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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. It is estimated that 40,000 tourists visited Salt Lake between June 1 and October 31. Two hundred and ninety-four teachers teach-ers are employed in the public schools of Salt Lake. Company L, Twenty-third infantry, has been ordered to be in readiness to move from Fort Douglas to Fort Logan, Lo-gan, Colorado. Utah millers last week advanced the price of flour 15 cents per 100 pounds. Scarcity of wheat is the cause assigned for the sharp raise. Western roads are experiencing a ear famine, and unless the situation is Boon relieved, a coal famine in Utah, Idaho and Montana is predicted. Two hundred new bathrooms and - sd electric railway that will completely encircle the big resort, are the latest improvements contemplated for Salt-sir. Salt-sir. The Oregon Short Line Railway TiTs In view the establishment of a cab service ser-vice at Salt Lake, with quick service and cheap rates as the objects to be attained. A family gathering, numbering over fifty, celebrated the birthday of President Joseph F. Smith Wednesday evening, the 13th. The president is 63 years of age. Gabe May, a battery man at Fort Douglas, has been taken to Kentucky to stand trial for jail breaking. He was arrested for a minor offense, broke jail and enlisted in the army. The wholesale trade of Utah wholesale whole-sale houses is larger this year than ever before. Favorable conditions have developed which havja enabled the jobbers to enlarge their trade radius, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haycock and James Hutchinson, of Wayne county, while on the mountains recently, ate some toadstools, mistaking them for mushrooms, and narrowly escaped with their lives. Government survey examiners are preparing to inspect the survey of the Utah-Arizona line made last summer, and will travel by team along the entire en-tire southern boundary of the state. inc trip will oeei.py m&Dy weeks. xua man ariesteu at 6 1. Louis for complicity in the train robbery at Wagner, Wag-ner, Montana, who gave the name of Harry Longabaugh, is said to be much larger than Longabaugh, and it is thought he may be Butch Cassity. Miss Lulu Gates, granddaughter of Brigham Young, who is thought to be Utah's sweetest singer, has been signed for a concert tour under Major Pond. Miss Gates has just returned from a three years' music course in Germany. The state supreme court has decided lessees of mining property may remove the improvements placed thereon by the lessees for the purpose of working the property, unless the terms of the agreement expressly forbid such removal. re-moval. Manila itch has broken out among members of the Eighteenth infantry at Fort Douglas, and a number of the leading physicians of Salt Lake City are now doing everything in their power to arrest the ravages of the disease. Another big suit affecting the waters of Utah lake is a probability, the various vari-ous canal companies of Salt Lake county, coun-ty, who take their water from the lake, having decided that their rights are being trampled upon and are organiz- ing for action. Officials of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad say that the recent re-cent agreement between them and the officials of the Oregon Short Line will have the effect of hastening the work of railroad building between Salt Lake and the coast. W. R. Kivett of Boise City, secretary of the Idaho Lumber Dealers' association associa-tion is in Salt Lake. The purpose of his visit is to organize the lumber dealers of Utah in a protective organisation organi-sation along the same lines as the Boise assrviatinn George W. Hancock a pioneer of Payson died last week from jaundice. He came to Utah in 1847. He built the first store and tannery in Payson where he made leather and manufactured manufac-tured boots and shoes and was a great benefactor to the public. The residents of Draper, Crescent, Sandy, Union, West Jordan and River- 1 ton school districts met one day last ' week at Sandy and decided definitely to have a high school district in the south end of Salt,Lake county, which has long been needed. |