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Show 3from TRtab Cities an6 tovns. county clerk about ?Sio, according tns books. An elaborate programme baa been prepared pre-pared for the celebration of Columbus day. llarry Fennimore will deliver an oration on "Patriotism in the Public Schools." Several speeches, songs and declamations will be rendered by various pupils of the schools and the anniversary bids fair to be a complete com-plete success. George L. Wall, government timber inspector, in-spector, has started out on a tour of investigation. investi-gation. He goes to look after some alleged violations of the law in San Pete county. Alexander Dawson and family of Kays-ville Kays-ville are visiting the family of S. X. Slaughter. The two men are recalling ancient memories of their first meeting iu Cape Town, South Africa, in 1860. Politics is bubbling in this city, but the sentiment of all parties is to select school trustees with a view to getting the best men for the position regardless of party affiliations. af-filiations. IIou. Richard W. Young and Judge J. W. Norrell have been 6tumping the county in most all the time. Hon. John T. Caine and Aaldemmr Van Cott have presented the Democratic doctrines to the voters of the county, and Hon. Frank J. Cannon and George Sutherland have shown the side of American protection to the satisfaction of the people. Sevier county is all right and will roll up a Republican majority in November. No-vember. . A new mail route is proposed between our city and Beaver by way of Clear Creek canyon. Petitions are being circulated for signatures asking the postal authorities to establish the roule and have postofiices at Sulphur Beds and at some point iu Clear Creels canyen. Hon. W. II. King of Provo, a candidate for Democratic favors in the nomination of a candidate for delegate to congress, has been delivering stump speeches throughout the county the past week. Hans Gottfredsen of JSalina, Carl Barnsen, Clerk of Piute county, and Joseph Levie of Joseph City, have organizsd a new mining min-ing company. They will onerate in the Gold Mountain district. The prospects of th Ri taurant and store. Frank Hawley Is talking of bujlding a hotel at this place. Henry Mace has built a five-room residence at Deseret. Fish Springs ore continues to come in. Another 20-ton shipment has been made. There are three threshing machines at work here, and the people are already troubled about finding a place of storage. There is no flouring mill in town. The shooting season is on and the ducks are fiuding it out. We have the hunter's paradise at our very doors. Mr. Alexander came in the other day with a load of carp from his lake, where with one sweep of the seine he caught two wagon loads. The lakes below here are alive with this kind of fish. Jay. KANAB COSSIP. Kane county is in the field and fighting under the Republican banner. She held her county convention at Orderville on the 27th inst. and nominated a strong Republican ticket. The Hon. Frank J. Cannon was with us disease to be removed and provides for the punishment of those selling unwholesome food. All the coal mines give Indications of a big output during the winter months. The Grass Creek mine has ordered a new boiler and will take out more coal than iu the past. A large new hoist has been put in the Wasatch mine. Work is being pushed on the Alien Hollow, operated by the Chalk Creek company, and it is thought coal will be struck soon. Mrs. W. W.'Cluff will take charge of the Coalville house in a few days, and the present pres-ent manager, Miss Lizzie Ball, will retire. J. II. Ball will soon quit the Weber house, and the owner, J. S. Salmon, will repaint and remodel the house and assume control The machinery was supplied by an Eastern firm through Charles Kemp, their agent. It will be in running order in a few weeks. Trout fishing is almost over for this season. sea-son. Honors are evenly divided between Colonel J. C. Liddle of the Occidental hotel aud A. E. Howard of Ogden, who has been stopping here during the summer. A series of foot races were run on the public squares last Saturday. Racing is a form of dissipation which is irresistible to 1 the average citizen of this Dlace. The contestants con-testants were P. H. Candland,tW'ill Kennedy, W. H. Bean, R. G. Schroder, Charlie Huston and Frank Ivie. It was a handicap aud they run in pairs first. Next, the winners of the first race. Frank Ivie carried otf both the honors and boodle. The addresses of Frank J. Cannon and George Sutherland delivered here lust week had tbe true rintf about them. Your correspondent cor-respondent has taken the trouble to muke a number of inquiries to learn what was accomplished? We find a number num-ber who have been sitting astride the political politi-cal fence have jumped down on the Republican Repub-lican side, and announce the fact they will vote tlie Republican ticket hereafter. The-people The-people are learning rapidly what Democratic professions amount to and are getting in ! line with the party of truth and progress. If the election was held to-morrow a number num-ber of counties in this vicinity would give a majority for the Republican ticket. The good work is still iroinjr on, aud it looks now that Mr. Cannon will be elected by a handsome majority. A number of people from Panquitch were PARK CITY- The Democrats have nominated the following fol-lowing ticket for county officers of Summit county: For nisessor and collector, G. W. Groo of Park City jsherifT. J. M. Harrington, Park City; treasurer, G. U. Youni, Wannhip ; selectmen, John Shields and E. Kimball, ; Turk City, and James Bromley, Echo; county clerk, Willard Smith, Coalville; recorder, re-corder, John Borden, Coalville; prosecuting attorney, D. B. Tewksbury, Park City. C. V. Jenkins has completed his labors as assistant registration officer. Over 200 new names were added to the list of voters and still there are several legal voters not yet registered. Thomas Cupit and John II. Rogers are the candidates of the Liberal party for justices of the peace in this precinct. Joseph F. Robinsou and John F. Collins are the nominees nomi-nees for constable. Jutlire W. I. Snyder, county prosecntinjr attorney, has been requested by the Liberals to rer-ign his