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Show UTAH NEWS. The first crop of hay bu been cut la 3 Dixie. Contract have been let to furnish krlck for the Tooele creamer. About 400,000 pound of wool hare been sheared thla season at Thompson's Thomp-son's Springs. Corn and potato planting li praotlc ally completed In a number of the central cen-tral counties. lumbermen say the price of lumber is advancing. There ha been a raise In ledwood of 81 and 82.50. Oats and spring wheat are reportod somewhat backward throngbout the state, but In good condition. Active work has commenced on the alt palace and the structure will be rapidly pushed to completion. A farmer living on the banks of the Jordan last week captured a large Bale pelican, which measures nine feel from tip to tip. Edwin M. Cox and J. 8. Granger, ol Orangevllle, have been granted a patent pat-ent for n Implement for laying and pulverising ground. Baron Bismarck, a grand nephew a'. tho great chancellor, was a Utah vlaltoi last week, lie I figuring on buying s -i w- large farm In Salt Lake county. A number of Nebraska oattle buyers are In Utah purchasing yearling oattl for shipment to Nebraska, The pricei paid In Utah for yearlings Is from 110 to 820. Governor Wells was in Idaho last week on a recreation trip. Secretary of State Hammond was at the helm as acting governor during tho governor's absence. Every Inch of tho outside fence which will surround the salt palaco has been sold for advertising purposes, and the association Is ahead on tho deal about 8200. The belief Is expressed by offiocrs of the mllttla that as soon as the battery boys now In the Philippines return, a regular state artillery organization will be effected. Architect W. E. Ware, of Salt Lake City, has been given the oontraot to remodel re-model a twelve-room achoolhoase at Laramie, Wyo., the cost of the Improvement Im-provement being 83,000. Provo Is to have a boulevard extending extend-ing from the asylum to the lake, along the lako shore. Within ten minutes 81,000 was raised for the enterprise, MjSgMMnd it is in MsurefranaccM. ,. , , , ..i. ,-. HRMHMPPartles w.bo have just returned from the sheop oamps, says that in the past ten days no less than ISO cars of Utah wool, have been unloaded, thla prao-tlcally prao-tlcally exhausting the spring crop. Tho people of Utah county are oonfl-Sfcntly oonfl-Sfcntly expeotlng this to bo the banner year for fruit, many old-timers prophesying proph-esying that the coming season will see tho largest amount of fruit ever raised in the county. A toll road is being constructed from Cisco to Moab, tho great tide of travel in that section of the country making the .construction of the road a neosslty. The road will be finished within the next ten days. Tho site for the government building build-ing to be erected In Bait Lake City has been selected. The lot ehosen is upon the corner of Main and Market streets and Is 180x180 feet. The building when completed will cost 8300,000. Designs have been completed for a modern school building at Murray. It will be ef pressed brick, with stone trimmings, two stories, with eleven class rooms, sufficient to accommodate 000 pupils, will be heated by Indirect eteain and will cost 820,000. A burglar entered a dentist's ofilea in Salt Lake City one night lat week aad purloined 8100 worth of plate gold and leaf gold, which the dentist intended using In his business. lie overlooked 8200 In cash, and Is prqbably now engaged en-gaged In kicking blinaeli. Governor Wells has had numerous Inquiries recently as to when he Intended In-tended appointing road supervisors In the various counties of the state, to expend the appropriation for roads and bridges made by tho lata legislature, legisla-ture, and states that he will make the appointments In about a week or ten days. Governor Wells has been Informed by the assistant quartermaster general gen-eral that the bodies of Utah's soldier boys who lost their lives in tho Philippines Philip-pines will not be senthomo for at least six monttiN yet. The officers In Manila claim the weather Is too warm, and that It Is Imponlble to properly embalm em-balm and ship the bodies now, Ed. Loose, the Provo mining man, has purohased a pair of pacers In California, Cali-fornia, for which It Is said he paid 80,000. It Is said this Is the highest price ever dealt out by any individual buyer in tho state for a pair of roadsters. road-sters. California raspberries were in the Salt Lako City market last week, wholesaling at 83.60 a rase, and retailing retail-ing at 20 cents a pint. Fine chorrles from the same state are also to be had at 81.S0O1.7S per case, and 23 cents per pound. Iu the case of the state of Utah vs. the Swansea Mining company, the state's claim for the land controversy under the school grant has been dismissed, dis-missed, on tho ground that It is more valuable for mineral than for agricultural agricul-tural purposes. |