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Show tion (.'very two years. ft will be a vat improvement over the preei,t lueiimd of holding an election of some kind every ninety days. The intent of the law i very simple, and if not muddkd and misemtfued by schemim.: politicians, poli-ticians, will be productive of much good to the whole Territory Park City A'. ',!. ; Canada lacks only iT.iiuiUpiarc miles to he as large as the whole Continent if Europe. It is nearly thiity times as large as Creat Ili-bain and Ireland and is oUii.uui) s.pian- miles larger than the United Slates. Provo Enqnirer. j I One eastern railway company alone has just ordered PKJ freiglit , j locomotive's to meet the demand of j increasing traffic. The coming ' year is to he one of great activity with the railways, and hence with I , the innumerable industries depen-j dent upor. them. S. E. Ifvrnhi. Tlic platforms over the pinnacles of the Temple will hold, the builders build-ers say, 1,0()() people, and it is the intention of tin; Saints to have the entire Tabernacle choir and a hand up there on the (ith of April, when the figure of Ike angel is to be placed in position. It will be a great day for the Mormon Church. 'J'rilm nr. Within twenty-four hours there were two sad deaths in Ogden, both of them resulting from the same cause internal injuries caused by the passing of waijon 'wheels over the bodies of the unfortunate victims. vic-tims. One of the unfortunates was the little son of James Pingree and the other a man named (lus Erick-son. Erick-son. Park City Miner. The total amount of the legislative legisla-tive appropriation bill for V'tah, i is (!; 1,880.25; .special bills $70,000, interest on present indebtedness and new bonds $70,000; grand total $S0-l,SS0,-."). The bonding bill passed grants the Territory the right to bond for $200,000. When so bonded, the Territorial debt will be $700,000. Peaver Clnn in i. PITH OF THE PRESS. Pen rirliirrs Ciillnl From lite Best Himirx of Our Country. The longest railroad in the world is now under construction across 1 Siberia. When complete it will measure 4,7S."i miles. Manti SVj-fincl. SVj-fincl. The impression is prevalent all over the west that this will be a bright and prolitable year for the mining industry. S. L. Stock Ex. Journal. Labor troubles in London are assuming grave proportions. A half million coal miners have struck for higher wages and shorter hours. Price Telegraph. The people of Brigham City are rustling to establish their canning company before the opening of spring and have fair prospects of success. S. L. Journal nf Commerce. Provo, March 21. Theodore F. Samuelson, late assessor and collector col-lector of this city, suicided at 1 :40 this evening, by cutting his throat with a knife. The deed was done at his residence, and he died almost al-most instantly. Ilcrahl. Should there be a continuance of last week's warm weather the supply sup-ply of snow on the mountains, to which our farmers look for irrigating irriga-ting water, will soon disappear. Report comes that there is not half the depth this year as there was a year ago. Mt Pleasant Pyramid. The Brigham Biuu.ku is authority author-ity for the statement that interest is increasing in the new mining region in western Box Elder county. Miners are Hocking there although the snow' is eighteen inches deep. Five new claims were located last week. S. L. Stock Ex. Jovrnal. Bountiful, Davis county, has two respected vctrans, whose respective ages are creeping close up to the full century. One is Father Daniel Woods, of Wood's Cross, aged 92, and Mother Sessions, who, we have been informed, lacks a little less than two years of being 100. Dene ret Xewa. The new election law, providing for the gradual consolidation of our present numerous elections, is a wise and just measure, and under its provisions the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1893, will see the culmination of the consolidation, and after that date there will be one general elec- |