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Show ? r T RU T H SPORTING GOSSIP. PURELY PERSONAL. It begins to look as if the proposition to form an interstate baseball league to include Utah, Idaho and Montana, has at last taken definite shape and that the three States will be on one circuit the coming season. The idea has been advanced at the beginning of each year for several years past. Ted Sullivan had the thing all fixed up on papqr here two years ago, but failed to get the necThis year, however, essary backing. the matter has taken definite shape. At a meeting held in Butte last week the initial steps to the organization of the league were taken and officers chosen. The league will probably be known as the Intermountain Baseball league, and will be an independent organization. J. P. Wrathall of Grantsvllle was in the city the early part of this week. State Representative John L. Bench of Fairview was a Salt Lake visitor Monday and Tuesday. George A. Black, formerly Territorial Secretary of Utah, now a resident of Spokane, is visiting friends in Salt Lake. Senator Kearns will return from Washington to spend Christmas at OIL DEVELOPMENT. -- t locations of oil Those who have made claims on Union Pacific unpatented to have lands in Wyoming are .likely Is gettrouble. The railroad company ,1 3 the locations, claimting ready to fight can be held as oil land ing that no land until it produces oil in paying quantieufli-rieties surface Indications not being claim The company will also lay by virtue of to ownership of the land and Government the to it by the grant having paid company the of because of the taxes on it since 1886. The object the developto not is prevent company 4 nt ; ment of the oil industry, but it wants offito sell the land instead of, as the C. Senators it away. cers say, givink D Clark of Wyoming, Senator Kearns on the and others have located claims C. A. Black and Pacific grants Union of Omaha, land agent of the Union Pacific, is looking the matter up with a D view of filing contests. K The Secretary of State has received a copy of the articles of incorporation of the El Capitan Oil company of Ogden, which is capitalized at $500,000, in $1 shares. The directors are Allen McGuire, president; M. S. Peysert, Horace S. Foster, secretary; W. Fred Chambers, treasurer; J. S. K. Niner, T. D. Johnson, S. E. Gordon, - 5 Six towns will be represented, Salt Lake, Ogden, Pocatello, Butte, Great Falls and Helena. At .the Butte meet- ing Butte was represented by J. R. Wharton and J. J. McClosky; Helena by W. E. Phillips; Great Falls by John S. Athey; Salt Lake by J. C. Leary; Ogden by W. J. Shealy, and Pocatello by W. E. Trapp. John S. Critchlow of Salt Lake, manager of last seasons La- vice-preside- nt; goon team and a well-know- n supporter of the national game, was honored with election as president of the new league. Sewell Davis of Butte was made and William Muth of Helena S. Smith, C. E. Fisher, C. H. Hussey Another meeting was held will secretary. C. The Weaver. W. and company in Salt Lake Solitude and Lehi the Thursday to arrange furPhil, develop ther details of the organization, such as groups of mining claims in Grand counthe deposit of $500 forfeit by each club ty. and providing a 10 per cent sinking fund. Rev. E. E. Mork, to whose persevering efforts the people of Sanpete county The new league seems to have effectare indebted for means with which to carry out an undertaking that should ually stopped the talk of a Colorado-Uta- h be followed by an oil boom in that loleague. Many are inclined to facality, came up from the south again vor the Montana cities over those of yesterday not a little exultant over the outlook down there. His crowd, which Colorado. The Montana jump will not was recently joined by Hon. John E. be so long, Pocatello making a conveDuBois of Pennsylvania, has acquired nient stopping-ove-r place, and the no less than a dozen locations upon the schedule will be so arranged that a seshales and, with the money ries of games will be played at each with which to proceed with systematic end of the line, permitting the Montana development at their command, the teams to spend a week in Utah and the opening up of the most interesting zone Utah teams a week in Montana each has bgun. To that end the company trip, Pocatello dates being played bewill drive a tunnel into the ledge which tween, while Pocatello can get a series measures as much as forty feet between at each end of the line when away from walls, while the shales thus far show home. an average of 40 per cent oil that experts claim has no superior as a lubricant. With this tunnel in and the. rock