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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Apples are selling on the Salt Lake market as high as 82.50 for a short bushel. , The 81,000,000 mark has been passed J in the collection of taxes in Salt Lake j county. J The Winchester school, one mile from j Murray, has been closed to prevent the spread of diphtheria. The Salvation Army provided food for over 700 of the poor people of Salt Lake on Thanksgiving day. S. N. Potts, a Salt Lake restaurant man who was convicted of selling I liquor on Sunday, was fined 850. , Three of the victims of the train wreck near Adrian, Mich., last week, J were Italians with tickets for Salt Lake. j It is rumored that George H. Wright, ' wanted at Provo on the charge of being i the Pelican Point murderer, has been located in Honolulu, j Mrs, Mary Judge of Salt Lake has decided to establish in Salt Lake a j home for unfortunate miners, in mem-j"" mem-j"" Dry of her husband, the late John - Judge. The Salt Lake hunters who attended the rabbit hunt at Erda, near Tooele, on Thanksgiving day, killed 1800 rab-, rab-, bits, which were distributed among the poor. , "' A new labor organization, known as j the Federal Labor union, was organ- Ized in Salt Lake last week. It in- j eludes street laborers and all unskilled workmen. Dr. P. J. McKenna, of Salt Lake, while returning from the Elks' banquet ban-quet at Park City, fell from the train f and was fatally injured, expiriug Fri- flay night. A movement is on foot among the S'-'-J'- - base ball magnates to form a Utah- Montana league for next season, the towns to be represented being Butte, ! Helena, Salt Lake and Ogden. , There is joy among the horsemen j over the fact that the directors of the ' Salt Lake fair grounds have decided to build a mile track, and henceforth rac- ing will be a feature of the state fair. " "; , Mrs. Hetta Heil, a Salt Lake woman vtW wvuito Aiaoka in 1397, lias ve- j turned to pass the winter in Utah. She has been successful and has amassed a fortune in the frozen north. All kinds of produce advanced sharp- j 3y in price last week. Eggs went to 35 cents per dozen in the Salt Lake market, and butter to 35 cents per j pound. High prices are anticipated 7 : before spring. j j ' Wheat from Oregon and Washington ; I will be landed in Utah as soon as orders I ) can be filled. A low rate made by the - ,V railroads will result in the importation ; of enough to relieve the present short- ! . ae- The game of football between the University of Nevada and the University Univers-ity of Utah teams at Salt Lake on Thanksgiving day resulted in a victory vic-tory for the Nevada boys, the score being 6 to 2. Mrs. Mary E. Nebeker, of Payson, after eating a hearty Thanksgiving alter eating a hearty Thanksgiving dinner, lay down on a sofa to rest, and expired unnoticed by the family. She . was 41 years of age, and had lived all ' her life in Payson. The hackmen of Salt Lake have or-.J-J ganized a union. A feature of their " by-laws will be the prohibition of profanity, pro-fanity, boisterous conduct, and everything every-thing offensive to patrons and the public in general will be tabooed. In a row at a ball given by the colored col-ored people of Salt Lake last week Oliver Hamilton shot John Miller (both colored), inflicting a slight wound. The men quarreled over a ticket which Hamilton claimed Miller had stolen. While at work in the Silver King mine at Park City last Friday, W. J. Marston was struck in the eye by a Plece of steel, a scrap of the missile penetrating the eyeball and lodging there. He will probably lose his eye. L. B. Lockhart, who lived with his family near the mouth of the Dolores river, Grand county, was found dead on Sunday, the 17th, 'by his twelve-year-old son, at a prospectors' camp, where he had been working. He had been murdered, being shot through the back. The Postal Telegraph company has , secured a right of way along the Ore-,gon Ore-,gon Short Line tracks for its wires from Salt Lake to Cannon, the station n the Utah-Idaho line, judgment to is effect having been rendered last , ; j i |