Show NEWS FROM NEARBY TOWNS Strange Story Told by William R May SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE TWO YOUNG MEN GO OUT OX A PROSPECTING TOUU One Return and Says Ills Companion Compan-ion Left Him Because ol a Quarrel Quar-rel Tells Many Stories anti Finally Fin-ally Leaves Totvn The Citizens Orfwiiize a Searching Party Vliich Will Go Ont lOIn Snecial to The Herald NEPHI April 3On the 27th of January Jan-uary of the present year a young man by the name of Fred Farmer left herein here-in company with William R May both j of Nephi Their intention was to make j a prospecting trip along the Colorado river May has returned tome and claims that his partner Farmer deserted de-serted him after a quarrel Farmers wife and mother have received re-ceived three letters from him since he left town One was date St George Feb 27 another St Thom New Feb 1 and the last one was written on the Colorado river near Scanlans Ferry and was dated Feb 16 Since then they have received no word from him The last letter was written the day after his arrival on the river and in It he said that he and his companion were preparing to commence prospecting prospect-ing May professes to be a mind reader and since his return to this city he 1 has told several tales about Farmer among others that he intended to desert de-sert his family and that is why the prospecting trip was planned He said he did not know it at the time but became convinced of i later May arcused public indignation by his actions ac-tions and now he too has disappeared disappear-ed His relatives or those appealed to say that he has gone on a prospecting pros-pecting trip up the Sevier Farmers reputation while a resident of this place has always been of the bet and he was noted as a devoted husband and a loving father and ago a-go son to his widowed mother There were those who darkly hinted that May had made away with Far and yesterday Booth call mer esteray Mayor cal jed j-ed a meeting of the citizens of the city j I was held in the Foote opera house and there was a very large number present Mayor Booth was made chairman chair-man and T C Winn secretary The chairman stated the object of the meeting which was to take into consideration the advisability of sending send-ing out a searching party and also to raise the means to defray the expenses After some discussion a committee of the four was appointed to canvass town for subscriptions As a < result the sum of 175 was raised William Lee the old prospector and miner who will be in charge of the party and the volunteers who go out to find the remains re-mains of Farmer or discover his whereabouts where-abouts will leave the city tomorrow While there are very many rumors afloat The Herald correspondent at I this time does not drorp go further than to say that the circumstances are very suspicious to say the lest and thare is not a soul in town but will anxiously await the return of the searching party themembers of which will leave no stone unturned to find the wi exact reason for the peculiar disappearance disap-pearance of young Farmer His relatives are almost insane with grief and it has been many years since Nephi was so thoroughly stirred up over any circumstance In the Great Camp PARK CITY April 3Work at the Silver King was resumed last night at Siver 11 afte a temporary layoff of 1 p m temporar I four days on account of the bad roads The West Daly is reported by its foreman I fore-man as running along smoothly with j I the exception of a scarcity of coal as i only a three days supply is now at I the mine However an effort will be I made this morning to have the teams I haul coal to the mine The West Daly I concentrator is at present working one I BhK Later on when the water suppy can be increased another shift will be put on In Park City this week the Diamond Gold and Silver Mining company was organized Dr G D Gregor president presi-dent John P Nimmo vicepresident and manager Adam Lichter secretary secre-tary Dr K A Kjos treasurer and I J W Caine superintendent The property pro-perty consists of the Tessora and independent In-dependent claims partially developed in the Tintic mining district Following are the ore shipments from the Mackintosh sampler for the past week Silver King 141910 Siver 14910 Anchor concentrates103430 Ancljor first class 87260 kncim frst cass Varcoc concentrates 69410 Stafford concentrates 61880 Total pounds 865890 The Ontario mill has shipped thirty three bars of base bullion this week snore to follow early next week The Marsac has made its regular shipments ship-ments with more to follow next week The city council met this week and approved the regular monthly pay rolls of city officers streets buildings and lights Bills amounting to 130958 was parsed Treasurer J H Deming re ported a cash balance on hand of 10 83529 Recorder F