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Show UTAH NEWS. Railroad construction is being pushed by four Utah companies. It in estimated that about ISO residences resi-dences are under course of construction construc-tion In Salt Lake City. William pownian, a miner, was killed in the Horn Silver mine at Frisco last week' by fulling down a chute. A postollice has been established at C'learlirlil, Davis county, and liichard T. Vemtble commissioned postmaster. The Salt Lake Clerk's Association threaten to prosecute all clothing and other stores which keep open on Sun-dav. Sun-dav. President ( lompers of the American Federation of Labor was in Utah last week visiting with the various labor leaders of the state. The copper output for the state of Utah for the year ls'.is was ?i;4:i,000. It is expected these figures will be more than quadrupled (luring the year lH'.i'.l. Two I'ruvo lads were last week fined S ! 5 each for illegally catching trout. The boy.s have concluded to put away their fishing tackle till the 15th of ,1 unc. This is commencement week at the lirigham Young Academy, and Provo is filled with visitors from different parts of the state to witness the exercises. exer-cises. Utah is becoming a strictly temperance temper-ance state on Sundays, it being a very hard matter to purchase intoxicants in any of the larger towns on the Sabbath Sab-bath day. Work has been commenced in the beet fields of the state and every available boy and girl is being given employment in thinning that wealth-producing wealth-producing crop. A Salt Lake woman has sued for divorce from her leige lord, her com- plaint being that tho partner of her joys and sorrows is a vegetarian and will not permit her to cat meat. The state auditor last week drew a warrant for Jf:.'U0 to pay Sheriff William Preeee of Uiutuh county his reward for capturing Peter Neilson, alias Pete Logan, a member of the Robber's Roost gang recently taken, j Rev. Klias Y oilman, of the order of Paulist Fathers, preached in Salt Lake last Sunday, and will labor in Zion during the coming week. Rev. Youman claims to be a lineal descendant descend-ant of one of the apostles. Admiral Schley is scheduled to visit in Salt Lake City next Sunday, and it is expected excursions will be run from all parts of the state for the benefit bene-fit of people who wish to catch a glimpse of the gallant admiral. It is estimated that the wool clip this year will be slightly above that of last, reaching probably 14,000,000 pounds. Wool is now bringing from ll12 cents and fully fifty carloads have already been shipped to Boston from Utah at that figure. Salt Lake had a little smallpox scare last week. An Indian brave whose squaw was sick with rheumatism was camped on the west side, and was bothered by children playing around. He said to them: "Squaw heap sick, maybe smallpox." His little speech had the desired effect and he was bothed no more. Secretary Sears of the State fair association has received what he considers con-siders the most humorous communication communica-tion that has reached him. It reads: "If our choice of judges is accepted by your committee, or judges who are not prejudiced can be secured, we propose to offer a special prize of S2 on five different products of Utah soil."' The base ball fever took a hold on the two Salt Lake stock exchanges last week, aud a battle royal was fought between clubs selected from the rival exchanges, in which errors were numerous, beer was free, loud talk plenty and the game broke up in a row. It is said 510,000 changed hands during the progress of the game. George K. Smith, a former Utah man, figured as a hero last week in rescuing Delia Walters, a matron of a hospital who jumped from a ferryboat into the North river, New York, with suicidal intent. Smith saw the woman jump in and promptly plunged in after her, saving her life despite her struggles strug-gles to be permitted to go the bottom. Samuel Skidmore, the Salt Lake mail carrier who was so badly hurt in a runaway two months since, is hopelessly hope-lessly insane. An operation was performed per-formed on him last week in hopes of restoring his mind, but was unsuccessful. unsuccess-ful. Company G, of the Twenty-fourth, ninety-five men aud two officers, Lieutenants Lieu-tenants Welsh and Van Dyne, left feu-San feu-San Francisco last Friday at 12:30. Alaska is the ultimate destination of the company. The departure was without incident. Dr. B. H. Fisher, a well known dentist dent-ist of Ogden, was shot on Sunday last bv M iss Laura Gurtsou, a former school teacher of that city. The wound wat a slight one and no serious results are anticipated. The woman denies the shooting. |
