Show UTAH STATE NEWS S W sanderson has been appointed postmaster at fail view general miles has promised to visit fort douglas next summer the at richfield Kich field has been raised to the presidential class senator has recommended the appointment of heywood of salt lake to succeed united states marshall glen miller the salt lake board of education has purchased the old university ground and buildings from the state land board for andge stewart in the district court a salt lake has affirmed the validity of the ordinance prohibiting women from entering saloons at n representative sutherland h as becom mended the appointment of nelson E margetts of the utah battery to a lieutenancy in the regular army george washington the colored dog catcher of salt lake has been arrested charged with selling dogs and shipping them out of the state instead of im pounding them salt lake has risen two inches since tha close of the bathing season it la hoped late snows and spring rains will raise the water enough to make bath ing good for next season the comp education law is to be strictly enforced in salt lake by superintendent chistensen and the board of education during the re bainder of the school ear miss alice M Johnson of a niece of the wife of lord roberts the famous english general died at salt lake last week where she underwent n operation for appendicitis congressional delegation believes the military commission which looks after military posts throughout the country will provide for extensive improvements at fort douglas one hundred and twenty three cases of smallpox have developed in utah county within sixty days past and of these are in benjamin district the remaining four at clinton this breaks the utah record congressman sutherland has in produced trod a resolution appropriating 25 for the establishment of a elih culture station in utah at some point to be chosen by the united states corn iniss ioner of fish and fis forsea are being secured to equip two batteries at fort douglas and artillery parades will be a picturesque feature of the fort an effort will be made to equip one battery with black horses and another with bays the records of salt lake county h of the general county tax id required for the support of paupers assistance last year was given to more then 3 persons the total expenditure it is claimed that a petrified tree has been found in american fork canyon at the butt the diameter of the tree is estimated at seventy five feet while feet from its roots the top has been cut off by a gulch yet it is 20 feet in diameter beane who professed religion and was pardoned aut of the utah penitentiary in 1900 where he was erving a term for burglary was shot and seriously wounded at kansas city last week while engaged in robbing a re uk shurtleff the 16 year old boy who was convicted of killing mrs jane allson at holiday last summer by shooting into her house while on a carouse with sever il other boys of hia age has had his sentence suspended during good behavior hamilton park a 13 year old salt lake boy was last week shot in the head by a companion who was handling a email target rifle the wound is not denous but had the ball varied in its course a quarter of an inch it would have caused the loss of an eye if not the life of the lad the irate of utah is expected to raise 2 toward the mckinley monument found which is less than even tenths of a cent per capita january 29 is the day set for eions and school children will be given an opportunity to contribute moses thatcher and a number of chicago people are in mexico inspect ing a coffee and rubber plantation which they expect to purchase the plan contains acres has 40 coffee trees and 30 rubber trees and bout 3 acres of sugar cane tho century company a minneapolis concern is considering a proposition to develop the wax mines near co ton if it undertakes the development the company will mine a product found only at colton which is used for Insul lation wax candles and the like fire supposed to 1 ave been of aineen diary origin was d sc la mrs white s millinery store at last week just in time to prevent a disastrous conflagration tt e loss was about fully covered by tn urance fifty years ago on jannary 13 the pioneers pitched their tents where an no v stands and estabi shed a settlement on the fiftieth aint of the event a celebration was held a nice programs pro grame and a and dance in the evening residents of uintah county are grat ifield at the success of the utah con gressional grees ional delegation in preventing the approval of the mineral lind lease and hope the investigation wh ch has been started will settle the matter against the lease for all time i t |