| Show UTAH NEWS the eos box rider county fair w will ill commence september 10 at willard Villa Td george mckee lias has been sentenced to four years in the state penitentiary by the district court at vernal utah fruit interests will be represented by displays at tile the tain lain fair at iloise tile the C n H ingham Ing liam a sheep owner from salt lake was arrested ono one day last week for violation of sheep ordinance by grazing sheep in rich kich county without license ile he was fined filled A man named Kei delbaugh from salt lake found a giant cap up spring creek near coalville Co alville and began to pick with a nail when the cap exploded and ana mangled liis his hand in a dreadful manner necessitating the amputation of four fingers at the second secand joint Spring springville ville has a musical prodigy in the person 0 of willie J clyde son of william clyde a carpenter and bandmaster the little fellow is not yet 8 years old and hardly large enough to carry the instrument 1 lie he plays play sv which aich is an E flat tuba but lie he can readily read and execute lis lia music I 1 numerous complaints come from emery county from saw mill owners that they are unable to obtain permits to cut timber upon the government lands as has been the custom to grant them the saw mill owners cannot obtain timber to cut into lumber to supply the rapid and large demand for lumber from rauch ranch owners who are now ready and anxious to erect buildings john williams a resident of coal villo ville was instantly killed on the dinst ue ile was engaged in constructing a stall in liis his stable and misplacing oue one of the props which supported root roof the roof fell in in one piece of timber striking him in tho the jaw and it is also thought his neck N M as bro broken licen lie was 53 52 years of age and had been a resident ot of summit county for twenty years mr T 11 spencer of provo has given notice through the recorders office that ho he claims and appropriates all tile waters of jordan river and utah lake not now appropriated and used to the extent of 1000 cubic feet per second for tho the purpose of irrigating about 2 acres of land situated in salt lake county and lying easterly westerly and northerly along and on both sides the whole length of the utah and salt lake canal company the sum owed in round numbers by salt lake city municipality is said tobe to be payable in from fifteen to twenty years all or nearly all of it is payable in gold coin tins this immense debt draws interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum or about per year per month per day 1435 per hour or 24 cents per minute at the present rate of silver it would require ounces to liquidate the indebtedness the foregoing does not include the debt of the board of education which is an additional burden of 1850 the annual amount paid for the use of this sum is malting making a total yearly drain of apon the taxpayers of salt lake city threshing of grain has commenced in the valley below 1 milford ford in many fields the grain stood the dry weather first class and came out in good shape men who had abandoned their gr grain ain altogether a few weeks ago on account of the mineral in the land find now that in several instances it has turned out fairly well and will bring something like 75 cents per pounds many of the tanners farmers however will not get their seed back the cause for some of the land producing and other failing is a question not solved among ranchmen ranchman ranch men the water supply has bas 1 been cen short this season reason but the drnest land appears to have had water enough the fault being in the mineral in the land itself about twelve uintah indians arrived attrice at price recently with their horses wagons and trailers for the purpose of hauling their freight to their homes home on the reservation the indians say they have no lands for sale to either the uncompahgre ute indians or any one else and it iduas m as now a matter of talk among the tribes whether bather or not they should proclaim such an edict for the reason that they understood full ful cullell well lell that tile the last session of con gress mentoE of lands land s to the uncompahgre utes ules should bo be upon tile the uncompahgre rese reservation ration or elsewhere and that tho the Uin talis had no land for sale sala on their reservation if it was the supposition that their reservation was vas the elsewhere the state board 0 of laud land commissioners hold its next ne at regular session september 7 when it is expected that applications tiong for patents paten is to the nu number aber of 2000 which have hare been pending 1 will commence to be disposed dispo sedof 0 and patents issued during a thunderstorm at peon on oil saturday Sa of last week while andrew jorgenson jorg anson was as reaping wheat in a field near his hia lightning struck his two horses and killed them mr jorgenson Jorge naon was prostrate l liy by tho the |