W Hoyt reported a balance of 1080669 The marshal reported fortyfour arrests for the month of February 434 being collected for fines City sexton reporte three deaths and nine births The following liquor licenses were granted for the quarter ending June 30 1896 1 S Assheim Mercantile company Shields Bros Riley Towey F C Thompson Bates McPhee P J Donovan Albert Al-bert E Becker Pat Clark Son Mc Polln Gallagher John McQueeney Adam Leiohter W H Veale and M C Lawrence PERSONALS John L Weber our exsheriff and city marshal has resigned the foremanship fore-manship of the Woodside mine to be succeeded by Peter Kinney an old time practical miner Mr Weber will take a needed vacation to visit his old home at Galena Illinois and will not return until about the 1st of May Mr Webers many friends wish him a I pleasant journey Max Joseph a bright young man arrived in Park City from New York yesterday the brother of popular Dick Mr Joseph will make Park City his home and will be with the M S Ascheim Mercantile company Mrs A B Simmons and children went to the metropolis yesterday afternoon after-noon to spend a few days with friends Mrs Louis Reich and children journeyed to the temple city yesterday afternoon for rest and recreation The Utah Central has put on another coach for the convenience of conference confer-ence travel Both coaches were comfortably com-fortably filled yesterday afternoon A rate of 250 for the round trip being made good until the 15th hist ileyer S Aschelm the senior member mem-ber of the mercantile house of that name returned to Park City this mornln from New Yorky after an i v < 1 absence of six months looking and feeling well I W C Hen a business man of Freeport Free-port Illinois Is sojourning in Park City for a few days looking over our bonanzas W V Rice came up this morning from the metropolis to remain a day or two I Solon Spiro will Journey to Salt Lake tomorrow to attend > the meeting of the Democratic state committee of whldh he is a member Thomas Orr the popular clothing man with the Ascheim company will go to the metropolis to spend conference confer-ence week there and incidentally pay his respects to friends and tithing Provo PnraRTmpliH PROVO April 3The district court oonvened this morning and Judge Mc Carty disposed of the following business busi-ness and adjourned till April 20 R C Hobertson VS John Nelson motion mo-tion for new trial argued and overruled over-ruled ruledL Johnson Co vs Tootle Hosea Co judgment for plaintiff In the matter of the estate of Lyman Kepples deceased order appointing appraisers of real estate Oliver Slade vs Albert Hayes et al motion for new trial argued and overruled over-ruled In the matter of the estate of A G Conover order made confirming I report of commissioners In the matter of the estate and guardianship guar-dianship of William and Margaret j Craig notice of publication of due and sufficient citation filed hearing set for April 20 f In the matter of the estate of Phoebe i Chipman deceased order that petition I for sale of real estate be withdrawn I and new one filed NEW SUITS FILED I Mary E McEwan has begun suit for divorce from Isaac H McEwan The complaint states that plaintiff and j I < defendant were married at Provo in I November 1890 and for more than two years defendant has failed t furnish the necessaries of life to plaintiff therefore causing her to earn her own living and depend on charity PERSONALS Sheriff P C Burrison of Emery county is a Garden City visitor Attorney Sam A King took a run I up to the metropolis today to be gone a day or two I any one should ask you why Professor I Pro-fessor B S Hinckley looks so happy tell them it is a girl and came yesterday yester-day All concerned doing well even Dry is recovering from the shock The funeral services over the remains of Mrs Conover will be held tomorrow afternoon in the Third ward meetinghouse meeting-house Will Kenner an old time Provo printer print-er and now editor of the New Era published at Preston Ida is a Garden City visitor Claudie L Simmons daughter of Dr Simmons of this city has gone to Ogden Og-den to attend the Sacred Heart academy acad-emy SprliisrvlIIe Splinters Miss Allison and George Drury attended at-tended the Christian Endeavor convention conven-tion as delegates from here Miss Belle Cole who is attending the Hungerford academy is visiting her uncle John McVicker this week Several young men from heijo are competitors for the vacant naval cadetship ca-detship There Is something of a mining excitement ex-citement hereabouts Goldbearing ore has been discovered on the mountain northeast of the town Many claims have been staked out and every man that is to say every man who knbws a piece of ore f om a neshanic potato has already made his fortune There are some promising ccal claimsstak ed < p japs George Noble an old