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Show UTAH NEWS. The people of Thurbur hare recently put In a system of waterworks. oTbe Utah Wool Growers'assoclallon-lome Growers'assoclallon-lome seyenty strong, met In Salt Lak City last vrcclc. The Utah Mothers' congress hold two days' session In Salt Lake, Monday and Tuesday of this week. Dullness has been rushing In thi state laud office the past week, the Bally receipts averaging over 31,000. The Utah & Pacific is now wlthli thirteen miles of Stotellne, 'and tin road trill be finished within the next fortnight. Tho Stout-Jones shooting case came jj to an end Saturday, when tho Jury re- I turned a verdict of not guilty and tin ! defendant Jonts was released. At a publlo meeting held at Nephl 11 was decided that the town should soon hare an electric light system, a 17,000 opera house and a 84,000 creamery. A Junction woman last week took a dose of strychnine, thinking It was - quinine, and but for prompt medical assistance the mistake would have proved fatal. , Tho central station of the Rocky Mountain Hell Telephone company at Sprlngvlllo has been discontinued. Th citizens have lodged a vigorous protest against this action. Tho twenty head of buffalo on Antelope An-telope Island are fat and sleek this spring, and the four calves of last year aro as pretty a lot as ever roamed the prairies of olden days. Ten new cars aro being received dally by tho Illo Grando Western. All Utah roads will lmvo to greatly increase in-crease their rolling stock this year, owing to tho Increase In trafllc Martin Harlstrom, of Mt. Pleasant, v nearly cut his arm off last week while cutting wood. lie was holding the atlck on the chopping block when the I ax glanced off, almost severing the arm. Postmaster Thomas of Salt Lake City visited the post office department at Washington last week with a view to making suggestions for the Improvement Improve-ment of tho mall scrvlco In Salt Laks City. ' " ' Joseph T. Shannon has been sent to tho Insane asylum from Utah county. fc2frenejfjmglnVa' V jjf heM j, Vtarvlng" toJ pfcLtf' death, although he eats more1 than half ,, aTdo7.cn healthy men could possibly consume. The county commissioners of Utah oounty have purchased eighty-five acres of land to bo used as a poor farm. The necessary buildings for a county poor farm and Infirmary will be ereoted In the near future. The sheopmen of thestato are happy. Their losses In the winter wore very small, and the wool crop promises to exceed that of a year ago. Sheop are In splendid condition, and all Is well with tho men of wool. Plans and specifications have been completed for five new school houses to bo built In Gunnison this summer. The buildings will be of stone. Utah Is fast forging to the front In the matter mat-ter of school facilities. Work on the big canal near Fort Duohesne will commence In a few days. The canal will cover 39,000 acres of good land, and when It Is finished thero will be room for a number of energetic en-ergetic farmers In that Immediate vicinity. The citizens of Orangcvllle havt called a mass meeting, before which a ' proposition will be laid for building a sohool house by a joint stock corporation. corpora-tion. The people In that town are determined de-termined to have up-to-dato school buildings. Judge Tlmmouy, Suit Lako City's police Judge, last wcekjllsoliargcd three boys convicted of charlvarlng a newly wedded couple. The Judge said he had ' been guilty of the sumo crime when lis ( was a boy, and he could sympathlzt with the lads. It has been decided by the supreme 1 court of Utah that a Jury of eight men empaneled to try a person charged with a crime, less than a capital offense of-fense against the laws of Utah, Is a valid Jury and the conviction thereby Is a valid act. State Superintendent Park has Issued Is-sued a letter to the various county superintendents su-perintendents throughout the state In regard to tho educatloual exhibit for the state fair In October. The letter calls attention to the proposed exhibit, and urges the superintendents to lay the matter before their teachers. ' Tho sum of 838,6B3,03 was distributed (among the schools of the state last week by Stato Superintendent Park. By the laBt enumeration the number of children of school ago In the state li 83,113, and the apportionment Is nt ths rate of 44 cents per capita. Teter Oabardl, an Austrian coal mlnei In tho employ of tho Pleasant Valley Coal company at Castlo Onto, was, one day last week, caught under a slide ol coal and had his arms and legs badly crushed. It Is thought, however, hf hr' will recovor from his Injuries. 'I The Irrigation company which Is to construct the canal to carry the water! (f of the Fremont river onto the farming l land near Torrcy, Is rapidly pushing W the work to completion, and farmer! are Jubilant, as this will mean battel props and higher prices for land. "Sjl |