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Show NEE 1ST. terns of Interest Gathered from Evtr Point in the Great Intermonnt-ain Intermonnt-ain Country! ! DTAH AND HER NEAR NEIGHBORS. Bits of Iuterestiug Information and Cur rout Comments Condensed for Hasty Readors. The Iron County News bus suspended. ! Mauti is shipping a good deal of grain. ! The First National bank of Park City will open up in a few days with a paid up capital of WO, 000. Apostio A. 11 Lund is appointed president of the Mauti temple, in place of President Wells, deceased. The little son of Charles Johnson who lives near Price was thrown from a horse and killed on Sunday last. A little son of C. Schemk of Providence, Provi-dence, was shot iu the foot by some boys who were out shootiug chickens. The trustees of the Logan school district dis-trict have placed upon the market ','0,-OOC ','0,-OOC school bonds and have evidences of an early disposal of them. Maylield is to have waterworks, or at least some of her enterprising citizens are figuring on piping water from springs one mile distant into town. The teachers of San Pete county havo invited Sevier and Juab counties to join in their summer institute to be held at Funk's lako some time during tho summer. sum-mer. Architect Kletting of Salt Lake, has I :.. I. I.. ,f. ffw.liar.lu X' COLORADO NOTES. Tho initial number of the Florence Derrick made its appearance ou Saturday. Satur-day. The Denver police have discovered a "fence" kept by w hat is known as the "Stockley" gang ut Thirty-tirst and Marion streets. A large amount of pluudi r was found. II. A. Collar, stage agent at Meeker, was detected tampering with parcels, lie has disappeared, leaving a letter in which he declares his intention of killing himself to escape from disgrace. Tho editor of the ludustral Union bursts into song as follows: "Montrose county still has many acres of amorous virgin soil, awaiting the plow-shear's tickling touch, to transform it into a blushing paradise of fruits and (lowers." In the Uncompahgre valley the irrigating irri-gating canals are all running full, and tho farmers are busy everywhere getting get-ting iu exceptionally large crops. The heavy snow tall in "the niouutains the past winter insures plenty of water. Ou Saturday last for fhe first time in fifty-four days tho shrill whistle of the Denver & Hio (irando locomotive gladdened glad-dened the hearts of Silvertonians. Tho tedious but persistent labors of '-'00 sturdy workmen has at last overcome the stubborn resistance of the ice and snow on tho tracks of the Denver & Kio (irando in the canyon four miles below the town. WYOMING NOTES. Tho Union Pacilio lands in the Fort Sanders reservation will be put on tho market in the near future. Robert Burkhsrt has retained a lawyer law-yer and brought suit against the city of Laramie for .,0UO for the killing of his dog "Levis." C. P. Fillohrown. whe killed Hiram FanlL-i t Crmiitii funvon in February was arrested in Colorado and is now in jail at Cheyenne. The Kock Springs Coal company started up the Blair mine last week, says the Independent, and now have a good force of men at work, Hon. J. I). I.ouks of Sheridan, has been designated to select the site for a government experimental station in Sheridan or Johnson county. The commissioners of Carbon county acted favorably on a petition for the incorporation in-corporation of the town of Carbon and the first election of municipal ollicers will tako place May 0. Carbon is in point of population tho Cfih city of the state and it promises to at least maintain main-tain that position iu future, if it climbs no higher. . . . . MONTANA NOTES. liutto is threatened with an epidemic of diphtheria. Tho mill and smelter men of Mender-ville, Mender-ville, an organization which was partially par-tially ell'ecled last week, is now thoroughly thor-oughly orgBnized and begins life on a substantial basis. Tho union has 300 members. Helena is in a fair way to lose the Congregational college." Other and more enterprising communities are preparing pre-paring oilers of laud and money that go far beyond any yet tendered by the Helena people. Tho Crow reservation in Montana, just over tho Wyoming line, will not be opened before the first of July, according accord-ing to the statement that the Indian agent who has charge of the reservation has just published. This will throw open to settlement a million acres of agricultural, grazing and mineral land, and a great immigration is expected. Moyle, attorneys, the account for the plans of tho Heaver opera house for collection. col-lection. The present condition of the water furni-died to consumers in Park City is indeed a sad commentary on th. town. And