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Show COUNTY ANJjTATE NEWS Miss Chloe Cook, a young lady of Moroni, fell from a bicycle last Friday and broke one of her toes. Merritt Estes of Park City and Etta Christensen of Moroni were married at Salt Lake City last week. The Richfield baseball team defeated de-feated the Ephraim nine at Richfield Rich-field last Friday, by a score of 9 to 1. Sam R. Prnitt was sentenced in the district court at Ogden on Saturday, Sat-urday, by Judge Rolapp, to serve three years in the State prison and pay a fine of $500, for living in polygamy. Pruitt is an Indiana man and has a young wife living in the East. Shortly after coming to Utah he married a Miss Shnpe of Eden, Weber county. A "Rough Riders" committee from Sanpete county, to participate in the Roosevelt parade at Salt Lake on the 29th, has been named as follows: Mt. Pleasant W. D. Candland, Jim Fisk; Moroni Will Irons; Fountain Green P. E. Christensen. Andrew Aagard: Ephraim Peter Greaves, jr; May-field May-field Parley Christiansen; Gunnison Gun-nison BoxRobbins, Will Gribble, Reuben Christensen; Manti W. D. Livingston, Sheriff Jensen. Oscar R. Young, a prominent civil engineer for a number of years in Utah, and well known in this county, died Sunday evening at Iowa City, Iowa. Mr. Young had been ill for two years, but kept up his work until a few months ago. lie was the chief engineer of the San Pete Valley railroad, he built the Mt. Nebo reservoir, and was connected with the Mammoth reservoir res-ervoir project. Mr. Young was a single man and was forty years of age. His parents reside at Iowa City, to which place he went over a month ago. Is Sanpete county really about to experience a genuine mining boom? Off and on for a number of years there has been more or less excitement over prospects discovered discov-ered in the hills on the west side of this valley, but not until last week was the climax reached. Today To-day there are dozens of men who have visions of paying gold and silver mines looming up before them, and excitement is running high. There is nothing unreasonable unreason-able about this, for every indication points unerringly to valuable mineral min-eral deposits in the West mountains. moun-tains. A genuine mining boom is one of the probabilities of the near future. Many prospectors are now on the ground, and an anxious public pub-lic is impatiently awaiting the outcome. |