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Show WEANDOURNKIGIIBOKS Eewi of the West Polished Up. BoileJ Sown, io That He Who Euns May Eoad. AUT E0I830R3, ADT HULLU& Items of Intrest and Bits of Current Cwiiuient From the List of Our Exchange! Midway at last has a daily mail after Sixteen years waiting. 1 ousy shot and killed Conductor ()' Neil a year ago and hai been kept at the city jail since that time, partly at liberty, lib-erty, has sworn out a complaint against l.ee riirnell, a guard at the jail, charging charg-ing him with bastardy. The young mini's friends call it a case of blackmail black-mail ami refuse to entertain any belief as to his guilt. (iraud Junction Star. A deal is on foot by which several hundred acres of land near (iolden will pas Into the possession of a very strong Kuglish syndicate. It includes the 410 acres controlled recently bv the Atchison, Xopnka & Santa Fe road and hubseiUcutly purchased from them by the Jlenver," Lakewood & (Iolden road. The plan is. in brief, fc establish upon this property a uumberof manufactories. manufactor-ies. The price is declared to be iu the neighborhood of $1(10,0110. Fourteen car loads of steel rails have been shipped from the east, to bo used in the Sevier Valley branch. H. V. 1 biggs of Pleasant Grove has teen sentenced to six months in the penitentiary ou a charge of unlawful cohabitation. The improvements at tha Frovo Lake tesort are making rapid headway. The tiath houses are being erected as l'sst as the wealhar will permit. Quarries of very line building stone could be opened in this neighborhood, notably one situated iu Manti canyon. The color of the rock is white, and in every way resembles marble. LNephi Ensign. An expert iu Ogden was locked in a vault in one of the banks, and made his way out in three minutes. Itisclairned he car open any safe made, lie is in the employ of the Mosler Safe and Lock company of Cincinnati. In the district court at Provo. Orlando Orlan-do llerron, who had withdrawn his former plea of not guilty ami entered a f lea of guilty, also came up for sentence, le admitted that be had been in the pen before for a similar otlense, but he thought he hail a tolerably good reason lor living with his second family, as his first wife hud kicked him out of doors and he had no other plaeo to go. He wan sentenced to four months in the penitentiary. Mr. J. T. Jack was in town yesterday notwithstanding the report of the Salt Lake papers that ho us engaged as guide on the Peer Creek railroad. Mr. Jack is on his way south, and carries with him an extensive outlit. The object ob-ject of the company is kept secret, but we learned that their journey lies across the western desert, the destination destina-tion is some point in southern California. Califor-nia. Whether he is working for a rail- road company or not is to Mr. Jack a mystery. His well known ability as a guide was his recommendation, and his instructions are such that he is not supposed sup-posed to know anything when ts'king to newspaper correspondents. ephi Ensign, COLORADO NOTES. There is a lively contest in F.rie over a proposition to bond the tow n to put in waterworks. James Darnell w as arrested at Pueblo while trying to break open a Sauta Fe car containing beer. Kev. (ieo. VV. Barr, of Laramie, has accepted a call from the Presbyterian church at Fort Morgan. Lawrence Mansann, proprietor of the Metropolitan hotel bar, suicided Tuesday Tues-day afternoon by shooting. Charley Hurley was found dead in a railway closet at Brighton on Tuesday. Ieart disease was the cause. Jesus Morena, who was interpreter to Chief Ouray of the Southern I'tes, as buried in Montrose Sunday last. The Colorado Springs republicans h.ave nominated Ira B. Spraguo for mayor and W. 11. lloagland for treasurer. treas-urer. Dr. Belmont of Pueblo has been fined ff'JOO for illegally practicing his profession, profes-sion, ho not having the necessary certi-Jicate. certi-Jicate. Another disastrous snowslide has occurred oc-curred at the (iold King mine near Tel-Juride, Tel-Juride, destroying part of tho tramway and causing a loss of $1UU0. Dr. Martin Himly, of Denver, took a close of poison Tuesday that caused his death. Despondency over the loss of a brother was the causo of the act. Thousands of wild ducks are report-' report-' ed on the ponds and lakes within eight and ln miles of' Pueblo, but few sportsmen seem to be aware of the fact. It is reported that a large refinery is to be erected in Pueblo that will employ em-ploy 800 men. The works will use a yn-'y fivj iitr.u. uo tui.q vtu us n new copper process in the reduction of ores. The husband of Mrs. Lucy Anders, who committed suicide at Colorado Springs, has disappeared. It is now believed be-lieved that he was implicated in the cruel treatment of bis son. The state legislature has passed representative rep-resentative Amnion's bill regulat ing the fees of county officers. L'nder its provisions pro-visions salaries wiil be substituted for fees in all the counties whore public business is large, and the offices will no longer be disproportionately unrernun-eratie unrernun-eratie to the incumbents. Although Governor Routt has appointed ap-pointed 'aptain Kennedy adjutant general gen-eral of the state it is probable that the captain will never wear the stars of the adjutant-general. The law provides that all persons connected with the military mil-itary service shall be able-bodied and Captain Kennedy is drawing a pension on a claim of disability. The contract to build two iron and wood bridges over the Gunnison river has just been let to the Kullen Bridge company of Trinidad. One bridge will fpau the north fork of the Gunnison northeast of Delta, and the other will span the main river at the town. Koch bridge is to cost the sum of $14,000. Mabel Hurley, who in a fit of jeal- |