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Show UTAH NEWS. Orangevillc is to have a new creamery cream-ery tii is season. It is reported from this south that smallpox is prevalent among the Moqui Indians. A bout 1 10 members- of the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth infantry an; to he discharged, they being men who enlisted during the war w it b Spain. Servants are becoming .so scare in Salt Lake Unit there is a movement on foot, now to i in port .1 ;i nanese from Sun Francisco for house lii-lp. At Leeds I'ei-ry, on the Colorado river, in southern I tali, a new boat is being built. It will be operated by a one and onc-ha!f inch cable. lly a vote of over four to one, tiie taxpayers ol' Gunnison school district have decided to bond the district for 7, sou to build school houses. There is some talk of the Utah legislature legis-lature paying a visit to I'.oise, Idaho, in return for the visit to I'tah of the Idaho Icgisla tu re lu-u years ago. A rrangemen I s are to be nun le I o have the horses belonging to the I'tah men who w ere honorably discharged at San I'Yancisro returned to them at the expense ex-pense of the gove rn men t. ('oininissioncr Hermann of the general gen-eral land otlice has approved a list of selections of 2,99 1 acres of lands in L' tab submit! ed by the state for deaf and dumb asylum purposes. Nearly all the nIHccrs at Fort Duchesne Du-chesne lire expecting to be promoted in the near future and ordered to new stations, u it h the chances slrong'ly in favor of the Philippine islands. One of the teamshauling to thcValco mine at Park City was caught in a snow-slide one day last week and one horse was killed, while the driver had a very narrow escape from death. Sixty-live residents of the newly i founded town of Lund have filed a petition pe-tition asking that a postofiice be established estab-lished ut that place. Lund is the prcs- ent terminus of the Utah & Pacific railroad. Slate. Auditor Richards has cora-; cora-; plcted his report for lS'.ili, showing that the receipts of the year aggregated ag-gregated 1, (Mil, 3111. 07, while the expenditures ex-penditures were $9(0,G57. SO, or 10,000 less than in 1S97. The wonderful increase in the Salt Lake bank clearings is very gratifying. gratify-ing. For the week ending January 28, they show a total of 83,20'.S31, a gain of 1 10.9 percent over the corresponding week of last year. The Tclluride Power Transmission company has built about GOO feet of snow sheds near their works in Provo canyon to protect their dam and Hume from snow-slides, which are frequent in that vicinity. The question of a sugar factory at Gunnison is being seriously agitated, and there is now every reason to believe be-lieve that the plant will be erected, the necessary amount of money already having been pledged by some of the leading citizens. Rose Jackson, a 7-year-old Salt Lake girl, was run over by a street car one day last week and seriously injured. The girl was playing alongside the track and ran in frout of the car without with-out seeing it. No blame is attached to the motorinau. Joseph Turpin of Salt Lake had a narrow escape from death last week. While walkin g along a railroad track ho was struck by a train and thrown from the track, receiving severe bruises. It was simply a miracle that he was not ground to pieces. Sylvester Johnson, a former well know n resident of Park City, where he served on the police force for about ten years, w as killed in the May Queen mine, near Baker City, Oregon, by the premature explosion of a blast during the early part of last week. It is announced by the secretary of war that tho Utah boys w ho enlisted in tho regular army owing to their faiiu.ro to got into the volunteers, aud who are desirous of securing their discharge iu order to return to their civil duties, w ill be discharged iu a short time. A boy of about 10 years of age, narrowly nar-rowly escaped a serious if not fatal ac" eidont at tho corner of Second South and State streets. Salt Lake, one day-last day-last week, lie had been trundling a hoop along the street, aud in his desire to control its movements forgot, apparently, appar-ently, all about the cars, aud ran in front of one of the Rapid Transit oars. Tho car was stopped by the motorruan not a moment too soon. James Whitmoro, a deputy marshal, paid a fine of S3. 50 in the Springville police court one day last week, for using abusive language while trying to effect the arrest of four hoys, charged with disturbing the peace. The boys ' were acquitted. j While riding iu a horse race with several other boys. Ernest Daltou. aged 11, of Parowan, met with a serious accident. ac-cident. His horse fell and threw him to the ground, breaking his jaw aud knocking out neatly all of his tooth, lie will recover. |