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Show UTAH NEWS. Another Ug shipment of Utah flout to China will lo wade In tha neat future. HuWrlptlons amounting tn nmrlj tlO.OGO hare alrtadjr been pledged foi atock In the aalt pnlace. The iuj;r factory at fbl hai let a contract for 300 acret of beets In Span Uh Fork for next season. Tbla season (lunnlson produced 100,000 bushels of ifralu and about 73.0UO pound of lucerne seed. The Utah and l'aclflo hai been completed com-pleted to Sulphur rtprlngt and patten 1,'cra are being carried on the cotntruc-tlon cotntruc-tlon trains, nhleh make rctfular runt rery day. Hogut sllrer dollars harp teen "lit-corered "lit-corered In circulation In Ball I.aUeCltjr, tha appearance and ring of the coin belnjr rerjr deceptlre. The Imitation, honerer, la merely allrer plated. , Htato Auditor Morgan Itlchants hat reported to Ntate Nupvrlntemlent l'ark that a!4.041. of the atate achool fund remained on hand on December tUL The turn will be apportioned at once, The biennial report of the superintendent superin-tendent of tha atate achool for the deaf, dumb and blind shows that the entire cott of tnalqtenance of the achool for tho past biennial period Wat I53.4S0.57. Major Henry 1'. lllrmlngham, brigade aurfron I), rl. V., captain and assist ant surgron V. H. A., hat been relieved from further duty In the itrpartineut of l'orto lllco, and onlerrd to l'ort Dqugls for duty. The biennial report of tha trustees of tbe state Induitrlal achool ahona that since the opening of the Institution Institu-tion 104 buys and 30 girls hats been committed. During tho past tiroyeara II hare been committed. On the 3rd IntL, (leorge W. Ilartch was sirorn In as chief Justlco and Robert N. Ilaskln as astoclato Justice of the supreme court. Charles H. Kane, the retiring chief justice, administered admin-istered the oath of oftlco to each of the jurists. August Larson, who struck a"mlssed shot" while working Ills mining claim near l'leasant Urccn, has succumbed to tils Injuries. Ho was horribly mangled by the explosion, Ida acalp being torn, his eyes blinded and both hands almost serered. The patl year the farm at tho slate prison produced 4,130 buthelt of potatoes, pota-toes, IIS bushels of turnips, W0 bushels of parsnlpe, S8 bushels of osta, 1,373 bushels of carrots, 330 butheltof bceta, 43 buthelt onions, 4S3 tons hay, besides fruits and regetablra. Librarian h. 1'. rainier of tho atate law library hat submitted his report for the year 189S to (lotcmor Wells. The report shows that Out toIu wet wero accessioned latt year, making 1,319 new on the shelres. 441 booka were pun , chased last year at a coat of 11,810.10. President I W. Shurtllff of the commission com-mission In charge of Utah' eihlblt at the Trans-MlsslsslppI expotltlon, latt week drow from HUte Auditor Itlch ards the last warrant of fl,C00 out of tho appropriated aum of 14,000 for tha commission's and exhibit's expenses. Ocorge Willie, the ML l'leasant aafo cracker, who escaped Jail by digging a tunnel, has been recaptured. When ha made his escaper he had shackles on hit lege, which prerented him from making headway and resulted In his belng overtaken by the sheriff. John Woodman, the man who waa found near Fairfield, December 39, badly froicn and craxed with palu, has suffered the loss of both feet and the fingers of both hands, the amputation being performed at Halt Lake. City. When Woodman waa found at Fairfield Fair-field ho waa gnawing hit frozen fingers and waa In a pitiable condition. The l'cllcan l'olnt murder mystery Is being retired and Harry llayea may yet be proreu Innocent of the charge ;' of murder. Tbe wife of (leorge W. Wright, a former resident of Halt Lake City, declarca that her husband waa tha murderer, and tho matter will b thoroughly Investigated by the friends of llayea. BThe biennial rciort of the attorney general, filed with Oorcrnor Wells last week, ahowa that during the past two ..m. i ;iiiii ill ll t'l' l. J Jill ..'.. HLL3UJl'i HH hare been ofllclally answered In writ- H ten opinions, besides tha numerous HB consultations In which advice lias been IQ given orally. Tbe attorney-general B3j aska for the appropriation of funds lljJUK with which to hire an assistant, jHu The Tarpey application for tha leaae Bl of 600,000 acrct of land along the lino Mb of tbe Central I'aclflo was rejected by D the atate land board, because a Hp limit of 30,000 acres Is placed on the Hj ' amount of land to bo leased to one m peraon. Hj' The report of the state board of par H" dons for the years 1897 and S, as pro- H pared for the presentation to the leg- B Itlsturc, shows that thirty-two prison m convicts were pardoned and coinmu- H tatlona and sentence, four In number, H were grunted. |