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Show EXCHANGE DRIFTWOOD. Ptag Particles Picked up from the Bea of Xewflpaperdom. Moroni's citizens have been treated to a nice little scandal this week. Enraged father, determined deter-mined lover, six-shooters, hot water, etc., etc., figured, as usual, very conspicuously in the business-. Mt. Pleasant Pyramid. It is a cardinal principle of the Mormon community that the church should not interfere with the state. Hence no man is justified justi-fied in taking advantage either of his ecclesiastical position or the pulpit, to argue or preach politics. Provo Dispatch: A Farmington tshecpbcrder" swindled two of our business men last week by alleging that he had made a discovery of a big deposit of mineral. They put up some "stuff" to grubstake him. He is now among the missing. S. L. Journal of Commerce. One of the most irritating things among all the government assessments assess-ments is that of poll tax, which seems to enlightened people to be one of the last relics of old fogy ism. The poll tax arouses more resistance resist-ance than all the other taxes put together. S. L. Journal of Commerce. Com-merce. Edison says' he can crush a whole mountain by his new electrical mining idea. Tile will no loncer The court has adjourned And a peaceful calm has settled like a halo over the beautiful valley whord rolls the sluggish Malad and Devil creek. Malad Enterprise. For a couple of days snow has been falling in the mountains near the city and it ha's probably come to stay during the winter. A number num-ber of miners will slay ant and work their claims all winter, snow or no snow. Commercial. Howard Tanner, a son of Sydney Tanner,of Beaver, and a brother-in-law of Mr. Forgiven, of this city, was shot, at a sheep camp near Circlevillc, Piute county, Thursday last, by a half-crazy herder com-' nionly known as "Tex." The bullet bul-let passed through the groin and lodged in the thigh' Tanner's' mother hastened from this city td the bedside of her unfortunate eon, arriving there a short time previous prev-ious to his death, which occurred Monday morning. Jterald. It is peculiar that people will buy goods of a street f;tker in preference lo buying of homo" dealers. That they will do so, how" ever, was demonstrated hist Friday and Saturday evenings by tho" . manner in which a great ninny of them bought things of the fellow" that was selling out of a wago'ii cti Main street. They should beaf i'u mind that while they may get some1 articles a lilllc cheaper than homo merchants sell them, there is always al-ways an inferior article, and every dollar expended is taken out of tho city. Ephraim Enterprise. have mines worked by the slow and painful process of following veins. He will simply blast the whole mountain down at one blow and then claw the mineral out of its ruins. Standard. The per capita debt of Utah, by the census of 1S90, was 24 cents, the lowest of any commonwealth in the Union. Iowa comes next with $1.91, and the states run up through various sums to Arizona, which is $40.35. The District of Columbia Col-umbia caps the climax at $85. SG. Ogdcn Commercial. A few days ago a pot of hot copper cop-per at the Dixie smelter, St. George, Utah, was accidentally tipped into a bucket of water and exploded with terrific force, badly burning an employee em-ployee named Charles Worthen on the hip and arm. His injuries - were serious but not necessarily f.ital. Ogden Standard. The male students of the University Uni-versity of Descrct arc required to drill in military tactics one hour every day and are progressing ; quite rapidly. The young ladies, although they cannot wear the prescribed pre-scribed uniform, are not going to ho outdone by tho boys and are drilling on the side. AVjja En The telegraph line along the Tintic Railway is completed nnd the wires strung as far as Payson. Tho Pules arc set for some distance further. The line, which is Western West-ern Union property, will bea '"loop wire," thus doing away with the necessity of a battery at Eureka, when the line is completed to that place. Payson Enterprise. Lightening rod agents arc working work-ing a swindle game on Illinois farmers. They promise to put up a rod of any length, and as many points and insulators us desired, all for $-'5. When the farmer comes to settle, he finds that the contract reads -t2-" per rod of" f; feet, and finds his bills eight times more than he thought. Dmcrrt The heft raisers in tho weM field have inaugurated anew move. : They have entered int-i an agree-ment agree-ment with the Pmvo City Street Railway company, whereby curs p are run down into the fields on tb- . Luke resort line, where the beet? ' are leaded and tuken dir-et from : the fields, by rail, t. the factory t ; Lchi. Two ears passed through the, streets yest'-rday and more will g" i today. Lchi Banner. I |