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Show I IfTAIl STATE NEWS. I The twenty-fifth annual encampment I of the 'Utah G. A. R. was held in Salt f Lake City last week. !Tho teamsters in the employ of the city of Salt Lake have been granted an increase in wages from $3.50 to I $1 for a day's "work: ' ' At the school election in American i Fork, last week,- the people voted to ' bond the. 'district for $16,000-to buy a site and build a school house:' j At the G. A. R. encampment held in - Salt Lakf ; Cfty .; last week. Park City was'.cte(dsd;upoV;as -the place for f holdinghricampment next year. J An ojrdinaneels before the Salt Lake city council which compels the keep-in keep-in enf a rou-iotoi- cf tmaata In nfl nrrfolo boarding "houses and rooming houses. -'The State Beekeepers' association proposed to make ah exhibit. of honey at the -St Louis exposition which will consist, of between three and five tons,: ! : ' . '.. . ; ' .., ! At Manti las-t'week Brigham Lyon, a man who has' a wife and two small children, was 'sentenced to ten years In the state penitentiary for assaulting ' flfteen-yearH -fi?-."..;'"' 1 It lsr sid.h4" Utah building at the Louisiana Purchase, exposition will-represent will-represent "aaxpenditure of $7,500, of which amnnt$l500 will be used in furnishings 'and decorations. The young men of the Salt Lake Y. M.' C. A. have undertaken to raise $5,-C00 $5,-C00 of the fund to build a new home for the club, and will begin a personal canvas of the city for the funds. The recent'snowstorms in the mountains moun-tains In the vicinity of Richfield has occasioned "a -heavy loss of sheep, it being estimated cthat some sheepmen will suffer a, loss of 40 per cent The farmers of Ephraim are very exultant over the good outlook for water -the coming""season, while it is believed the recent storm will help to "'- Tthe grasshopper problem. . . tr'm--" Gilson, the discoverer of Trfgilsonite fields, has carved a cane of native wood, using a pocket knife, and will present the same to President Roosevelt during his visit to Salt Lake City. A two-story building collapsed ; in Salt Lake City one day last week, T smashing in another building and caus- ing a loss of over $4,000. A number of people had narrow escapes from in-Jury. in-Jury. ; . In Salt Lake City-Hhere' were three cases of smallpox reported during the past week, arjd;pnewr!; discharged as cured, leaving Eighteen cases quarantined quar-antined in the city and the quarantine hpspitaL 'A miner by the name of Murphy, while working in the Annie Laurie mine, near Richfield, struck a missed shot, his face being badly cut up, while it is probable that he will lose the sight of one eye. The library of the State Industrial school is to be enriched to the extent of 500 volumes suitable for boys and girls. This is the result of the appropriation ap-propriation of $500 made for this purpose pur-pose by the last legislature.' Senator W..-AjpiarlCf as rhtSrview-ed rhtSrview-ed in San FraUeisco Tafct week, and stated that work pn his road is being be-ing rushed as fast as possible, and the present calculations are to have It completed inside of .-two-years. A woman who is believed to be ln--sane last week informed a number of residents of Salt Lake that when President Roosevelt comes to Salt Lake he will be killed, and also that the tabernacle will be destroyed by fire. A Salt Lake boy last 1 week ran against an electric wire carrying a current of 16,000 voltage and got away without serious injry 10 aape'. from death is unaeeoueibje a's?ttie' current was sufficient lo,kill a regiment regi-ment of men. .me uiu ui me scaie lana Doard lor the Richfield city bonds,' issued to raise money to inaugurate its system cf waterworks, has been accepted. For the $14,000 worth of city bonds, the anl board will pay $15,090.60 and accrued ac-crued interest. Walter, the thirteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Drace Jensen of Richfield, Rich-field, lies in a precarious condition at the home of hisnaceutsjasjthe result cf being kicked by a horse. The boy lay out in a field several hours before j " ' being discovered. |