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Show surprised if some local giant would challenge Siillivaa before spring. Caldwell Tribune. Ilellevue is victorious nt last. The county records have beoo removed from Shoshone, and so the troublous culiuty gent question is nettled, unless indeed, the legislature upsets the whole matter by rearranging the county Hues so that Bellevue would fall into another than Logan county. In thnt case the county seat would be called upon to take another promenade. Ketcuuua Keystone. NUGGETS JF NEWS, Events of Note, Rewritten, Condensed and Otherwise, Polished up for the Times' Headers. FE0M UTAH AND HEE NEIGHBORS. Important Happenings and Current Comments Com-ments From the Long List of Our Exchanges. Santaquin is to have a $3000 opera house. A line Utah Central depot is among the improvements for Park City in the near future. The salt industry at the Brigham City salt works seems to have been almost it a standstill this season. George Churchill has been arrested, "the free coinage of silver would makei salable every inch of real estate in Colorado;" Col-orado;" and yet it will unquestionably support Grover Cleveland for presi- deut in J tSa in case he is nominated. Tho La Jara Echo reports this; L. J. Artman this year raised 1877 bvshels of wheat on 8tf acres and 20 1 bushels of oats on seven acres, an average of 23 4-45 bushels per acre. Next year 100 acres will be sown in wheat und oats, on mostly now land. The grand jury of Rio Grande county returned three 'indictments against C. S. Alilrlch, editor of tho Monte Vista Graphic for criminal libel, and the (irand Junction News asks: "If W. II. Graves wins his libol suit against the Graphic what will ho get? Grand Junction News: Prior to the efforts now on foot there have been, three attempts in this country to operate oper-ate beet sugar factories, but they all failed. Since the passage of the Mo-Kiuley Mo-Kiuley bill, which pays two coat's per pound bounty on home-made sugar, about fifty beet-sugar mills have been projected. The average cost of the original or-iginal construction of these factories will be $500,000. And each will distrib- . uto in its community fifty per cent ot the cost of the factory. NEVADA NOTES. TheTruckee papers say wild geese are now passing southward over that place. Seven thousand head of beef rattle are being fed at Mountain Meadows, Nevada. A band of 350 fat cattle have arrived at Keno after a drive of eloven days from Surprise valley. In southern Nevada, on tho borderg of the Colorado river, is a vast field of gold-bearing quartz veins. Every quartz vein in that region contains j more or less irold. A Washington dispatch says the war department has transferred the military reservation at Fort Bidwell, in Surprise Sur-prise valley, to the interior department. It comprises 8000 acres of land, which will bo disposed of as provided by law. Walker Lake Bulletin: The Piutes around town are preparing themselves in great shape for tho cold weather of the coming winter. Most of them have erected comfortable little wickiups and I put in a good supply of sagebrush andj wood from various' backyards for fuel. charged with stealing $250 worth of blankets, etc., from Peterson's store at Moab. The gang of men employed tearing up tho old narrow gaugo track from Deweyville to Mendon completed the work last week and the men have mostly left. That dreadful scourgo, diphtheria, is raging in Pleasant Grove, Utah county. The schools have all been closed and the streets are almost deserted, so rapidly rap-idly is the disease spreading among the people. The Park City Ice company Is pre paring to put in its supply of ice. The new houses are completed and have a capacity of 3000 tons, giving in all, including' in-cluding' tho old houses, a capacity of 3800 tons. The postoffico at Fillmore was robbed last week of bet ween $500 and $000 in registered letters, by two boys of the age of 15. They succeeded in getting into the postoffico by breakiug through an adjoining store. Tho people of Brigham City are complaining com-plaining of having to drink bad water. Why don't they drink whisky and use the water for bathing purposes and drowning cats? Some people outrage nature's plainest laws and then howl about the results. j WYOMING NOTES. ?r";" i Laramie Republican: It is reported that W. W. l.reese, who has beon sinking sink-ing an artesian well on the ranch of Oliver Mansfield, fourteen miles out, on the Big Laramie, has struck natural gas in a larger quantity than has heretofore here-tofore been found on the plains, and that there is every indication that thera is a large amount of tit her natural gas or oil near at hand. The following from the Saratoga Lyre would indicate that the name of Gold Hill has been changed; "Aren-dale, "Aren-dale, the poetical name applied to Gold Hill, nestles on the brow of the Snowy range among the cloud capped towers and lofty pyramids, overlooking the fairest city of Wyoming. Mountain, torrents and babbling brooks, trickling and leaping from mountain glaciers into crvstal lakes meander through forests for-ests primeval down to tho Platte." The Cheyenne Sun of Thursday contained con-tained tho following editorial items "There was considerable qniet discussion discus-sion among the members of the legislature legisla-ture yesterday regarding tho proposition proposi-tion to elect a governor ly vote of the joint assembly and there was a strong disposition manifested to select a resident resi-dent of Albany county. In addition to Edward lvin'son, other names were mentioned, more especially ex-Secretary Meldrum and Col. S.W. Downey." NEW MEXICO NOTES. Inside of thirty days tho cars will be runuing from Pecos, Texas, on the lino of the Texas Pacilio, to Eddy, N. M. i The Golden Nine, at Albuquerque, has been merged in to the Sunday News. the paper appearing yesterday, with M. M. Barnet, of New York, as tho editor. The Santa Fe New Mexican hints at a peculiar condition of affairs in the territory when, in an exhortation to the legislature, it says: "Pass a law providing for tho establishment of the office of county surveyor and for the survey of all lands and real estate in the se'veral counties. It is about time that something modern wore done in that direction." Judge Seeds has decided in the Santa Fe election muddle, that he has no authority to punish the sheriff for releasing re-leasing the county co mmissioners whom he had committed for contempt. As vet tho Taos county com missioners havo not complied with the mandamus j ordering them to count the ballots from j all the precincts. IDAHO NOTES. A bauk has been started in Nampa with A. S. Robertson of Arnold, Nebraska, Ne-braska, as cashier. Tho Rocky Bar and Mountain Home people are having a regular monkey and parrot time over the county seat question. The editor of the Kaintuck Bligle is an honest man, if he does lie a little about politics. He has found a purse with 5 cents in It and advertises for the owner. Idaho World: Silver Mountain has collapsed again. Rumor gives several reasons, none of which are given as au thentic. Work has stopped, and when it will be resumed, if ever, is not known. Arrangements having been made to arect a saloon and biiiiard hall at Paris, Idaho, the Independent had an editorial editor-ial published against it, the heading of which read: "Paris menaced with a saloon and billiard hall from these abominations good friends deliver us " Work has commenced on the Athletic Ath-letic club's building. In about two weeks everything will be in shape and ', ! our young men wiii soon develop their skill and. muscles. We should not be COLORADO NOTES. Tho Rico News is now a straight-out republican paper, what it should havo been during the late campaign. It is a melancholy fact that according accord-ing to the Gazette five residents of Colorado Colo-rado Springs got drunk on Than ksgiv-ing ksgiv-ing day. An effort will bo made to increase tho number of judicial districts in Colorado by tho next legislature. The Sixth and Seventh are certainly too large and should be divided. Ouray Plain Dealer: The next legislature legis-lature will simply be asked to attach all that part of Ouray county north of tho southern limits of the garbage dump to Montrose county for legislative purposes. pur-poses. Hayseeds and miuers can't "filiate." "fil-iate." The Buena Vista Democrat says that |