The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1898-10-07
UTAH NEWS.


the water famine In salt Lake city.
The contract has been let for a mod.
ern water works system at Fort Doug.
las
Private Adams has been honorably
discharged from the Utah Cavalry
troop.
Five hundred aud nineteen students
are now enrolled at the state Uni
verdty.
Charles A Lambourne has been pro
NOTED from 500 10 $3.50 as a carrier at
Salt Lake City.
A party Of about 100 editors from
Georgia were In Salt Lake city the
fore part Of the week
Governor Wells returned home Oct,
from a three weeks trip 10 through
the Yellowstone park
The quarterly salaries Of the forty
four state officials, clerks and deputies
amounts 10 slG,saois.
Citizens Of Mcrcur have organized a
brass band which they intend 10 make
Que Of the finest In the state.
The sugar beet crop this season II
above the average, some farmers rails.
ing an average Of saE tons to the
acre.
George l.. Nyc, Of salt Lake, has
been appointed supreme court reporter
20 All the vacancy caused by tho res
ignatiou Of John NJ. Tanner.
There are about 800 poll tax delin.
qucnis In salt Lake, aud the clerk Of
the street department Ia preparing TO
sue them for the amounts due.
The Ncwsboy's Union Of Salt Lake,
nro making an effort 10 found a home
for the homeless nowadays. The oiti.
zens are materially assisting them.
In the Poulscu pairlcidc ease tho
jury rendered verdict Of not guilty.
Young Pouiscn killed his father while
the two men were engaged In fight.
The Utah Sugar company has paid
its eighth dividend 10 IT, stockholders
The amount was per cent aud here.
after dividends Of aig per cent will be
sent out each three months.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed fer the Tropic Cooperative Mcr
camille a Manufacturing Institution
The placc'of business IA Troplc, Garfield
county, and the capital $40 900.
That prosperity has struck the camp
OF Eureka Ia evidenced by the number
OF new buildings that are going up,
aud tho improvement, belng made In
,he way Of painting. repairiug, etc.
william nrodie, the Eureka mcr'
chant accused Of raising a check from
si0to 81 900, has been bound over IA
await the action Of tho district court
Brodie's store Ia In the hands OF the
lhcrin.
Lieutenant nrlant II. Wells has been
ordered 10 Manila. where he will Join
his regiment For the past tive
months Lieutenant Wells has been In
structing the members OF the Utah
National Guard in military tactics.
Anetta Jensen. an aged sandy wo
man, has been declared Insane ant
sent 20 Provo for treatment She wa
discovered walking about the street,
one day last week with no clothing OF
except an apron aud sun bonnet
The origin Of tho iira at Becks Ho
Springs ktlll remains a mystery. TIT
officers who arc working ON the cas-
state that there was no doubt that th'
fire was started by ineendlArlcs, bu
who they were and what motive le,
them 10 set the fire are questions ye
unanswered.
Neph Packard, the sprlugvllle nur
seryman, Ia exhibiting peach whiol
measures n inches In circumference
and weighs n ounces II Ia ney
variety which he has originated afte
several years Of experimenting. II,
he has given II tho name OF "u,A
Queen"
Major General 7. v Greene, In hi
report Of the battle at Manila say,
"rhe Utah gun ON the road fred 1
shots at block house 10, with good 81
feet, as was subsequently Asccrtalne
upon inspection Of the work. Lleuter
ant Grow aud the detachment deserv
great credit for the commendable mar
ncr 10 which the piece was served an
pulled through the mud, without IN
assistance OF horses"
Edmund lie Grand, Of Salt LAX,
committed suicide atChlcago junction
o., by shooting himself through IN
head. He had been a resident OF Sal
Lake for ak years aud was enroute I
France on pleasure trip, No eaus
- known for the deed
A Provo man has received an allgatc
from an admiring friend Ia jackson
vile, Fla, and will place the ropcll
20 Utah Lake. This may cause N
small boys Of Provo TO steer clear
the lake, during the bathing season
least