Show 1NWS FROM NEARBY CITIES AND TOWS YEIVYi TJG1Y HU3IOH AFLOAT AT IIEUER CiTY A Digit Water Canal IB Taltcd of social Event at Lojrau Warnlnc 10 blicatllcn rested In YJomlng There is a very ugly rumor afloat and it is generally believed I is said that there is a manand his own daughter living liv-ing in this county as husband and wife and raisins a family If this bo true then the guilty parties should be punished pun-ished as they deserve It Is a black eye to the whole community to allow such crimes to go unnoticed and unpunished But if it is not true then this scandal should be stopped and those who circulate circul-ate such stories punished Wasatch Wave At last steps are being taken to forma form-a company to bring out high water canal The following committee has been appointed io make an estimate of the cost and to draft articles of agreement A good many persons have signed an agreement to take stock in the company IE the scheme works or to pay their proportion of the expense of the preliminary pre-liminary work should the scheme fail There is no reason why the canal should not be built TVafiatch Wave Lieutenant and 7 > Irs < Stjer entertained the Whilst club on the evening of Wash ingtons birth anniversary An elegant supper was served and the favorite game was indulged till quitting time The first prize for ladies was taken home by Mrs Shilling and Mr Walters proved the other champion It was a delightful party Logan Journal Hyrum vas visited last Friday evening even-ing by a number of young people from Logan and a few from Providence and Millvilie The occasion was a grand character costume party In which but a few oC the Hyrum people took part Robbie Greene and his partner Miss Edith Reese took first prizes for best representation There were a number of well gotten up characters Logan Journal OUR EASTERJC XEIGHUOUS On Friday Jack Ervay recorder of the Rattlesnake Mining district near Casper shot and seriously wounded George E Howard and William Kimberly and was in turn shot by the former Howard anti Kimberly arc sheepmen and a feud started over herding sheep on the open range adjacent to Ervavs ranch The sheep camp was pitched about three miles west of Ervaya pasture and after a dispute the shooting began Kiniber hrs chances of recovery are slight Hoxyards and Ervays wounds are not serious Cheyenne Leader A scarlet fever epidemic has been raging rag-ing III Denver and the quarantine notices are quite numerous down there The grip and peritonitis seem to be the prevailing kinds of ailments at Laramie So many of the university pupils and teachers were sick not long since as to Interfere considerably with the regular work of the institution A letter was received this morning by D C Abrams for the Albany county public library which Tvas on the steamship steam-ship Elbe when it sank The same kind of a letter was received by the university librarian Miss Hebard both letters beIng be-Ing from a book dealer in Bremen Germany Ger-many The postal officials made the following fol-lowing endorsement in German on the envelope Geborgen aus des Postlad ung des untergangenen Dampfers Elbe Postamt Bremen Rescued from the postal shipment of the sunken steamship steam-ship Elbe Post station Bremen It will be remembered that the press dispatches stated that some sacks of mail were found floating on the ocean and these letters were among the lot Boomerang A gentleman who owns a ranch in the vicinity of Laramie Informs the Boomo rang that while out on a trip in the country near Summit on Horse creek a few days ago he came across a pane pinned to a board which bore the fol lowing notice Sheepmen Keep off these ranges Signed SALT PETBB The man saw several notices at different dif-ferent points on the plains and since his h-is a sheep owner was naturally interested interest-ed in the matter |