it is verv doubtful if'the conditions will be changed this year. .Park City Miner. The ecclesiastical hoard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints at Spanish Fork has purchased a valuable piece of property on what is known as the Fast Pencil, for the purpose of erecting a meeting house. The edilice. will cost $;!o,(l()0. The long expected improvements at the U P. depot have been matin and we hasten to add that no expense has been spared to do tho work up completely, l'ullv a half dozen strips of batting have been nailed on to keep out the sunshine and showers, and we are authorized to state that the said strips will be paiuled soon, Nephi Fnsign. While out- hunting his horses John Richie came across the remains of the little daughter of Thomas ilrown. The readers of the Wave all remember the accident at the Haglcy ford about five weeks ago when two children were drowned and only one af the bodies recovered; re-covered; this is the body of the missing child. When found it was buried in mud and sand except its feet which were iu sight. Wasatch Wave. IDAHO NOTES- The Insane asylum directors have added forty acres' to the asylum farm by purchase. Cattle are dying in numbers on the Sijuaw creek range, and a big loss of young calves is complained of. Idaho City will soon vote on the proposition to levy a lax of 0 mills on the dollar to buibl a schoolhouse. Judge V. Stamps Andorson loft Hailey last Saturday for London, Eng., expecting to be gouo a month or two. John H. Duray of Salmon Citv, on Monday of last week, blew his brains out. He had been driukiug aud also losing heavily at cards. The Boise Democrat will hereafter appear as a semi-weekly again The publisher states that he has lost nearly :i0(l0 in the attempt to run a daily, and no increase in business has been perceptible. per-ceptible. It is rumored that tho horses stolen from Peter Crogan last fall, with a lot more stolen stock, has been found in one of the Snake river basins in Cassia county, the thieves not having been able to run them out of the country yet. Silver City Avalanche. l)r. Watkins received a small package by express Tuesday, but it was worth a good deal of money. It came directly lrom Dr. Koch's laboratory in lierlin, and contained two glass bulbs with one drop of pure lympth in each, also the same number of bulbs of sterilized water. Moscow Star. H. C. Githons, familiarly known as "K-Hituck." a veteran of tho Mexican war, and a resident of Fast Fork, ro- I t . 0,,. 1 1-11(1 ..r.jm. ceiveu ueiweeti e-iuu " .ni. money this week. This money was unite a windfall to tho old man, who is Hearing three score and ten too old to work for a living. Ketchum Keystone. Caldwell has been designated by the postollice department as the town iu Idaho for the lirsl trial of the free delivery system. The appropriation is small, and tho matter of obtaining a sufficient appropriation for the establishment estab-lishment of the free delivery system in the state depends upon the success of the experiment to be made in Caldwell. Few streams anywhere are better supplied with trout than Wood river and its tributaries. Largo numbers of men and boys are engaged almost daily in taking the shining little delicacies from their waters, and have been for years, and yet it is a common thing for iishermen to bring in from ten to twenty pounds as the result of less than a day's tishing. NEVADA NOTES. The people of Lamoille valley are raising funds with which to build a parsonage. par-sonage. The Shoshone and Piute Indians aro holding a "peace fandango" in Austin aud Hattle Mountain. J. Ii. Gansner is down from Bridge station. He has discovered a small vein of copper near the station. Central Cen-tral Novadan. Tho marble works at Fssex are shipping ship-ping three carloads of sawed marble to Sau Francisco every week, where it is used in the Mills building. The wool clip in Lander county will bo WO.OOO pounds, worth Id, 000. Of this amount 100,000 pounds are from the neighborhood of liattlo Mountain. It is said that the early mormon settlers set-tlers used the roi'k which is now mined in Calico district, for grindstones, aud subsequnetty bad the same melted when found to be wbrh $"iU(J per ton. Virginia Enterprise. Many adventurous spirits are finding their way from Nevada and California into the new miniug district recently discovered in Nye county. The first locations were made by George Montgomery. Mont-gomery. Walker Lako bulletin. A force of men fs at Mason valley engaged en-gaged in dinging a ditch to convey water wa-ter from the river to the new flour mill. The mill will be riiuninjf next fall and will grind the wheat produced iu Mason, Smith and Antelope valleys. |