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Show jail. There are several other charges against him, and Moab will : probably now give him a chance to reform himself under the supervision the State. The snow is so deep from Beaver Cty to Panguitch that only the mail on a light sleigh, one horse ahead of the other, has been running run-ning for the past two weeks. Snow is reported three to four feet deep in Buckskin Valley, and bands of burses are bunc.ica together dying fast . By an executive order President Cleveland has proclaimed the following follow-ing Utah forest reserve: "Uintah forest reserve, embracing both slopes of the Eastern part of the Uintah mountain range in northern Utah, and the northern slope only of the Western part of this range, the southern slope being part of the Uintah Indian reservation." Alex Semmel, an iS-year-old Swedish boy, lies in the men's ward at St. Mark's hospital, racked with pain and with a slim prospect of living to see another sunrise. His hands and feet are suffering from the effects of being badly frozen, and his wan face, pinched with pain end suffering, is a pitiful sight to behold. Semmel lives with his parents par-ents at Eureka. A Tribune reporter went out to the hospital yesterday . nd to him the unfortunate young man told his story, though so weak that he could not speak above a whisper. One week ago last Thursday Thurs-day the lad started to walk from his home in Eureka to a wood-camp on Cherry Creek, about sixteen rrfiles away. He was accompanied by two men. It was quite pleasant when they left Eureka, but they had not travelled far before it turned ( bitterly cold. Semmel always was a frail, sickly lad, according to his father's story, and soon became exhausted. ex-hausted. He says that he laid clown about two miles from a mountain pumping station and his two companions com-panions went on, being unable to carry him without running the risk of losing their own lives. "I laid there," he continued,"and I thought they would never come for me. My hands and feet hurt at first, but pretty soon they quit paining me and 1 went to sleep. I think I laid there about thirteen or fourteen hours. The men went to the pump-ing-station and had to . go a few miles from there to get a sleigh to get me home in." Dr. Hughes is attending Semmel. The Eureka doctor attended him all last week until it became necessary to bring him to Salt Lake for an operation, which is expected to be performed today. The hospital officials do not think he will survive the operation of amputating both feet and one hand, as he is in a very weak condition. condi-tion. His father also despairs of saving thi life of his son. Tribune. A few of the De La Mar miners were laid off on the 15th, and until . the new tanks are completed and in place a large fo.ee is not required. H. M. McCune, of Nephi, married Miss Jane Sutton in Logan on the 21st. He is said to be already married mar-ried and has a wife and four children in Nephi. Last Monday night a fire broke out in the Quigley & Sargent drug store and considerable loss was sustained. sus-tained. The fire was extinguished by hard work, and the building was bat little damaged. The goods were nearly all ruined, but were insured in-sured for $1,000. Yee Yen, a Salt Lake Chinaman, and $8,000 belonging to other almond al-mond eyed Celestials of that city, are missing. Yee was a sort of a banker, and was a member of the firm of Wing Chong Lung & Co., which firm would give $20 to know where the missing man is. An assignment has been made by the Excelsior Drug and Paint company com-pany of Provo for the benefit of creditors. E. L. Jones was placed in charge, Tuesdsy, having been made the assignee. The . assets of the institution aggregate $7,425. The liabilities are nearly $5,000. The Payson Electric. Light and Manufacturing company has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. T. G. Wimmer is named as the assignee. The assets consist con-sist of Payson real estate and the plant of the company and accounts, and is valued at $8,050. The lia-. lia-. bilities are estimated at $1,908.60. Moab has a bad boy in the person of 15-year-old Leonard Hammond. Hammond broke out of the jail in which He was doing time on a petty larceny sentence and proceeded to burglarize the postoffice. He was detected and in attempting to escape got a charge of fine shot in the arm. He was captured and returned to |