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Show UTAH NEWS. The Omaha Imposition medals won by Suit Lake exhibitors were distributed distri-buted last week. ti,o wl..vs of Salt Lake City in tend to start a night school in their new home, recently established. Tin-, ice: haryest on Mali lake is In full blast. The product this year is beautifully char ami about twenty inches thick. The new Latter-day Saint meeting house at f.aie, Hawaiian islands, is to be dedicated during the visit there of president Joseph I''. Smith. The merchants of Salt Lake City were engaged in closing up their books fur the last year during the past week, and report a most excellent showing. State Treasurer Chipman's report fur December shows a balance on hand on December 31 of S IS.I.Dl ."i.M. The receipts for the month were 8434.1K.O.H4, while the expenditures reached a total of $217,r.i'.i.27. Joseph M. Stoutt, ex-president of the Utah National bank, appeared before United States Commissioner Twomey on the charge of presenting a false statement regarding the condition of the bank to the comptroller of the currency. He waived examination and was held to the United States district court, the bail being fixed at S3.5UO, with M. II. Walker and A. Hanauer as Bureties. County Attorney Evans of Utah county called on Harry Hayes recently in the state prison. M r. Hayes in talking talk-ing over his chances for a pardon was very much opposed to receiving a pardon, par-don, claiming that if be was liberated in this manner there would be people who would still consider him guilty of ii n;t .r Ue wanted LIlc 1 cueuu win u a now trial, when, be claimed, he would bo able to prove his innocence. John Woodman, the miner who had his feet and fingers badly frozen near Fairfield, and who underwent an amputation am-putation of the members as a result, died the 10th Inst, at the hospital iu Salt Lake. The operation following Woodman's terrible ordeal proved too much for him. Woodman had no relatives rel-atives in this country, being an Englishman Eng-lishman by birth. He was formerly employed at the Silver King in Park City. The state land board has approved the appraisement made of the land in the section on which tho state penitentiary peni-tentiary is located. In the contest of Simon Hamberger against Atkinson and others, involving a right of way of the Salt Lake & Hot Springs railway rail-way through section 36, township 2 north, range 1 west, the board has 1 awarded Mr. Hamberger a strip of land ; thirty feet wide, instead of fifty feet, as he prayed for. Johan Swen, a husky young Fin- lauder, lies in St. Mark's hospital, Salt Lake City, with bis head swathed in bandages. These removed, the cranium cra-nium has much the appearance of a piece of under-done steak. The injury in-jury was the result of the Union Pacific Pa-cific wreck at Sunol, Neb., iu which Swen had the misfortune to be. He was coming to Salt Lake with his cousin, having met him in New York ou his way from Finland. Another effort will be made, if Representative Rep-resentative Robinson of Kane county can carry it through, to have the Arizona Ari-zona strip ceded to Utah by congress. The territory geographically and logically logi-cally belongs to Utah, the Colorado river being impassable nearly the en- tireTlistanee. The strip has become a rendezvous for a horde of lawless characters by reason of its inaccessibility, inaccessi-bility, and southern Utah has paid for the strip by the value of livestock that has been driven across the line. In order for au Arizona sheriff to visit the strip it is necessary to travel about 1,900 miles, going via Denver. It is easily appreciable, therefore, that law and order cannot be maintained under existing conditions. By right Utah should have the strip. Attorney General Bishop one day last week advised County Attorney Morris of St. C.eorge that in case au officer duly elected fails to qualify by tiling a bond and taking the oath of office the old official holds over for auother term. The remains of Mrs. Charles Mc-Quewan, Mc-Quewan, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Miner, whose sad death iu San Francisco shocked a host of friends in Salt Lake and elsewhere, arrived in Salt Lake January 13 and were interred at Mt. Olivet. After being out of the banking business busi-ness for a number of years, Benjamin G. Eaybould has accepted the position of cashier of the Utah National bank, succeeding Mr. Addison B. Jones. The retirement of Mr. Jones was at his own request. Another order has been issued by the secretary of war reaffirming the first order, which was recently revoked, re-voked, directing Major Henry P. Birmingham Bir-mingham to proceed from Porto Rico to Fort Douglas to fill the office of post surgeon at this place. |
