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Show 1,'TAII MAYS. The town of Thistle is to have an electric light plant in the near future. Members of the L'tah batteries in Manila have organized a band and arc practicing daily. The price paid for hay in L'tah county this season is higher than it has been for many years prist. The citizens of Orangeville have decided de-cided to erect a substantial new school building in the near future. Sarnh J. h'ulicowski has been appointed ap-pointed postmaster at Fish Springs, Juab county, vice L. L. Sealeski, resigned. re-signed. A new grist mill has just been completed com-pleted at Montircllo, which will prove of great benefit to tlce people of that seel ion. Preliminary sfeps arc being taken by a local company fur the laying out of a townsite at tin! new gold camp east of Green River. Dealers say the ice crop was never before so heavy, and low prices are looked for during the early part of the coming season. The, war department has con firmed the discharge of Private Isaac llnssell, buttery A, Utah volunteer artillery, now in Manila. The people of Springville are very much elated over the prospects of a sugar factory being erected at that place during the season. The twelfth annual show of the Utah Poultry association was held in Salt Lake City during the past week, and was largely attended. The l'tah Paint Works, located at Salt Lake City, were totally destroyed by lire on the 21stinst. The loss to the company will exceed 510,000. In Salt Lake City the truancy law is being enforced, and a number of parents par-ents are being prosecuted because they have neglected to send their children to school. The farmers in the vicinity of Tooele are preparing for the spring sowing. The buds arc already beginning to swell, and the grass is starting in the foot-hills. The citizens of Gunnison will undertake under-take tho erection of a sugar factory. Leading business men are subscribing liberally, and the erection of the plant appears to be an assured fact. At Ncphi, Levau and Mona alone there have been produced this year j '.10,000 bushels of wheat, 20,000 bushels I of oats, 10,000 bushels of barley, 13,000 j bushels of rye and 8,000 bushels of lucerne seed. The base ball club organized by members of the Utah batteries in Manila, still leads in the race for the championship cup, having met with defeat but once since the beginning of the "season." The Utah & Pacific now has steel laid within a mile of the new town of Sulphur. Sul-phur. The town is located thirty-five miles southeast of Milford, and will for some time be the terminal point for southeastern Nevada. Tho war department has decided that tho men of the Utah volunteer batteries now in the Philippines will not be allowed travel pay upon their discharge, but will be entitled to transportation trans-portation home on the war department vessels. The millers of the northern portion of the state are, it is said, about to form a combine, with the idea of raising rais-ing the present price 'of flour. It is claimed that there is not a miller in the state that is making money at the present prices. Anticipated shipments of Utah flour to the Orient, which wore due to leave here this mouth, may be indefinitely delayed. The demand for space on each outgoing steamer, no matter from what port on the Pacific she goes, is far in advance of the supply. The sheepmen are losing a great many sheep on the east desert; some herds have lost as high as forty in a single night. Quite a number have been poisoned by eating some kind of weeds, but they say now the snow has come the sheep will do better. Speaking of the outlook for the present year, a prominent farmer of Utah county says that never in the past have the prospects been so encouraging encour-aging for bounteous crops, basing his assertion upon the fact that already the snow in the mountains is sufficiently sufficient-ly deep to give a large stream of water all summer. Antonio Eatti, an Italian coal miner from Castle Gate, is at St. Mark's hospital hos-pital as a result of a Cave-in at the mine at which he was working. A mass of coal weighing about too pounds fell on him, dislocating his shoulder and inflicting in-flicting an ugly scalp wound. Dr. Joseph, a wealthy citizen of Cincinnati, has been investigating Beck's Hot Springs with a view to purchasing pur-chasing and erecting a mammoth sanitarium. He is very favorably impressed im-pressed with the proposition, and will probably make the purchase. |
