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Show UTAH NEWS. The ooramiasion of Arthur Pratt as census supervisor of Utah, has been received. The business men of Payson have organized a company to build and operate op-erate a creamery. Miss Eva E. Nelson of Wheaton, 111., has been appointed assistant teacher in the Sltebit Indian school, Utah. Gustave Meyers, of Auerbach & Pro., was found dea l in bed in Salt Lake Sunday morning, heart failure being the cause. A free continuous-performance vaudeville vaud-eville show will be given at the state fair every afternoon and evening during dur-ing the fair. A two mile spur connecting the Ontario On-tario drain tunnel with the Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad will be built at Park City. The contract for the grading has been let. Edward 1). Lancaster, aged 28, of Salt Lake, jumped from a moving street car hist week and collided with a pole, crushing his skull, lie will probably recover. The Brigham Young monument, at the intersection of South Temple and Main streets, Salt Lake, will be completed com-pleted in the near future at an outlay of about 814,000. Over i00 children are crowded into some of Salt Lake's school buildings, and suitable structures cannot be rented to relieve the overcrowded condition con-dition of the schools. Reed Hathenbruck, a lti-year-old 1'rovo boy, was struck in the eye by an exploding gun cap which he was removing from a shell, probably causing caus-ing the loss of the eye. Christopher Hilberg, of Logan he.s been sentenced to two j'ears in the penitentiary for having criminal relations rela-tions with Annie Ward, a lti-year-old girl. The case has been appealed. Andrew J. liurt of Salt Lake, lieutenant lieu-tenant in Colonel Torrey's rough riders, has been appointed captain oi the Thirty-ninth infantry and has ac- pepted. lie will be sent to the Philippines. Philip-pines. Charles Brown, a miner from Park Oity, fell in a faint on the streets of Halt Lake one night last week and badly hurt his head on the prvement. Excessive smoking of strong cigars was the cause. Arthur YV. Brown of Salt Lake will be appointed a lieutenant in the regular regu-lar army. Lieutenant Harry Hinea i would have been named instead of Brown but for his age, he being under the limit required by law. Melvin Witbeck of Juab was killed ot Aspen, Wyo., last week. He was driving a sheep wagon across the railroad rail-road track when it was struck by s passenger train. A curve and a high bank made the rain invisible. John W. Burton, formerly a prominent promi-nent sheepman of Ka3'sville, has returned re-turned from the Klondike, after an absence of nineteen months. He is one of the few survivors of the ghastly Edmonton Ed-monton trail and 883 s the booming of that trail by the Hudson Bay company in order to sell provisions at an enormous enor-mous cost, has cost hundreds of men their lives. The secretary of war last week telegraphed tele-graphed regrels to Governor Wells that regulations for the organization of the volunteer troops do not permit him to accept the signal corps of the National Guard of Utah as an organization. organi-zation. H. 11. Crone, a Salt Lake carpenter, last week feel with a scaffolding from a barn he was working on, a distance of eighteen feet, breaking one leg be-lo.v be-lo.v the knee and the ankle of the other oth-er leg. He will be laid up for a long time with his injuries. Major Young, Major Grant, Governor Wells, Colonel Clayton, Colonel Bru-baek, Bru-baek, Lieutenant-Colonel Nebeker, Lieutenant Benner X. Smith, Lieutenant Lieuten-ant W edgewood and Lieutenant Critch-!ow Critch-!ow departed Suuday for New York to attend the Dewey reception. Notwithstanding the comparative failure of fruit in the state this year, the display which will be made at the state fair next month, it is predicted, will eclipse any of the exhibits heretofore hereto-fore made of the state's horticultural possibilities. Salt Lake and eastern capitalists are to build an embankment around Utah Lak to raise the water and confine it to a smaller area. This would result in reclaiming many acres of good land and force more water through canals for laud now cultivated. Mountain lions are killing many sheep at the head of Logan canyon. Last week one man lost forty-seven in one night from this cause, aud the next night twenty-four. Several lious have recently been killed there aud there seems to be plenty left. Peusiou Commissioner II. Clay Evans while in Salt Lake last week expressed the opinion that the Philippines would be retained, that the Christian world would not listen to any proposition which would close the doer to christianizing chris-tianizing that country. |
