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Show Evan Stephens, of Salt Lake City, is the winner of the prize for the best musio to the Pioneer ode, composed by H. G. Whitney, also of Salt Lake City. Ground has been donated by the Salt Lake City Council, at the intersection of Main and South Temple sts., on whieh to erect the Brigham Young Statue. Messrs Young and Williams have reported to the Nephi Republic that a boulder of quartz has been found at the head of Santaquin canyon that assays $40,200 to the ton. Tar-ties Tar-ties are now looking for the ledge from which it was broken off. On tho night of June 15, between 10 and 11 p. m., earthquakes visited visit-ed the Southern part of Mexico, j froal Acapulco to Vera Cms. They were especially violent in the town of San Marcos, stale of Puebla, where tho shocks wore both vertical nnd horizontal and were nccomphied by subterranean rumblings. The movement was 35 seconds, followed later by another an-other chock lasting ten seconds. Acapulco reports -a shock botlr vertical and- horizontal, preceded by loud noises under, ground. ; Curiously-enough the movement , was experienced across the whole , country at about the same time,' the hour reported differing only a j few seconds. No damago is noted, but there is considerable alarm. The town of Fcchimilic, near tho city of Oaxaca was inundated suddenly several persons being drowned. Rains are very heavy in tlmt regiou. |