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Show UTAHNEWS. Tourist travel to Utah is commencing. commenc-ing. Purglars entered a store at Sandy Sunday night and purloined S200 worth of goods. The fishing fever has caught the stjortsuifii of L'tali, and many are the Jonah stories told at, present. The black aphus and the pear slug have put in an appearance and are causing orehanlists no little worry. The fruit in the southern counties has not been damaged by the recent cold weather, and everything indicates gooil fruit crops. It, is announced that the I 'tali artillery artil-lery will be sen t home on the transport Hancock, and that they will leave their guns in Manila, Small boys with matches caused a 8700 lire at Murom last week. The heroic work of a bucket brigade prevented pre-vented a most disasterous conflagration. conflagra-tion. The principal business block of Fair-view Fair-view was destroyed by fire lust week, the loss being about 813,000. The fire originated from an overheated stovepipe. stove-pipe. Salt Lake has a "lone highwayman" in the person of a colored woman, who one night last week held up a man on the streets of the city, and relieved him of 820. Henceforth the banks of the capital city will remain closed on Saturday afternoons, it having been so decided at a recent meeting of the Clearing House Association. The remaing members of the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth Infantry at Fort Douglas have been ordered to the Philippines. The fort will be garrisoned by a troop of colored cavalry from Fort Duchesne. It is now confidently expected by those who have been working on the matter that Congress will appropriate $'.'-, 000 for the establishment of a United States fish hatchery in Utah. State Auditor Richards last week drew a warrant for $17,000, the amount allowed by the legislature to reimburse reim-burse those who aided in erecting and maintaining the branch normal school at Cedar City. Francis Armstrong, commissioner of , Suit Lake county, who was twice mayor of Salt Lake City and served several terms as city councilman, died on the 15th. He was one of the best known men in the stnte. The potato crop in the vicinity of Circleville has been somewhat injured by recent frosts and grain and lucern touched, but no serious damage has been done since the frosts that destroyed de-stroyed almost all kinds of fruits. A carload shipment of tine onyx was made from Lehi Monday. The stone will go to Chicago, where it will be dressed and a portion of it used in an exhibit at the world's fair at Paris, i It comes from the quarry owned by the Salt Lake Onyx company. A pension has been granted to Mrs. Lulu D. Ilolden. of Salt Lake City, which is probably the first pension to be granted to a Utah persou as a result of the Spauish war. Thomas II. Ilolden, the husband of the pensioner, died at San Francisco of fever. Lieutenant Henry Pearson, who was an ensign on the Olympia at the time of the bottle of Manila bay, and who was promoted to a lieutenancy and seut to New York on the Raleigh, has been granted a leave of absence and will visit his relations and friends at Draper, this state. Lee Yiug, a Chinaman iu the employ of the Rio Grande Western, caused a few cold chills to run down the back of his fellow workmen last week when it was announced he was suffering from leprosy. The doctors have decided, de-cided, however, that he is not afflicted with that dread disease. The state treasurer's report shows that warrants to the amount of S3S.-300.29 S3S.-300.29 were redeemed during the month of May while the collections amounted to Sir., 279.23. The balance on hand April 30th was 5200,190.41, making the total receipts S221.409.04. The balance on hand June 1st was SIM, 163.35. The following postoftice changes have been made: Logau advanced from third to second class. Increases Eureka. SUioo to f 1700: Logan, S1S0O toS2000: Manti, SHOO to S1200; Mer-cur, Mer-cur, SHOO to SU00; Nephi, SI 100 to $1200; Salt Lake City. S330O to S3400. j Decreased Park City, S1700 to S1000. In response to a request from James Seligman of the New York Dreyfus '' committee for an expression of opinion j on the recent developments in thecele- ! brated French case. Governor Wells ! telegraphed as follows: " 'Truth j crushed to earth will rise again.' I congratulate Captain Dreyfus and his i friends on his vindication." j The state of Utah has been allotted ! one of the captured Spauish guns as a trophy from the recent war. One of I the guns captured by the gallant Utah volunteer batteries in the Philippines will probably be brought to the state capital. |