Salt Lake Times | 1890-12-20 | Page 2 | News of the West

NEWS OF THE EST. Nnpgets of News Gathered From Various Points in Utah and Neighboring States and Territories, BOTH PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Current Comments and Important Happenings Hap-penings Gathered From the Columns of the Exchanges. Logan had a lady (?) barber who looked like herself, but she hail to go. A reliable correspondent says that an electric plant is one of the coming possibilities soon lor Mt. Pleasant. II. C. Dunn, well known inprinterlal circles in Ogden City, has gone to Carson, Car-son, Xev., to take tlioformuushipof the state printing olliee. All but two of tho district schools of Logan are running double sessions daily. They number sixteen and contain con-tain about KT0 students. William Buys, editor of the Wasatch Wave, has severed his connection with that paper, (ieorgo Barzee will tilt the vacant chair In tho sanctum. Franklin Is attacked with a malignant malig-nant form of dipthoria. On Sunday last Mrs. Cooper lost one child with it; another ls on the point of death and Hill another has just been seized by the disease. Coal has been discovered near Provo, and there are iron beds near the city. 'Why not?" says the Inquirer, "invite the capitalists aroitnd to see what resources re-sources we have here developed. Oliver Smith of Taradiae, the unfortunate unfor-tunate individual poisoned by taking - rill BVeTlUise of eougTii"iiiedicine, died on Sunday last. Other cases of a similar nature are reported, but none have resulted re-sulted fatally. Says the Nephi Ensign: Henry Mc-Ewan Mc-Ewan of the Salt Lake Stock Kxc'hange Journal illumined our olliee this morning. morn-ing. His business in Nephi was to perfect a $75,000 lease on some mining property near Silver City, Tintic; in which ho is interested. Sheriff Bums of San Pete county arrested ar-rested a man the other day whom he supposed to be James Burke, the convict con-vict who escaped from the penitentiary wagon recently. Mr. Starks, one of the penitentiary guards, went down to San Pete to recognize the man, but it was not tho right party.