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Show NEWS 0FJI1E WEST. Items of Interest Clipped from the Exchanges, Ex-changes, Rewritten and Condemed. HE WHO RUKS MAY READ- The Great later-Mountain Country and the Spirit of Its Press Kotos aud Comments- A vein of asbestos has been found in one of the levels of the Ontario mine at Park City. Tho Utah Poultry association will hold its annual show at Ogdeu on Feb. Iih, Mb and liiii. The iron bridge that spans Spanish Fork river has been accepted by tho I'tah county court. lliigham City citizens aro grumbling much over their new depot which will not meet the requirements of that thriving thriv-ing placo. A paying vein of silver has been found in Chicken creek canyon, near Lcvan, Utah, and prospector's are busy unearthing it. Willard, Utah, is to havo a brick plant next spring that will have a aa-pacity aa-pacity of UU.tMJO ported brick daily. The machinery has been ordered. John K Mellor, an old resident of Spanish Fork, died on Friday morning, after a short illness. IIo had caught a severe cold, which resultod in dropsy of the heart. Ho was 52 years of age. The Pleasant drove schools have again been closed in consequence of diphtheria. There are fourcases of tho disease in the town and two have recently re-cently resulted fatally. Strict quarantine quaran-tine regulations have been established. It is said that there are upwards of 50,000 sheep in and around the Wah-wah Wah-wah valley west of Frisco, and that most of them consist of herds that have been brought down from Salt Lake and tho region immediately north of that county, to winter. The Union Pacifio has two "wrecking" "wreck-ing" outfits at wors; upon the lino from Jaub to Milford; the business of the "wreckers" being to replace defective ties and rails with good serviceable material, thereby obviating as far af possible a repetition of the many accidents acci-dents which occurred last year on that stretch of road. Logan Journal: Between thirty and forty farmers met last evening to conclude con-clude the organization of tne farmers' union. The committee appointed at a preceding meeting reported tho constitution consti-tution remodeled, with a substitute for it, which was read, and after a little discussion and some slight amendments, was adopted. Mrs. Marsh, of Payson, was robbed of '.17.30 by a sneak thief last week. She set a satchel containing the money in a window of her resldenco and while the family was at supper the thief broke the window and skipped out with the satchel. He first placed a chain across the gate and Mr. Marsh in making pursuit pur-suit fell over it and was severely injured. injur-ed. No clue to the thief wat obtained. There are a great many wild, unbroken un-broken horses running at large on the desert between Iron county and Pioche. These animals are generally the colts of horse stock turned out on the range by Iron county people. Now the question ques-tion is who has the right to dispose of the stork? Can those parties having branded horses running on the desert say that the boys who shall drive up this stock can have all the nnbranded horses for their trouble? This would be perfectly legitimate if the stock be proven to belong to the parties disposing dispos-ing of it. But perhaps there are others oth-ers besides Iron couuty people who are interested in these; wild horses. The stock needs looking after badly, for they are a nuisance at present, and are occupying one of the best winter ranges rang-es in Utah, to the exclusion of other more valuable stock. IDAHO NOTES. There is a new scheme on foot to take the Payette valley and Upper and Lower Squaw creek, of Boise county, and form a new county. There is talk of a bill being introduced intro-duced in the legislature to amend the constitution so as to vote on the location loca-tion of the capital two years hence, instead in-stead of leaving it at Boise City for There were four men engaged in the difficulty, namoly, John M. Harris, O. J. Cook. Xachcus and his son C. S. Lewis, but the younger Lewis seems not to have done any of tho shooting. The same paper gives an account of tho shooting of Ed Harroun by Frank Hyatt, at Wardner, only a few days before be-fore the killing of Wallace. Harroun was a disreputable cnaraeter, and his killing was justified bp the verdict of a coroner's juiy. Ketchum Keystone: Mr. R. (!. Mes-serly Mes-serly is a worthy, if not a lineal descendant de-scendant of Nimrod. He accourted himself for a hunt a few days ago. It was rabbits he was after." He found one and soon succeeded in running it to buiroiigh. There his genius as a hunter soon developed itself. The rabbit rab-bit would not come ont to be killed. The ground was frozen too hard to dig it out. Messerly cogitated, and the rabbit grinned so loud lie coud hear it. A bright idea struck him. lie would just till the gun barrel full of snow anil let it freo.e, after which he would shove the gun down into the hole and lire it off. That would fetch the rabbit of course. He did so. What followed the explosion was not the demise of the tar-nal tar-nal rabbit, but the collapse so to speak, of the gun. The fragments have uot all been picked up yet. Tho rabbitcontiu-uea rabbitcontiu-uea to enjoy itself. COLORADO NOTES. There is some talk of abolishing the office of state dairy commissioner. , The Montrose Enterprise, one of the best of the papers in the western slope, has entered upon its third volume. The people of Otero county desire that they be placed with Pueblo county in the formation of new