Show NEWS FROM t NEARBY CITIES AND TOWNS i County Conventions Held at Various Cities DEMOCRATS VERY ACTIVES ACTIV-ES LurIOS OF THE JEFFEHSOX IA7VS AT EUREKA Republican One of InviM Coitnty Rcublclnwne the Disastrous Kesultit of the Late Storm nt ICaynviHc Urigham City Fuet the Greater Portion of niuL l Grcter Porton Boxelder County Amonj the Print Prin-t diml Sufferers Xo Estimate cnn 1 Yet Kc Made of the Lost f MERCUR Sept 1The Republican county convention yesterday was not just what could be called The machinery a love feast was in the hands of the Mc Kinleyites while the silverites were in the As a consequence the majority resolutions were fa the St Louis plat for the Dem form and a minority was = ocratic Snancial plank The silverites 45 out of H total of 62 voted all traces of goldbugism out of the platform and refused to end delegates to Ogden or Mount Plea ant I Next came the nomination of county officers and here again there was alight a-light Some of the delegates objected to j men holding office two terms but being I in a minority a few more heartsore k politicians were left at the close of t polUcials J that business The oUlces were not distributed very well Mercur having nearly half of the i voters got but two names on the ticket while Tooele had four Delegates were named to the Independent I Inde-pendent convention at Salt Lake City The action of the state Republican committee was denounced and the convention 1 con-vention adjourned venton The McKinley Republicans met and chose delegates to Mount Pleasant and > appointed W S Marks and F W Orme to attend to the Ogden convention business i bus-iness I Mercur politicians have that tired feeling over the way they were left in I 1 the distribution of county offices I L Mayor Hall is handicapped in his race for the legislature on account of 2 his connection with the city council t which is not very popular Again It may strike the average miner that one of the principal owners in a mine I t is not just the sort of man to legislate in favor of the working man a against the employer There was some talk of bolting the 1 ticket by the parties that were left out c on the McKinley side of the fence Disappointment were about equally divided among the goldites silverites t and no second term advocates Castle Gate Chips CASTLE GATE Sept 20A severe rain storm visited this town last night and caused a great deal of damage r The trains were delayed several hours Several bridges were washed away All the lower part of town was inundated Several houses had to be vacated by the owners Two are in ruins and will be a severe loss to the poor men who owned them The cellar of the Wa satch Store company was flooded and satc i it is estimated that 500 will not cover the amount of damage done Quite a number of people on Willow creek had to be taken in by friends their houses being full of mud rocks and water The railroad bridge on the above creek came nearly going the section hands from up and down the < line were working all night getting the 1 bridge Into its place and it was not I until well onto noon of today that trains could pass over The river is again high There has been another heavy rain somewhere up the canyon The men who have suffered the most J from the flood are Peter Gertz Allan Cox Dominic Melatio Joseph Haycock and William Demond All the roadsin the town and suburbs are cut up in a te S fearful shape The mine will bejdle tomorrow too much mud for the boilers 4 The track on the east side of the coke I 7 ovens is covered from one to three feet with mud and srrall rock Men have been busy all day trying to clear it Politically there are three tickets in d the field in this county to gobble upI up-I the rounty offices and the Democrats for once will have a chance if they will only stand together and I am pleased to note that the county Democracy Democ-racy was never more united than i i today I will have more to say in relation to the third party in the near future 1 A Proio Parnprrniihs PROVO Sept 22The city council met in adjourned session last evening principally to hear reports of committees commit-tees teesMrS Giles who resides on the Asylum road reported to the officers today that her nephew Albert Chisholm a boy of 16 years who has been working at the asylum drew all of his back pay and in company with Coon Kirkwood and Sid Whitehead two boys about the 1 same age had skipped The ladythought they were probably in Salt Lake on their way to California I is now reported that the windstorm wind-storm Friday night killed thousands of 1 pounds of fish in Utah lake More bass were killed than any other kind I is h < nr that one man srathered ur Si35 m 7 worth T bas Saturday morning County Attorney Gash went to Spring vllle yesterday ant had Charles Bal winkle bound over to the district court for house breaking A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Cy Robison of Fairfield on a charge of arson Brig Johnson the Republican nominee I I nomi-nee for county clerk of Utah county has declined to run and notified the proper parties to thai effect Tommy John was about to receive the nomination nomi-nation for the same position yesterday but he promptly declined Marriage licenses have been issued to Mary E Bay and Myra Stray of Mammoth Mam-moth Samuel Whimple and Lucy Brit ton of Lehi John