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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS"" Gleaned from Various Sources and arranged -for rapid reading. Tlicrropothimlis thin season througn, out tho entire 'territory Is tmusally heavy. Tho Deseret woolen mills have closid down to await more business. Tho mills wero closed last week. According to reports tho hoodlum clement of Provo is just about running tin town, and decent people nro getting uneasy Jim Williams has been matihed to llghf'Mexican Peto" at Credo, Colorado-the Colorado-the meeting to occur eonio time noxt month. A strong fight Is being mado to burst the Salt Lake coal combine, and tlio prospects are most favorable that tlio effort will meet with success The total population of Utah at the present time, nccoiding to the returns of the recent census, is 253,200. A gain of 33,205 durinf ta past five years. Heavy shipments ot cattle, sheep and wool are still Wing mad from the southern country. Prices for all three commodities are showing a slight improvement. im-provement. Utah seems an attractive field for new railroads and If tlio roporta now in circulation rontain any truth at all tho near futuro will sco several now railroad enterprises at least begun. Dr. MUUpaugb, for the fifth time, has been elected superintendent of the Salt Lakek public school at n salary of f3,000 per year. Superintendent Millspaugh has proven very successful. Charles K. Stcphene, ono of tho Janitors of the joint Salt Lake City and county building, disappeared tills week leaving his family In destitute circumstances. No traco of hlm can bo found.'. Tholicnicst trust deed ever filed In thisTerrltory was filed last week In Weber nnd lloxolder counties. It wni given by tho Rear River canal and Og. den Waterworks company nnd was for (2,600,000. Matthews, tho bunco man recently conticted in Salt Lako and put to work in the gravel pit, mado n broak for liberty lib-erty Monday of this a eek. Tlio guard eoomtopped him, however, by firing several shots at hlm. An effort is being mado to secure the pardon oi Allen Murdock, a half-breed Indian of Hcber, who was convicted of murder in tho first degroeand glen a life sentence at Manti in 1801. The petition will bo u strong one . Tho destruction ot fish in Utah through not halng screens at the head ot Irrigation ditches, is something tremendous, tre-mendous, nnd a combined effort is soon to be made by fish and game commissioners commis-sioners to hnve tho evil remedied The 15-year-old son of J. W Colley of Mcndon whllo playing ono rjlsl't la9t week, rim Into a barbed wire fenco nnd cut Ins tliroas from ear totnr, tho carotid artery being miissd by only an eigbtli ot nu inch. The boy -will get well. Tho flro and pollcu board of Salt Lake has Its hands full these days lUtonlng to complaints against both policemen and firemen. Tho latest sensation is a rhnrgu agaiust Chief DcUne, accusing lihu of nsiug city property and of bsitig incompetent. The chief ssjb It is foii conspiracy. Oliver Hansen of Ilyrum hid tho misfortune last week to cut his right foot almost off while falling a tree. His ax glanced and cut through the foot and tho Instep, severing all the bones and leaving only a tew shreds of skin to hold the two part together. An effort is being made to save- the amputated pait but tho doctors Jiaro very little hope that it w-111 pro.' successful. ' Joseph Btonebtsker of Kurekt had a kcx hemorrhage ol tho lungs while In the outhouse ot bis cabin last week, and became unconscious. The striken man remained there thirty-six hours beforo being discovered nnd receiving mtdlrlal ntWntton, Judgo Merrill's decision In the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line ecgrega-'ion ecgrega-'ion case Monday o( this wiek vos to tho iffict that ihotwo lines rhouhl lie dnnrci'd, but that instead ot one receiver namely, 1,'i.iin, tho short line should hau- two, and named W. II llancio', as tho second man Tho deiitioii plca-ta Union Pacific nnd Silt L.ik, people, but tho Trust company appears cut up about it and may not uccqu. It they do not Iho caeu ulllbjup. . peuli-d |