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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The National Association of Sheepmen Sheep-men will meet iu iialt Lake City Janu-19, Janu-19, 1901. The smelter at the Bromide mine on Douglas mountain will be blown in the first of September. Vernal has received its fire-fighting machinery, consisting of a high-pres" sure pump with hose attachment. A large gang of men has been pnt to work at the state fair grounds prepar- I log additional stalls for livestock exhibits. ex-hibits. While picking peaches at Lehi, Mrs. Richard Thomas fell from the tree, receiving re-ceiving a broken leg and a dislocated ankle. The fact that the Vernal postoffice nag beeo-placed on the presidential list is proof of the Increasing business In that section-Brush section-Brush fires have done aome damage in the mountains to the east of Davis - oouoty, but it is the general belief that all danger has passed. . Vernal's new court house is nearlng completion, when a celebration will be had to which the governor and state officers will be invited. ' ' Houses fpr rent are so scarce in Provo that a plan is on foot to get all the business houses to fix np their flats above the storerooms tor tenants. The sheepherders, Jesse Turpin and his son Earl, who were arrested at Brighton on the charge of setting fire to government timber, have been acquitted. The board of control of the National Live Stock Association has designated Salt Lake City as the place for holding the next annual convention, Jannary 16, 16, 17 and 18, 1901. A counterfeiting plant has be found near Sandy in a blacksmith shop, the operators having rented the shop, saying say-ing they were working on an invention requiring great secrecy, no one being admitted.' Several bands of sheep are reported to have crossed the line from Wyoming into this state recently, and steps will be taken by the authorities to enforce the transient herd law, as regards the tresspassers. ' The Manti Light & Power company is the name of a new incorporation to which the city of Manti has granted a franchise for the use of City creek, above the town, and in a short time active work will be commenced. Three Salt Lake boys, Lewis Edgar, Conrad Holland and Lawrence Lew-ellyn, Lew-ellyn, aged 13, 12- and 10 respectively, were stopped in San Francisco, where they had gone with the .Second in" fanlry, bound for China, asstowaways. The Utah Battery band has been reorganized, re-organized, now numbering twenty pieces, and the members who formerly discoursed sweet music in the Philippines Philip-pines will have headquarters in Salt Lake until the close of the campaign. George Crowther, 18 years of age, net his death by drowning in the Jordan Jor-dan river at Salt Lake City while bath-kig. bath-kig. His older brother and another companion did everything in their power to save him, but the treacherous I undercurrent proved the victor. It Is reported in Provo that the Rio Grands Western Railway company has gotten ont plans and specifications for ' a new brick depot building for Provo, to be built at an early date. The frame building now in use will be converted into a warehouse. A Lehi boy placed a loaded cartridge ia the keyhole of a railway switch and proceeded to discharged it, with the result that the shell passed through his lower jaw, and the bullet went through his hand, both pieces making very painful wounds. Sarah K. Butters, of Clarkston, has filed suit against Cache county to recover re-cover damages in the sum of 89,000, alleged al-leged to have been sustained by reason of injuries suffered through the collapse of the bridge over Bear river at Benson last spring. Nathan Haworth, who was sentenced to be shot on September 14, has been granted a lease of life, the trial judge having granted his attorneys until October Oc-tober It to complete the transcript and perfect an appeal for a sew trial, which they hope to secure. L. A. Bailey & 8ons, of Manti, have lost nine bead of horses within six -' weeks from a peculiar disease. The Irst sign is a weakness of the limbs which causes stumbling, then the animal ani-mal falls and baa no more use of its Hmbs, living from one to two days. |