Show i UTAH NEWS i The Omaha Exposition medals won on onby by Salt Lake exhibitors were distributed distributed distri distri- buted last week The newsboys ne of Salt Lake City ing in intend In g tend to start a So night school In their n new V home recently established The ice harvest on Utah lake lako is in M full fuU blast The Tho product this year is beautifully clear and about twenty inches thick The new Latter-day Latter Saint meeting meetinghouse t house bouse at Laic Lale Hawaiian islands is to tobe tobe be the dedicated during the visit there of President Joseph F. F Smith h The merchants of Salt Lake City were engaged in to closing up their books booles s for ifor the last year durin during the past week and report a most excellent showing r State Treasurer Chipman's report for lor December shows a balance on hand handon on December 31 of The r receipts for the mon month th were ri while the expenditures reached a total Jj of 1 Joseph M. M president ex-president of the ther r t Utah National bank appeared before i r J United States Commissioner Twomey I II I i on n the charge of presenting a a. false f statement regarding the condition of the bank to the comptroller of the currency He lIe waived examination and was held to the United States district t court ourt the bail being fixed at 2500 with M. M H. H Walker and A. A as sureties 1 County Attorney Evans of Utah county called on Harry Hayes recently in the state prison Mr Hayes in talking talk talk- ing lug over his chances for a pardon was vas very much opposed to receiving a pardon pardon par par- don claiming that if he was liberated in this manner there would be people who would still consider him guilty of the Pelican Point murder lIe He wanted a new trial when he claimed hei he i would be able to prove his innocence John Woodman the miner who had his feet and fingers badly frozen near Fairfield and who who underwent an amputation amputation am am- of tb the members as a 0 result died the at the hospital in Salt Lake The operation following Woodmans Woodman's terrible ordeal proved too much for him Woodman had no relatives rel rel- in this country being an Englishman Eng lishman by birth He lIe was formerly employed at the Silver King in Park Parle City The state land board has approved o the appraisement made of the land in inthe inthe ind d the section on which the state penitentiary peni pent is located In the contest of oi Simon Bamberger against Atkinson and others involving a right of way of the Salt Lake Hot Springs railway railway rail way through section 36 36 township 2 t north range 1 west the board has awarded Mr Bamberger a strip of land thirty feet wide vide instead of fifty feet as he prayed for Johan Swen a husky young FinS Fin Fin- S 'S lander lies in St. St Marks Mark's hospital Salt Lake City with his head swathed in S. S S bandages These removed the cranium cra era has much the appearance of apiece a apiece piece of under done steak The injury injury in j jury was the result of the Union Pacific Pa Pa- Pacific wreck at Sunol Neb in which Swen had the misfortune to be He lIe was coming to Salt Lake with his co cousin sin having met him in New NewYork NewYork York York ork on his way vay from Finland Another effort will be made if Representative Representative Representative Rep Rep- Robinson of Kane county can carry it through to have the Arizona Arizona Ari Ari- zona strip ceded to Utah by congress The territory geographically and logically logically logi logi- cally belongs to Utah the Colorado river being impassable nearly the entire entire en en- tire distance The strip has become a rendezvous for a horde of lawless characters by reason of its inaccessibility inaccessibility and southern Utah has paid for forI forthe I Ithe the strip by the value of live livestock stock that has Ihas been driven across the line In order for an Arizona sheriff to visit the strip it is necessary to travel about 1900 1000 miles going via Denver It is easily appreciable therefore that law lawand lawand lawand and order cannot be maintained under S Si existing conditions By right Utah should have the strip i torn ney y General n Bishop shop one day r. r r NIS Iy d sed County Attorney j t rond ond an r e that in case anold an old old hol s L y b bv by 0 o f r. r 0 w wi i P nains airis of Mrs f rs Charles Die Mc- rh e daughter of 01 J Jud U d Ke R e and jor w whose b ose sad death h in 1 socked San Sa n a host of I and friends in f fI n nI elsewhere el sew b ere I an 13 arrived in uary and were interred I I II I i 1 j |