Show AN S 1 its TUCKER dec dee 15 confessing to the theft of a hand satchel containing money and jewelry to the value ot of inore than a hundred dollars fraak birch wae was taken to provo today to await preliminary hearing on a charge of grand larceny irving L pratt deput sheriff at 0 utah county made the arrest and escorted birch to provo according to pratt birch stole a suit hutt case last night belonging to a woman oman who was waiting in the depot for a train and abstracted from it a handbag which contained a watch two rings and nearl a hundred dollars when captured the loot wac ac found on his person birch Is a middle aged man and a painter by occupation he ile Is partly paralyzed and at hia his request was admitted to the i county infirmary ry at provo last september A few days lays ago both the superintendent and matron of at the institution complained of having lost money and valuables and accused birch the latter made hia his escape taking the first train out of town lie ile arrived yesterday in tucker 1 in n making his confession deputy pratt H says ays birch stated that he lie came larne from new jers jersey ey where his mother moths and anti divorced wife re reside ittle new telephone poles carrying three wires each are now strung along the southern utah as far towards the three mining camps of Il hiawatha lawatha black hawk and mohrland aa as franklin station giving each camp an exclusive wire hire tor for its own use in tle spring the sime winie cons construction truc tion which A aich Is the best in this section of tho the country will be continued on to these camps there are numerous stations or call boxes along the lines of the southern butth and castle valley rall railroad road for the use of employed emp loyes only as well nell as one at millers ranch chanaka Chan uka the feast of lights jewish holiday began last thursday evening and Is being celebrated celeb eight dis by members of that faith w who I 1 lo 10 are not too busy in getting the nio money ney the feast was inaugurated 11 C to celebrate the purification of the tt in jerusalem after its occupation and pollution ay iy y the syrian king who helu belt the jews under subjection ater years of struggle the syrians were expelled and ind the temple was to the jewish form of worship in jewish homes the oi cislon N 1 celebrated by the lighting of c pandlis F colip companies find a ne new feature in their traffic this ear in the shipment from california of fruit in sin ill A N special rate on such shipments has been granted and anti allowed by th interstate common commerce e comm commission IsMon and the of california are taking advantage of the new condition to send ad to their lattern friends during the holidays and winter inter se season seison ison the luscious fruit that that state boasts of after the opening of the school term following the holl d da vacation the system of penmanship now t taught in the schools school throughout the elate state of utah will be changed the vertical style of writing is to be abandoned in the class rooms and the Spen cerlan teni tem of angular writing which in as dropped in school schools in almost it every part of the united states ten or twelve year years ago Is to be restored the change will be a confession conff salon on the part of school principals the state tate over tit that at the vertical system a which but a few year yeara A ago wae was accepted by educators in epry city in the country aa as the solution of every perplexing penmanship lem lias has been found to be a failure and tho the return t no system th that thit it waa as t for more thin fifty will bo be taken up again in response to 10 a gemeril demand from busl nese men and anti business as colleges col legee and after serious consideration for of inore snore than a year by members of the state and city boards of |