Show UTAH STATE NEWS the utah solons report having had ft delightful time on their idaho trip an examination for a naval cadetship will soon held in utah by direction of congressman king an eastern lady has offered to make a cash donation of 10 to the shel don jackson college of salt lake the snow storm of last week was general throughout southern utah and was a boon to farmers and stoc men mrs oscar eliason has taken up the profession of her husband that of A magician she is performing in aus aralia salt lake is likely to have a plethora of telephone accommodations two new companies are seeking franchisee each promis ng to reduce present rates almost half natural gas is seeping up through the water of green river near green river station in several places tha flow has been sufficient to burn vigorously when lighted the legislature left on a junket boise friday as guests of the line to visit the idaho solons they returned sunday and were ready farj business again monday the railroad system em bracing the short line union and central pacific roads is the longest in the world the combined mileage is sa almost enough to girdle the globe W M christie who lived in salt lake from 1889 to about 1894 and who was prominent in real estate and min ing circles was killed in cripple creek last week he was run over by a locomotive A number of the utah battery officers hare applied for appointments in the regular army among them are joseph 0 frank limes charles asplund kelson margetts and william enease the salt ake city council at its last meeting passed a resolution not to is sue any new saloon licenses the num her of saloons in the city now is seven ty nine and that is the maximum num her hereafter to be allowed b W eceles traffic manager of the short line has been appointed traffic manager of the american smelting company and will have charge of al ore shipments made by the company uia salary will be 0 a year the pen aich governor wells used in signing the bill providing for bir il of ind gent soldiers and sailors is to be given a place among the relic prized by G A E men of salt lake 0 which they have a large number M P plank a salt lake stockman was found eight miles from idaho rails idaho friday lying in the road in an unconscious condition he waa the victim of a runaway and while seriously is not dangerously hurt ferguson who was arrested at fieh field recently has been taken to ah county washington to answer a charge of robbery he wa located by ex sheriff storrs of utah chiy who was looking for george the pe lean point murder er A private letter received in salt lake L ty from england states tha utah missionaries have carried small pox from utah to eurove and that a son j geo Q cannon and his wife caugh t the infection from a missionary at rotterdam both were put into the john ming a china man of salt lake has given the police information concerning several chi nese gambling and opium dens the keepers of the dives have threatened his life and driven him out of the chinese quarters ming is staying with rev brown pastor of the congregational church temporarily work will beg n at once on the new pumping plant to be built by the utah sugar company in utah county 1 will be located about half a mile north of the provo bridge the oregon short L ne track As a result of the building of a pumping plant at provo it is thought that at least acres of beets will be raised in that neighbor bood the salt lake county commissioners have ruled that a man need not support a plural wife who refuses to live where he d erects the case in point was FrankI Iansen of hunter whose plural bad removed without his consent to salt lake apostle francis M lyman has been called to take charge of the european mission with headquarters at liver pool he expects to depart about april 1 mr lyrian is one of the old est apostles being removed only fourth from the presidency articles of incorporation of the grand river castleton and la sal railroad were filed with the secretary of state last week the line is to be operated by electricity and will run to miners basin from a point on the rio granda projected extension salt lake savings banks haying de posits of S on which the annu al interest is 00 are considering die advisability of lowering the rate of interest from 4 to 3 per cent claiming that they cannot find profitable invest ment for so much money mrs M mattson of logan gave an infant grandchild which is in heij keeping a teaspoon ful of carbolic acid mistaking it for cough syrup the child was terribly burned but it 0 thought did not swallow any of th acid and will recover |