judicial and legislative districts. The interests of Pueblo and Otero are identical. At a rabbit hunt over by Stanley, in the San Luis valley a week ago, there were brought in 12ii7 scalps. Captain Bridman's side won, producing (''.!. Captaiu Maddox's men returned 595 scalps. Tho trades assembly of Denver have memorialized the legislature to pass a law prohibiting the letting of state or county printing to parties outside of Colorado. They also make some strong recommendations to business men en the same subject. Tho Durango Herald calls vigorously for the organization of a board of trade in that southwestern fity in order that the business community may be able to act more promptly and un'tedly in favor of enterprises affecting the growth and welfare of tho town. A bill will be introduced for the establishment of the county of Crystal. This proposed county is to be established estab-lished from territory off the east end of El Paso, the southeast part of Park, with a small portion of the south part of Douglas and Jefferson. It was the request of Governor Crawford Craw-ford who recently died at Grand Junction. Junc-tion. Colo., that he should be buried on the bluff overlooking the town for which he contributed so much in building. build-ing. A vault is now being built for his final resting place and in full conformity conform-ity wit his wishes. The report of Fish Commissioner Land shows that there are not less than six thousand miles of trout streams in the state, and at least five hundred lakes which it is the duty of the state to keep stocked with fish- There are new about one thousand miles of barren streams in the state where it is possible for trout to live and thrive. A proposition is now on foot for the division of Colorado into two congressional congress-ional districts of which it is entitled to under the new census. Jf accomplished there will be an eastern and western clissrict of which Denver will be the stronghold of the eastern portion of the state, while Pueblo will be the metropolitan metro-politan center of the western part of the proposed division. Tho western district will comprise the largest era of territory, and outside of some unim-port.au unim-port.au t coal fields will include the mineral min-eral wealth of the state. The largest and the smallest counties in the state will bo embraced in the western division divis-ion and are respectively Routt and Lake counties, and while the eastern division may embrace the better portion por-tion of the agricultural system of Colorado Colo-rado it is in a measure largely dependent depend-ent on the western division for its support. sup-port. Altogether the proposed line of division seems fair and practicable, however, it is not unlikely that there will bo some tall kicking done before it is accomplished. twenty years. Tne Weiscr Leader is informed confidentially confi-dentially from miners who are familiar with the Seven Devils mines that recent developments bring to light ore that is from 40 to 50 per cent richer than any ever before discovered. A coal train wrecked five miles from Montpelier on Saturday last. An employe em-ploye was sent out to watch tho wreck and was found dead the next morning; he was burned up to his waist over his camp tire by the help of one gallon of whisky. The Idaho Recorder gives accounts of various placer and other mining strikes in Lemhi county, indicating considerable activity and splendid success suc-cess iu prospecting in that section, and it is not improbable that a return of the good ti.nes of the sixties will be experienced experi-enced by Lemhi during the coming summer." The town of Fmmett, situated on the Payette river in Ada county, has presented pre-sented a petition to tho legislature, in which is set forth the claims of that section sec-tion of the country for the location of the agricultural college site. They offer land and lumber and make a businesslike business-like proposition. If Bingham county should be divided as set forth by a bill introduced in tho state legislature, Teton couuty will have a population of 7000, mostly mormons, mor-mons, while Bingham will have nearly the same number. Eagle Rock to be the county scat of the former and may be Pocatello of the latter. The high license bill has passed both houses of the Idaho legislature and become be-come a law of Idaho. This law requires saloon keepers in towns to pungle up $500 and those not less than one mile outside of any town $200 for a yearly license. It also requires all liquor sellers sell-ers to give a bond to the amount of $1000 to keop orderly places. On tho 17th of February Governor Willey will be called upon to appoint a board of nine regents of the state university, uni-versity, and also an insano asylum commission consisting of three members. mem-bers. Various other boards and commissions, com-missions, that will be created by the legislature, will givo the governor occasion oc-casion to hunt around for a number of available men. Wood River Miner: Michael Ma-honey Ma-honey got back yesterday from Salt Lako, where he went to settle up a valuable val-uable estate in which he is interested. He will probably remain here until spring, as he is half owner in the Abbie aud other claims on Deer creek, which are bonded to a New York company for about $50,000, and upon which the company com-pany is doing several thousand dollars' worth of work. The Comr d'AlcnesMlner reports a shooting scrape over a tract of land near Wallace, in which Zacheus Lewis was killed and O. J. Cook wounded. |