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Show UTAH NEWS. The hearing of the case of narry Hays by the board of pardon has been postponed until May ft. The L'tah & Pacific has one tangent thirty-five miles long, and there are but two curves in sixty miles. Horwthicves have been operating in Hpringrillc recently, Albert Starr losing los-ing a blooded mare one night last week. The country in the vicinity of White Klver has been stocked with quail, and a in a few years this section will be the hunters' paradise. The stale auditor is having new books made for the transfer of brands and marks. The law requires that the entire en-tire list of these shall be recorded anew. A small cyclone struck Cu.-itle Gate on Wednesday, blowing down one house that was in the course of erection and playing havoc with a number of outbuildings. The reward offered by Davis county for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Thomas Sundall has been increased to SHOO, and the firm for whom he worked has offered 8100. The Order of Railway Conductors at Salt Lake City are trying hard to bring the convention of their order to be held in 1001 to .ion, and as the boys are workers, they will probably succeed. suc-ceed. It is now regarded as probable that within the next thirty days Governor Wells will appoint a United States senator to fill the vacancy caused by the expiration of Senator Cannon's term. Articles of incorporation of the Uich-fleld Uich-fleld Commercial and Savings bank have been filed. The new bank is capitalized at $23,000, and Is composed of good substantial business men of southern Utah. A California man arrived in Utah last week with two curloads of bees, he j having decided to move his apiary to this state on account of the dry weather in California. Utah is fast forging to ! the front in the bee industry. ! The grand lodge I. O. O. F., of Utah, ! was in session in Salt Lake last week, j the occasion being the twenty-fifth j annual convention of that order in this state. The attendance was large, every lodge being fully represented. The salt palace idea is spreading. F,ven in far away Bristol, England, is it being boomed. President Barnes of the Salt Lake City council has received a paper from that city which contains i a fairly good description of the pro- j posed building. It is said that Otter Creek reservoir will furnish during the time when i most needed, water enough to water three times all of the land in Sevier county that depends on the primary water right of the Sevier river. This means a great deal for the farmers in Sevier valley. Governor Wells is frequently in receipt re-ceipt of inquiries as to why the Utah boys killed at Manila have not been sent to the United States. It is said that the bodies were interred soon after being found, and cannot be disinterred dis-interred until the end of the rainy season, sea-son, for sanitary reasons. Retween 400 and 500 tons of powder stored in an old tuunul near the road that is being constructed from the Silver Sil-ver King mine to the town of Park City, exploded on the afternoon of the 17th. Fortunately no one was hurt, but several sev-eral people received severe shocks, The cause of the explosion is a mystery. The directors of the Utah Sugar company com-pany have decided to raise money for the proposed plant at Springville by selling 40,000 shares of the treasury stock of the company at par value, which will amount to S 10.000. The site for the new factory has been selected and orders placed for the machinery. Henry Buckley, aged 61 years, an ex-soldier and for some months an inmate in-mate of the Salt Lake county infirmary, attempted to take his life one morning morn-ing last week by slashing his throat with a razor. It is no doubt owing to his weakness that he failed to sever the jugular vein. He is in the hospital and may recover. A dispatch from Washington states that two companies of the Twenty-foirth Twenty-foirth infantry are to be sent to Alaska. Until the companies are designated there will be much speculation as to the ones to be chosen. The two remaining re-maining at Fort Douglas may be j chosen, or two of those at San Fran- ' cisco may be sent north. Mrs. Julia Croxall, of Salt Lake City, while cutting kindling, met with a . painful accident. A piece of wood flew up with great force and struck her on the eye, so injuring that uietueber that the attending physician found it neces-sary neces-sary to remove it. J ;!, The Provo city council has passed an a. ordinance making it unlawful to play 0 cards, dice or any game of chance, or ; allowing such games to be played, for money or at all in a saloon or billiard hall, or in any room which can be entered en-tered from a saloon. |