G Robertson and Margaret Martell of American Fork The Democratic judicial convention for the Fourth district meets in Provo tomorrow There are several rood men who aspire to the nomination and i would be a difficult matter to say which one leads in the race 1 M Kellogg M M Warner and Judge W 2CDusenberry will all be presented I is time that certain false representations represen-tations reported In the Salt Lake Tribune Trib-une ie corrected Since last Sunday morning every issue of that paper has conveyed an Idea to the effect that Utah county Democrats were hostile to the candidacy of Hon David Evans and that S R Thurman was left off the delegation because of his supposed hostility to King and friendship for Evans The truth is Thurman is a delegate Furthermore I is not true that the Democrats of this county are hostile to the candidacy of Evans COURT NOTES State vs Joseph E Crook former plea of not guilty withdrawn and motion mo-tion to dismiss granted without prejudice preju-dice diceH H C Jensen vs John A Brown eta et-a defendants given till October 1 to answer demurrer i aswer demurer < t W T The following cases have been se I September 28 Alonzo H Raleigh vs George Everett et al Samuel A Bun nell vs R G W Railway company October 19 Tabatha D Cough vs ulan Van Ausdale October 16 Spanish Fork City vs Spanish Fork East Bench Irrigation comnanv September 29Blackfoot Stock company com-pany vs Preston Nutter B F Saun der vs Preston Nutter et al October 10 Damon G Tunnecliff vs Ephraim Button et al W G Young et al vs C E Bolton et al Joseph Chamberlain vs H H Bean October 11 Grace E Roylance vs A E Roylance October 12 George A Lowe v James E Gammett et al Walter Barlow vs E C Burton October 6 John F Shettle vs W F Ercanbrack et al October 10 Lucy A Clark et al vs Union Pacific Railway company October 13F W E Hathenbrok et al vs Thomas Fowler et al October 14 American Eagle Mining i company vs V F Clays et al October 13 Anna E M Monroe vs Jane Memmott October 14 Nephi Savings Bank Trust company vs R J Burston October 15 David Clark vs H A Johns et al October 19 First National bank of Provo vs Provo Coop Institution et al Henry Shields et al vs Hercules Mining Min-ing company oseph Obern vs R G V Railway company October 21The WInnebago tonal Bank of Rockford vs Nels Yorgansen Margaret Price vs James Bonnet Joseph Jos-eph F Wright vs George Patten October 22Ira D Wines et al vs Peter Larson et al I October S Junk Fabian vs D CReed C-Reed et al First National bank of Provo vs North American Asphalt company com-pany continued for term Coray Bros pny vs J S Black continued Maggie Mag-gie B Thompson vs W H Berry set for October 12 Eureka Etching EUREKA Sept 22The Democratic county convention was held here yesterday yes-terday and the following ticket was named Commissioners A Chappel Ne phi W H Kirkendall Mammoth James Tayor Leran Sheriff Parley P Christensen Nephi Prosecuting attorney Edward Pike Eureka RecorderMrs Lottie Farmer Nephi Clerk Joel Grover NephL Surveyor Jackson McChrystal Eureka Eu-reka Assessor James Louder Eureka Treasurer and collector Charles Abbott Ab-bott Nephi I Representative B Wheeler Silver City I Ciy The convention was a harmonious affair r fair and the ticket a good one RESOLUTIONS ted The following resolutions were adop i tedThe Democrats of Juab county again agn declare their allegiance to the party o Jefferson and Jackson and their Unqualified qualified and hearty endorsement of the platform adopted at Chicago by the Democratic national convention None Dtmocrtc natona II need be in doubt about what the Democratic Demo-cratic party stands for I has declared Ii a unceasing warfare against the gold standard and the great monopolies by which Mark Hanna would buy a presidency presi-dency The Democratic party has declared de-clared for the independent free coinage of silver It demands that congress shall use its powers to levy a suitable income tax so that the rich may not escape taxation while fastening upon the taxes paid by labor We denounce the subterfuge of international in-ternational bimetallism presented by the Republican national platform of 1896 as a deception and a lie A comparison com-parison of the Republican platforms of 1896 and 1884 will prove lit In 1S96 at St Louis the Republican platform says We are unalterably opposed toY < to-Y ry measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international in-ternational agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world which we pledge ourselves to promote and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved In 1884 the Republican national platform plat-form declared We believe in honest money the gold and silver coinage of the constitu and medium convert tion a circulating < onver ible into such money without loss Therefore none need be in doubt as to what the Republican party stands for The action of the past convention at S1 Louis has dispelled all doubt and voters can no longer be deluded with the cry of Wait for international bimetallism bi-metallism In 1878 the opponents of the Bland bill were waiting for international interna-tional bimetallism and that cry has been urged again and again and we are still waiting and those who are most anxious to wait are those in favor of the gold standard The Republican party for twenty years has