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Show sale the result of having plenty of water Inst year. John Weis, an old resident and merchant mer-chant of Alpine county, (lied in Mark-leeville Mark-leeville last week, ai;eil 71 years. Seventeen carloads of beef cattle and three carloads of sheep were shipped from Reno to San Francisco Wednesday. The government contemplates establishing estab-lishing a mail route over the Antelope road from llridjreport to the Mountain house, on the Carson and Aurora road. A Shoshone Indian stole a new overcoat over-coat from It. Samtier's elot hint; store on Sunday night last. The redskin has riot been seen in Helmont since he committed com-mitted tho theft. Helmont Courier. C 11. Markham, the popular ii(?eut of the Southern l'aeitic company, has been transferred to Fresno, Cal., for which place he will leave in a f'.w days. H. L. Field, recently from New York, will take the place of Mr. Markham here. Keno Journal. NKVS OFJilif WEST. ich Nu?ti Gathnred from Various Points in Utah and the N-jigh-boring Etu'.cv CLIPPED, REWRITTEN CONDENSED tarns of Intorest and Kutes of Ourrtnt Common t Polished Up for tba Times Readun. N. 1!. llui iis, city missionary at Oijden reports a good many cases ot destitute f::n iiii.'S tr the city, j Ti: Ai lervuti Fork Independent has ! :i'it!il it-1 first birthdav, It celebrated 'he occasion by gett nur out an cip;ht paire paper uiviior an esaustivo review uf the resources of Utali valley. Otfden must bo a peaceful little city this week, as it seems that nearly all the jood-uaiured, law-abiding citizens of ipiiet lirihani are there, e.ther for fun, on business or a visit. I5ox Elder County Herald. Caleb II. Hank and M. 15 Cowles, of tho terrilorial board of equalization, were in the city last week conferriun with our county assessor. 1 hey were on their way home from Logan. Box Elder County Herald. Tho Oc-den lumbermen have formed a combine. They ay it is not for the purpose of raising the jirici of building material, but for llieir ow n protection airainst irresponsible contractors who take contraets at loo low a tigure. At Ogden Saturday night United State Marshal McC'le'llan arreted Y. W.Clarke, flio Sohmer piano man, on a telegram from Omaha charging Clarke with forgery, lie wan released on his own recognizance. Yesterday morning ho was again arrested on a telegram from Itanker Snow at J'rig-ham J'rig-ham City, charging him with obtaining money under false pretenses. The Democrat, with an egotism in inverse ratio to its importance, assumes that this tix'J party ino emeut here in Ogden is progress," and is destined to .sweep the entire politics of the territory into the protecting embrace of its tiny arms. Calling the movement "progress" "pro-gress" is doubtless unintentional irony for the Democrat is certainly too ably edited to make such an absurd statement in L'ood faith. lOtrden Coin- uiercial. COLORADO NOTES. Five feet of snow in Marshall basin, six feet at (lold king, eight feet at Trout lake, roofs of houses slill visible at Ophir. The Canyon cityites aro indulging in a rose-colored dream in which a fol)!),-000 fol)!),-000 smelter figures prominently with the Kio (irande railroad back of it. (iovernor Koutt has made his appointments ap-pointments on the state board of charities. char-ities. The members are: The Key. Myron l'eed, Diwiver; the Iiev. .John C. llay, Pueblo; l'rofcssor W. F. Slocum, Colorado Sprimrs; ltrucu F. Johnson, Cruoley; J. S. Apple, Dennis Nheedy, Denver. The old Pueblo smelter has run since 187H, has uevor shut down, has never missed a pay roll, has never drawn out of the ore market when the miner needed one, and has from tirst to last maintained a reputation for fair and scpiare dealing which has never been questioned. Constable K. M. St. Clair has entered suit in tho county court against August (iileaiimond for if'.'OiHJ damages. Defendant De-fendant is the man w ho shot St. Clair in tin- jaw, ami plaintiff's intentions are to olitain enough to pay his doctor's bills, lawyer's fees and the costs of the suit. (l'iieblo Star. NEW MEXICO NOTES. The concentrator at Chloride ran out of ore and will remain idle until more ore is hauled from the mines. There are onlv fifty-two criminal cases on the docket in Socorro county; all but very few held over from back years. Th Clayton Enterprisn recommends as World's fair commissioner from northern New Mexico, Rev. S. A. Dyson of Colfax county. Ilirini G. Shultz finished the stone foundation for the new dormitory at the .'iii'i'iiiiii'iit Indian school at AUm-. AUm-. iue.,.ie. This building will cost about ; r.'.oiiu. ' More land will be under cultivation ', in Coifax county this year than ever be-' be-' f.,re Numerous ditches and reservoiis I are being built in various localities and a large portion of the available water I will U- thus utilized. ! Kanchmen in New Mexico have ! adopted a novel way of exterminating ! the big gray or timber wolves, which i every year destroy great numbers of ! ".!!;'.( arid sheep. Tho wolves during l !..- j ust vear have been particularly hoM a uf ferocious in their depredations ' mil tie losses to ranch owners have ! been unusually heavy. Some one con-j con-j ceived the thought of importing a lot I of hounds, whose fighting qualities are i well known. Last week a baggage car ' ioaiied with hounds, comprising some ilii'iv in all. passed through La Junta ', fr-i'm the east, over the Santa Ke for New Mexico. It is the object of the , renclmien to breed these dogs as rap- idly as possible and train them to protect pro-tect the cattle and sheep while ou,the range. , . NEVADA NOTES. All the rivers in Nevada are on the ! rise. i The stage road between Bridgeport ' and Uodie has not yet been opened. 1 Mason vaiiey has 1000 tons of hay for |