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Show UTAH NEWS. Two bears, were killed by a iporti-man iporti-man last week in the La Plata rnininjf district. Colonel William J. Bryan Is ehed-uled ehed-uled to peak in Salt Lake City on September Sep-tember 'J. L' tali 'a watermelon crop this season U not over one-half of the average yield, ovintf to the spring frosts. This Salt I'alact; ili rectors havo decided de-cided to permit love contest at the Pulace under reasonable restrictions. In I .'tali county the high winds of last week did considerable damage by blowing apples and pears from the t rees. Arthur Pratt, formerly chief of police po-lice of Salt Lake City, has been appointed ap-pointed census Mipervisor of the state of Utah. Ilavid A. Green, a Rio Grande Western West-ern caller at Salt Lake City, is dead as the result of injuries received by falling fall-ing from an engine. A gang of stock rustlers have been operating in the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant Pleas-ant receotly; twenty head of cattle being stolen from one ranch in broad daylight. Lucern seed-raising ls growing to be .quite an Industry in Hinckley. The .sales of this product last year amounted amount-ed to 82,000. They will likely run above that this year. The report of the commissioner of pensions shows that there are 700 pensioners pen-sioners residing in Utah, and that they were paid the sum of 8188,778 during the past year. The officials of Kaysville are makir It warm for the merchants who refuse to pay the city license for conducting-their conducting-their business. One merchant who was convicted was fined 800. The revenue collected by the district revenue collector for the state of Utah for the month of August amounted to 816,870.72. For the month of August, 1808, 815,387.04 was collected. John II. Benbrook, charged with the murder of Burton C. Morris in Salt Lake City, has entered a plea of not guilty, and his trial will take place about the end of October. ; Robert W. Sloan of Salt Lake, hasl been chosen vice president for Utah of' the Social Reform union, a national org-anization that has grown out of the conference of social, political andj economic reformers held in Buffalo last July. The object of this union is educational. The Latter-day Saints' College of Salt Lake City has been reorganized and will opon with all departments in the Tern-pleton Tern-pleton business course September 4, and other courses September 11. A preparatory course (one year) for students stu-dents advanced in years but backward iu studies; a high school course (three years) to prepare for entrance into universities; uni-versities; a business course (three years) to prepare for commercial life; a normal nor-mal course (four years) to prepare for the teachers' profession; a college course (four years) which emphasizes such studies as chilosophy, literature, political science and law; and a missionary mis-sionary course (one year) comprising-themes comprising-themes and arguments as a preparation for missionary work, these are the courses dow offered, and they are up-to-date aud thorough. Prof. J. H. Paul, president; Prof. Jos. Nelson and nineteen other teachers comprise the faculty, and the favorable prospects of this institutiou have attracted general comment. Johu C. Smith, the ex-convict who is under arrest on the charge of attempting at-tempting to murder Judge O. W. Powers Pow-ers aud Warden George X. Dow, by sending each of the gentlemen an infernal in-fernal machine, vigorously protests his innocence, but the officers believe they have sufficient evidence to convict con-vict him. Chris Madsen, one of the long looked for members of the Robbers' Koost pang, has been captured by Sheriff J. W. Coous of Sevier county, the arrest ar-rest being made near the Montana line on Medicine creek. Madsen two years ago shot and wounded the station sta-tion agent at Salina, and is wanted on several other charges. A bear from one of the shows on the Midway at the Salt Palace broke loose the other day. aud for a few minutes min-utes he owned the whole Midway. After wreekiug a candy booth, eating up the dinners of a few museum people, peo-ple, aud searing a score of women almost al-most to death, he was captured and taken back to his cage. Moab fruit growers are finding no trouble to dispose of all their fruit. A heavy demand has come from Grand Junction, Colo., to supply that point for Peach Day celebration. Prices this year are leaving a fair margin for the shippers. The property assessed by the county assessor of Iron county, exclusive of railroads, car lines, telegraph and telephone tel-ephone companies is valued atS302,S03, and telegraphs at S452. Total, SS03, 200. The stat school and county tax will foot up S9.237.4L |
