PEOPLES PARTY call lor a county convention A convention of delegates of the peo ilea party from the several precincts in 6 county will be held at the court hoisie provo city on saturday july 28 iaac at 10 a m for the purpose of nominating candidates for county offices to bo voted for at alie general on monday duio ath day of august 1888 alie convention w 11 ll consist of thirty eight delegates apportioned as follows provo 5 springville Spring ville 3 spanish fork 3 salem 1 spring lake 1 payson 3 ben jachin 1 santaquin San 2 lake shore 1 thistle vaclev 1 pleasant valley junction 1 glahe n 2 cedar fort 1 fairfield 1 lehi 3 alpine 1 american fork 3 pleasant grove 3 provo bench 1 lake view 1 members of the county central committee resident in the precincts will proceed at once to call primary meetings in their respective precincts for the election of delegates to the county convention delegates will be expected to present credentials at the county convention duly certified by tho presiding officers and secretaries of the primaries W II 11 dusenberry chairman J C secretary peoples party utah county CITY A MEASURE of prime importance to the at large is the public land bill that haa just passed the house of representatives th main object of the bill is to guard against further squandering of the public lands by speculators and corporations the preemption pre emption and timber culture are repealed and ample provision is made for alie disposal of the lands to bona fide settlers timber lands are forbidden allowed to take timber not commercially valuable for domestic use alie president is authorized to set apart tracts of forest land as public reservations the sections oi the bill relating to agricultural lands permit heads of families to enter quarter section tracts where they do not own that amount of land in any state or territory upon payment of five or ten dollars according to the size of the entry any person alio haa not had the benefit of the homestead and preemption pre emption law and who has failed to perfect title to a tract entered by him is to be permitted to make a second entry in lieu thereof the is required to establish a residence upon his claim within six months after entry in a habitable house and to reside continuously thereon for five years and cultivate at least ten acres when he may lake out a patent THE salt lake people are using efforts to induce the national educational As to hold its next annual session in salt lake city president woodruff has tendered the use of alie large tabernacle to the association if they should select salt lake as the place for their next convention at a meeting of the chamber of commerce the following resolution was adopted and sent to bupt supt W M who is now in ban francisco attending the convention at a meeting of the chamber of commerce and citizens bf salt lake it was resolved to extend an invitation to the national educational association now in convention at san francisco to leold their next annual convention in salt lake city you are requested to present aliis invitation in connection with the other educational representatives from utah to alie convention and to make known that president woodruff lias kindly tendered tho tabernacle having seating capacity for for eliat occasion and that all our citizens will give the rn embers of the convention a hearty reception and pledge themselves to secure satisfactory rates of transportation from all railroad and otherwise make the sojourn of alie visitors to our city pleasant and enjoyable THE utah exhibition car in its per ambula tiona is creating quite a stir among the people A dispatch says the chicago papers today to day devote considerable space to the carload of specimens of utah products sent out for exhibition through the country by the salt lake chamber of commerce alie car is now on a side track here at the union depot at canal and van buren streets and is attracting many visitors the times pronounces the car a moving palace of mineral honderd and wealth and adds the specimens are displayed in glittering nickle mounted cases and the range of rich minerals which as shown are lying around in utah waiting for miners to pick is really wonderful silver ore falls oil alie mountains in chunks so large that it would require a days walk to get over them silica for glafys purposes runs riot and sulphur is found 80 per cent pure soda and lithographic bronc largely imported from germany are plent hulas are also asbestos and plumbago usually imported irom canada and sculptural marble as fine as that found in italy any of thence deposits are found in utah in sufficient quantities to cupply the nation THE bews yews in an editorial makes use of the following excellent remarks As the time approaches when not a few of the learned and influential of the earth will embrace the gospel it is the more necessary that the saints should learn this one lesson that class distinctions are displeasing in the sight of heaven and that all men who engage to serve god in humility and with honest hearts are evenly entitled to the love respect appreciation and confidence of alie faithful and it is the duty of eacle to perform dilli gently and persistently the particular portion of the work that belong to his calling under the guidance of those who arc called and appointed to direct the affairs 61 the church seeking to do not his own will but the will of the lord as plainly set forth in the revelations THE manti sentinel gives our most popular and useful of educational institutions the following notice patrons of this excellent institution will bo pleased to learn that the thirteenth academic year commences on the ath of august next prof K G maeser retains the and will be as aisted by eight or nine regular teachers all of whom are specialists in their additional apparatus has been procured so we understand in order that the class work of some important branches may be more fully illustrated circulars giving full information will be distributed in a lew days we hope that the young men and women of our county and the territory generally will take advantage of tho educational facilities of the B Y academy at provo