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Show LTAH NEWS. I'a rvidi.ic and Xe'.vton have asked tho county cnmmissi'iiiers that they be incorporated in-corporated as t'iwns. Joseph K. Peesc has resigned as principal prin-cipal of tin- Spanish Fork schools, and is succeeded by llavid Prior. Governor Well-, has returned from bis flip to Washington, where lie at-tended at-tended a meet ing of governors. K. (.'. Loo.-.e, mining magnate, lias re-sigm-d as a member of tin: I'rovo City eon nci I, gi vi n g a- bis reason pressure of private husi ncss. In the vicinity of St. George pencil trees are ill full blossom and a bounteous bounte-ous ha rv-est o f the luscious fruit this season is predicted. The grand lodge A. I). I'. V. met in Salt. Lake last ueelc ami changed the. assessui'-nt. plan of this jurisdiction from tin- level to the graded plan. All the schools in M.Mili have been closed, owing to the recent outbreak of smallpox, and tin- school rooms will be thoroughly disin fueled during the vacation. vaca-tion. V. S. l'eet, emigration agent for the Bear 1,'iver Land company, last week brought in six families and a carload of baggage from Nebraska. The newcomers new-comers will settle tit Dewey villc. Burglars entered a store at Wood's Cross one night, last week and appropriated appro-priated a quantity of clothing and a few dollars in cash. Tramps are supposed to have been the guilty parties. Charles Head, lately held in Salt Lake on suspicion of being wanteil elsewhere, else-where, is wanted in Nebraska for the murder of a man he was traveling witli last summer, near Grand Island. Mrs. M. A. McLean has been appointed ap-pointed matron of the Utah county in-lirmary in-lirmary at a salary of S-'O per month. Mrs. McLean was for a number of yenra matron at the state insane as3'lum. Governor Wells has announced his intention to appoint a senator to fill Utah's vacant seat in the United States senate, in the event that Quay of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania is seated, and expresses the opinion the Quay will be sealed. A stock company is being organized in Lebi for the purpose of erecting, during the coming slimmer, a modern opera bouse, costing in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of from f 10,000 to 512,000, and the success of the project seems to be assured. as-sured. Work on the tunnel at Altus is being rapmiy pusneti to completion oy me Kio Grande Western people, and tho two gangs, which are working toward each other, will meet about April 1. Altus is one of the busiest places in the state just now. The home of James Anderson,, four miles cast of llichiicid, was destroyed by fire while the family was at Sunday school. A little boy was seen about the place by neighbors and it is the opinion of some that he set fire to the l, uilding. Leo Whitehead of Salt Lake, who was arrested in Washing ton at the instance of his wife, who claimed that he had deserted her and children in Salt Lake and married another woman in Baltimore, Balti-more, has been held in 2,000 bonds for further hearing. It is reported that there is a considerable consid-erable number of smallpox cases in the vicinity of Koosbareni. and that there are no quarantine regulations in force, and the state board of health has beer asked to investigate the report and see that the law is complied with. An unusual rail way accident occurred near Centervtile last week when both side bars on the engine, connecting the drivers, broke squarely in two, while the train was running- at the rate of sixty miles an hour, the cab being torn off, but no one injured. Morgan T. Woodhouse of Lchi has accepted an eight tnonths'eoutract with the E. II. Dyer company in the capacity of agricultural expert for a sugar factory fac-tory they are erecting at Cleveland. O. , dtiriug which time be will instruct the farmers in the art of growing beets. From Lake canyon, an offshoot of Spanish Fork canyon, comes the report that valuable gold-bearing- rock has been found, and that at a point about eight miles from Thistle many colors have beeu exposed. There is a great rush for the new district. Annette Jensen of Sandy, recently released from the state insane asylum as cured, has been recommitted to that institution, her malady having returned re-turned with great violence, she having driven her husband from home and threatened to cut his throat. The woolen mills at Provo are said to be running at their fullest capacity, with orders ahead for a long time to eoine. Strange to say, the largest shipments from this mill go to eastern states, while a large percentage goes to the Pacific coast. After escaping the pestilence for over three months, notwithstanding a continual con-tinual stream of visitors from Butte, Salt Lake, Eureka and Corey's." Park City at last has a case of smallpox, but is not believed the disease will become prevalent in tiiat camp. |