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Show J; WEANiTomiNHllGllBORS Hevra of t'aa West Polished Up, BoileJ "" Down, so That He Vho Runs May Bead, V A.TJT E0IS30E3, AUT HULLUS i Items of Interest and Bits of Oarrec. I Comment From the List of Our ExcbangeSi The saloons at Eureka wc.ru closed ' last Sunday. Meadow in Millard county, has diph theria so bad us to cause a temporary closing of the public school as well as Tj . of the ward meetings, llj j Isaac Mullock, one of the oldest resi- II ' dents of I'rovo, died of pne uuionia at if linearly hour Monday morning. lie was territorial marshal under McAllister McAllis-ter and held other important local positions po-sitions during his active career. Heaver City is having ipiito a siege of la grippe. Likewise has Cedar City. The e, nolo editorial and mechanical force of tho Iron county News had it f no bad that the publication of that paper i had to be suspended until tho oliice f force became convalescent. I Probate Judge J. 1). Jones signed an I , order authorizing Administrator M. M. N Kellogg of the John M. Drake estate to 1 ' r.ijitii,riniument over the remains of hie wiihftl. Drake at a cost not to ex- -1 ' f I'irectly.. I This will make a nionu- J .--"--" " ttti;'r.''it to anything in tho county . iThero was considerable kicking by the ' heirs over tho matter. I I'rovo " Dis- .-.. . ' patch. A recent issue of a Provo paper contained con-tained tho following: "It is respectfully respect-fully requested that parties contemplating contem-plating going on a big drunk and requiring re-quiring the services of tho marshal and jailor will defer the realization of their intention in the meantime or go to some other town to celebrate, as our jail is at present occupied to its full capacity." ca-pacity." Saturday, Deputy Marshal McGarv sold at public sale at Parowan, 1000 head of sheep that had been previously levied upon in satisfaction of a judgment judg-ment obtained in the case of Dunn vs. Atkin in the First District court at Ogden. At the salo David Kullock of Cedar purchased tho sheep for the net sura of $.':I00. Tho suit was upon the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage. From all over Utah come words of indicative prosperity. The stock of tho territory is reported in excellent condition, condi-tion, the hills are laden with snow, insuring in-suring plenty of water to the farmers, and rich mines aro being opened up, and old ones still showing up well, railroads rail-roads are contemplated, being built, and undergoing repairs, and capitalists are becoming more than ever interested in various enterprises in different parts of the territory. The wool clip of Utah in 1800 is estimated esti-mated at 11.(100,000 pounds. It will be largely increased during the present vear; nearly doubled in fact. Utah is becoming one of the largest and most I prolific wool growing sections in tho United Slates, and yet it seems that a little 2-set woolen mill, like the one in Beaver, cannot be profitably operated even though it bo located right where the raw matrrial can be obtained without with-out additional charges for freight, such as the. eastern mills using Utah wool are compelled to pay. The Utah, California and Nevada railroad surveyors had, up to last Saturday Sat-urday night, run their preliminary lino to the summit this side of Pino Creek, to which place they moved thoir camp yesterday. Engineer Ilolf man informs us that the grades have thus far been exceptionally light and that while the construction will find some heavy cutting cut-ting aud deep tills tho averago work as far as they have gone, will lie comparatively compar-atively light. Tho deep snow tho other side of "Wild Cat canyon" has greatly impeded their surveying operations; "out for all that tho men have been able to survey and stake between four and five miles daily. |