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Show TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. A San Francisco dispatch says it is stated that Charles Crocker, Vice-President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, has purchased 500,000 acres of land in Utah for a stock range. Half is railroad land and half Government. Gov-ernment. Thursday morning a carriage drew up in front of Grant's tomb, and Col. Fred Grant assisted his mother and wife out, and led them up to the -grated door of the tomb. Both ladies wore deep mourning and long crape veils. Mrs. U. S. Grant tied a bouquet of tea roses on the iron grate and then stood motionless for several minutes, looking in at the iron box that held the casket. |