| Show UTAH NEWS coal was selling for sl 61 per ton at t huntington Hun laia week professor albert il 17 Ki Ru nickey late of the wasatch school salt lake city died at st george december 23 of 0 tubercular consumption his remains were taken to scales M mound ill tor for interment davis county has established a nucleus for a school library for overy every district in the county the first purchase has been made 1000 1000 books have been secured to begin with and more will follow as rapidly as funds are ara available A chicago syndicate has purchased tho the mt alt nebo irrigation companas comp anys plant and have far reaching plans plana including the erection of a sugar factory factor to cost and the colonization of a acre tract of land at once the transfer will bo be made february 15 M sirs rs L ylie lylie barney who died last week in provo aged 93 92 years was tho the oldest member of the church of jesus christ of latter day dainis up to the time of her death both in years and membership she was one of the charter members of the first relief society organized by joseph smith the prophet A good sensation has been spoiled by the fladiy finding of joseph Dio diminno inno a former member of the sixteenth whom it was rumored had bad been killed and liis his body thrown into an abaid boned mine shaft abaft concerted efforts to find his dead body resulted in the finding of the live oue one at robinson where he is is employed as a tailor the jury in the cass case of the government against james true tried for train robbery failed to agree upon a verdict the prisoner will remain in custody until a new trial is had eight of the jurymen juryman were in favor of conviction and four of 0 them held out for the prisoners acquittal the deliberations of the jury occupied altogether twenty hours congressman king is in cuba having baving left washington the lie he is seeking information and will visit insurgent camps if ho he has an opportunity there is so much uncertainty regarding the real conditions that prevails there that a number of congressmen have decided to learn for themselves the true s tate state of affairs the school census returns of the state for the year 1897 8 have been compiled by superintendent of public instruction st park they show an aggregate of an increase over the preceding year of 2489 of these are able to read and write are in attendance upon the district schools are out of school the colored children number and the white abe there re boys and girls A new bond of has been given by james IL bacon of salt lake as a Eo so lutien to the question raised by judge judd as to the sufficiency of the former one the sureties of the present bond and the amounts for which they are qualified are J schenck susanna B emery W E hubbard J W houston F W V ross the bond Is a joint and several one and each of the sureties is liable for the total amount of A burglar named thorn thornton ton was caught ransacking the furnishings departments part ments of R A barrys store at provo last week after being chased about four blocks bebas he was caught and found to be an employed of a local livery stable in ill explanation of the act be stated he was a victim of somnambulism and while in that condition committed the act the police officers think ile ho is pretty fleet to be a som list at any rato rate lie he will not walk any more in in his sleep for two and ono one halt half years unless he scales tl tb walls of tile the state prison max who gobbled up all the th antimony ha be could find in III utah last spring claiming that he was after mineral paint lias has just returned from chicago where lie he visited brice and his factory furnishes the antimony for brice and has unbounded faith in the scheme at any rate he be says brice is malting a commodity from the antimony which realizes about to the ton whether it is gold or not bought four shares of brice stock for which lie he paid 38 per share lie he claims he would cotsell not sell the same for S each mr is shipping about thirty tons of antimony per day and v will ill increase that amount at once several of the leading banks in utah county among them the spring ville villa bank have cut down the rata of interest paid on savings deposits from 5 per cent to 4 per cent compounded semiannually semi annually the cut is to go juto aiuto effect the first of the year david mckay who be was convicted at brigham city of embezzling F several everal thousand head of sheep has bias been given live five years in the penitentiary alel lay leased the sheep and when the tha lease had expired most of them had bad buen been disposed of |
