Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-01-26
UTAH NEWS.

crop Is very bright, and both farmers
and millmen anticipate prosperous
season.
some symptoms of blaclrleg are said
to have appeared around Jensen among
the poor cattle and some fears are felt
on this score.
Tooele valley is becoming a great
dry farming district, and the acreage
this season will be double that Of anv
previous year
Two more new business houses are
to be erected on Main street, Park City.
That city is enjoying a substantial
building boom just now.
Helen Gould has presented the Shell
don Jackson College, of Salt Lake, with
check for SIS 900, with the assurance
that there is more to follow"
The Lehi Sugar factory ran 1875 DAYS
during the season just closed, and con
verified 52,625 tons of beets into sugar,
an average of 40 tons per day.
Plans have been submitted for the
new court house to be1erected at Yer
nal. The building will cost s14 900 and
will be modern in every respect.
Fred Holes, of Spanish Fork, died
last week of smallpox, he having been
i'll two weeks and the disease having
been treated at trst as chickenpox.
While Utah's citizens are just now
enjoying ideal spring weather, the
weather observer declares the coolest
spell of the season will occur during
February.
The next encampment of the G. A. R.
veterans will be held in Ogden during
the latter part of February or the frst
Of March, the date having not yet been
decided upon.
The sum of $)5,6l9.92 state school
money has been distributed to the sew
eral districts in Sanpete county, being
62,96 per capita, Sanpete county having
school population of SPIT.
The telephone company has placed
heavy orders with eastern manufac-
turers for construction and operating
material, in preparation for extended
work when spring opens.
The thirteenth annual exhibit of the
Utah Poultry association was held in
Salt Lake City last week, the show be-
ing reg arded as the best one by long
odds ever held in the state.
V. X. Thompson, of Nephi, left last
week for the Cape Nome, Alaska, min
ing district, which he expects to reach
about the middle of May, taking in
Skaguay and Dawson enroute.
An entertainment and banquet was
given in honor Of the old folks of Mt.
Pleasant on the 10th inst, fully 500
persons many of whom were between
10 and 30 years of age, being present,
Inquiries have recently been received
from points in Montana by Salt Lake
firms. asking as to the advisability of
investing in lands in Utah with the idea
of raising lucern seed. Considerable
money made in Montana will be put
into Utah land early this spring, and
the lueern seed industry, already big
item in the revenue of the state, will
be greatly increased.
Salt Lake has been selected as one of
the places TO be touched by the horse
less carriage of the American Automo.
bile Advertising Co. in the overland
trip of one of its vehicles, from New
York to San Francisco, starting about
the first of April.
Mrs Sarah Hannah Shires Howard,
who came to Utah in the early COS is
dead at Salt Lake. She was the wife
of Thomas Howard, who operated this
first paper mill in Utah, and who made
the first paper ever manufactured west
of the Mississippi river.
w. G. Hutchinson and Alex Ander-
son, while working a mining claim
adjacent to Manti, attempted to thaw
out some dynamite, when it accident
ally exploded, and that they were not
instantly killed they regard as simply
miracle.
Ex-City Recorder Fred Stevens of
Park City is dead after an illness of
several months. Mr.. Stevens was an
old Comstoclser, and came to Utah some
twenty years ago, being for number
of years employed at the Ontario mine
in Pcrl City.
E..W. Penney and son George, who
left Kanosh on November IA for two
weeks prospecting trip into the Wah
Wah range of mountains, have not been
heard from since and it is feared they
have either persisted in the mountains
or been foully dealt with.
A number of trout kept in the show
window of Salt Lake restaurant died
last week in mysterious manner, the
entire school dying within thirty min
utes after thin stream of white sub
stance, evidently lime, had entered the
tank from the city water pipes
It is said the quarantine regulations
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