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Show 1 " ' FOUI STATES. ruh. ! v- r, : -: PROVO: Firs Chief George n- BB ' the Provo Fire department has resigned and Mayor Taylor has presented to the Council the name of Joseph Loveless as his -successor. There has been friction between the Council and the Fire department depart-ment for some time. PROVO: Sheriff Harmon returned last ntght from Oreron bringing back Joseph Davis, who eseuped from the Utah county coun-ty Jail In February. Davis was awaiting trial on the charge of breaking into a box car and stealing some clothing. RICHFIELD: Jacob Jacobsen of Richfield Rich-field was arrested in Mantl yesterday upon up-on complaint of Lewis Mlckelsen of Venice. Ven-ice. Sevier county, charging Jacobsen with stealing two head of cattle while driving a herd of about seventy-five head to this city for the purpose of shipping them to Idaho, where Jacobsen intends to make his home. PROVO: A very small vote was polled In Provo yesterday in the special election held to vote on a special school tax levy of Z mills for two years for building purposes, but the proposition met with a heavy defeat. The vote was 6t for, -334 against. MANTI: During the past week marriage mar-riage licenses were Issued to the following follow-ing persons: George Roberts and Maria C Petersen, both of Spring City. This couple were married at the courthouse by County Coun-ty Clerk Eliason. LOGAN:. The petition, of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company for a franchise to extend Us line to Mendon. Cache Junction, Peterboro; Newton and Clarkston was granted by the Cache County Commissioners, yesterday and the line will be put up at once. Its completion comple-tion will bring practically &11 the towns of the county into telephonic communication communi-cation with the intermountaln country. PROVO: The following additional Jurors for the April term of the Fourth District court were drawn last night: Zeonos W. Tiffany. Rudolph E. Hunter. August Swenson. Thomas Snelson, W. B. Hlggin-son. Hlggin-son. George 8. McKensle, James O. Bullock. Bul-lock. Willard J. Shipley, Barry Wride, Owen Openshaw. MT. PLEASANT: The City Council of Mt. Pleasant last night accepted the proposition prop-osition of Messrs. Kelsey and Doremus to do the surveying for the waterworks system sys-tem and submit bill of costs for labor, piping, etc 8PRINGVILLE: Some of the farmers have started to put in their beets. There are about 90 acres of beets contracted for In Springvllle and Mapleton and the prospect for a crop is very fine. PR.OVO: The April term of the Fourth District court in Provo opened yesterday. The Jurors summoned appeared with the exception of Thomas Kelley of American Fork, who was fined $20 for contempt. A i special venire' for ten Jurors was ordered, returnable forthwith. - Idaho. POCATELLO: George Ferguson and Frank Barrett, two men who areallegeO to have robbed the postofflce at Mont-pelier Mont-pelier on last Thanksgiving night, were today convicted In the Federal court on two i counts one of breaking into th building containing the United States mall. They will be sentenced at the end of the term. The maximum penalty Is ten years each. BOISE: E. W. Johnson of Boise, who has just returned from Joplln. Mo., wheru he organized the combination on the Profile creek properties, is very much pleased with the result of his trip. The people who have taken hold of the property prop-erty are men of means and, moreover, they are miners; they are men who know what a mine Is and what mining Involves. They are prepared to develop the property proper-ty thoroughly. NAMPA: The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company has moved its office at Nampa into quarters especially fitted up for it in the basement of the Dewey Palace hotel. John Goul. formerly of Boise, Is manager of the Bell company's exchange at Nampa, and also has charge of the exchanges at Caldwell and - Em. mett. , Wyoming. RAWLINS: The city election in Rawlins Raw-lins yesterday resulted in a victory for the Democratic candidates. There were 673 votes cast. 3 of which were straight Democratic and 206 were straight Repubv lican. SHERIDAN: Claude Fairbanks and Miss Sadie RobinBon, who eloped from the ranch of the girl's father south of Sheridan Sheri-dan a week ago, have been arrested at Hot Springs, Weston county, and will bo brought back by the Sheriff. They were 1 traveling through the country on horseback, horse-back, the young woman wearing man's dress. CHEYENNE: Smallpox has appeared in the grading camps east of Cheyenn and 100 men have been exposed to the disease. dis-ease. The State and local health authorities, authori-ties, co-operating, took charge of the situation situ-ation yesterday, and all those who wero exposed to the Infection were quarantined. quaran-tined. There are two grading camps within three miles of the city, each containing con-taining several hundred workmen, and a smallpox epidemic would be a serious thing for Cheyenne. Nevada. RENO: A fire destroyed the shaft-house shaft-house of the Pyramid Mining and Milling company's property at Pyramid, yesterday, yester-day, resulting in the loss of one life and probably two, and damage to the company com-pany of about J10U). The cause of the catastrophe ca-tastrophe Is' as yet unknown. VIRGINIA CITY: R. A.- Dallon. who returned to hie home In Virginia City yesterday yes-terday after a trip to Alaska, expects to organise a local company to develop his gold properties In the Klondike. |