prospector has made a promising location three miles from here which runs fair in the yellow yel-low metal He is endeavoring to incorporate incor-porate a company that can work it without selling any interest t outsiders outsid-ers John S Boyer is also interested in this location locaton Rolla T Marshall an old veteran has invented a neat contrivance for an eight day clock jvhlch will sound an alarm before running down also the day before running down a United States flag will be raised upon the dial indicating that winding is necessary neces-sary He has taken measures for se Interested curing a patent Several others are L J Whitney has been exhibiting some specimens of gold and silver bering ore which run up as high as S40CO a ton The properties are located lo-cated in Wyoming and belong to what is known as the Utah Gold Mining company of Colorado and Wyoming James Whitehead is adding new machinery ma-chinery to his woolen mills which are located southwest of town The Home Dramatic under the man appment of Frank Sheridan repeat the Silver Lining tonight This play takes Ayell here The Republican coun ty convention met at Springville and went through a form which was entirely unnecessary All the precincts having chosen their members before hand therefore there was not the usual row as anticipated antcipated I The only J C Graham was made conspicuous vC Ss cor i spicuous bv a bombastic speech in which he denounced almost everything under the sun as a fraud except Republicanism Re-publicanism Cedar City Chips Things are moving slowly in our little lit-tle community Next thing of te thlnl importance Import-ance to the milennium to the people of southern Utah is the building of a railroad and proposed routes are the general subjects of discussion Very little snow has fallen this year and the prospects for farmers are slim The roads have been dry and dusty all winter A new mercantile establishment under un-der the supervision of T A Thorley has made its appearance on Main street close by the new saloon Judging by the increased number of stores business busi-ness Is gaining People are beginning to discuss the issues of the coming campaign We think the thlnjr for Democrats to do is to make the effort of their life this fall for victory The female vote may turn the tide and the success of this election will make a permanent impression impres-sion upon elections in our state We I believe in staying with the silver wing of our party provided there is a split on that issue that bimetallism is beyond all doubt a principle of pure Democracy that it Is a measure for the masses against the classes and justice which always triumphs in the end will one day settle this great question ques-tion forever Wlllard Whispers WILLARD CITY Utah April 3 i Last night burglars entered the general gen-eral merchandise store of C Harding Co by breaking a window in the rear of the building The money drawers were broken > open but as the cash had all < been removed re-moved the night previously with the exception of about a dollar in small change the intruder took about 25 in scrip or due bills on the store as a substitute for money A number of pairs of shoes were taken a quantity of underwear a bolt of cashmere cloth a pair of blankets and a number of minor articles No clue has yet been obtained of the guilty party or parties There are prospects of the Southern Pacific Railroad company building an office and station at this place A representative rep-resentative of the company will be here tomorrow to investigate and determine de-termine If there Is sufficient business to Justify the expense As we ship a great deal of produce west every year to points in Nevada and California we trust that we may soon have the taeilltiesiaontemplated by4heippany e and our trade will materially increase in-crease Itrigliam City BitS BRIGHAM CITY April 3Most Of the people hereabouts are busy as bees preparing their gardens orchards and farms and setting ready to go to the Salt Lake conference A considerable acreage of new land on the hillside southeast of Brigham is being broken up this spring and the sagebrush which has occupied this land for years almost without molestation is being dug up and consigned to the flames In a few months these new tracts will take on a green covering of lucern grain or ocher profitable vegetation vegeta-tion The productiveness of even our apparently lifeless and Stony hills is quite wonderful They yield immense crops of grain when irrigated and two good crops of lucern without irrigation irriga-tion It looks as if before very many years elapse farming and gardening in Utah will be carried almost to the hilltops Material is still being hauled to the tabernacle grounds to be used in its reconstruction re-construction Considerable interest has lately been aroused over where the building