Show INSECT PESTS considerable alarm is felt on the tile pa pacific cefic coast especially by dests because of the increase of insect i pests similar to those which of late years have played havoc with much of the tile utah fruit several new and exceedingly obnoxious kinde kinds of the vermin have appeared and are multiplying multi plying rapidly it is feared that the fruit interests are greatly endangered endanger ed the san francisco BuU bulletin etin arti treating ng 11 upon p the subject eay the ecale scale bug and the codling moth bave increased rapi rapidly adly these are only two of ofa a numerous band cofene of enemies mi yet these alone aro becoming formidable when every few weeks some new now insect pest ie is announced and placed on ell exhibition there is a new anxiety lest the remedies proposed will be inadequate the fruit in this territory berit ry appears thus f far ar to be comparatively free from the pr presence nee of d destruct estrue live peats pests this season MRS MCCOOK wife of general mccook McCoo Ic the new commandant at fort port douglas died at the continental hotel salt lake city at 1230 this am m the lady had bad been in indisposed ever since her arrival in the territory the general and his family will have the sympathy of the community in their sad gad bereavement rea r TUB THE of the army by that of ayoob khan karemi alta thirty two miles from kandahari Kan dahar makes the afghanistan question serious again the ameer got no help whatever from the british and if the victory of ayoob khan khali should be followed by the tile complete overthrow of oatlie the ameer the question will arise what good the british got by a all I the blood and treasure they lavished in seeking their scientific frontier tho the present british government is playing smash with the results the late a te lord spirited foreign n policy ABOUT TWO this morning some of tile people of salt lake know buethe but the dynamite fiends were at work A loud peal of thunder startled tho the slumbering citizens from their sleep it rattled rolled roared and cracked with deaf deafening ening loudness the lightning flashed with vivid glare glam the war of elements men ts was accompanied by little or no moisture there were buta but a few pattering splashes of rain which were licked up to speedy absorption by the dusty ground THE tim i of hands at work at the church quarry getting out rock for tho the salt lake temple varies from twenty to thirty this ia is smaller than the usual complement at fit this time oatlie of the year same reason as causes the deficiency of harvest hands bands working on the railroads |