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Show THE GUNNISON GAZElTZ Hy Nephl (JlKillnli &. Sou. GUNNISON .... UTAH Damage to the extent of about $1,000 was done at Eureka as a result of a cloudburst. The Fj.nn saloon was flooded tyjtl water, the force of whjrjh. Tori the front doors off their hinges. The new jail at Garfield, constructed by" the county at a cost of about $4,000, wasapproved and cqepted on behai of the count? a few days ago. The structure is of the most modern type. Edward Games was struck and killed by lightning at a sheep camp In the mountains west of Mendon. Two other men were badly burned tit the same time and two dogs were killed. The Utah Indian war veterans will hold their second annual reunion and aampfire at Springville August 20 to E3. An extensive program of events has been prepared for the old Indian fighters. A cloudburst caused damage to foothill foot-hill farms estimated between $4,000 and $5,000 and brought nearly the entire en-tire population of Farmington out to be of assistance to those in the path of the big storm. L. E. Dunning, former sales agent of the Studebaker Vehicle company in Juab county,' was arrested at Lynn last week on a felony warrant cuarg-ing cuarg-ing him with having embezzled $3,000 from his employers. The election at Murray to authorize $60,000 in alternative ten and twenty-year twenty-year four and one-half per cent bonds to establish 'a municipal light and power plant, resulted in a. vote of 256 to 137 in favor of the bonds. An examination will be held in the several counties of the state, Thursday, Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday, August 15, 16 and 17, for teachers desiring cei tificates to teach in the country schools during the year 1912-1913. Caught under a falling wall, Charles Henry Nielsen, a mason, was killed at Richfield, -while seven other men, including in-cluding three of his sons, who fell with the wall, narrowly escaped death. Nielsen was instantly killed. Much loss to sheepmen who graze their stock on the Wasatch reserve in American Fork canyon has accrued this spring and summer through the killing of sheep and lambs by bears. Three of the marauders have recently been killed. According to State Engineer Caleb Tanner, the state will be asked to appropriate ap-propriate $45,000 to finish the proposed propos-ed automobile road to the Grand canyon. can-yon. When the road is complete, there will be a direct route for autos from Salt Lake to the Grand canyon. The commissioners have fixed the tax levy for Cache county at eight mills. With the state tax levy at seven and one-half mills, county eight mills, schools nine and three-fourths mills, and city fifteen mills, the levy in-Logan amount to forty and one-fourth one-fourth mills. Elaborate exercises were held at Ophir on August 1, to celebrate the opening of the St. John & Ophir railroad, rail-road, extending nine miles from St. John station on the Salt Lake route to Ophir. More than 300 strangers were present to join in the general jollification. President Anthon H. Lund of the Mormon church has wired Apostle Anthony An-thony W. Ivins at El Paso, telling him to do everything in his power to help the Mormon refugees from Mexico and stating that the church will stand behind be-hind him in everything ho may do. Two masked men held up the Vincent Vin-cent bar at Midvale Monday night. The robbers secured $S8 from the cash register, $106 from the pocket and a diamond Btud from the shirt front of Wil Use Vincent, proprietor, besides some money from patrons ol Ihe place. |