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Show UTAH STATE NEAYS. Pleasant Grove will be fifty years old on the 24th, and a grand celebration celebra-tion is proposed for that day. A fund is being raised in Salt Lake for the relief of destitute relatives of miners killed in the recent explosion at Hanna, Wyo. The business men of Ephraim have challenged the business men of Manti for a match game of base ball to be played on the 24th. Over a hundred members of the National Editorial association were entertained by the Utah editors the fore part of the week. The people of Winter Quarters, who suffered as has the stricken camp at Hanna, Wyo., have raised for the people there the sum of $642.30. The assesed valuation of Salt ;Lake county this year is $46,804,014, ;as against $42,672,517 In 1902, an increase in-crease of $4,131,494 for this year. Six ministers belonging to as many denominations are holding open-air meetings on the streets of Lehi In the evenings at the present time. There Is a shortage of store rooms In Salt Lake City, many men who wish to enter business being unable to find buildings in which to place their stock. Two masked men held up a street car in Salt Lake City one night last week, securing $21 from the conductor conduc-tor and motorman, there being no passengers. The grasshoppers have not been nearly so prevalent in Sanpete county this year as last, and this fact occa-ieious occa-ieious much joy among the farmers of that section. Work is to be commenced at once on the surveying and subdividing of the Uintah Indian reservation, so that the reservation may be opened October Octo-ber 1st of next year. James Stewart, who shot his wife and killed himself at Idaho Falls, Ida., last wep"- w?" formerly a resident resi-dent .if Utah, ue having lived in Lehi about fifteen years ago. It is claimed that a creamery trust. 1s in operation in Sevier county and that the attorney-general is investigating investigat-ing the ease with the intention of prosecuting the guilty parties. The wheat crop of the state is in most localities looking well, and while the yield will probably not be so large as last year, the acreage is greater, so that it Wul offset the loss Plans are being arranged by the friends of A. A. Robertson and, Harry T. Duke, the two ex-officials of the Wells Fargo bank, now serving time "In the state penitentiary, to secure a pardon for the two men. ' Thomas F. Keef, alias Ed. W. Hamilton, Ham-ilton, suicided at the state prisou by hanging himself with a bunk strap. It developed after his death that Keef comes of a good family and was formerly for-merly a highly respected business man. Charles Gustaveson of Sandy was perhaps fatally Injured last week while attempting to stop a runaway team belonging to D. S. Wennerstrom of Sandy. The horses were being driven by the owner, and became frightened by firecrackers fired . by small boys. Tent caterpillars have Invaded the mountains near Richfield. In the mountains east and west of Richfield thousands of them are found on the ;choke cherry and elder and service .bushes and In places even on the saga brusn. Tho production of copper and lead In Utah during 1902 was: Copper, 25,954,026 fine pounds; lead, 110,609,-441 110,609,-441 fine pounds. Summit county produced pro-duced the most lead, while Salt Lake ciiunty was the leader in the production produc-tion cf copper. Henry Wagner, one of Utah's earliest earli-est settlers and who had been a successful suc-cessful brewer for many years, diei! In Salt Lake City Sunday after a long illness. He came to Utah in 1864 and established a brewery in Emigration canyon soon after his arrival. ar-rival. On July 4th Joseph Shoell and Hanmer White of Pleasant Grove quarreled over their respective rights to some waste water, with the result that Mr. White Is bedfat with a scal lop In one ear and two ribs reported broken, and Mr. Shoell has beei interviewed in-terviewed by th ueriff. |