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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Six eases of smallpox have recently keen reported from Mioersville. The first snow storm of the season occurred at Park City on the 18th inst. . The water in the Great Salt lake continues to fall and is now lower than kas ever before been known. The branch Normal school at Cedar OUy has opened with a large number ' ef teachers and students in attendance. Captain Penrose at Fort Douglas has received orders to secure experienced packers for service in the Philippines at 850 per month and rations. The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone line from Salt Lake to Denver has been completed, and Salt Lakers may now talk with their Denver friends. The primary fair held, at Spanish fork on the 17th, 18th and 19th was a grand success, over 8125 being on hand after all expenses bad been paid. Three new cases of smallpox appeared appear-ed in Salt Lake City last week, making five at the isolation hospital and two ander quarautine at their homes. The one dollar subscription plan for She relief of the Galveston sufferers is saeeting with much favor in Salt Lake, aad the fund is growing at a pleasing rate. The receipts of the saucer bicycle track at the Salt Lake salt palace for the present season aggregate over 830,-00, 830,-00, according to the report of the managers. Arthur Walker of Syracuse, aged 24f waa committed to the asylum by the oouaty clerk of Davis county last week. " Walker had developed a tendency ten-dency to suicidal mania. "'r: The regular season of 1900 at Saltair closed on the 23nd. --The season has been probably the most successful in the history of the beach, President Snow declaring that 834,000 had been cleared. New companies of the Utah National &uard are soon to be organized at Og-aen Og-aen and Provo, orders having already seen placed for 83,000 to 84,000 worth ef"etothing and equipment fdr the new companies. Arrangements arc now under way for the final distribution of the funds raised for the relief of the widows and srphana of the men who lost their lives in the coal mias horror at Scho-field Scho-field on May 1. ' ; The Utah-Idaho base ball league season has come to an abrupt end, owing ow-ing to the fact that some of the clubs insisted on playing men who belonged to opposition clubs. The Ogden team wins the penant Secretary Sears of the State Fair association as-sociation states that there is 30 per eent more livestock entered for the fair to be held next week than was exhibited ex-hibited altogether last year, and entries en-tries are still being made. - President Aqulla Nebekcr of the state senate was governor of the state ef Utah for one day last week while Governor Wells and Secretary of State Hammond were in Idaho for the purpose pur-pose of meeting Governor Roosevelt. Tabby, the old chief of the Uintah Ctes, was in Provo last week shaking hands with his friends of long ago. He ia totally blind and his hair is streaked with gray. His age, as near as can be guessed at is between 95 ann 100 years. Judge Cherry of Salt Lake was recently re-cently disqualified from hearing the evidence in a case for the appointment cf a receiver for a dairy in view of the fact that be was a patron of the said dairy and owed the company a bill for three quarts of milk and two pints of ream. The colleges at Logan arc fairly under un-der way, and at the three institutions something over 300 students being at work. The agricultural college has something over 100, the Brigham Young college nearly as many more, aad the New Jersey academy between fifty and sixty. At a meeting of the board of directors direc-tors f the Z. C. M. L, held in Salt Lake last week, a semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent was voted to be paid on October 15. The capital stock of the institution is 81,000,000, so that the dividend amounts to 840,000 to be divided among the stockholders. 8ngar making is on full blast now at the Lehi factory and it is the expectation expecta-tion of the managers to be able to furnish sugar of the new crop for the local market some time during the week, thus raising the prevalent sugar f ami Be |