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Show UTAH NEWS. The people of Thurbur have recently put in a hystcm of watt-rworlcs. Q'i'ho Utah Woo 1 Jrowers' aHociatioii Home seventy strong, initio Salt Lake J i ty laMt wt-rk. The Utah Mothcri' congress held a two days' M-ssion in Salt Lake, Monday anil Tuesday of this week. IliiMness 1ms Ix-en rushing In the Kt.Mle land otlic-i; the past wc.?k, the daily receipts averaging over SI ,000. Thu I.' tali X: I'acilicis now within thirteen miles of Sl.ileline, and the road will lie lini.shed within the next fortnight.. The SI on t,-. lories .shooti ng case came to an end Sn 1 unlay, when the jury returned re-turned a verdict of not guilty and the dhfenilant .loiie was released. At a public meeting held at Xeplii il was decided that the town should Boon have an electric liht Kvstem. a 87,000 opera house and a 81,000 creamery. A Junction w an last week took a doso of sti vcli n i ne, thinking it was quinine, and lint, for prompt medical Bssintance the mistake would have proved fatal. The central .station of the Rocky Mountain Hell Telephone company at Springville has heen discontinued. The citizens have lodged a vigorous protest against this action. .The twenty head of buffalo on Antelope An-telope island are fat and sleek this spring, and the four calves of last year are as pretty a lot as ever roamed the prairies of olden (In yb. Ten new earn acq being received dally by the Rio (Irande Western. All i Utah roads will have to greatly in-oreaso in-oreaso their rolling stock this year, owing to the increase in traffic. Martin llarlstroin, of Mt. Pleasant, nearly cut his arm off last week while cutting wood, lie was holdiug the stick on the chopping block when the ux glanced off, almost severing the arm. fjj Post master Thomas of Salt Lake City visited the post office department at Washington last week with a view to making suggestions for the improvement improve-ment of the mail service in Salt Lake City. Joseph T. Shannon has been sent to the insane asylum from Utah county. IIo imagines that he is starving to death, although he eats more than hall a dozen healthy men could possibly consume. The county commissioners of Utah county have purchased eigh ty-five acres of land to be used as a poor farm. The necessary buildings for a county poor farm and infirmary will be erected in the near future. The sheepmen of the state are happy, trheir losses in the winter were very small, and the wool crop promises to exceed that of a year ago. Sheep are in splendid condition, and all is well with the men of wool. Plans aud specifications have been completed for live new school houses to he built in Gunnison this summer. The buildings will be of stone. Utah is fast forging to the front in the matter mat-ter of school facilities. Work on the big canal near Fort Duchesne will commence in a few days. The canal will cover 33,000 acres of good land, and when it is finished there will bo room for a number of energetic en-ergetic farmers iu that immediate vicinity. vi-cinity. The citizeus of Oraugeville have called a mass meeting, before which a proposition will be laid for building a school house by a joint stock corporation. corpora-tion. The people in that town are determined de-termined to have up-to-date school buildings. Judge Timmouy, Salt Lake City's police judge, last week discharged three boys convicted of charivaring a newly wedded couple. The judge said he had been guilty of the same crime when ha was a boy, aud he could sympathize with the lads. It has been decided by the supreme court of Utah that a jury of eight men empaneled to try a person charged with a crime, less than a capital offense of-fense agaiust the laws of Utah, is a valid jury and the conviction thereby is a valid act. State Superintendent Park has issued is-sued a letter to the various county su- j perinteiulents throughout the state in regard to the educational exhibit for the state fair in October. The letter calls attention to the proposed exhibit, ! and urges the superintendents to lay i the matter before their teachers. i The sura of 8:6,i?5.0A was distributed amonj the schools of the state last i week bv State Superintendent Park, j By the last enumeration the number of children of school age in the state is j S3, 113. and the apportionment is at the j rate of 4 1 cents per capita. j Peter Gabardi. an Austrian coal minor i in the employ of the Pleasant Valley Coal company at Castle Gate. was. one day last week, caught under a slide o) coal and had his anus and logs badly crushed. It is thought, however, he will recover from his injuries. |