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Show AN ASSIGNMENT. Tht Provo Lumber Mr, and Bdy. Co. Forced to Assign With AsetB Thrice the Value of Their Liabilities" Under authority of resolutions passed today by the board of directors, John C. Graham, president, and W. II. Dusenberrv, secretary, of the P. L. M. & B company attached their signa. Itures to afeipninent papers. Joeiah W. Clnff is named as assignee and the assetB include the block or Kiound on which the mills, yards and business offices of the company are situated, sit-uated, all machinery, stock of goods, bills and accounts receivable, totaling in value at lowest possible estimate 801,500.(10. The liabilities, less interest on notes, are as follows: A. O. Smoot $15,000 00 David Eccles 7,315 04 King lliver L Co 1,509 60 North Pacific L. Go 701 95 Verde Mill Co 718 53 Ella Morris 8G 30 Ella8nixt 113 35 Z C. M, 1 11 47 Farview Co-op 29 17 Meno Trope 1,200 00 C. A. Hooper & Co 17 90 Black Butte Mn? Co 46 25 Nephi PI aster Co...." 2 50 S. A. Gibba & Co 166 33 $26,978 39 David Eccles is made the only pre ferred creditor. A. O Smoot and Meno Trope are well secured by mortgages. mort-gages. Inability to collect is the cause of the assignement. The book accounts due alone will total $25,000 not including that f4,300 due from the asylum and to pay which the last legislature tailed to appropriate money. The oilla receivable receiva-ble were some time since assigned to A. 0. Smoot as additional security to him. Titekk can now be no doubt about it, Mr. Cleveland wiil sign the seie-I seie-I n;orage bill. His message to the New I York chamber of commerce indicates this plainly, we think. Ak experienced gardner wishes a few more gardens to take care of, aud will do the work upon very reasonable terms. lie is also a good florist. Apply Ap-ply to Carl Schemensky at Havercamp & Co's office. Dr. LaVake received a very pressing invitation to go and hold revival meetings meet-ings at the lliff M. E. church at Salt Lake city, commencing next Monday night. The 'doctor wiil depart for this work on Monday mornine next, Ligb the barber asks DispATCn readers for pationage today. Lige's reputation as an expert tonBorial artist ar-tist should draw him big business. No barber shaving today can give one an easier shave than can Lige. "March to search" is the ol-l adage. It searches out; any weakness of the system, resulting from impure blood. Those who use Ayer's Sareaparilla find March no more searching or even disagreeable dis-agreeable than any other month, This medicine is a wonderful invigor-ator. invigor-ator. Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills, Bil-iousnese. Bil-iousnese. Jaundice, Indigestion, Sick Headache. "Jockey" Nelson, proprietor of the Provo Bus and Transfer company, has a few words to eay to Dispatch readers. read-ers. When you want to catch a train or go from one part of ths city to another, or take a ride anvwhere, leave orders at the Hotel Roberts or call up telephone No. 4. Don't forget that "Truthful James" drives the bus. This combination combina-tion will give the very best of service. The bos are to be relied upon. Give them your orders Messrs. Browning Brothers, the well known armorers of Salt Lake, are found in the advertising columns of The Dispatch today. They introduce the World's fair prize winner bicycle, a wheel that is called the "Rambler" and that carried off all the prizes, medals, med-als, diplomas, and ribbons that were awarded. Tin wheel is certainly a beauty in appearance. It weighs only about twenty-five pounds and still if most strong and durable. Mr. R. K. Thomas of Salt Lake city, flings his conference banner to the breeze through the columns of today'? Dispatch. Mr. Thomas has been well and favorably known iu Utah since the early 60's. He came here to fill a position posi-tion as elerk in Walker Brothers store of Salt Lake, aud soon by sheer grit and perseverance attained the chief clerksbip and subsequently ventured in the commercial sea himself. His popularity pop-ularity was soon manifest in the prosperous pros-perous run of business that ensued and today R. K. Thomas is known over the whole territory, has a branch in Logan and considerable business property in Provo. His Salt Lake house is filled with an elegant stock of ladies and children's supplies, that cover all de- Mrs. Belle McAdams on Tuesday evening last was,the recipient of a surprising sur-prising surprise by a number of her friends. About 8 o'clock the iollowine j company stormed her fort, took pas-session pas-session and spent a jolly evening m eiting, dancing, singing and general good cheer: Mr. and Mrs. Pyne, Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. W. Rawlings, Mr.and Mrs.W.R H.Pax-man H.Pax-man Mr. and Mrs. O- B Young.Mr.and Mrs. J, R. Twelves, Mrs. E. A, Wil son, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Boshard, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Giles, Mr. and Mrs. Duke, Mr. Williams, Misses Victoria Baxter, Polly Taylor, Rose Young, Lizzie Twelves, and Mr. W. D, Roberts Jr. and Wells Robertson, Last night between 9 and 10 o'clock a bouse belonging to Gecrge Peay situ ated west Or LOWU Deai iuc iam caught fire in the ceiling near the chimney. The cause of the fire was burning soot escaping from a defective flue. A hole was cut through the roof and the fire extinguished before much damage waB done, by the Robbins boya who happened to be at the place. The blaze was seen from town here, and an alarm sent in. Had the roads beeD good, the department could not havp gotten to the fire with the engine and hise in time to have rendered any services. ser-vices. As it was, the horses gave out before half the distance between town and the fire was coverea. I The Proyo company of the Utah National Guards have had their enthusiasm en-thusiasm dampened just a little, but they are going ahead just the same. The cause of their disappointment was the receipt of a letter today from Ad jutant General Ottinger, by H. S. Mc-G.aw, Mc-G.aw, stating that the boys would have to buy their own costumes. Uncle Sam w'ill furnish arms in July or August Aug-ust and Governor WeEt will intercede with the city council and if possible prevail upon mat Doay to euypij mo company with drilling quarters. There has been no session of the First District court this week, but preparations for the trial of the great Van Patton mnrder case, which begins oi Monday morning, have been and are being prosecuted vigorously by tne attorneys and invested parties on both sides. This promises to be a most interesting and sensational case, not alone from the fact that some of the evidence will tend to connect the crime of poisoning old man Nelsen with others than Mrs. Van Patton, but because be-cause of the fact that it is the first case of murder by poisoning that has ever been tried in Utah and Mrs. Van Patton Pat-ton will be the first woman who has ever been tried for her life inUtah. |