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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. During the psat year Utah paid 1330,. 000 tu a lamp tax. A daih of inon fell Id SU Lek His night of the 10th. Tb Lehl baod lut )xn reoreantttd with twenty-two member. About too Salt Lakrra tool advantage advant-age of excursion rstes cut and wait lut week. Ollenthutlatt ssy reflnlnff plant will be erected In Hanpelo county In the near future. Arthur Kneass of Halt f.ake City ha been ppolnted messenger In the llolie, Idaho, lend office. Ed Johnson, an employee of MoDon "'" aid's circus, w killed t Pyon lut week, being run over by the circus train. The president lite signed the com-minion com-minion of HI it nl II. L'alllster at collator col-lator of Internal revenue for Montana, Idaho and Utah. Kraatna Hopla of Provo hat aued Thomas fdewellyo for 15.000 damages, alleging that defendant beat lilm In audi a manner ae to lulllcl permanent Injuries. The Western Union Telegraph com-rany'a com-rany'a office In Malt Lake Cltjr did the largeit builnrit latt week of any week alnce the office hat been established In the cspltal city. The first money that will go to the itate treasury through the operation of the Inheritance tai will be from the estate f J. M. Itlcketls, who died In Salt Lake on May II. The Ball Lake pnblla library con taint 11,113 TOluines, and hit 10,071 membership ctrdt outstanding. Th average dally loans the past year was IH, and 199 books dally Issued to the reading room. The wholetse lluor firm of IX M. JJurrls A Co., which removed from Wste.r Idaho, to Halt Lake, hae as-signed, as-signed, with liabilities amounting; to upward of fll.Oon. Tho slocU will oorer the Indebtedness. The supremo court last week passed on acasa Involving J3.40, the amallest mount crer Involved In a esse before that tribunal. The case arose of ar re-taied re-taied costs. Tho court rendered Judg-rnent Judg-rnent for 11,30 for plaintiff, JJaH Lake county hat passed an ordU tfc'te Iaslngtto'nltle1fteJ, " Ttie V nalsaaVW W? wprn tavstfo. ,i uMiaTewtipg7urtia0i year a"hd upward, up-ward, and CO cents a year for those reutlug for less than f 00 a year. The bl-ennlal contention of county uperlntendents was held In Halt Lake City last week, twenty-two of the Iwenty-seTcn counties of the stale being be-ing represented, and mattered Importance Import-ance to the schools were discussed, Mark J. Jlltcliell, recently bound evei to the district court of Grand eounly on a charge of perjury, took French leave the lOlli, Just prior to the holding of court to try him. Bo far the (.dicers hare becu unable to locate lo-cate him. Cadet Dumford, the tuccrtsfnl con-testsnt con-testsnt for appointment to the West I'olnt Military academy, having failed to pais the entrance examination to that Institution, another chance may be afforded Clarenco 8. Jarvll of Bt, Qeorge. Orastlioppert are doing extensive damage to crops at Manll, and school chtldrenaro being employed to aid In ridding the vicinity of them. Largo nnmbere have been destroyed by driving driv-ing them Into traps, and the hope Ilex preiscd that further ravages may be averted, Oil experts claim that within a abort time no one will be able to locate landt la the Oreen lllver district. Walker Brothers of Bait Lake, alone have located lo-cated nearly two townships. Machinery It belug letup, and the value of the supposed oil bearing tone will toon be determined. The state of Utah recently relin quished 330,000 acrea of land In Millard ounty, which the government has now thrown open to settlement. The land was selected becsusa of the projected Bonneville reservoir, and would have bein valuable had the enterprise been Nflj carried out The Anaconda Standard ssya a hacki 9j ence owned by Ilrlgham Young, Is ly- WK Ing la a scrap heap In llutte, where for jfW a number of years It was In dally use. K9 Jim Murray bought It In 181 for 1073 MM and rented It to one hack driver for II ffjft per day until It returned lilm (10,950. WM It originally cost 11,000. n The Provo postofllce will pan from a Ml third to a second class office on July 1, H which means that there may be ap- (nM pointed an assistant postmaster and Si three clerks. The office also expects to H (how aufficlent receipts to entitle It to Bl a free delivery service. BBj A majority of tha Ban Juan county H voters failed to sign a petition In favor H ef the annexation of Ban Joan county HH to Grand, and the question It practl- H tally settled for the present, salt can BBa not now be brought up for a vote be- M fr the election of 1003. |