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Show UTAH NEWS. Thero Is a schemo on foot in Tooolo to build a $5,000 creamery. Work on Iho new county Jail at Mantl Is being vigorously prosecuted. 0. K. Loose, ono of Utah's successful miners, has olTered 8100,000 for Iho Cliff llouso property, near San 'Fran-, 'Fran-, clsco J For tho fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1699, tho Oregon Short Line company's gross cnrnlngs will reach the enormous I figures of 37,418,891.70, i Preliminary work has been eom- 1 menced on tho Sprtugvllle sugar fac tory. Water rights for tho factory havo been purchased and tho plpo lino will be laid Immediately. Tho first four months of 1890 have witnessed a period of greater activity in respect to Improvements and work In Thistle than has beforo been seen In that thriving town. Maplcton Is preparing to erect a six-room six-room brick school building this sura-mor, sura-mor, for which tho district bus been bonded for 83,100. Tho bonds have been disposed of at a premium of 1.01 per cent. Samuel Ilarrett, a Lower Mammoth miner, Is In a Suit Lake hospital mlnui ono hand and with his face tilled with fragments of earth and rock. Ilarrett was Injured In a premature blast last' Saturday night. Tho three-year-old daughter of David Sargent, of Pay son, found a bottle of strychnlno ono day lust week, and partook of tho contents, and before medical assistance could bo summoned tho little ono Has dead. An aged German named Schmidt was killed by a Illo Orando Western train near West Jordan last week. Schmidt was In his seventy-seventh yoar, and deaf, and did not see tho train as It rapidly rounded a curve. It has been finally decided that tho salt palace will bu located on a tractof fifteen acres Just below Ninth South street and between Stato and Main streets. Work will begin on tho palace pal-ace within tho next few days. Work has been commenced by the Tel u ride Power Transmission company to double tho capacity of tho X'rovo canyon plant, adding 2,030 more horso power for tho Tlnttc district market. - A largo forco of men Is engaged In the work. ' Reports from tho recent storm show that considerable damago was done by " " " frost. Tho gVeateftVdatnugo will bo In Salt Lako county, whllo in tho vicinity of Pnyson, Mnutl, Sprlugvlllo and Provo, the fruit trees will suffer somewhat. some-what. Major Youug, on behalf of the Utah batteries, has acknowledged receipt of i copy of tho resolution of tnanka passed by the recent legislature, and lays tho boys wero very much gratified st tho action taken by tho state') lawmakers. law-makers. Young ChcgwMden, the Park City boy who came In contact with a live electrlo light wire, has lost both hands, tho doctors having performed tho operation op-eration last week. It was simply a miracle that tho young man did not loso his life, as tho shock was a bovcro ono. , -v Tho board of pardons havo declared Ilarry lluyes innocent of tho Pelican Point murder, and tho man who was once sentenced to death Is now free. Tho board decided that tho man Wright committed tho murder. Whon Tlaycs was told that ha was freo ho said he knew that right would prevail sooner or later. At a recent mcctlngof thestato land board, Secretary Clroo was authorized to notify persons upon whoso applications applica-tions lands have been selected forsale, to come In and make contracts for tho purchase of tho land as required by the now law, within thirty days nfter tho receipt of notifications. A deposit of 25 cents per aero is also required. Ux-Sulcctinan Joseph It. Morris, of Salt Luke county, who has already been twlco tried on charges of bribery In connection with tho city and county building furniture deal, will be tried again on the chargo of agreeing to ao-cepta ao-cepta bribe, tho supremo court having handed down an opinion In which It is held that Morris may bo tried by a Jury of twelve men. Charles Suck, a Rio Orando Western brakeman, was seriously Injured late Saturday night whllo switching cars f In the yard at Helper, and Sunday un derwent the amputation of his right arm, which was taken of at the ihouldsr. The armored steamers Laguna do Hay and Cavadonga, under Captain Orant, havo gone to (lungua, about flvo miles southwest of Haoolor, presumably pre-sumably to establish a I ue of supplies for tho troops engaged on the northern campaign. In Iron and Heaver counties the resent re-sent cold snap did considerable dam, go. Sheep which had been recently dipped suffered severely and Just over tho lino In Novada one sheepman re ports that ho has lost over 400 hoad which ho had Jtistshcajed. Those who tiro In a position to know, lay the late storm, while It may have lllglitly injured the fruit In Utah county,' coun-ty,' has been of Incalculable benefit to the beet crop, and tho dry farmers, and those who planted winter wheat oulduot have been more favored. |