Show UTAH STATE during the past year utah paid 20 in stamp tax I 1 A dash of snow fell in salt lake the n of the the lehi baud has been reorganized with twenty two members about salt I 1 akerd took advant age of excursion rates east and west last week oil entliss abts say a refining plant will be erected in county in the near future arthur kneass of silt lake city has been appo anted messenger in the boise idaho land office ed johnson an employee of mcdon aid s circus was killed at payson last week being run over by the circus train the pres dent has s ened the corn miss on of ed aid ballister fal lister as col lector of in terna revenue for montana idaho and utah erastus of provo has sued thomas llewellyn foi 85 damages alleging that defendant beat hain in such a manner as to inal ct permanent pei manent injuries the western union telegraph corn pany s office in bait lake city did the largest bus ness last week of any week since the office has been established in the capital city the farst money that will go to the state treasury through the operation of the inheritance tax will be from the estate of J M E cletts who died in salt lake on may 21 a the salt lake library con 8 volumes and has 10 membership cards outstanding the average daily loans the past year was and pa books daily issued to the reading room the wholesale 1 quor firm of E M it burns wh ch removed from kweiser idaho to salt lake has as signed with 1 ab cities amount ng to upward of ahe stock will cover the indebtedness the supreme court last week passed on a case involving 40 the smallest amount ever involved in a case before that tribunal the case arose over re taxed costs the court rendered judg ment for 81 20 for plaintiff bait lake county has passed an ardi nance imposing a tax on telephones the tax imposed is 1 a year onins tru rent ng for 00 a year and up ward and 50 cents a year for those renting for less than 00 a year the bi annial convention of county superintendents was held in salt lake ty last week twenty two of the twenty seven count es of the state be ing represented and matters of import ance to the schools were d mark J mitchell recently bound over to the d strict court of grand county on a charge of perjury took leave the just prior to nhe holding of court to try him so far tl e officers have been unable to lot ft t acate him j i a cadet dumford the successful con I for appo to the vest military academy hav ng failed to pass the entrance exam nation to that institute on another chance may be adlor led clarence S jarvis of st 1060 grasshoppers are do ng extensive damage to crops at manti and school children are being employed to aid in ridding the vi anity of them large numbers have b en desti oved by dav ing the minto traps and the hope is ex pressed that further ravines may be averted oil experts claim that within a short time no one wilt be able to locate land in the green fiver d strict galket brothers of bait lake alone have located nearly two to ansh ps machinery is being set up and lie value of the suppose 1 1 bearing zone will soon be determined the stalest utah recently relin squished 30 acres of land in millard county wl iab the government has now thrown open to settlement the land was selected because of the projected bonneville reserve r and would have been valuable had the enterprise been carr ed out iThe Anaconda standard says a hack once owned by bangham young is ly ing in a scrap heap r in butte where for 1 i iff a n imber of years it was in daily use jim murray bought it in for and rented it to one hack arner for a beday until it returned him it or binally cost 5 the provo postoffice post office will pass from a third to a second class office on july 1 which means that may be ap pointed an assistant postmaster and three clerks the office also expects to show sufficient rece apts to entitle it to a free delivery service r A majority of the san juan county voters failed to s agn a petition in favor of the annexation of san juan county to grand and the question is cally settled for the present as it can not now be brought up for a vote be fore the election of it is h ehly probable that alberta canada where the largest of the men canad an colonies is located will have a sugar factory similar in size to that at lehi apostles taylor and aeed smoot and jesse knight of provo being interested in the enterprise bert atone a youth charged with steal ing a horse from thomas E jeremy on july 15 1900 who was recently ap pretended ended in rich county entered a plea 0 guilty at his tr al in salt lake last weeland received a sentence of three years in the state prison att |