committee J B McMaster James Nelson and A A Jonsen shall purchase the lumber and timber necessary neces-sary for the work Between 75000 and 100000 feet are required Some wish to send to Oregon or other distant places for it while quite a strong element favors fa-vors giving the home people a chance to take this lumber right out of the neighboring hubs There are plenty of saw mills there no end of good timber and if as the men claim they can furnish fur-nish as suitable material they think they ought to secure the contract A peculiar talc comes through an authentic au-thentic source from Corinne in relation rela-tion to the death of the late A E Barnes a prominent citizen of that city It seems he was out milking his cow The animal became somewhat unruly un-ruly whereupon Mr Barnes picked up his milk stool and lammed it at the brute It struck her on the udder but as it slipped through the mans hands a sliver ran into one of his fingers The sore that resulted was at intervals picked with an old needle and cut into with a knWe Finally blood poisoning set in and in time the gentleman died Now comes the story that the udder of the unruly cow caked at the spot where the milk stool struck it The milk got bad but was fed to her little baby by Mrs J T Pitt who had not detected I anything wrong with it Finally it is claimed the Pitt baby actually died I from the effects of this bad milk Thus it would appear that two lives were lost simply from the common everyday I every-day occurrence of flinging a milk stool at an unruly cow A number of relatives of Mr and Mrs I M L Ensign two old citizens of this place have been collecting in Brigham this week from Cache valley and other j I parts to engage in the celebration of Mr Ensigns GGth birthday S N Lees birthday was also celebrated at the same time and place It proved to be a big social gathering and all had a grand time Considerable talk is being indulged in of late In reference to the mine prospects pros-pects of the various mining localities in Box Elder county Activity is being displayed at the various claims north of town at Wlllard and in the western part of the county As soon as the roads are opened up through the mountains mount-ains several parties are ready to proceed pro-ceed eastward toward La Plata where they will begin immediate development elI many promising claims in various parts of that section The prospects are that no inconsiderable amount of work will be done at these places during dur-ing the approaching summer Tomorrow the Republicans of this county will hold a convention in Brigham Brig-ham city for the purpose of sending delegates del-egates to the proposed convention at Salt Lake Of course all of our local Repubs areifor silver all TJt6nans are but we wonder where they expect to find national silver Republicans to run for president and vicepresident Getting them will be like hunting for needles in a hay stack Today a large number of Brigham people went dcnvnto attend conference Another Large delegation will go down tomorrow Nearly ill of the district schools of Brigham city will be out for the season sea-son inside of a month Several have already closed their doors There are afbout an even one thousand schoolchildren school-children in Brigham a large percentage or which attend school the greater part of the school year The firemen were out yesterday afternoon after-noon in their handsome helmets and rubber coats drilling Their practice attracted a large crowd of people The I boys are no snides at the work as I some of the recent fires in Brigham have proven to the entire satisfaction of the big majority of the people Death at Paroivnn Special to The Herald PAROWAN Utah April Thomas P Smith the oldest resident of Paro wan and husband of the lady burned to death two weeks ago died this afternoon af-ternoon after an illness of six months He was 00 years of age He came to Utah at an early date and took a prominent part in building up the south He leaves a host of descendants descend-ants THE HALL REUNION There was a general reunion of the Hall family here last night the occasion occa-sion being the celebration of the birthday birth-day of Johanna Challla Hall who be i came99 years of age today The gathering was at the home of Mark Hall on Washington avenue where the old lady has made her home for a number num-ber of years She was born April 3 11797 at Goschen township New Hampshire I Hamp-shire Soon afterwards she moved to New York and was married just before I the beginning of the war of 1S12 At that time they lived near Buffalo which was then only a village Later she and her husband lived in Indiana and after her husbands death she lived with a daughter until the latter passed away when her son Mark Hall went back and brought her to Ogden where she has lived in the best of health She reads readily