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Show NEWS OF W WEST. Uch Nuggets Gathered From "Varioiia Points in Utah and the Haigh-boring Haigh-boring State. CLIPPED, EEWEITTEN, CONDENSED Items of Interest and Notes of Current Comment Polished Up for the Times Readers. The Minersville people are hard at work putting in a new dam iu the river at the mouth of the canyon above the town. It. seems that the recent shooting of sheep owners below Kanab occurred over the lino in Arizona, heneo the murder or homicide will not be brought up before the Utah courts for investigation. investi-gation. Times in Silver Heef are reported as being of an exceedingly azure line. The Kecf is gutting to be it gooil deal like what is reported about the slate of Kansas, that is; a good country to move away from. The new county bridge leading to Lake View over the J'rovo river was completed last week. Judge Jones was the lirst man to drive across it, and as a natural consequence, he had to "put up the beer." The tie business at Spring City last winter was almost a failure, to the laboring la-boring men. Out of four thousaud and five hundred ties delivered at the It (1. V. station, three thousand were culled or rejected, and some on very technical points. The counties of Piute ami Garfield are said to be literally overrun with herds of sheep that have been driven in there from uorthern counties. As a natural result teed on the cattle ranges, once so luxuriant in native grasses, has been eaten off and eutirely killed to tho very roots and nothing whatever left for the rango rattle to Mi!-it upon. As a natural sequence to this Mute of affairs many rattle in that locality have become so weak and emaciated from lack of food as to be utterly unable to travel and have laid down and died, literally from starvation. |