Show i davis davia co august ath 1668 D dear a reno jero lero cannon cannom we have had some considerable cause of excitement in the last few days on 0 n held heid thursday last an examination wa was s held heid by the hon H 0 haight probate judge in the case of james Follings Foll ingaberg berg who had been arrested on a charge of having committed a rape on the daughter of william bromley of bountiful under the most villainous circumstances he having given her the privilege of riding from town to bountiful in his wagon after passing the brewery took the upper upper road a road not travelled in summer time and haying having come to a convenient place took her ofa off the wagon and forced her to yield eld eid to hia his vile purpose then leaving her by the tho roa roadside ide he drove across to the travelled road the girl happened to have a very slight previous acquaintance with him as gle gie rie fie had friends living in the same town and caused him to be arrested her testimony was corroborated by h his is own admissions and was so conclusive that he was remanded to appear at the next term of the probate court on the afternoon of the tha sama same day sympathies of or the whole town were arous arona edn edin behalf of ofero bro ezra T clark dark and family casually heard beard of the death of bro dro ezra james clark dark their oldest son eon and brother returning from his three years mission to england which according to the best beat information they were able to glean from letters received in the city occurred at albany about two weeks before his death was caused by sunstroke up to this present time they have received no direct information from dio dalo company with w which aich he was trav traveling bling on friday a man by the name of levi good goodwin win who had bad been living in III farmington about a year left the town and his family suddenly and departed to some other place for fear of the III ill indignation dig nation anger and just vengeance of the fathers of some little girls to whom ho he had been acting indecently on saturday a drunken half idiotic man dressed in soldiers sold lers clothes entered the house of a woman living a little north of farmington and as assaulted d her but was kept at bay until she obtained help and had him arrested when he was delivered over to the sheriff Sherif sherlf rhe The he ran away and not stopping stepping when ordered was shot at and wounded slightly under the right arm he has had an examination before Judge Haight and is now in the custody of the Sheri sheriff fr on sunday morning bro oscar schenk a very promising young man of about 19 10 or 20 years yeara of age working for bro thomas hunt was taking his mules to water when one of them got 0 t scared seared and oscar having got the halter haft er very foolishly fastened around his wrist was waa dragged by the mulo on the road about 75 or 80 yards cuttin cutting up his face very badly and bruising lyp his is body in several p places laces but it is thought 10 that he will recover on monday morning yesterday shortly after daylight it was wag rumored that the prisoner who had committed rape had been shot and inquiry elicited the fact that the father of the injured girl who was not at home when the circumstance happened had left his home tome in the night and arrived about daylight at the house where the prisoner vas was was vas being betas kept and watching his hia opportunity when unperceived by the guard grard shot ahot him through the window the ball passed through hib his is head and he 9 never spoke again the man bromley brom then gave himself up to the officer an and is boand bound over to appear at the next term of the probate court word was sent to the wife of the dead prisoner with permission to take the body but she returned a message signifying that she did not want to see him again davis county is harvesting about two thirds of what would have been a very good crop of grain and hay had not the hoppers cut them up bro baights Haigh Haig hta ts farm and others on the shores i of the lake have suffered very severely their crops being nearly a total failure yours very truly artnur ARTHUR STAYN stayner rm OUR OUE LOCALS correspondence 1 E THE OAD IN THE CANONS CA V V no IX BEAR river biver augest august 1 SECOND TUNNEL IN ECHO less lesa than three quarters of a m mile I 1 le above the first and longest tunnel comes another short one which will be about feet through on miller pat dersons ter sons contract they are working at this tunnel also with double shifts keeping the work going night and day between the two tunnels there is a fill 75 feet high and feet long they design using nitroglycerine nitro glycerine in the blasting they may have to do in the tunnels the smaller one being principally rock their contract is a little over seven miles in length and continues to the summit of echo they have work progressing nearly two miles from the tunnels and expect to have more camps organized soon A portion of their contract is not staked out on the eastern end but the work is known to consist principally of cuts and fills heavy lighter until the summit is reached they had about men aud and teams at work when I 1 called at their camp where mr sir miller received ma me very courteously and they wish to hire more but as a large proportion of tl their leir laborers are regular nav vies who have a penchant for striking which nearly equals the efforts of a blacksmith it is difficult to men they have at work any time an hour after an in estimate is made A SMALL STRIKE illustrative of the style in which these 8 gentlemen do things I 1 may relate the following dy day D y before yesterday some sixteen of them having previously got their shock locks together to ether concluded they would go in abia for a strike consequently being determined not to waste time unnecessarily they paid a call of state to mr miller at A his store in camp and informed him of their intention to make him go up in a very few minutes if he give them their time timey with all the dendas ad etceteras and gr greenbacks greenback green