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Show UTAH NEWS. O. L. Terry, an old timer of Utah, died at Mt. I'leasant last week, aged 82. It is estimated that 815, 000,000 owned by Utah people are lying in Salt Lake banks. The Short Line ollicca will remain at Salt Lake and not be removed to Omaha as recently talked of. Lueern need is selling for 7 cents a pound, and is a more profitable crop to grow than sugar beets. Around fircleville drouth has cut feed so short that cattle in large numbers num-bers are being driven north. Salt Lake milk dealers have formed a oombine and advanced the price of milk from ." to n '4 cents a quart. After llec-euibpi- 1 the rate on wheat from Ogden to San Francisco will be increased from St to ST.'iO per ton. The home of Governor Wells was quarantined Sunday, his four-year-old daughter, Florence, having scarlet fever. The 1'rovo Woolen Mills are running overtime to till contracts. About U." per cent of their prod uct goes east to New York and Philadelphia. Norman Taylor of Moab, a pioueer of '47, who drove the second team into 'alt Lake valley, died in Salt Lake last Saturday, aged 71 years. The proposed trip east of the Taber-nacla Taber-nacla choir has been abandoned because be-cause the promoter lias failed to perform per-form his part of the agreement. As an evidence of prosperity among the working people, two savings banks of Salt Lake have increased their deposits de-posits 8443,000 during the past year. The Utah volunteer officers have formed an association for sccial gatherings, gath-erings, and with a view to entertaining military men who may visit the state. Six young men of Logan were arrested ar-rested last week for assaulting two tudonts of the B. Y. academy and small fines were Imposed upon each of the men. Several carloads of frozen wheat rejected re-jected by Salt Lake millers, has been purchased by stockmen at a price only a few cents less than that paid for undamaged wheat. A meeting was held in Denver last week looking to the holding of a reunion re-union of the Eighth army corps, to which the Utah volunteers belonged, come time next summer. Chris Larsen, an unmarried man of Holiday, was kicked in the stomach by a horse which was tangled in the harness har-ness and exolted, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. A sneak thief last week entered the bedroom of Mrs. Arthur Kirk, 718 South First West, Salt Lake, during broad day light, and stole 819 iu silver which was hidden in the mattress. The body of Richard Ralph, the Utah batteryman who died in Nagasaki, Japan, when the battery was returning home, arrived in San Francisco Saturday Satur-day on the transport Sherman. Frank Sherman, a late arrival in Salt Lake from Denver, shivering with cold, robbed a dummy in front of a clothing store of an overcoat and was ought and sent to jail for thirty days. Several noted pictures from the east have been secured for the exhibition of the Utah Art institute this month. Productions of the most renowned artists art-ists of this and foreign couutries will be shown. Mayor Clark of Salt Lake has recommended rec-ommended the passage of an ordinance removing screens aud stained glas8 from saloon fronts, so the casual pas-erby pas-erby might see whether the Sunday dosing law is being obeyed. Joseph William Taylor, of Salt Lake, arrested on a charge of unlawful unlaw-ful cohabitation, last week entered a plea of guilty. He declined to state whether In future he would obey the law or not, and was fined 3150. Seven new cases of smallpox developed devel-oped in Sanpete county Saturday four at Sterling, two at Manti and one at Ephraim. The cases were all suspects, and bad been isolated, so no alarm is felt that the disease will spread. Victor Clement, the Salt Lake mining min-ing expert who was in the Jamieson raid, captured and paid the Transvaal government a large sum for his freedom, free-dom, says: "Oom Paul is the most uncompromisingly un-compromisingly vicious and unreliable old scoundrel ever set up to rule over an ignorant, superstitious and fanati-eal fanati-eal people.-' The proposition of the mayor of Salt Lake City to close all saloons on Sunday has been acted upon favorably by the city council aud proprietors of saloons will have to close their doors on Sunday and cease doing business or suffer the consequences. Mrs. Matilda Lyman, who resides on F street, Salt Lake, on returning home one evening last week about 9 o-'elock, came face to face with a burglar with a gun in his hand, which he pointe-d at her, and then turned and. ran out of be house and disappeared. |