific was rejected by the state land board, because a limit of 50,000 acres is placed on tho amount of land to be leased to one person. The report of the state board of pardons par-dons for the years 1597 and '98. as prepared pre-pared for the presentation to the legislature, leg-islature, shows that thirty -two prison convicts were pardoned and commutations commu-tations and sentence, four in number, were granted. |