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Show j YE EDITOR'S SHEARS. NEWS IN BRIEF BOILED DOWN FROM PARAGRAPHS SCISSORED AT LARGE. i Items From rimis Points iti L'tah Nuy-gets Nuy-gets KU-li in News From Nevada Mtitea of Intelligence Colorado Condeu-1 Condeu-1 sations Caught on the Fly. Ogdcn now denies that oil was struck iu ' the gas well. Last week was an exciting one for Park Jity. There was a murder, three flgts, a ailroad accident and a prominent citizen ied. The Lehi B aw wains its readers against awindlini? tree egents as follows: "'Sweet is the reward of virtue,' but 'hell' is a lit tics ination for the tree agent who palms oft sage brush and cactus on the unsuspecting ind gullible fanner under the name of 'gew-hilliken 'gew-hilliken gooseberry' and 'tumbledown apple tree.'" Geo. Q. Rich of Logan purchased a lialoon Wednesday afternoon. The sheriff sold it on an attachment and execution that was issued from Commissioner Goodwin's court. The amount paid by Mr. Rich was $75. Mr. Rich was asked by the reporter what It is object was lor buying a baloou, anil Mr. Rich stated that he was going to oifer it to some of those Democrats w ho had declared that they would leaves town if the election went against them. The Richmond Irrigation company lias been organized hnd the following officer elected: Directors, W. K. Burnham, George Thompson, Eli Webb, F. M. Bell and Hiram Bair; secretary, EH Webb; treasurer, treas-urer, J. C. Whittle. But that enterprising little city did not stop there and w ithin a week she incorporated a new mining district dis-trict bounded ou the north and east by the county lino, on the south by the Precinct bqiindary and on the west by the county .oad. The Recorder of "The Richmond 1 mining district is Mr. A. B. Harrison. I The Lehi Banner says: "Since the preva lence of diphtheria in our city the council have decided to prohibit all public frather- iugs so as to prevent any further s read of the dread plague. Last Friday a dance was to be given In the opera house but when the quarantine officers got wind of it they promptly put a stop to the affair. Then one of the council showed how much he cared for the welfare of his constituents for he got mad when told the dance must stop and seemed to think it should not be prevented, thus showing that lie held his own gains above the health of the city. Men with so little public should soon be relegated to private pri-vate life again und not trusted with affairs of the poopltj." NEVADA NOTES. Trenmnr Cofllu of Carson has allowed his wife's mother to he taken to the Agnew Insane Asylum as a pauper. The new management of the llale fe Nor-cross Nor-cross mine has mvde arrangements to have 1 its ore worked at the Brunswick mill ou the Carson river. In the district court at Winnemucca Judge ft Cheney sentenced John Lyons, convicted of an attempt to commit rape, to live years In ft the stale prison. H The t r...u .. aays that Theodore VV'iu-H VV'iu-H ters intends r give Bowers' Mansion to an P eastern syndicate w hich intends to convert H into a second Monte Carlo gambling 1 establishment. Judge Cheney of Winnemucca sentenced y W. H. Morrison to the penitentiary for two years and six mozths for a'temptidg to pass a counterfeit check purporting to lie signed by Peter French, the cattleman. The judg. in cut was vacated. Indians are congratulating themselves on the outlook. "Old Yank," the big medicine man of the Mono Piute gang, 6avs he smells good times and plenty of hogadi pretty soon. He wants to see ail the sipiaws at work, but dislikes to tackle manual labor himself. Joe Frey of Reno killed on the 17th lust, a 2-year-old steer weighing 05'i pouuds net. The calf was boru on the 2iith of January, 1MI0. and sucked the calf until u year old. He was the finest and fattest animal ever butchered In the state, as his weight shows-The shows-The beef was shipped to the Boca market. The White Pine Yew say t: Wo learn that the preliminary test made by W. N. McGill on Chaimnnu tailings with the cyanide pro during the past two weeks has been quite satisfactory, 80 per cent or more of the asaay value being saved. The Chainmau people will probably put up several large vats and operate on a large scale. COLORADO NOTES. The new court housu at Meeker is completed. com-pleted. One of the largest hardware stores at C'rccde has failed. Snow it lj'inir three feet deep iu the streets of Ked Mountain. Dr. Charles K. Crandall, one of the hest known pkftlclaM of Denfisr, died very suddenly sud-denly of nervous exhaustion caused hy over-work. William Steele, a youut; man employed in Wilder's saw mill near Trinidad, was acci-di acci-di ntally shot and killed bf a revolver iu the hands of a gunsmith named Pearson, Villa Park people want the city to build a bridge across the mill ditch ou Thirteenth avenue, in order that they may have an unobstructed un-obstructed thoroughfare into the city. Kico conies to the front with a rich silver strike which assays as high as $000 per ton. The Kico district, now that it is reached by the Rio (ironde Southern, will be a big producer pro-ducer of ore this season. Thomas CoBgrow, one of Leadville's pioneer?, pio-neer?, died in the County home. The de-ceased de-ceased was tK) years of age and has had au eventful history, lie was the part owner of several reputed valuable claims in the vicinity vi-cinity of the London mine, but preferred dying a pauper to disposing of them for what he considered less than their real value. N. C. Crcede, the owner of the Lant Chance and Mammoth mines at the new camp iu Colorado that bears his name, is a native of Illinois, and settled in Colorado in 1S70. He is a man slightly above tho medium me-dium height, somewhat lean, with sandy complexion, and 50 years of age, although lie looks much younger. After prnspecting for twenty vein all over Colorado, he now find hlnmclf a millionaire. Hn is said to be the most genial and u naif ected man in that dew field. i IDAHO NOTES. The 5-year old son of Henry Bock, a I rancher livingjrifew miles north of Shoshone, Sho-shone, while ftying near a large kettle ' partly fllledt, tli water, accidentally fell in and was (lr?ne"d. i V WeUenpfaptdly pusMng to the. front, and V 'J"we5prvament are talked of on every r , haou Eighteen hundred dollars has been eubscYibed tot the purpose of Binkiag artesian arte-sian wells on the flatbelow town. Tho ditch al"ng the foothills which now carries from loll) to 1200 inches of water, h to be en-larged en-larged by the new company which is about to purchase it, and will have a capacity of over 2000 inches. The Shoshone Journal saya: "It seems as if Boise City were going to have a cheap 1 Water ditch. The idea is to have the state I furnish con s to do the work, and Boise will furnish ' don't know what. No doubt the labb -nen of the state will raise objections to this, and it appear that they are expected to do so, such employment (if I rotivicts being directly opposed to the con-l con-l ttitutiou. |