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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. George Gutke, the Salt Lake boy who vas last week accidentally shot by a youthful companion, is dead from the injuries received. As soon as congress meets the government gov-ernment will be asked for an appropriation appro-priation of $500,000 to be used in the rebuilding of Fort Douglas. All the saloons in Salt Lake City were closed last Sunday, by order of the city authorities, and the citizens experienced a "dry" Sunday. Cresceus, the fastest pacing horse in the world, will visit Salt Lake City in the near future where he will give a speed-exhibition. From there he will be taken to California where he will remain all winter. P. J. McKeDna, held at Provo on a charge of attempting to wreck a Rio Grande Western train, has been dis charged from custody on the grounds that the information did not set forth facts sufficient to constitute an offense. The old Walker House, Salt Lake's pioneer hotel, is doomed as a hotel, its owner having, dedided that the old structure shall undergo radical repairs and emerge from the hands of the contractors con-tractors a remodeled business structure. struc-ture. The state board of health has sent out circulars to the different schools and county authorities relative to cleaning np and taking proper precautions pre-cautions against smallpox. In moot cases the suggestions made are being adopted. Utah as a graDe-growing state is the subject of a bulletin under preparation by the state board of horticulture, in which it will be urged that local conditions condi-tions promise Utah greater possibilities possibili-ties as a wine producing section than California. William Erdman, one of Spring-ville's Spring-ville's leading citizens, died last week after a lingering illness of several months. He sustained a sunstroke while working at Brigham City last summer, from the effects of which he never recovered. The machinery is being installed in Becker's new flouring mill at Manti. The mill has a capacity of fifty barrels per day. The machinery is the latest improved. Water is the motive power. It is expected the mill will be in operation oper-ation by January 1st. I Joseph Westwood," an associate of Brigham Young in the early days, a member of the first party that came west to Salt Lake, and one of the earliest missionaries in England, died at Independence, Mo., on the 7th inst., in his ninetieth year. Sixty years in the penitentiary is the term meted out to young Hunt, alias Baker, who was arrested in Salt Lake a year ogo for the cold-blooded murder . of a young man in Kansas City.' Hunt was employed as a waiter in Salt Lake at the time of his arrest. The farmers of Aurora have commenced com-menced digging their sugar beets for shipment to Lehi. This is the third year the farmers of that vicinity have directed their attention to the beet raising industry, and the yield is better bet-ter than previous crops. Patrick Phelan, for many years well known in mining circles throughout the state, died in Salt Lake last week, leaving his entire estate, estimated at $100,000, to the Kearns St. Ann Orphanage. Or-phanage. Phelan was a bachelor with no known relatives in this country. William Lubeck, a resident of Park City for the past seventeen years, committed com-mitted suicide by hanging himself in his stable on the evening of the 10th, his body being discovered by his wife. There is no known cause for the deed, he being a sober, industrious man. The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad has recently added to its equipment 100 flat cars and Bfty ballast , cars, while orders have been placed for a number of box cars and flat cars, to gether with baggage cars, combination cars, coaches, chair cars and parlor cars. The Grass Valley Indians held a council recently and decided that they would not send their children to the Indian school to be established at Pan-gnitch, Pan-gnitch, unless compelled, but say they are willing to send their children to Koosharem, nearer at home. A. W. McCune, of Salt Lake, and associates, as-sociates, have purchased the famous Sierre de Pasco group of mines in Peru, the price paid being $10,000,000. This mine has been. in operation 371 years, and during that time $1,000,000,000 in silver bas been produced frra it. |