The idea takes well in Utah, and there to justify it opened up, the company is no doubt that teams will be will install an plant for the put in the field strong both Lake and Salt by purpose of sweating out the lubricant, the gas which is generated by this pro- Ogden. Billy Trapp can be relied upon cess to be made to furnish the fuel to to do the right thing in Pocatello, and be used in the operation of the main the of Montana professional history plant. That the undertaking will suc- teams is that expense has been the last ceed, Rev. Mork says there is not a considered when up thing making doubt whatever, and he expects, with teams. The season will open probably the of Mr. DuBois and his 1st and close October 1st. friends, to found an industry in San- May pete county that cannot help but benefit the entire State. The shales have been A. W. Morse of Cisco was in Salt very extensively located in the region, Lake of the week. He says the visitor, and to the prospector was a the early part witness in a case on trial in the who has neglected his opportunity to stake off a group not many Inducements Federal court. remain in the Territory. Tribune. vice-preside- nt Ex-Ci- ty home. H. O. Young has returned from a Recorder Ray Naylor and -- Mrs. Naylor have returned, after eighteen months spent in Germany on a mission. P. William" of the Century mine at Park valley is visiting in Salt Lake. Robert Clyde of Wasatch, Sheriff at that place, is in the city on business. E. J. Kearhes of Gunnison, a well-kno- wn sheep raiser, was a Salt Lake visitor .Wednesday. A. Van Patten of the Carbonate Gem mine was in from Ogden on a business trip Wednesday. H. Carlisle of Kansas City, a large property owner at Thompsons Springs, is visitiiur in Salt Lake City. F. A. Druehl received a telegram Tuesday announcing th$ critical illness of his mother at- Chicago, and left for her bedside Wednesday. She is 92 years of age and there are slight hopes of her recovering. Hon. A. H. Tarbet and Mrs. Tarbet have gone east for a trip. A. S. Oongdon of Ogden was a Salt Lake City visitor Thursday. n N. B. Whitaker, the sheepman, has returned from a visit to California. Henry Wadsworth Syers of Pacific Grove, Cal., has joined the business staff of the Kenyon hotel. Mrs. M. B. Armstrong of Deeth, Nev., arrived in the city Thursday to join her husband, who has been here several days as a witness in litigation involving the Oregon Short Line. . fif- teen months mission in Norway. H. G. Ballard of Thompsons Springs was in the city Monday and Tuesday. Attorney J. W. N. Whltecotton of Provo was in Salt Lake Tuesday on business. H. W. Joslyn of Pocatello was a visitor in Salt Lake Tuesday. Mrs. T. D. Sullivan of Eureka was in Salt Lake Monday and Tuesday. County Attorney J. N. Corbin of Grand county was in Salt Lake on legal business Tuesday. Mrs. G. S. Verbryck, wife of Dr. Verb-rychas arrived from Cambria, Wyo., to join her husband, who has located in Salt Lake. Charles M. Whitlaw of the Northwestern Sampling Works at Wallace, Ida., was a business visitor to Salt Lake on Mondav. - well-know- k, oil-beari- ng Vi 1! I! up-to-d- I a 3 ! ate -- Boring operations on the San Rafael companys property in Emery county are going forward with all the expedition possible. Reports to the effect that boring was to cease soon are entirely unfounded. Representative Albert Stevens spent Saturday here. He was going to Salt Lake to have some samples of gummed tested. He thought It was. oil IS snale, and many Wayne county people are very hopeful of finding some gush-e- r over in that county. rtfIr- Stevens, Willis E. Robison and otner citizens of Wayne county were into the discoveries made 0 i00ngCurfew some months ago 'rih a , a of the mineral ter strtch miles long south of Fruita and the heac pitai wash. Judging from th the ail shale would be some 50( $:ata enlath the surface of the road from Frulta to the head of th 5SfSng wasn. Experts who have examined the rock since Mr. Stevens went to Salt Lake pronounce the tar excellent grade m asphaltum similaran to that found near Fort Duchesne. Richfield Reaper. - i OFFERS CHOICE OF 3-FA- ST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY- -3 AND Three Distinct Scenic Routes. ORDINARY SLEEPING CARS PULLMAN PALACE AND TO Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, WITHOUT CHANGE. FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS. A PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS, PERFECT DINING CAR SERVICE. For rate, folders, etc., inquire of nearest Ticket Agent specifying the Rio Gbavsb Routs, or write GEO. W. HEINTZ, Asst. General Passenger Agent, Salt Lake City. |