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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Ties are beinjf distributed along tha route of the Belnap extension, and track laying will begin soon. Special premiums are beginning to come in to the Deseret Agricultural Society So-ciety for the state fair this fall. The Provo postoflSce is to be improved by the installation of new furniture and the most approved lock boxes. Plans and specifications have been prepared for a 14,000 brick and stone school house to be erected at Pay son. The assessed valuation of Utah county coun-ty for this j ear is, approximately, 810,-60,000. 810,-60,000. about $750,000 higher than in 1899. After a careful examination of Provo river, the fish commissioner reports no truth in the report that fish were being dynamited. E. C. Chambers of Saft Lake Is one of the members of the committee selected to notify Bryan of his nomination for the presidency. A detachment of twenty-five men from Fort Logan, Colo., has arrived at Port Douglas to relieve company Cr , ordered to China. Two thousand, six hundred and thirty thir-ty seven is the total of Payson's population popu-lation as reported by Che state enumerator enumer-ator for this year. The city couucil of Provo has made appropriation for the purchase of a right of way for boulevard to the lake resort, a distance of three miles. ' In a voting contest, at S cents a vote, (for a young lady to represent Utah at (Spanish Fork's celebration on the 24th, Miss Mary Farr was the winner, receiving re-ceiving 567 votes. Salt Lake had a leprosy scare last week, the report being circulated that a Kankana girl was suffering from the disease, but an investigation proved the report groundless. Tbe Ontario Mining company of Park City has started wiring Main street for its electric light system, and in a short time the company's plant will be supplying sup-plying the citizens with light. Mosiah L. Hancock, aged 68, has arrived ar-rived at Riverton, where he is visiting friends, he having walked almost the entire distance of 1,000 miles from Taylor, Arizona, starting on May 5. A squad of five colored soldiers attacked at-tacked a Chinaman at Salt Lake the other night and gave him a severe beating, presumably to get a little practice before encountering the Chinese Chi-nese forces. Edward Close, a 12-year-old boy of Spanish Fork, was drowned in Utah lako, near the mouth of Spanish Fork rivef, while bathing with two younger "boys who were unable to render him any assistance. Richard W. Young, Jr., the 13-year-old son of Major R. W. Young of the Utah batteries, has reached Salt Lake after a trip around the globe. He left Manila because the climate did n ot agree with him. The salt water sprinkling train used on the Short Line for the purpose of killing weeds alongside the track has proved a success, as the weeds wither and die after a shower of the water taken from the Great Salt Lake. J. Gordon McPherson (colored), who gained notoriety from being refused the privilege of acting as a juror in the Ben broke case, has offered to recruits company of colored men to go to China to avenge the death of Colonel Liscum. Reports of serious damage from grasshoppers grass-hoppers come from various parts of Utah county. One farmer caught over twenty-five bushels of the 'hoppers in an hour, using a U-shaped canvas bag which was dragged across the lucern field by a horse. Wm. H. Bain of Zanesville, O., was killed at Salt Lake by falling under a moving train while attempting to steal a ride, his body being so badly mutilated mutil-ated that he was only identified by a diary which contained his name and a record of his movements. On July 1.) the daily flow of Parley s Creek was but 4.500,000 gallons, a loss oi 3,uuu,ooi gallons in fifteen days. Last year at this time the flow in the creek was 39, 40.000 gallons daily, and Salt Lakers are in fear of a water famine unless something is done. Hyrum Johnson, of Loa, accidentally shot himself with a shotgun, inflicting proably fata! injuries. He was carrying carry-ing the gun with the stock down, anij in attempting to raise it discharged tbe weapon, receiving the entire contents in his abdomen. |