denback backs s which they deemed their due not being accustomed to look over books and settle monetary matters on such abrupt demands he secured himself in a log house next door where hla hia arms are kept with some other men on whom he could rely and in a brief parley with the belligerent sixteen gave them the option of retiring and having business done in a businesslike business like manner or of making a small pile of den def defunct nav vies their bodies perforated with bullets his argument was sufficiently convincing to induce them to alter their previously expressed determination they were discharged the east end ot miller pattersons Patter sons contract at the summit of echo is where COS GOS cos CONTRACT begins which runs some thirty seven miles and a half though the distance by stage road is shorter starting from th the summit of echo the line runs down dowa the cast side of porter creek ovea ova an easy grade about two miles when wun it A crosses the creek and runs on the west sid side about a mile here it makes a curva ture a little to the southeast fol foi following lowIn g the creek down and crossing some three thre times when it turns a curvature to the left and keeps on the right bank of th the creek till it runs almost southeast then thel the line crosses and runs on the tho north horti side to nearly the tho junction of porter creek with Y ellow fellow creek at this point the road crosses a hogs back where there will be a mode moderately rawly heavy cut it then crosses yellow creek unto the east side and runs down half a mile then it crosses a point and re crossing takes the east side again running along a distance where leaving yellow creek and taking a sweep around the point of a hill it reaches bear river some twelve miles from the summit of echo As it approaches the river there is some heavy work on a cut around the hill mentioned of over half a mile in length and some thirty eight feet deep through gh a formation of gravelly cement and sandstone althis point men are at work where the line first touches bear river there is a curve in the latter which the road over or an exceedingly heavy cut through the mountain side will be necessary the river runs with much force at the place and has washed away considerable of the bank since the survey purvey was made and the line located major lawrence the engineer who has had the location of a large portion of the line through that country informed me that piling the river at this point would most likely be resorted to as superior to and cheaper than cuttin cutting the mountain for the damhof the torrent against the bank amigh t have to corn compel pel pei pili piling n g after afterwards wards to protect the cut the river being so close to the mountain As quite a distance of the road on this contract was not staked out it cannot bespoken bel bei spoken of with so much certainty und reliability buethe but the tho nature of the ground down porter creek and yellow creek being a beautiful level country will render the con construction st ruction easy from where the contract beins begins be ins to bear river except at the point named the line then keeps down the west bank 0 of f the river for about eleven miles over a very level levei le vel vei but in some places marshy bottom near the point where creel creek empties into bear riven river from the east cast the line will cross and the river will be piled for tho the purpose something over oven soo feet after crossing and striking sulphur creek it k keeps heeps ep s the course of the latter pretty cloie close closely ely nearly to willow creek passing over the stage line about a mil mii mile mlle and a half east of bear river station keeping under the bluffs where the creek runs to 10 the south of the stage line the work along arong hero for gome iome some bome miles will be mode moderately abely tely easy light fills and light cuts predominating and in a number of places the creek will have to be turned out of its bed over which the line will run I 1 found chas SKIm srim S kimball ball bail and david H cannon at work some three miles east of bear river grading at a lengthened but low embankment with a number of teams A few miles further on J Q knowlton has teams and men at work where there is a heavy fill nearly a mile in length and in places twenty five feet high on sulphur creek is a small tunnel feet thi through ough caused by a spur of or the mountain previous to striking willow creek where Noun nans contract is joined by reynolds dowlings dow Bow lings there thera is a heavy cut twenty six feet deep through blate elate rock at the points named is about all the heavy work on this contract the country through which the line passes from bear river to willow creek is undulating with no particular feature to arrest and please the I 1 eye the interminable sage brush covering in most places bluff and level further east on reynolds dowlings dow Bow lings contract the work is said to be heavy but I 1 did not visit it noun nans camp is nearly opposite the tha coal bed on sulphur creek and about two miles from bear river raver station they had about men mea and teams at work but as part of their men were strikers 11 it is difficult to say pay at any given time how bow many men they have employed they are aro anxious to hire workmen from utah and bear unqualified fied nied testimony to the agreeable manner in which they can get along with our people they declare that they would ai discharge every man of the regular navies in their employment who are always dissatisfied and give a great amount i of trouble because of their intemperate tem and riotous habits and aud that thi ehdy would havo have work done by people from salt alb alt lake city if they can cam obtain them miller patterson also want workmen from this territory in preference to the regular railroad hands the little experience they haye have had thus far satisfying them of the superiority of utah in men en as workers while they are sober quiet orderly and do their work without any trouble troubie e giving satisfaction in performing it E LS lm |