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Show UTAH NEWS. rioshni, I ' tnli counly, is taking steps to i ncorpoi-.'ite. It in sri id Hint an elTort i s bei n if made , to counted thr ( tab A Ari.ona railroad i ivith the I tali I'arilie. j There i uiti; an u.vri tuiiu-nt among ' prope(-tor and mining men over the strike recently uumIi- in ! ort canyon, near A I pine. (Hit of leu candidates j u-t exami ned before tlie state hoard of pharmacy for license to practice pharmacy, only three plisscd iinl.sl er. ' A lone highway limn held up .John Isaacson and Jim Nielson, at Silver City, securing fo for his trouble, Isaacson Isaac-son being the loser. T)uring a target practice at Circle-ville, Circle-ville, Willis Johnson accident ally shot Jesse ApplegaU with a '.".'-calibre gun, inflicting- a painful wound. It in said that William J. liryan will be in I'tah to take part in the coming congressional campaign and that he ivill make 11 tour of the state. The prospects for irrigation water have beeu greatly improved by the storms of the past week, there having been a very heavy fall of snow, in the mountains. One million acres of grazing land in the Strawberry valley on the Uintah reservation is to lie leased soon for a period of five years, the lease to be let to the highest bidder. The coal company at Suuuyside has finished thirty comfortable cottages, a bunli-houso, boanling-bou.so and storehouse, store-house, and that place is putting on a pleasing look of prosperity. The coal at Sunnyside having been subjected to critical analysis and found to be very superior coking coal, coke ovens will be built at the mines and a great deal of coke marie there. William L. Jones, of Winter Quarters, Quar-ters, was taken to a Salt Lake hospital last week for an operation for blood poisoning, resulting from a cut ou the hnnri made by tin in opening a can. Xew sottlers are coming in daily and purchasing land near Green River that Is to be reclaimed by the aid of the big canal which is being constructed by the tireen River Land A. Irrigation Co. pour men are under arrest at Provo, charged with having blowu up the safe at the Rio II ramie Western railway-depot railway-depot at Spanish Fork, and the officers believe they have a clear case against them. A Salt Lake man last week forwarded to Lady O'Neill's soldiers and sailors' fund Slat which he had collected. This fund will be distributed among Irish families made sufferers by the South A f rican war. That Green River is to enjoy a substantial sub-stantial building boom this season is evident from the fact that the new brick plant to be established there has already received orders enough to keep going ail summer. The new management of the Salt Palace has decided to present first class , vaudeville and light opera during the coming season, and to that end a new theatre will be built on the grounds-The grounds-The palace will open for the season in 1 May or June. j The telephone company is putting in j telephones among the farmers at a low I cost and connecting them with the toll lines ruuning into Salt Lake. Thisnlan ' I will be put in operation in every coin- : inuuity in I'tah contiguous to an exchange ex-change station. Henry Oldham, of Paradise, while hauling logs in Past canyon, last week, was caught in a snowslirie and instantly kilted, his neck, back, arms and legs being broken. His team was also killed, while teams in front and behind him escaped uninjured. James Kirkman. a Sprinville farmer, was seriously iujured in a runaway at Mammoth. The tongue of the wagon came down, the wagou was upset and Kirkman was thrown violently to the ground, sutt'ering- the fracture of a shoulder blade and two ribs. Governor Wells has departed for Washington, where ho will attend the meeting- of the committee to arrange for the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the seat of government gov-ernment at that city. He will probably be absent about three weeks. The state auditor's report for the year ending Peeember 31. lsy.h shows that the receipts from all sources for the year amounted to Sl.biit.ii-.i.Tl. while the expenditures readied the sura of 15U,3."i;i.'.'f. There was a balance on baud of S4'J,203. 3t. on December 31. IS'.".'. R. Rasmusseu. the I'tah sheep man who was fined in Oneida county for violating the Idaho sheep quarantine proclamation, has taken the case to the I'nited States supreme court on a writ of error. It is claimed that the Idaho statute is unconstitutional, in that it interferes with interstate commerce. ''Tiie late snowstorm will prove a Godsend to the sheep interests of the Skull valley dist rict." says a prominent citizen of Tooeie. There are about l.")0.uoo wool-prod ucers wintering out ou the great deseret west of Skull val-ey, val-ey, where snow was badly needed. |