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Show NEWS OF THE WEST. ITEMS WORTH READINCCLIPPED FROM THE COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANCES Utah ami Her Neighbors Si.sd I'p la Nutshell -Notes I'olish I'p ami Put Into the liriefest Possible Pos-sible Space. Logan is raisins; a hospital fund, A postoflice has been established at Peterlioro, C ache couuty. Mrs. Ilulda Cannon of Losran was fined IT.50 for letting her tongue wag. The house of Mrs. Gurnida Torgeson at Logan was banted to the grouud yesterday. Brigham City is bnsy making jtrelimiuary surveys for her water works. Chas. O'Connell escaped from the reform school at Ogdon Wednesday morning shortly after midnight. County Assessor Dix and eight assistants arc taking the census and' statistical reports re-ports of We her county for the year ending next June. Adolph Anderson of Logan, hoot and shoe .dealer, has assigned. No schedule has yet been filed. The property assigned amounts to about 19000, Christian Anderson of Newton was arrested ar-rested on Monday by Deputy Corey upon the charge of cohabitation. Be appeared before Commissioner Goodwin and gave bonds to appear on the 20th. His daughter was arrested , at the same time for fornication fornica-tion and grve bonds to appear at the same time and place. The Brigham Bugler says: "'Deputy Sheriff Brown of Promontory brought a half-witted shcepberder In from the mum' west of Terrace. Ho is a smart looking young fellow of about '21 years of age. His name is John K. Johnson. His mind became dcr .nged but a short time ago, the cause for this malady not being known. He is not j yet fur enough gone, say Drs. Wade and C'arringlon. to justify bin being sent to tho asylum. He is constantly pouring over his trusly Bible and earnestly implores everyone every-one to be bia friends. Johnson, in lucid momenta, says he has relatives in Stuilhiicld. His recovery is hoped for." IDAHO NOTES. - Boise pays iUO pel year for street illum ination. Ihe isiinu mine at Kooky Har turned out a 16000 gold brick last month. A Kill-pound timber wolf was brought town with poisoned bait near Tioise. A meatizig of superintendents of graded kehoolB and county superintendents will be held at Boise, March 23. The Mineral Point, Nellie, Emma and Gray Kagle claims at Osboru, in the Creur d'Alene COUUty, have beeu sold to St. l'aul parties. A few weeks ago the skeleton of a huge iotatodon was found in the bluffs of the Snake river between the mouths of the Boise and Welaar in Ada county. One of the tusks was ten foot long and the same milliner milli-ner of inches in diameter at its thiekest point. WYOMING NOTES. A big wolf chase will probably be held near Laramie next summer, Laramie threatens to copper Cheyenne's smelter with a beet sugar factory. Tho lignite coal found near (Jillettc is being be-ing shipped to neighboring towns. Over -S(Hio has boon subscribed toward the erection of au Episcopal cathedral in Laramie. Lar-amie. A ditch projec ted for Albany county will litigate T mm i acres and require $i:,ooo for building. Tho Black Fork eanal near Rrider will irri pale rili.lKKI nores of laud. It will be twenty, live miles long. The Saraloga un reports that ore from the Kairvioiv proepeel assayed $3()t iu gold to the tou. Gold Hill revels in a carnival of the beautiful. beau-tiful. Uuriug the past four months the total pmowtaTt was twenty-seven Met four and a half inches. Information received in Laramie is to the effect that Gfcorge Eykin's shofep, which have, been ranging on Seven Mile had drifted away during the storm last week, and that many of them had not vet been found. Several hundred arc still missing. ' A'trnin of seven loaded cars, with brakes on, was left standing on the main line near Simpson, while the remainder of the train was pulled up tho hill. Owing to a leak in the air, the hrakes wore unloosed anil the cars rolled down trade. They dashed tin- otigh Allan station at a lifty-uiiie gail and continued on their wild ear. or to within three miles of Medicine Bow, where they stoiicd, having traveled over twenty miles without meeting an obstruction. . . COLORADO NOTES. Snow is veny badly drifted in Crested Unite. The fine large eohonlliouc at House will lie completed by Kehruury Another daily paper will soon be started at Creede. Two Aspen snow shoers are said to have run down and captured a coyote recently. Lewis Whipple, a well known Colorado pioneer, died in Colorado Springs at the age of Tn rears. Loveland has the only democratic postmaster post-master in the stale. A postollice has been established at Gtis-ton, Gtis-ton, Ouray county, Colorado, with Jonathan Longmire as postmaster. Mrs. (corec Youngineer was shot and in-etanlly in-etanlly killed at (Irceley. It is not known whether it was murder or suicide. (ireeley litis two brass bands, three orchestras, or-chestras, eighteen secret societies, a Sorosis, politico-economic club, university extension circle, ministerial society, two foot-ball idubs, three debating societies, Ave base ball clubs, a danciu": society, whist dub, a colonels' club, cloven progressive euchre organizations and a dramatic association. |