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Show UTAH NEWS. Parowan will have a now roller mil1 In the nenr future. Last month there wcro employed by the Oregon Short Lino between 3000 nnd 4000 persons. Senators Cannon anil Rawlins and Representative King will spend the holidays at their respective homes. The surveyors In southern Utah are busy near Cedar City locating lines, presumably to tap tho coal and Iron near there. Tho largo 60,000-poimils capaolty coal cars recently built atSalt Lake by tho Oregon abort Mno are proving a great success. Thcofllclalsof Snrlngvlllo hnvo begun be-gun n cms. do against liquor sellers, nndaro making it extremely warm for violators of the law. Augustus Itobbins, n Frenchman, was tried at I'rovo, tho charge against him being that ho was Insane. Tho judge's decision was: "Not crazy; only a Frenchman." Salt Lake City marksmen are organizing organ-izing a giaud rabbit hunt to take place near Oxford, Idaho, on January 2. Tho proceeds of the hunt will be devoted de-voted to charitable purposes. Tho demand for church bonds continues. con-tinues. Various corporations throughout through-out tho state are among the appllcauts, besides tho numerous individuals. It Is Mild at tho church otllco that there Is no doubt but tho demand for the bonds would ho largely In excess ot the Issue Commencing January 15, tho Rio Orando Western Hallway company will Irccclvo five new box cars a day from the Missouri Car nnd Foundry company. com-pany. This order has been placod In anticipation of the enormous crops to bo raised in Utah during the coming season. Thcro will bo no turkeys raffled in tho Salt I. alto saloons this week or next, nor at any other time. This Is tho order Issued by Chief Pratt, and while It is unwcleomo to the saloon man it Is extremely gratifying to tho man who plucks and sells poultry for I a livelihood. i John Gammon of I'rovo had a nar row escape, from death while returning from a hunting exposition with several sev-eral other boys. One of the boys in yan - tho crowd. arcldentiilly discharged his , ' gun and the ball entered young Gam- moti'n thlgu, Good nursing will bring tho lad through. Judging from tho number of Christmas Christ-mas prevents mailed from the different Utah postoffices this year, good times ' have indeed come again. Never In tho history of tho state have so many parcols been handled by the postofllces as during the past week. The house committee on public build. ings and grounds has decided to make i n favorablo report on the Ilawllns bill 9 for a publlo building In Salt Lake City, . Tho report will bo presented Immedi ately after tho holiday recess, and Salt I.akcrs hopo to see tho building under way in a short timo thereafter. " The public school children at Parle City hare In the past been In tho habit ' of clubbing together and buying suit- " able presents for their teachers. This ' year, however, at tho suggestion of tho ' teachers, thu fund raised by the child ren will bo used for tho purchase of food and clothing for the deserving J poor. i Secretary of Stato Hammond has is- j1 ' sued to llrlgham II. Iloberts, congress- . man-elect, and to Robert N. Ilaskln, 5 justice-elect of supreme court, cerllfl- '. calcH of election. The certificates are lithographed, and bear date of December Decem-ber 10. They wero Issued In pursuance of law and the orders of tho state can- lu vasslng board, thu recipients having 4 been declared elected by a plurality of votes. t ' A Proyo man has received a souvenir ; ; of the Cuban war In the shapo of a - cane. Tho wood is red cedar from the '; fig floor of the tower of Mi'rro castle, Ban- tH tlago de Cuba. The cap is a sea shell '0 taken from the bay under the sunken jj Merrlmae Inlaid near the top of the Hf cane is a small wtllletto, taken from an old helmet In one of the archives of Santiago, n small machete from an old l armor breastplate and small pieces of J wrecks with monograms. The outside S brass fcrrulo Is from a shell of one of E the rapld-flrlng guns, nnd the inside ft fcrrulo a part of a spyglass taken from B tho deck of ono of the Spanish cruisers, , I and other pieces of material In the ,1 cane have n history, g Chief Engineer West states that tho I coal now being used ou tho Utah & Jf Pacific railroad from Sanpete Is excel- ' lent, and several moro carloads have W been ordered. This will prove of fh great bcnoflt to the Sanpete Valley ' road. "' Albert 8, Snowdcn of Salt Lake City, Jj. who enlisted In the Fourth United States cavalry on May 87 and after- 9 ward went with his command to the Philippines, Is dead at Manila. The f immediate cause of his death was ma- l larial fever. ) Captain J, J. llrercton of the Twenty Twen-ty ty-fourth, recently promoted major j and quartermaster of volunteers, has received his long-looked-for orders and J departed for Cuba, by way of Wash- ., B iugton. .Major llrereton's destination . I is ClenfuegoH, |