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Show UTAH NEWS. Twenty-nine of the Utah boys in M;i-dila M;i-dila will re-enlist in the service of Uncle Sam. There are very few idle men in Utah it prcacnt, a fact, of which the citizens may well feel proud. The Railway ngc credits (.'tab with ij. -10 mi les of new road built during the first half of I too. A stock company is being organized for the purpose of erecting a modern opera house in Gunnison. The Geruiania smelter lias passed into in-to the hands of the trust. Trie transfer trans-fer was made last Friday. 'I lie railways of I 'tali have been assessed as-sessed 81 I IT.'.iss for IS'.i'.i, an increase nf 81,10.'!, 01 I over last. year. The KioOrande Western is figuring on I ni i Mi ni,' a branch line into the ernal and Ashley country. Junction is experiencing a building boom, a number of substantial buildings build-ings bci ng ii ndcr cou rse of construction. Nearly every city, town and hamlet in the state eclebra ted the Fourth in fitting style and in a patriotic manner. Goldie Ili-own, the convict who escaped es-caped from the penitentiary the first of last week, was arrested in Fvanston last Friday. Rowland Hall, the famous school for girls at Salt Lake City, has just closed its nineteenth ed ucational year. During Dur-ing the past year 107 pupils were enrolled. en-rolled. J. M. Ginuqnc died in Salt Lake City on the '.'ml iust., as the result of a sun stroke. This is believed to be the first fatal case of heat prostration recorded in Salt Lake. Douglas Voung, a 1'tah boy who has been in Manila, will arrive in Salt Lake this week accompanied bya3'ouug Filipino, which he brought across the waters with him. Fully -'O.ooo people visited the different dif-ferent resorts in and around Salt Lake City on the Fourth. Figuring that each person spent one dollar, a total of S.'O.OOO 'was put into circulation. The All Hallows college will erect a 915(1,01)0 building on their 40-acre site in Salt Lake City during the next year. The building will be three or four stories high and up-to-date in every vespect. A plan is on foot to have every vol-intcer vol-intcer brought to Salt Lake City, as soon as the soldiers in Manila return home, and have a reunion of volunteers. volun-teers. At this time the medals which the legislature made provision for will be presented. Richard Jimkins of Ncphi, has filed a suit against Charles Foote for 815,-000 815,-000 damages, alleged to be resulting from a gun shot wound which he received re-ceived at Foole's hands last summer in a water light, and from which the plaintiff uearly lost his life. The Utah batteries reached Cavite in July, 1WS, and the Utah men have seen continuous service throughout the insurrection, in-surrection, and the organization has been represented in every engagement of importance. It lost eight men killed, sixteen wounded and four from disease. di-sease. Stone fruits are practically a total failure and there will be very few localities lo-calities report a good crop of all kinds of fruit. One of these localities is extreme ex-treme southwes'ern Utah, where peaches are now ripening and the yield will be good. The fruit is small on account ac-count of the drought. Notwithstanding the order of the war department to the effect that no state organizations will be accepted as such for service in the Philippines, it is reported that a body of men is to be recruited in Salt Lake from different parts of the state, to be offered to the United Stales government. The southern experiment fruit farm, for the establishment of which the last legislature appropriated Ss.000, will probably be located on a forty acre tract twenty-four miles east of St. George and six miles south of Toquer-ville. Toquer-ville. A terrific hailstorm occurred at Cir-cleville Cir-cleville on the ;ird. causing considerable consider-able damage to vegetation. A tre- ; mendous cloud seemed to empty itself j in the course of a few minutes, falling as one could imagine the sudden fall ; of a meteoric shower. A. H. Tarbct, formerly a Butte , miner, but uow a resident of Salt Lake City, has invested in a high class life ! insurance policy of S mo, 000. A uum- j bcr of wealthy mining men appear to : be providing for the future of their ' families in this manner. t While celebrating the Fourth at ! Murray, Jacob Canucget her and Walter Cooper were injured by the explosion of an improvised cannon. Cannegether lost two ringers, while Cooper was pretty badly bruised and will carry the injuries for some weeks. Governor Wells is iu receipt of a letter from Admiral W. S. Schley and wife, in which the great sailor thanks the governor, his staff and the people of Salt Lake City and Utah for the welcome accorded him and the treatment treat-ment he received whiie here. |