been a party of broken promises on the silver question I stands now for what benefits the bond gamblers of Wall street it stands for I scarce money and low prices of labors product it stands for a financial policy pol-icy which after a trial of years has brought the country ruin and disaster it stands today for everything the American people do not want the substance sub-stance of the erstwhile grand old party has departed and but the shadow is left We now appeal to all voters of Juab county regardless of past affiliations i that on the great issues presented they place themselves in line with William J Bryan and the Democratic party and that they vote for and give them their hearty support to the state Democratic ocratic and local ticket that the policy of Bryan may be carried out and the prosperity of the people assured Do I this and there will be no possible chance that any United States senator elected by I Democratic legislature will betray the great cause entrusted to him by the people Krigrhaiu City Bits t BRIGHAM CITY Sept 22The great wind storm that did such destructive work all over the state did not fail to I get in its work on Brigham and the entire eastern part of Box Elder county I From Willard on the south to Plymouth Ply-mouth flat on the north come reports of loss and destruction caused by that terrific storm At Willard Three Mile Creek Bear River City and Honeyville houses were blown down hay stacks were demolished or blown away and trees uprooted and cast at full length across the public highways Nearly all the fruit along the county road north of Brigham was stripped from the trees many of whten were afterwards blown over Sheds and fences were turned topsyturvy One of the greatest losses of all was that of the lucern seed crop Most of the lucern bearing the seed was standing stand-ing in the fields ready for cutting The fierce wind completely stripped the stalks so that after it had abated a hitherto valuable field of lucern was worthless the dry bare stalks resembling resem-bling that of a wheat field after a herder had passed over it The work of destruction in Brigham was widespread Beautiful shade trees numbering into the hundreds were blown over in all parts of town Many I of these trees were almost a old as the city itself j Hundreds of fruit trees in Brigham I were uprooted or blown to pieces Thousands Thou-sands of bushels of fruit were blown off much of which will be worthless The total loss damage to property in city and county caused by this high wind is enormous Many estimate it at tens of thousands of dollars worth I i I is I severe blow to our farmers and fruit growers which they can ill afford But as a rule they seem to bear up I bravely under their thousands of individual vidual losses k i n w r d 1 And still another of Brighams aged people has been called to that shore from whence none return This morn ing about 3 oclock William Smith an old gentleman who has lived for years in the Third ward died of natural causes He was past 76 years of g and has been very feeble for many years He was a good honest quiet old citizen for whom all had a great deal of respect The funeral services will be held in the ward hall Thursday Tomorrow the Republicans of Box Elder will hold their county convention conven-tion in Brigham City for the purpose of patting up their county ticket nominating nomin-ating a representative to the legislature and to choose delegates to the Republican Republi-can conventions at Ogden and Mount Pleasant The central committee will also be reorganized A lively time is anticipated The Republicans here usually us-ually have a lively old time of i when they have so many offices to fill as about every other good man is hankering hanker-ing for one office or another But a strange thing about this convention con-vention is this Here Brigham is nearly 200 miles from Mount Pleasant yet the eighteen delegates to be chosen to go down there win not be selected until the afternoon of September 23 and the Mount Pleasant convention 200 miles away convenes next morning So it would be a physical impossibility and mental as far as that is concerned for these delegates i they wanted to reach Mount Pleasant in time Of course no one will go And why such trickery work Why dont our Republican friends be honest and either stick by the Ogden convention or the Mount PleasantconventSon Either be a manor man-or a mouse so the people will know I where to place you It seems a few womans rights women I wo-men in town are up in arms because I the Democrats failed to recognize women I wo-men by not placing a woman representative I repre-sentative on their county ticket last Saturday Some of these plucky female I fe-male political fighters declare that if the Republicans will only place a woman I wo-man on their ticket this woman nominee I nom-inee will receive a big vote from the gentler sex The Republicans will no I doubt do this but it is still doubtful I whether or not a woman condidate will strengthen their ticket even with this opposition favoring a the general feeling feel-ing throughout this section seems to be I against women holding office This feeling is more prevalent among the women than among the men I Davis County Dots 1CAYSVTLLE Utah Sept 2The Davis county Republican convention met at 10 a m today in the court