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Show UTAH NEWS. The appropriation bill passed by the state senate carries 81,150,000. At the close of the past week 184 bills had been introduced in the house and ninety-six in the senate. The promoters of the Salt Lake City salt palace say the outlook for the erection of the building grows brighter with each day. David Leech was killed while rounding round-ing up some cattle on Antelope island last week. I lis hor.se stumbled and fell upon him, crushing him so that he died in a few hours. A very interesting' exhibit on Main street in Salt Lake is a trout hatchery. It was started in December, and little fish three-fourths of an inch long are now to lie seen iu the tank. The farmers of the southern portion of Sanpete county have been busy the past week putting in their crops. The prospects arc bright for getting in the small grain before the good weather is gone. At a school election at Sandy, a majority ma-jority vote was cast iu favor of levying a tax of one-half of 1 per cent, to build an addition to tin; school house, and the work will bo rapidly pushed to completion. The White river Utes are dissatisfied with their present location on the Uintah reservation, and are anxious to get back to the reservation in Colorado, where they were located before being brought to Utah. The farmers of Levan have organized organ-ized a Farmer's union. The farmers of that vicinity have become very enthusiastic over the proposition and are anticipating great results from a union of this kind. The city of Springville is considering the proposition of municipal ownership of waterworks, and as the majority of the council is in favor of the proposl" tion, the waterworks will probably soon be iu the bands of the city. Tho Colorado State. Line Railway company has been incorporated at Denver to build a railroad from Crevasse Cre-vasse to Vernal, Utah. Charles O. Baxter, Sylvester P. Barton and Frank E. Baxter, the last named residing at Springville, are named as directors. A Springville man last winter lost $130, and all search for the thief proved unavailable. Last week he found the money in the house in an old glovei where he had placed it and forgotten all about it. Now he has his wife pinch him occasionally to see if he is awake. Next month activity will begin at the shearing corrals of the Rio Grande Western at Price. About 100,000 sheep will be shorn there this season, as their owners fiud it does not pay to go farther far-ther west to the mountains to shear, owing to the loss occasioned by the cold weather. One J. Thornton, who for a short time has been doing business in Salt Lake under the name of the "Salt Lake Grain tud Produce company," has decamped, de-camped, leaving creditors in the lurch to the tune of S3, 000 Most of his victims vic-tims were farmers, who sold to him on thirty days time. Tramps are becoming very obnoxious in Salt Lake. One of the "weary Willies" Wil-lies" eutered the dining room of a well-known well-known Salt Lake banker, and demanded demand-ed money of the banker's wife. Upon her refusal he knocked her down, and but for her screams might have inflicted in-flicted fatal injuries. Fruit growers of Salt Lake county say the stories of the heavy damage to fruit crops on account of the unusually unusu-ally severe weather have been greatly exaggerated. At no time up to date has the weather been warm enough to cause the buds to swell, therefore no damage could have been done. Henry Van Stetter, a machinist who has been employed at the Rio Grande Western shops in Salt Lake City, committed com-mitted suicide Saturday night by shooting shoot-ing himself through the heart. He left a note stating that as he had consumption con-sumption and must soon die, he simply sim-ply desired to end his sufferings. The chances of Utah Hour merchants obtaining a footing in the Orient seem to be as remote as they were a couple of months ago. This is not because the people of the Orient do not want our flour; on the contrary, Utah flour is at a premium there. But it is the fact that there is no room for freight ou th steamers bound for Hongkong, the principal point it is desired to reach, that is worrying V tah's Hour dealers. The county commissioners of Sanpete San-pete county have accepted plans and specifications from the Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing1 company for the erection of a new county jail. The new building will necessitate the expenditure of over 54,000. Last week the sheriff of Grand county and a posse had a pitched battle bat-tle with members of the Robber's Roost gang, over 200 shots being exchanged. ex-changed. None of the posse were injured, in-jured, but at least one of the outlaws wfta severely wounded. |