Show UTAH STATE mm accord ng to the railway age only tt 7 miles of railroad track was laid m utah during the past year the richfield has been ad danced from a fourth class to a third lass office the change taking effect on the 1st the califern Cali forn a excursion 0 the tab cho r next march is now an as aured fact all the prel arrange ments having been made the members of the salt lake mining stock exchange close 1 the first year of the new century by a banquet at the hotel covers tor sixty being laid A voluntary weather station has been established at johnson in kane county with joseph chatterly ir charge this is the sixty fifth station in utah A number of idaho sheep men are wintering their flocks on the desert in utah this year while utah sheep alq excluded from idaho during the sum mer months senator kearns who has just return ed from washington speaking of the building of the san pedro ra broad from california to salt lake declares that the road will surely be built the constitutionality of the inhere tance tax law will be tested by the heirs of james M Pic hetts of salt bake who left an estate of 5 the state claims 88 under the law joseph P anderson s an ephraim lad 5 years old was pa injured by falling upon a pair of scissors fn day the scissors penetrated his ab domen to a depth of one and one half inches apostle bangham young who left salt lake two weeks ago to visit mexico for the benefit of his health ie sick at froitland fruitland Fruit land N M with a complication of stomach and nervous troubles james anderson a salt lake carpenter suffered the amputation of a leg last week from the effects of blood po boning caused by a scratch received while oiling a floor three weeks ago the proposed intermountain baseball league comprising beans from salt lake ogden pocatello great palls helena and butte has been abandoned and it is probable a utah colorado league will be organized in the superior court at tacoma the receiver of the metropolitan bank was directed to accept the offer of charles mcnamee to take the assets and prop the bank and pay the depositors and creditors in full arguments in the case instituted by governor wells to compel the pay ment of an increase of salary according to the law passed by the legislature were made in the supreme court last week decision was reserved the university of california hae been asked to recommend to the philippine commission several men quail ifield by experience exper rence and sc ent fie train ing to take charge of agricultural experiment peri ment stations in the philippines salt lake will have improved postal facilities within a sew weeks the business delivery district will be en and more frequent deliveries will be made the mounted service in the outskirts will also be extended lieutenant frank G nines young bait laker who recently received a commiss on in the regular army has di shed himself by as in quelling a dangerous not which broke out among the gnass ened troops at the pres dio near san fran cisco wednesday night A dispatch from salem oregon re ports that the mormon elders were held up and relieved of a small sum of money last week almost under the nose of the police while they were looking for the offenders who have been terrorizing the outskirts of the city by numerous holdups A check for six cents drawn by the utah bugar company to larson representing the net proceeds from hie sugar beet crop has been received at salt lake bearing about fifty endorse ments the check has been traded as a matter of sport and has been sold several times for a dollar the year 1900 the mines of park city paid in dividends sl out of a total dividend by all the mines of the state of 2 in 1901 the park city mines have to the r cred t in dividends the sum of sa an increase over 1900 of 1 A wholesale jail delivery was pre vented by the confession of a released prisoner who told the authorities that the prisoners in the bait lake ja 1 had planned escape saws had been smug aled into the jail by friends of some 0 the prisoners sheriff of provo is in receipt of a photo of M E lemmon the man serving a sentence in who was suspected of being wr the pelican point murderer the photograph shows no resemblance resemble nce between the two men james burke who was arrested in kansas city saturday and was shot while trying to escape from the officers Is a well kno cl fracter in pol ce circles in bait lake and lived here for a number of years lie is also well known to the pol ce of ogden G W long who shot sheriff dark at salina about a month ago and john johnson who shot a man named bridge er about six weeks ago were arraigned at richfield last week entered pleas of not guilty and were bound over to the district court il jafe AA |