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Show UTAH NKWS. nids for furnishing supplies for the slate prison are being asked for. Cache county this year produced a million and a half bushels of wheat. The directors of the 'tali sugarcom-pany sugarcom-pany have declared a dividend for the past six months of .", per cent. The contract for fie construction of the L'tuh &. Pacific road has been let, and work will be begun at once. The' a nn ual con vent ion of the Kpis-copal Kpis-copal church in I tab and Nevada was held in Salt Lake during the past week. The report from Heaver is that the hay crop is the heaviest by several thousand tons that lias ever been k no wn. Oneoiay last week seven carloads of I'tah honey was shipped to Jtoston. J-'our carloads were shipped from one county. C. L. .Maxwell, the Springville bank robber, is busily engaged writing a book, telling of liis man3' thrilling experiences ex-periences in the west. State Treasurer Chipman's report for August shows: Receipts, S7.488.70; dis-bui'smenls dis-bui'smenls S'M,r,U7.li0; balance on hand August 31. S78,i',..-,.i5. Charley Price, a 11-year old son of James Price of Springville. aecidently shot himself through .the foot with a L".'-calihro rifle while hunting. The members of battery C received their pay at San Francisco on the liith, t his making two pay days they have had since entering the service of Uncle Sam. The stock -growers' associations of this state, including' the wool-growers, intend making application to the National Na-tional stock-growers' association for membership. At Minersville the grain crop is the best yield per acre and quantity ever harvested there and below Milf'ord on the best farms 7.". 000 bushels of grain will be threshed. Judge John W. Judd. late United States district attorney, has decided to leave Utah and return to his old Tennessee home, where he will resume the practice of law. Burglars entered the postoBice at Eureka and carried away some letters but did not disturb anything else. A clue has been obtained and the culprits cul-prits will probably be captured. At the regular monthly meeting of the directors of the Z. C. M. I., President Presi-dent Lorenzo Snow was chosen president presi-dent of that instiution for the balance of the term, made vacant by the det.th of President Woodruff.' Utah's naval cadet, Robert Morris, is in Salt Lake for a few days before returning to Annapolis. He has been seeing active service and has just returned re-turned from Honolulu, where he saw the Hag raised August 12. Mrs. Mary Warner Sprague, who died at Salt Lake on the lath inst., was 11.") years, (i months and 14 days old. Site was the widow of Dr. S. L. Sprague, who was Lrigham Young's physician for many years. The Utah I'.eekeepers' association will hold its semi-annual meeting at the joint city and county buildiug, Salt Lake City, on Thursday. October b. An effort is being made to make a display at the Omaha exposition. Leo S. Whitehead of Salt Lake is the inventor of an electric automatic volley vol-ley gun which will tire shots at the rate of 4.S00 per minute. Mr. Whitehead White-head has a number of capitalists interested inter-ested with him aud will endeavor to supply the nations of the world with a few of bis ''peace-makers.'' Mrs. Maria Mickleson, of Spring City, while riding in a buggj- with her husband and two granddaughters, fell from the vehicle and received injuries which resulted in death. The supposition suppo-sition is that she must have fallen asleep. A child sitting in her lap was also thrown out, but escaped uninjured. unin-jured. A hunting club has been organized in Salt Lake City, with a membership of twenty-four. Pecker's Lake, five miles southwest of the city, and 1200 acres of land surrounding it, has been secured. A deputy will be employed to keep off intruders. Pucks are the principal game. Leases have been taken on t He grounds for five years. Mrs. Margaret Blaine Salisbury of Salt Lake was elected vice-president of the George Washington association, the object of which is to found a National university at Washington, at the recent session held on the 15th inst. Quong Wah. a Chinese resident of Salt Lake, wants to wed with Dora Harris, a quadroon girl, but the county' clerk has refused to issue a license. Quong vows be will carry the matter to the courts, to direct tiie way for him to secure his bride. Repairs and improvements at Port laiiieron for the branch of the B. Y. academy are rapidly approaching con-pletion con-pletion and a big time is expected on the 2iith, when the site aud buildings will bc dedicated and the college opcnei I f u pupils 1 |