without glasses gets in and out of a carriage unaided and converses con-verses freely and intelligently in apparent ap-parent possession of all her faculties She is cheerful and took the liveliest interest in-terest in the preparations for the fete dressing with as much care and pride as any younger lady would do An interesting fact in connection with the reunion is that there were representatives repre-sentatives of five generations present They are direct In descent without a break their names and ages being Mrs Johanna Challis Hall 99 Mark Hall 72 Martha Adelaide Hall Earle 38 Martha Elmer Salters 20 John Earle Salters 2 months There are twentysix others of the same generation genera-tion as this last baby Earle Salters in the family but this was the only one present Longevity seems to run in all branches of this family as In the case of the descendants of Mrs Julia Hall Blngham a granddaughter of Johanna Hall there are also five living generations genera-tions The youngest Sanford Moroni Bingham is the fourth in the line bearing bear-ing that name He is but an infant yet has its two parents four grand parents par-ents four great grand parents and one greatgreat grand parent living Photographer Pho-tographer Drury made a family group of about thirtyfive of the direct descendants de-scendants of the old lady who were present with her as the central figure and the four other representatives of the five generations near her A supper sup-per at which the greatgreatgrand i mother presided finished the celebration j i celebra-tion I tionThe members of the family present I included Mrs Johanna Challis HallMark i Hall-Mark Hall Eliza Mellisa Hall Julian j Hall Bingham Sanford Bingham Minnie j Min-nie Bingham Cordelia Bingham Ran I del Hall Porter Charles Porter Lee Porter Roy Porter Dell Porter Ross Porter Martha Adelaide Hall Elmer Warren Elmer William Elmer vita Elmer Fay Elmer William Jackson Belle Jackson Walter Jackson Olva Mowry Archibald Y Mowry Archibald Dent Mowry Minnie Callista Hall Joseph Jos-eph Hanford Hall Flora Hall Martha Elmer Salters John Earle Salters George Weskey McKewon and Jennie Hall Shields WOULD BLACKLIST SALT LAKE Some time ago T C Brantley captain cap-tain of the local L A W wrote to George D Gideon chairman of the racing rac-ing board of the league for information informa-tion on two points intended to guide the local league In framing its Plans for holding a series of wheel races The first question related to the probable prob-able time the national circuit would reach this state and the second fwas as to whether the Becks Hot springs track could be a circuit track this year It will be remembered that owing to a failure to hold the races on that track as advertised for Oct 26 of last year and the withholding of certain prizes competed for on the day previous that track came under the ban of the national na-tional racing board The letter is as follows Office Chairman Racing Board March 30 1SD6 Captain Thomas oruiiiiey vjsucu Utah Dear Sir Replying to yours of March 24 the national circuit Is not vet made UD and cannot be until the atJDlications are all in which will be about April 1 It is my impression however that it will start in the west early in the season and come east through Arizona Texas and the south In regard to the Salt Lake track would say that no one connected with the track or association that gave the meet and defaulted on the prizes can again obtain a sanction My own feeling feel-ing in the matter would be to blacklist black-list the track itself as this was a gross case and the present management is not entitled to any consideration whatever what-ever If however a bona fide sale of the track to some responsible parties is made I presume the racing board would consider carefully before refusing refus-ing sanction but even then I vioud not like to say they would receive sanction sanc-tion Very truly yours yoursGEO D GIDEON Chairman L A W Racing Board HAKRISVILLE BLAZE Late Thursday night the residence of Joseph Taylor of Harrisville burned to the ground It is surmised that the fire caught from the kitchen stove as that part of the house was first discovered dis-covered to be In flames It was discovered dis-covered about 11 oclock and the neighbors neigh-bors by forming a bucket brigade got the fire under control but no sooner had they relaxed their efforts thinking it was out than the fire broke out again reducing the house to ashes in a short time The fire came so suddenly and while the family were asleep that several of Mr Taylors children escaped es-caped only with their night clothing The house and furniture valued at 1000 were completely destroyed This was fully covered by insurance in the Phoenix of Brooklyn SUGOlfllBED AT LAST About 9 oclock yesterday morning Maurice Teahen died at his home in this city The