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Show UTAH NEWS. Considerable interest is being mani-'ested mani-'ested in the coming state fair. Ma jor ( .ran t declares it as his opin-on opin-on that General Otis has managed the campaign in the Philippines extremly well. Work on the plans and specifications 5 f the four state university buildings s going forward with commendable ipeed. Utah apples are now on the market. I'liey are su porior in size and quality lo any of those that have yet been imported. im-ported. The Utah & Pacific has finished work rn the extension to the I'tah line, the last spike being driven at noon on July :si. The one-year-old daughter of Alfred Hates of American Fork drank a quantity quan-tity of lye and is dead after eight months' suffering. A cloudburst at Perron on the 20th Lilt., did considerable damage to growing grow-ing crops and the light bridges across the small streams. The city council of Gunnison has let a. contract for the construction of a city hall to cost 81,000, and to be completed com-pleted by November .00. The school enumerators of Provo have finished their labors and find in that city 2,173 children of school age, 1,004 boys and 1,070 girls. Young ducks are plentiful in the sloughs along the lake, and the game warden is having a hard time keeping the lads from slaughtering and trapping- the little fellows. The seventeen months' drought in Dixie has been broken by one of the finest rainfalls known in 3-ears, and everyone feels jubilant as the outlook is now indeed promising. Complaints come from portions of Beaver, Iron, Garfield and Sevier counties coun-ties that potatoes are not doing well; the plants seem to be going to tops at the expense of the tubers. A Salt Lake cattle buyer last week purchased 1,000 head of cattle from Oregon parties, the bovines, representing represent-ing a cash value of about $20,000, being be-ing shipped to Salt Lake City. Extensive preparations are being made for the reception of the volunteers volun-teers at every town and hamlet in the state. The day of their return will be a holiday and day of rejoicing generally. gener-ally. August 2nd was observed as Iceland day at Spanish Fork by about 500 Icelanders, Ice-landers, who sang Iceland songs and made Iceland speeches to their heart's content. The day closed with a banquet ban-quet and ball. The Black Hawk Veterans will hold their annual camp-fire at the Provo lake resort, August 24, 25 and 26. Invitations In-vitations to attend the camp-fire will be sent to all veterans of the different wars now in Utah. State Auditor Richards has made the discovery that for the past year an illegal il-legal method has been pursued in the certification to the auditor of the amounts to be paid by the state for juror and witness fees and mileage. Some miscreants recently stole 1,500 feet of copper wire from the Salt Lake City Street Railway company, which is valued at SL12. The cars had been discontinued dis-continued ou the line in question, but the poles and wire had not been taken down. County Attorney Putnam has decided de-cided to file a charge of murder in the first degree against Beubrook, the slayer of Burt Morris, despite the fact that the committing magistrate had held him for the lesser crime of manslaughter. man-slaughter. The Union Pacific laud department has recently sold John II. White 2.537 acres near Salt Lake; 3,039 acres of Summit county land has been sold to Forest N. Stillnian, aud Y J. Liudsey has come into possession of 7,000 acres in Davis count3'. An action has been brought in Salt Lake Citv to declare Thomas Madden dead. Madden disappeared in 1S'.I2, leaving SI. 000 in the hands of a friend for investment, and now his relatives want the money distributed among themselves. According to the statutes Madden is dead, having absented himself him-self for seven 3-ears. Robert Cobley, aged 10, was killed in a peculiar manner ou the 31st. lie had gone to the station for the mail and sat down under the mail-bag and fell asleep. The arm of the car reached out for the bag, aud in returning to its place struck him in the head. It is told that a Provo joker slipped a pair of Texas steer horns over the the horns of his neighbor's Jersey cow-one cow-one day last week, and when the neighbor's neigh-bor's wife went out to milk she gave an exhibition of what a woman looked like with the jim-jams. Richard II. Ralph, who died from typhoid fever while en route home from the Philippines, enlisted with the Utah battery from Eureka, lie was born in Cornwall, England. January Janu-ary 1, 1S73, and had lived in the Tintic district for a number of years, wheru he had an excelleut record. |