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Show NEWS OF THE WEST. PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Brief Items from Various Point la the lerritory of t tali mid Newsy Note l-'roin tlie Neighboring State. The 1'rovo city council ha been asked for n natural gas franchise. Vanti takes the lead. During the holi-d-iv a new organization was effected in Miinll known as the "( nal Oil ( luh " The or(ianizatioii has a complete stall of otlicrs. The president, secretary and treasurer arc residents of Manti. The KvrnUni Mail of Ogden has suspended tmblieation "until next Monday." when it "expe ct to resume,", as "negotiation are now ponding which will place it on a tirm financial foundation." The.hWis at least worthy of commendation for 'his: It doesn't care its patron to find out for themselves that it hs quitj it nolities them in advance. The Ptoto DUtpateh ay: "A letter was received from C. 8, Burton of Denver, the gentleman who wa in Proto a short time snier looking up the b'tc mines, laying that be will lnve s force of men at work in less limn a month. The gentleman nought an interest in the slate claim owned by W. 8. Mjtonand Smith iV Unrlow. Thc-e c laim are sltiuited htuher up the canyon than that cf Hathenbruck." NEVADA NOTtiS. Thoma Koyou, an employ in the Taylor mill in Silver ( ity has gone insane. There are twenty miners in the Kennedy district who an developing prospect. V. ( Hancock, principal of Hie Battn Mountain school was married at that place to Miss Emma Huntsman. The Nevada bank at Ucno, is about to commence suits against siirners of the note to rnise the flOoo paid to Tiffanyand Stewart for a reservoir Mte on the Little Truokee. ( hnrles Colyer, working in the Hartford mine at Silver C'ity had his hand badly mutilated by the explosion of a giant cap. it was necessary to amputate the middle linger and the thumb. Tbe fiffur Stall tiyt: The good people of Carlin arc shocked and the gottipi made liappy over the elopement of the Iti year-old daughter of a shoemaker of that place with a well known conductor, formerly of the Humboldt but now of the Salt Lake division. It said that the irate father of the u'irl will make it warm for the conductor when he enow up in ( rlin. Says the Sierra Valley header: One of our Washoe Indians has a pair of gray ponies broken to drive together, and he made sh-d but broke out the pole, and used it without a pole. lie is the iirst W ashoe who ever owned a team here. The Washoe wre deprived de-prived of their ponies by the flute tribe a number of years ago, as punishment tor making war on that tribe, and about three years ago the punishment expired, and now most of them own ponies. COLORADO NOTES. Michael Llchtentbal, a former saloon keeper in Denver, committed suicide by taking strychnine. One of the in. ist prominent of I. a Jnnta'l improvements is a line school building built of stone and capable of seating 500 pupil in the eight rooms. Mrs. l.illia M. Miller, wife of Dr. Charlci HtUler of Fort Collin.-, died of heart failure tin the 17th, Di reused h:is been a resident of Fort Collins for twelve year. At the meeting of the farmers' alliance in l anou City It was decided to form a stock company for the purpose of publishing a party organ, and the njul Gonjr, now run by Messrs. Hiilton it ('Ulcus, will he m eund, and ere long the a liance people will have a mouth piece of their own. C'-reede camp promises to become a second l.cadville. The number of people going int. this wonderful camp is unprecedented in the history of Colorado, except only during the l.cadville excitcui' iit. it is estimated, that Ilow the townsile is located, that there will tie 1II.ISKI people III the eainp h -tllli. I. The new discovery is only reached by the Denver V Kio (jrande railroad, and there is no ataa log . |