death was expected as Tie has been gradually sinking since his recent relapse after he had started to recover from pneumonia He was born in Guelph Ont 3i years ago where an aged mother and a brothernow reside He has four brothers broth-ers living in Chicago and a wife and daughter here The funeral services will be held Sunday Sun-day at 230 in the Catholic church The A O U W will take part in the burial services YESTERDAYS FIRE Yesterday about 1145 H H Shurtliff and M J Hathaway were walking along Twentyfirst street between Washington and Gran avenues when they discovered flames and smoke rising ris-ing from the roof near the chimney of the Uvostory brick house situated about the middle of the block on the north side of the street Shurtllff ran to the alarm box on Washington avenue ave-nue and Hathaway ran to warn the residents of the house The department was there about as soon as Shurtllff got back from the alarm box and a nice quick clean job they made of extinguishing extin-guishing the fire It was caused by a defective flue and had not yet burned burn-ed down through the ceiling from the attic The blaze was put out by means of the chemical without so much asa spilliog as-a drop on the occupania or J a furniture In the rooms below The house was owned by Reese Howell and occupied by M B Richardson The loss was not large WAYS THAT AUK STUANGK Yesterday was all same dlecolation Clay with the Chinese but a reporter who happened around in the vienlty of the joss house about 2 p m thought it appeared more nile same Clismas A one horse wagon vas there laden with edibles of all varieties In the centre was a good sized shoat roasted to a turn and about his browned form were roast chickens apples candles oranges and a lot of other things the names of which the reporter could not guess Bundles of red paper with something theological dissertations perhaps written thereon Several jugs of something uerd noticed in the miscellaneous assortment Some of the edibles were keptat the joss house but the greater portion was taken up to the graveyard and distributed about over tle graves a the Chinese lead Slow burning sticl and candles were also set about the graves and sinouldered all p t long The reporters re-porters informant said that Chine decoration daa is thus celebrated twice each yea BOARUfOP EDUCATION The boardj of education met last night and tjfrnsacted considerable routine rou-tine business including the allowance of 19750 lM i bills The clecP reported having received 52000 fronj the county and 52000 from the cityj The tircasurcr submitted a report showing all moneys received by him since July 1S93 It showed city taxes to the amount of 33300 county school taxes 927C territorial taxes Si35D320 delinquent taxes 143024 tuition 138 other sources 8703 The total is 5954549 The monthly report showed a balance bal-ance on hand at the end of March of 287257 LOCAL IIRIKSS L R Rhodes and daughter are in the city for a few days from Ephralm Richard Mansfield wilt appear at the Grand April 10 In the power play Dr Jckyl and Mr Hyde A large number of Ogden people went down to Salt Lake last night to hp in attendance at the Christian Endeavor convention The Republican county convention meets today in the court house at 1 oclock Cannon and free silver will likely be Us watchwords F C Woods who has been supprtn 3 tending the construction of some buildings i i build-Ings in Blackfoot Idaho for several months returned to his home in this city yesterday The motor line track to the Hot Springs is being put in fine shape j Manager Trueadell expects to reduce j I the time between here and that resort I to a considerable extent John A Logan Post G A R held a camp fire with pork and beans supper last night in their hall An excellent programme o elocutionary and musical musi-cal numbers was rendered Special Easter services will be held at the First Methodist church tomorrow tomor-row at 11 a m Dr Jeffery will pr ° ach the Easter sermon The El Monte Cammandery Knights Templar will attend at-tend in a body In the evening at 8 oclock a grand sacred concert will be given The funeral services of Miss V W Ludden will be held today at the Congregational Con-gregational church at 10 oclock Friends of the deceased can view the remains at Mr G A Bruccs 739 Twentyfourth street from 9 to 10 oclock The casket will not be opened at the church Next Sundays cycle run will be to Salt Lake leaving city hall square Ogden in two divisions at 6 and 7 oclock running time about four hours each way leaving Salt Lake returning at 2 oclock arriving at Ogden at 6 p m All wheelmen invited to participate partici-pate The club Is making arrangement arrange-ment for Decoration day and will either give a road race to North Og den and races at the half mile track or I will run an excursion and road race to the Hot springs |