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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The' law placing a ?1 bounty on coyotes went into effect last week. An electric light plant is being installed in-stalled at Spring City, it being the intention in-tention to have the system in operation opera-tion by June 1. The directors of Saltair Beach have : decided to continue the "dry" policy, r and no intoxicants will be sold at that T resort this summer. C. L. Hutchings of Brooklyn received re-ceived bruised legs and right arm and a fractured rib by being kicked by a horse a few days ago. The report comes from the northern portion of Sanpete county that the grasshoppers are hatching out in v places in -greater quantities than ever before. Levi Green suicided at Layton last -C ' week, shooting himself while under -the influence of liquor. Green protested pro-tested that the shooting was accidental. acci-dental. ' E. S. Bates, a cook on a Rio Grande Western dining car,' while standing ulx mo jjianuiui, wiiiie near auiuier Summit, fainted and fell from the train, receiving severe bruises. It is claimed that wine producing 'grapes can be raised in this state at less cost than in California, and that Utah has thousands of acres of land that could profitably be used In grape-raising. grape-raising. Pupils of the Bryant High school of Salt Lake City last week published a paper, a single issue of which netted Its publishers $900. The- money Is to ne used in helping pay teachers' salaries. An Athletic club Is to be organized in Salt Lake City, which will have backing to the amount of $20,000, and f It is the intention of the promoters to put in bids for some of the big fistic contests. Grasshoppers are hatching out in Buch great numbers in parts of Sevier county as to cause considerable alarm. The nests have alrparlv nttarVoi young and tender plants on a number of farms. I " 1 ' J. W. Morrison, a piano tuner of Salt Lake, has fasted thirty days, suffering suffer-ing from a strange loss of appetite. He worked the first nineteen days, and says he feels no ill effects, except ex-cept a slight weakness. A corps of engineers under the direction di-rection of State Engineer Doremus, Is at work on the preliminary surveying survey-ing for the system of waterworks which is to be put in at Mt. Pleasant during the coining summer. Francis Tiernan, who came to Utah in 18S9 and organized the Utah, Ne- vada & California Railroad company, which proposed to build a line from Salt Lake City to the coast, died in New York City on the 15th. An Ogden woman last week found a small bit of gold in the crop of a chicken which had been sent her by her husband from a ranch in Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The gold was submitted to an . assayer and found to be worth $1. The difference between the Stonecutter's Stone-cutter's union and Salt Lake federal . building contractor? has been settle, V. and what mightYffbe.e'n a general ' r strike that would have paralyzed the. building operations of the capital city J na been averted. - 'I It may be interesting' to fishermen i, ; to note that the. hook-and-line laws L T for Utah and Idaho, are, practically the J same this year a.Jast. -The -Season jt in Utah opens June- 15th and closes I e December 15th. In Idaho the season Is from April 1st until .November 1st. Fred Cox of Manti was driving a team hitched to a stone-boat loaded . with rocks when the team became un- iv manageable and went over a twenty- foot precipice, 0-5 falling with the animals and sustaining injuries which will lay him up fpfjsome time. The fifteenth annua, convention of ' the Utah Christian Endeavor union I convened In Springville last week. There were forty voting delegates from different sections of the state, j and a large number of other members of the society in attendance. A quarrel among Indians near Fort ' r Duchesne last week resulted in the I killing of Abe Montez, the shooting ,' of another named Quinans In the I -mouth, not fatally, and the severe beating over the head of Charlie Mack. Whisky-caused the. trouble. j - |