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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The Marysvale grade in practically com pleted. It is said that Garfield Beach will be closed during the coming season. Traffic on the I .'tali A. Pacific railway Is showing a substantial increase. The school trustees of Mill (.'reek have deruded to build an SV'OO school building for that district. The city council of Manti is agitating agi-tating the question of establishing a volunteer fire depart incut. For the third week of March the Rio Grande Western gross earnings reached B7!i,000, an increase of IS, 100. No less than fifteen new dwellings, all brick, are being erected or preparations prepa-rations made for their erection at Richfield. Unless there is a material change in tho weather, sheep-shi aring in some localities will begin within the next few days. Henceforth the city prisoners of Salt Luke will bo compelled to work eight hours a day, under the supervision of the chief of police. Oscar Feningerof the Utah batteries, who died from the effects of exposure, lias just been buried at his former home at Orleans, Neb. A strong elTort is being made to have the postoflice re-established at Ashley, which was discontinued by the department a short time ago. There is some uncertainty felt in panning circles because Davis county fanners are reported as trying to combine com-bine on an extra high price for tomatoes toma-toes this season. It is stated on the highest Catholic authority that Omaha will be made an archdiocese with Lincoln, Cheyenne and Salt Lake City from the archdiocese archdio-cese of San Francisco. A 2-year-old child of William Richardson Rich-ardson of Loa was severely burned on the back of the neck and head a few days ago by falling backward into a fire place. It is believed it will re-cover. re-cover. Governor Wells is in receipt of tho bill of laden for the Spanish gun captured cap-tured iu Manila, and sent by Major Richard W. Young as a present to the state. The cannou is expected in a day or two. Sheep are reported to be moving toward to-ward Mt. Pleasant from the desert and iu a very short time shearing will have commenced. The winter has not been as favorable to the sheep as usual, owing ow-ing to the extreme dryness. Wool is moving in the Mt. Ploasant market, the sale of a clip or two being reported almost daily. One representative represen-tative for an eastern firm handled one olip of 100,000 pounds last week, paying pay-ing therefor at the rate of sixteen cents per pound. An employee of a Salt Lake brewery, during tho course of a trial before the board of arbitration regarding his discharge dis-charge by his employer, declared that he nould drink -00 glasses of beer daily, antf still be able to do his work in f pioper manner. The Green Cattle company of Manti 'ast week shipped thirty-three cars of cattle over the Sanpete Valley and Union Pacific. Eleven cars went to Council Bluffs and twenty-two cars were shipped to different ranges in Wyoming. The Utah Guauo company is building build-ing at Syracuse a scow 12S feet long and ;sfi feet beam, capable of carrying 400 tons of guano from Bird island, north of Stausbury island, in the Great Salt Lake, and shipping will begin as soon as possible. A large force of men are engaged in the construction of a new hotel at Ephraim. The building is located lo-cated on Main street, and when finished, will be one of the finest buildiugs of its kind in the southern part of the state. The members of the Y. M. M. I. A. of the state are arranging for the erection of a fitting monument to the memory of their late general superintendent, Wilford Woodruff. Preliminaries will probably be completed com-pleted by April 15th. At Spriugville, a small boy, in connection con-nection with a coal oil torch in a chicken coop, started a small conflagration confla-gration which destroyed tho coop and a hay stack. The timely arrival of a force of men prevented the destruction of much neighboring property and serious ser-ious loss. The Provo city council has in contemplation con-templation the establishment of a beautiful boulevard, extending from the State Insane asylum at the kead of Center street to the Provo lake resort, a distance of about four miles. Governor Wells has offered a reward of S500 for the arrest of the slavers of E. W. Penney and his son George, the two citizens of Kanosh who disappeared disap-peared by evideutly foul means in the vicinity of Black Rock, about November 17th last. |