house at Farm ington E P Ellison called the assemblage assem-blage of delegates to order and was subsequently sub-sequently made temporary and I sequenty mae permanent perma-nent chairman and Mrs Lucy A Clark was secretary I There was but little seeking for office man rested and the making up of the ticket was harmonious following was the ticket named I For representative of Davis county in the state legislature Hector W Haight of Kaysville For county commissioners John W I Thornely John Ford and Amos Cook County clerk George W Palmer Recorder Jacob Miller Sheriff Walter Hampton Assessor John Haven Barlow jr TreasurerEdward C Barnes Surveyor A Vaile No nomination was made for attorney atorney the matter being left open for the central committee to name a man if they feel i I expedient to do so I The ludicrous part of the proceedings camo when the platform and resolutions committee reported a plank declaring for free and unlimited coinage of silver at a I ratio of 16 to l without the consent of any other nation Some of the levelheaded level-headed men of the party opposed the adoption of the plank one Kaysville delegate del-egate moving that i bo stricken out Considerable debate followed but finally when it came to a vote the plank was left in the platform and the whole thing adopted Later in the session they proceeded to elect eleven delegates to the Mt Pleasant goldbug convention and eleven delegates to the convention in Ogden And then the convention adjourned Echoes of thc Storm KAYSVILLE Utah Sept 22One disastrous I astrous result of the storm last Friday evening was the serious accident that happened to Israel Hadlock and family of Roy a small settlement southwest of Ogden As a consequence Mr Hadlock is lying in an unconscious and paralyzed condition and his wife Is suffering from a fracture of the clavicle and some painful ful cuts and bruises The Hadlocks lived in a comfortable tworoomed brick cottage facing r street running east and west The east room of the house was used as a bedroom and on Friday night it was occupied by Mr and Mrs Hadlock Along about 2 a m a particularly heavy gust of wind blew in the east gable and the bricks crashed down upon me unfortunate couple cou-ple Then the roof fell and one heavy beam pinned Mr Hadlock fast A lady who was visiting with the family saw the four children safely lodged in a frame addition to the house and then exerted herself to extricate the man and wife from the debris Mrs Hadlock was released re-leased with comparative ease but it required re-quired some time to remove the timbers from the unfortunate man and before he was taken out he lapsed into unconsciousness uncon-sciousness scousnes Surgical aid was procured without delay I de-lay and the injured ones were given I every attention The lady is out of dan ger but Mr Hadlock is so seriously hurt that it is feared he may not recover Reports Re-ports this morning from the Weber poor farm which is but a mile from the Had lock home are to the effect that the attending at-tending physician Dr Rich is hopeful but not confident of his ultimate recovery re-covery He Is paralyzed a a result of a dislocation of a small bone in the neck which causes a pressure on the spinal cord I Lost in the Shuffle Marshal Maer returned from Grand Junction yesterday without bringing the Blades He left Mercur on the 12th and stayed in Grand Junction until un-til the 2Qitlh The intention was to send him the necessary papers but some del was experienced in getting the signatures of the governor and state secretory Secretary Hammond says he mailed the paper to Mr Maer alt Grand Junction the intention being for the marshal to go on to Denver get the governors signature and returning re-turning bring his prisoners from Grand Junction He waited in vain for the necessary papers which were evidently lost between the two points The officers of-ficers were reluctantly compelled to turn their prisoners loose What became be-came of those papers will probably rc maini 3 mystery Black was threaten lag t su the officers for false imprisonment im-prisonment but it was probably only a I bluff and he will likely lose little time in getting away from that neighborhood A SLIGHT BLAZE Lost night the alarm of fire was given and a run was made up the Marion gulch The fire was soon under control I appears that some children child-ren gowns to bed in the residence o Harry Williams stuck a miners candlestick candle-stick containing a buirning candle in the wall Tie blaze communicated with some factory which lined the wolls > and in an instant the walls were a sheet of flames Mr Boyle of this city wit start men at work in the morning building a saloon onLion bill Ancther merchant has been com Anclfer me1nl pelled to make an assignment This time it is Thomas Carter who seems to be v r unfortunale of late He is on of the losers by the bank failure and while in Salt Lake city trying to of his from the save a part money te wreck has store was burned dewm Since that time he has manfully tried t make a new sfort but wee unable t stem the tide The liabilities wCOil reach about 3000 The assignee FredA Fred-A Doan a former clerk of Mr Carters is in Stilt Lake zit at present I Mercurs home orchestra will play alt the dance next FrIBay evening and henceforth the dancers will pay iwm I fl eFor |