Show LAYTON LINES andrew watt is steadily improving in health mr and mrs peacock of manti tip were in town during conference pour four tramps infested the town for several days last week and relieved some of the heavily laden clothes lines unbeknown to the owners of several articles of clochin clothing they were drunk most of the time one night one of the gang attempted to hold up mr iia ramsey amsey of kaysville Kays ville who works here ashe as he was goll going ig home from work the tramp got in front of ram ramseys horse and told ramsey that he wanted money but the blacksmith said be had seen lots of men in that fix f ix and promptly told him that he did not have any money to give away to be used for buying whiskey mr ramsey showed fir fight lit which caused the tramp to relinquish his demand and then the 11 smith proceeded on home constable watt finally made them leave town H R adams son of hyrum adams who went to canada last spring 7 returned home last week ed phillips came up from arizona last week his son jesse is also here and will start on a mission in the near future the hodson plow attachment is beginning to sell pretty well one or two are sent off on the train to various points in the state each day quite a number of our people attended conference in salt lake on sunday om oa bunday the 2nd and instant lightning knocked down and chopped up about thirty five yards of the wire of the deseret telegraph co s line about a mile and a half south of the hooper station the wire was cut into pieces from a half inch to several feet in length and some of the pieces were found sticking upright in the ground these were melted at the end that was in the ground forming a bulk of fused matter in other instances t two wo pieces had come in contact at the instant of the breakie breaking 0 up and these were firmly welded together another stran strange t e fact is that none of the pieces of wire were twisted out of shape but all were straight as if they had beo bee clipped off by means of nippers the ends of all of them however were slightly fused nearly a column account is given of it in the deseret news of oct ath some of the wire was taken to dr talmage dge of the university who fully explained the electrical phenomena mrs sandall mother of thomas sandall was buried on oil sunday da y the funeral services being 11 held at thomas residence at 2 p 4 m an elder from ogden spoke the funeral sermon she had reached the good old age of seventy five years and six months deceased was an old time resident here and much respected spec ted her husband is also getting 0 very feeble elders joseph ellison heads and lischman went to salt lake on tuesday to be set appart as missionaries for the manitoba mission they will go by way of chica chicago go joseph cotterell of farmington is teaching the school in the sixteenth district the infant child of mr and mrs james ell ellison ison that has been ai ailing 11 ng for two or three months does not seem to improve any daniel H nalder joseph and james whitesides started to school in salt lake on monday elder matthiason of george town idaho called on mr and mrs wm win N nalder the first of the week E elder ider matthiason and their son francis wore were traveling companions for quite a along on time ho he was away from home twenty two months he says that elder nalder has been promoted to conference president james flint and james beesley expect to berve for idaho this week |