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Show j UTAH STATE NEWS i ' j According to the Railway Age, only I .7 miles of railroad track was laid in ( Utah during the past year. The Richfield postofflce has been advanced ad-vanced from a fourth class .to a third class office, the change taking effect on jthe 1st. : The California excursion of the Tab-, ternacle choir next March is now an as-jsured as-jsured fact, all the preliminary arrange-jments arrange-jments having been made. The members of the Salt Lake mining j6tock exchange closed the first year of (the new century by a banquet at the Knutsford hotel, covers ior sixty being llaid. A voluntary weather station has Ibeen established at Johnson, in Kane county, with Joseph Chatterly in icharge. This is the sixty-fifth station in Utah. , A number of Idaho sheepmen are wintering their flocks on the desert in jUtah this year, while Utah sheep are excluded from Idaho during the sum- jmer months. Senator Kearn9, who has just return-jed return-jed from Washington, speaking of the ibuilding of the San Pedro railroad from California to Salt Lake, declares that jthe road will surely be built. -J The constitutionality of the inhere-tance inhere-tance tax law will be tested by the jheirs of James M. Pichetts of Salt jLake, who left an estate of 535,000. jThe state ,claims $793.83 under the jlaw. ; Joseph P. Andersons, an Ephraim lad 5 years old, was painfully injured jby falling upon a pair of scissors Fri-jday. Fri-jday. The scissors penetrated his ab-jdomen ab-jdomen to a depth of one and one-half iinches. ! Apostle Brigham Young, who left jSalt Lake two weeks ago to visit (Mexico for the benefit of his health, is sick at Fruitland, N. M., with a complication of stomach and nervous' ' troubles. ; James H. Anderson, a Salt Lake icarpenter, suffered the amputation of a leg' J.st week.from.Jl!e..effects of blood-poisoning caused by a scratch received while oiling a floor three weeks ago. The proposed intermountain baseball jleague, comprising teams from Salt JLake, Ogden, Pocatello, Great Falls,' .Helena and Butte, has been abandoned' ,and it is probable a Utah-Colorado league will be organized. In the Superior court at Tacoma the, receiver of the Metropolitan Bank was (directed to accept the offer of Charles McNamee to take the assets and property prop-erty of the bank and pay the depositors iand creditors in full. Arguments in the case instituted by jGovernor Wells to compel the pay-. ;ment of an increase of salary according to the law passed by the legislature iwere ; made in the supreme court last week. Decision was reserved. The University of California has :been asked to recommend to the Philippine Phil-ippine commission several men quali-jfied quali-jfied by experience and scientific train-jing train-jing to take charge of agricultural ex- ' iperiment stations in the Philippines. ; Salt Lake will have improved postal ifacilities within a few weeksl The (business delivery district will be enlarged en-larged and more frequent deliveries. Iwill be made. The mounted service; in the outskirts will also be extended.' Lieutenant Frank G. Hines, the , young Salt Laker who recently re- ,v.civeu a. commission in the regular army, has distinguished himself by assisting as-sisting in quelling a dangerous riot iwhich broke out among the unassigned' itroops at the Presidio near San Fran-,cisco Fran-,cisco Wednesday night. A dispatch from Salem, Oregon, reports re-ports that the Mormon elders 'were; held up and relieved of a small sum of' i ;money, last week, almost under the! ;nose of the police, while they were' looking for the offenders, who have Ibeen terrorizing the outskirts of the ;city by numerous holdups. ; A check for six cents drawn by the jUtah Sugar Company to A. C. Larson,' irepresentingthe net proceeds from his! ;Bugar oeei crop, Has been received at, Salt Lake, bearing about fifty endorse-' ;ments. The check has been traded as' ia matter of sport, and has been sold' several times for a dollar. ' For the year 1900 the mines of Park iCity paid in dividends 81,577,500, out jof a total dividend by all the mines of jthesUte of 82,437,500. In 1901 the Park City mines have to their credit !in .dividends the sum of 82,621,500, an, Increase over 1900 of $1,044,000. |