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Show UTAH NEWS. The L'tah cavalrymen have reached San Francisco, anil are now occupying' the barracks at the Presidio. One Salt Lake firm has shipped this season twenty carloads of lucerne seed, the greater portion of which went to Europe. The l'tah hoys in Manila will not be forgotten on Christmas. Many boxes of presents have been scut them by friends, relati ves and admirers. The building boom in Park City is still on. Work is now progressing on the Oild Fellow building, and several new residences were started last week. The contract for lighting the new Silver King mill at Park City has been let to a Chicago firm. It will put in an independent plant ami will require '150 lamps. The secretary of the interior has approved for patent to the state of Utah, 4,3. 47 acres of land in the Salt Lake City district, on account of the school of mines. A new well in the natural gas fields is now down 550 feet, and it is expected that a How will soon be found. The (low from the old wells now in operation opera-tion is normal. Lawrence Love, an 8-year-old Salt Lake boy, swallowed a nickel, the coin lodging in his throat, throwing him into convulsions. Doctors were hastily summoned and the coin removed. The lad will recover. Friends of Harry Hayes are working very bard to secure evidence tending to show that the imprisoned man is not guilty of the Pelican Point murders, mur-ders, and an application for his release re-lease will soon be made to the board of pardons. Dr. IT. A. Youug. formerly quartermaster quarter-master sergeant of battery A, has been named as a member of the board of health of Manila. Corporal John H. Young has been promoted to the po- ' sition made vacant by Dr. Young's appointment. ' Annie Liddell, aged 7, of Salt Lake City, was killed on the 13th inst, while attempting- to cross the track in front of an Oregon Short Line train. The i little one was on her way to school, I and it is thought she did not hear the j approaching train. i Business men of Salt Lake have j made arrangements for the erection of a salt palace in Salt Lake City. While all the details have not been settled, it is known that it is the intention of the promoters to have the palace completed com-pleted by August 1. j Captain William II. Peck of the Tenth Fnited States cavalry has been ordered to report at Fort Logan, Colo,, to be examined as to his fitness for promotiou. Captain Beck was formerly stationed at Fort Duchesne and while there acted as U. S. Indian agent. County Auditor Caine of Salt Lake county has just returned from Omaha, where she went to supervise the shipment ship-ment back to Salt Lake City of Utah's ;splendid silk exhibit at the Trans-Mis-.sissippi exposition. The exhibit proved !a valuable advertisement for Utah. Attorney-General Bishop has written an opinion for the state board of land commissioners, in which he holds that the rights of an application for the construction of irrigation ditches and the reclamation of arid lands, if secured se-cured by an individual, cannot be assigned as-signed to a corporation without the consent of the state land board. Some of the Utah boys in Manila have made application for discharge, setting forth that as they consider they have performed their duty to their country, it is now time for them to resume the duties of civil life. The officials think different, however, and the boys will probably serve their full term of enlistment. en-listment. William West was killed while logging log-ging near Parowau. He was sitting on a pile of logs at the bottom of the chute, when some parties above sent a log down the chute, which came with great force, turning over endwise and striking West, knocking him some distance dis-tance and inflicting injuries from which he died a few hours later. News has been received of tbe death in Manila of Morley L. Hassard, a Salt Lake boy who enlisted with company H, Wyoming volunteer infantry. Just after leaving Honolulu, ilassard was stricken with spinal meningitis, and was reported dead, but recovered and was detailed as clerk to tbe major of his battalion. Subsequently he was attacked with typhoid fever, from which disease be died. Some hoodlums placed a rock in a switch of the Salt Lake City street railway on Tuesday of last week, which came near causing toe death of a score of people. Fortunately no damage dam-age was done except to delay traffic for half an hour. While doing some excavating at the coke ovens in Castle Gale, Mark Sloger came near losing bis life by a cave-in of matted debris. He jumped in time to save his life, but received some hot sand in his shoes, burning his feet severely. |
