Show UTAH NEWS r r More than 1200 men are employed by 1 the railroads railroad of Ogden I A number of coal mines have han been opened open d up this winter near VernaL VernoL The The new opera house at Park at-Park City will b be formally opened during t the tho e week t. t The Utah Pioneer Jubilee ee commission has presented to the salt palace project all the jubilee floats on hand valued at 1 O. O The Utah Sugar factory has been been been- closed down for the season The past season season n has been a very satisfactory one Ito all aU concerned T The e gross receipts of the Rio Grande Western Western for the calendar year ending December 31 will vill be approximately a 0 good showing for the system The Honolulu Reveille of December says Lieutenant Mills company JK K Youngs Young's engineers after a II close battle with typhoid fever is convalescent convalescent cent and gaining rapidly During the year 1898 there were deaths in Salt Lake City males and females On a a. basis of po pop population the tho annual death rate was per cent of the population The Rio Grande Westerns Western's ne new depot depot depot de de- de- de pot at Springville is now complete and the station employees have moved in The building is said to be one of the finest on the line of the Rio Grande Western On the 2nd the people of Auora formally dedicated their new school building which was erected at a a. acost cost of The building is a 0 stone structure and is one of which the people people people peo peo- are justly proud Sw Swasey sey d Martin bankers of Provo Prove have decided to go out of business and their bank will be closed at the end of the year This move was brought about by the death of one of the largest largest largest larg larg- est stockholders it being thought a a. prudent move in the interest of the de deceased eased mans man's estate F 0 Governor Wells has received the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing from General Adjutant General Ward regarding the Utah boys in Manila Think discharge of individual members members mem mem- bers hers of Utah artilleries would not be expedited by immediate action Batteries Batteries Batteries Bat Bat- teries will be returned as soon as can be relieved by regular troops Box Dox Elder county has filed with Auditor Richards a claim against the state staLe for the states state's share of 1 bounties paid for the killing of rabbits jack-rabbits since April The largest individual haul of the pests was made by B. B Dial who bagged 2172 with H. H L. L Higley a close second with z 2168 One One morning last week the police of ol fo ti Salt Lake discovered discovered some small boys playing with a a. large box of giant powder which they claim they had found on the street It seems little less than a miracle that hat the boys did die not succeed in blowing themselves anc anca and anda a goodly portion of the neighborhood into eternity August Larson who while in the I employ of the Grow Mining company on Golconda mountain had one hand ham blown off while digging out a a. missed shot is still in p a critical condition a at St. St Marks Mark's hospital in Salt Lake One Om hand and a a. part of the other has been amputated and it is feared that h hmay he be heI I may lose both eyes I Dan Morgan the mail mall driver beI bej between be- be j I tween Vernal and Fort was waa injured in a a. runaway a few days ago The stage horses took fright and ran away turning the coach upside down and landing Morgan beneath severa several hundred pounds of freight Luckily assistance came in a short time am and nd Morgan escaped with several severe sever bruises Last week the state land board offered offered offer offer- ed cd for sale acres of arid agricultural agricultural tural land and for lease acres o of grazing lands belonging to the state in Juab county Of the amount offered offeree I 40 acres of school and acres o of university lands were sold at prices price ranging from 25 cents to pe per acre the university lands selling a at per acre Freedom one of the American papers pape at Manila in its Issue of November contains an account of a a. wrestling wrestling wrestling wrest wrest- ling match between Sergeant Peterson of Montana and Private battery A Utah volunteers The con contest contest contest test took place in the theater theater- the stake being for a side and the championship of the Eighth arm army V earps corps was defeated in th the lt d l round t att |