Show r NEWS FROM NEARBY TOWNS I I j NEARBY i S Carlos Young of Fillmore Gets Five Long Years I MOTIONS CAME VERY HIGH I DTONS CAM j GEORGE YOIEVG TURXI5D LOOSE BY THE JURV J1 I i JiIrtecnYcarOId Boy Accidentally Killed at Gnnnlson Exciteincnt Ran IHsIi at tiLe Mcelinjc of the f ocUlioIrtcrs of the Gunnlson Ir rl jition Companj Ncws y Notes from Knyfeville and Other Places i Special to The Herald FILLMORE March 9In the Fifth judicial district court the case of the State vs Carlos and George Young charged with sheep stealing occupied the court all day Saturday At 930 I i J on Sut lay the court reconvened and P Foreman Ed Stevens handed in a t sealed verdict finding Carlos Young guilty a charged and his son George not guilty At 830 today the prisoner I > > was brought in for sentence Defense r sought an arrest of judgment which i was denied as was also an application < for a new trial Judge Higgins gave him some good counsel ostensibly with a view to redemption then Five years in the state prison fell upon his ear like a thunder clap and honest citizens breathed with new hopes Attorney Greenwood applied for letters let-ters of administration in the estate of John T Ashman to Joseph G Giles 1 made by A similar application was Attorney Melville in the estate of AtoreY Ielvie George Croft Both cases were set for hearing on June 2 1S96 Charles A Thompson of Oasis a admitted to citizenship Court adjourned until Tune 2 Judge Higgins Clerk Cook and Attorney Foster Fos-ter have gone to Beaver Fatal Accident Special to The Heraldl GUNNISON March 9A sad fatality occurred yesterday morning about 1 oclock to John Hoile Chew the 13 yearold son of John and lary E Chew In company with two younger brothers bro-thers he had Just finished feeding the stock They hauled the hay to the stock with a team and having finished fin-ished concluded to have some sport The boy got inside the slipnoose of a rope which he had fastened to the traces and started the horses up but had hold of the lines The horses became be-came frightened and ran away dragging drag-ging the boy on the ground In their course was a pile of posts against which the boys head struck breaking his neck The town was thrown in a state of excitement on hearing of the sad occurrence THE CANAL Excitement ran high over the election tion of officers at the annual stock holders meeting of the Gunnison Irrigation Ir-rigation company There was a determined q deter-mined effort to effect a change and < two tickets were put up resulting in the choice of an entire new board The old secretary and treasurer were re plected1 Mr Myrup the retiring president pres-ident a an efficient officer and has in the past eight years that he has lield the office gained a wide reputa tion for managing irrigation matters Niels C Sorenson is elected president I A J Tuft vicepresident John Larsen Lar-sen Edmund Sanderson William Bardsley and F Ludvigson directors Following this was the incorporation of the Gunnison City and Antelope Valley Canal company The officers wRh C A Madson for president have qualified and the corporation is now in fine working order The bringing of its canal above town will allow of 400 lots being added to the present townsite These lots are now platted Good headway has been made on the I canal and it will be finished by another an-other season The owners of the Kearnes and Robbins Rob-bins canal which has been widened and extended to Fayette have filed articles of incorporation and the Highland canal will soon do the same h usual places for posting notices are literally covered with notices from these various canal companies calling meetings or giving notice of assessments assess-ments and a a consequence the sole theme just now Is ditches and water The canals which have been In the course of construction within this irrigation irri-gation district the past winter have afforded an opportunity for the < boys to spend their time profitably Some of our sports are now practicing prac-ticing at baseball and will soon be ready to send out a challenge Ed Kearnes Jode Kearnes and Tommie Fraser are three of the Gunni son boys advertising themselves as members of the bachelor fraternity They are sporting around with the badges which they received at the F bachelors ball given at Salina Friday night night H Sperry a violinist of Nephi has been engaged to play at a couple of our parties recently to the exclusion of our home talent with whom some of the boys are at variance The spirit of opposition arising last fall gets no better The present prospect for the farmers this season is not over bright There Is but a meagre storage of snow in the mountains and the soil is too dry to admit of safely sowing grain until Io for irrigation warm enough irigaton ICnysville Notes KAYSVILXE March 8 During the KYSVLLE week just passed the question of water for the east side of the city has been the one absorbing topic of conversation in Kaysville The meeting last Wednesday Wed-nesday evening a so meagerly attended at-tended by the property owners of the district in question that nothing def nite was accomplished There was much jdiscusslon of the subject how sentiment was ever and the prevailing cntment favorable to the scheme of piping and 4 storing the water as explained In these columns a few days ago Just what action the people will take when it acion comes to a final vote on an expenditure of something like 5000 is all a matter r nni rture Another meeting has been called for next Saturday evening March 1 and actiOn will undoubtedly be taken some actbn i undoubtely then provided of curse that Perrines comet will accommodatingly shy off enough to miss us FOR BURGLARY Bob Fortune and George Eldredge the two crafty thieves who made a nocturnal visit to a number of places in Centerville and Bountiful several weeks ago and gathered up a miscellaneous miscella-neous lot of clothing meats and other articles that were lying around handy will be tried before Judge Rolapp and a jury at Farmington tomorrow at 230 It will be remembered that these are the two worthies whom Detective Sheets and a brother officer captured soon after their return to their Sal Lake home with their wagon load of plunder A Centerville justice of the peace before whom they were given a hearing held them for trial by the district court and they have been In the county jail ever since NOTES AND PERSONALS Hon Henry W Lawrence will lecture before the local suffrage association tomorrow to-morrow evening His subject will be Populism There Is but little change In the con ion of Hon John R Barnes During Dur-ing the last week he has suffered intensely tensely at times but today he is resting rest-Ing easier Joseph Egbert our respected pioneer of 1847 is still very low flirting with death as i were but still clinging tenaciously to life His recovery is doubtful though not impossible Arthur F Barnes of Salt Lake reached Kaysville yesterday afternoon on his return from a mission to Brooklyn Brook-lyn N Y He was called home on account count of the serious illness of his father ther He looks hale and hearty and says he has enjoyed himself during his nine months absence I |