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Show the face of the east drift at a depth of 180 feet from the surface. Several specimens spe-cimens of the ore taken out run as high as 81 per pound In free gold. PAYETTE: 8teps are being taken for the establishment of a fruit evaporator of 26 tons daily capacity in Payette. It will be built in' time to handle this season's sea-son's fruit crop, for which the prospects are bright. Wyoming. EVANSTON: A clerk employed by Benlng A Caspin Mercantile company of Evanston. on going to a magazine about a mile north of the city to obtain some powder, discovered yesterday that unknown un-known miscreants had attempted to explode ex-plode the magazine by firing rifle shots through the door. The lock had been literally pounded to pieces by the bullets apd a number of the shots, supposedly from a .40-caIiber Government rifle, had been made through the door. A large amount of dynamite, giant powder, primers, pri-mers, gunshells and other explosives were rtored In the magazine, and some of the bullets had torn open the packages that contained them. Authorities are attempting to run down the miscreants and arrests will probably follow. Nevada. PIOCHE: A gold strike has been made about three miles south of IMoehe on the Panaca road. A ledge of Rold-bearing ?uarts has been unearthed which assays rom $10 to $15 per ton. Work Is being pushed on the Wadsworth-Wilcox claim and more work will be started shortly on adjoining claims, which are owned by other parties. NEWS FROM I FOUR STATES, j Utah. PROVO: An exceptionally large percentage per-centage of applicants for the United 8tates naval service is being passed by the recruiting corps now In Provo. There have been so far eight applicants, five of whom have been accepted. They are Jesse Padfleld. Fred William Post. George W. Iialllday, Thomas Hits and Carl Christian Johnson. PROVO: A complaint in divorce was filed today by Lurinda M. Patten of Pay-son Pay-son against Charles M. Patten, on the grounds of cruel and Inhuman treatment, consisting of calling plaintiff vile and abusive names. A waiver of service of summons and voluntary appearance was entered by defendant, and the divorce was granted as prayed for. Plaintiff was restored to her maiden name, Lucinda M. Patterson. The parties intermarried in Payson, February 19. 1878. LOGAN: The board of trustees of the Brlgham Young college met In Logan yesterday. Resolutions of respect for the late. Brlgham Young were unanimously unani-mously adopted. -The report of the president of the college, which was an exceptionally flattering one, was presented. pre-sented. The estimates for next year showed that $18,00) would be required from the church to operate the school in 1903-4. The resignation of Professor H. K. Merrill was accepted. Upon recommendation recom-mendation of President LInford, It was decided to establish a civil engineering department at the college. MANTI: Alexander Reld, formerly of Mantl. died in Nevada a few days ago. He had followed mining for several years and became "leaded" while working In the mines at Park City. His mother and a brother now reside In Mantl. ST. GEORGE: District Judge Marlo-neaux Marlo-neaux arrived in St. George Wednesday night, but is suffering from an attack of bronchitis and was unable to open court yesterday. He was slightly improved im-proved last night, COALVILLE: The funeral services over the remains of Miss Hazel Bwainston, the ftfteen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Swainston of Coalville, who died last Saturday night, were held Wednesday Wednes-day from the stake tabernacle and were largely attended. LAYTON: Ellas Adams, a prosperous farmer and sheepman of Layton. was married to Mias Lettie Bennett, the handsome young daughter of the late John Bennett of Kayavllle. Their reception re-ception took place in the Union hall Wednesday night. , Idaho. BOI6E: A sensational strike was made at the Dewey mine yesterday. ' A veritable veri-table treasure box was broken into at |