Show UTAH NEWS thistle is suffering an epidemic ol of measles nearly all the children and old did people being affected the provo woolen mills are working on a seattle order for 2000 pairs of extra heavy blankets intended for the klondike trade they will be ready soon mrs knight wife of the city marthai of provo was boand paralyzed by her husband when lie he returned from his patrol one night last week she was unable to either move or C V stevens of spring city has trained six dogs to harness and may be seen any day driving them about town he expects to leave soon for klondike and will go 0 well equipped joseph poley ioley who held up the arlington saloon at ogden recently securing ing about and who was later arrested at the homel home of his mother in missouri has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary william fawcett of st george aged agea 80 has been kieen committed to the state insane asylum ile he drove the first wagon into that place in the early d days ays and has held many positions ol of trust and responsibility bishop has rendered an opinion in response to an inquiry from pluto plute county that tho debt limit can not be evaded by refus ing to act upon bills presented laying them over until next your year about ifo houses have been built in mercur during the past ninety days clays and yet there are no vacant houses house there rents are good and houses in demand business s blocks as well as residences are being erected joseph stagg of richmond cache county was kicked in the stomach by a hor horse selie ie was hitching to a sleigh ile he died a few hours afterward leaving a large family five of whom were bedfast at the time the accident occurred IIo abs single and married menen men engaged in a rabbit hunt last week the losing side to pay for a dance and supper sapper the married men conceded their defeat by three rabbits and footed the bills the single men however claim the correct score was to A shed in which the seed beets were being kept at the lell sugar sugar factory caught fire last week and bout about feet of the shed was consumed the joss to the sugar company will approximate 1000 the fire and frost together ruined mined some of the beets saved for seed seed the utah central railway last week passed into the hands of the rio grando grande western being deeded to them by dittmar tho the purchase rs at the receivers sale it is is the intention to extend the road eastward ast to afford an outlet for the wealth of castex a utah and western colorado A fire roke broke out in the root roof of grant school at af salt lake last week tho tha gong was sounded for dismissal and one minute afterward the building was entirely vacated the pupils marched out in perfect order eight abreast making a record that can hardly lie beaten as there were sev eral cral hundred of them the fire was insi insignificant A fight against the confirmation ol of harvey N mcgrew as register of the salt lake land office is being made congressional representatives are taking no part but merely refer to the president eilt without comment mcgrew was a candidate for gover governor of arizona and being defeated established reestablished re a residence in utah and secured the appointment opposition is based on the allegation that he is not a bona fide resident ot of the state henry IV bigler and wife of st george and james L brown of salt lake are guests of california at the tha celebration of the semi centennial ol of the discovery of gold at sutter b s mill mil january 24 1818 some question has arisen as to the exact date but mr Big lers diary settles the question and he be is corroborated by mr air brown loth doth were members of tho the mormon battalion azariah smith of manti ailant was another member of tile the bat battalion batta tallor liot who ws was present william IV john son eon is in new mexico and all xander stephens tep liens and william IV berger are dead Arii articles eles of incorporation for thi th spanish fork and lake shore creamery creamer and dairy company have been filed is ii the secretary of states office the capital stock is to be divided into shares of 31 each the principal place of business will be spanish fork lincoln day february 12 will be observed in salt lake by the womans comans republican club chief justice zon will be the principal speaker who will de describe cribe incidents in the life of lincoln dt at springfield ill that came under his hia personal observation chris anderson of price recently had bad a narrow escape from drowning while crossing price river the ice gave way he broke the ice for fifty feet it in an all attempt to get out finally the ice bore borc him up lip when lie he made his way tc a cabin in an exhausted condition |