position, since he has announced an-nounced himself as a divisionist Republican. He has submitted a letter for publication I which explains his position ana eives his reasons for being a Republican. His resignation resigna-tion will not be offered. C. A. Short, superintendent of schools, has made a fine collection of maps, charts, minerals and different workmanship of the teachers and puDils of the county. These will be exhibited at the territorial fair. Prof. E. J. Daily of Virginia City, Nev., has established a dancing school iu the old Lawrence hall. of the hotel. E. Kimball and W. H. Smith, county selectmen, se-lectmen, have made measurements for a new bridge across the Weber river at Wan-ship. Wan-ship. This expected improvement will be gladly accepted by the people of the county. Frank Olsen of Salt Lake City will take charge of the Summit Stake academy at this place. The school will open on Monday the 10th inst. WANT!. Politics engages the minds of most of our citizens and keeps them constantly thinking. Frank J. Cannon and George Sutherland have stirred up the Republicans and John T. 1 Caine and Waldemar Van Cott have made the Democrats more enthusiastic. The extension from Salina to this city are very flattering. We expect to soon be able to report re-port that work, has actually been begun and that the road will be built. Oscar Rose was, last week, arrested for stealing a pig fromLorenzo Nielsen last February. A jury trial was demanded, and after hearing all the evidence the defendant was pronounced guilty. Ho was fined tZj and costs, but a notice of an appeal was filed immediately. C. B. Pash of Ogden appeared ap-peared as attorney for Rose.. HEBER. Miss Allen, teacher of the New West school, met with a severe accident a few days ago. While walking along the sidewalk she was struck by a cow running run-ning in an oblique direction. The animal tossed her head and struck the young lady in the groin with her horns. A gash about four inches long was cut in the young lady's groin. She is getting along very well under the circumstances, although Dr. Lindsay at first pronounced the wouud as dangerous. Tuesday evening, October 4. We are persecuted with a long drouth that will cause a heavy loss of cattle and some sheep this winter. Our large dam is thus far a success and we arc reveling in its results. Watermelons, grapes, peaches, pears, apples, etc., in endless end-less profusion. People are becoming convinced con-vinced of its stability and are improving their streets, fences and barns, and are vie-ing vie-ing with the north in the building of fine houses. We have a master mechanic from Salt Lake to superintend, and several nice dwellings are going up. Fall shearing has commenced in earnest, and a good clip is sure. Wool teams are on the way to Salina now, our nearest railroad station. Mr. J. M. Walker, of Siawter & Walker, Salt Lake, artists, is here on his way south to St. George. KoxiK. Notts From the Capital of I'Jntah, County. Vernal, Sept. 25. The political situation situa-tion iu our section has been somewhat the interest of Democracy. Frank J. Con-non Con-non and Georg Sutherland propose presenting pre-senting the Republican side of protection to American industries. The Union Pacific as usual gives good rates for conference and the fair and several of our citizens will visit the capital during the week. A leap year ball will be given by the young ladies on the evening of the Columbus Colum-bus day celebration. A feature of the occasion occa-sion will be that all the ladies will wear the national colors. Edward Fernley left last Monday for Liverpool, Liver-pool, where he will be assigned to a missionary mission-ary field. Wade Nicholas, sentenced by Judge Miner to imprisonment for twenty-five years for murder, was this week taken to the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. The motion for a new trial was overruled. over-ruled. The grand jury has found ten indictments under territorial law and seven under the United States statutes. Twelve cases brought before that body, after due investigation, investi-gation, were dismissed. John Lo-Ab, found guilty of murder, was sentenced by Judge Miner to eight years in the penitentiary. NEPHI. lines seem to be pretty equally drawn. A branch of the Merchants- Retail Commercial Com-mercial agency of Chicago was organized at a meeting held at L. T. Tuttle's store last week. Its object is to protect retail merchants mer-chants from the impositions of dishonest buyers. The officers are: President, W. T. Reid of Manti; vice-president, John Lowry of Manti; secretary and treasurer, Alex. Tenuant, Manti; executive board, Hans Gottfredsen, Gott-fredsen, Salina; John Larsen and W. H. Gribble. Gunnison: L. F.Becker and C. II. Tennant, Manti. in Salina Monday night. They were going to Salt Lake City toattend the fair and conference. con-ference. The drouth in some of the counties of southern Utah is very severe. In a strip of country north of the Colorado river cattle are dying by the hundred. Some of the owners fear their loss will exceed 50 per cent of their herds. This is not all. Feed on what they call their winter range is burnt up and owners of Lerds are at a loss to know what to do. The postponement of the races at Salt Lake City interfered with the plans of one man at least. J. E. Forshee brought back his horses Monday. He said he was unable Jo stay on account of some previous arrangements ar-rangements he had made. COALVILLE. The Republican county convention will be held at Coalville 011 Saturday, October 15, at which time candidates for county officers will be put in nomination. Will L. Ball and Eliza Reddish were married last week at the residence of the groom's father. Thomas Ball, sr., performed per-formed the ceremony, after which an elegant ele-gant supper was served to the several invited guests. It seems to be the sentiment of our leading lead-ing citizens that in the election cf school trustees no politics should be recognized E. L. Kimball went down to Provo last week and returned with a bride in the person per-son of Miss Annie Sutton. Mr. F. W. Hart will entertain the Ladies' society of the Congregational church at her residence on Friday, the 7th inst. The yearly reports will be rend, new officers elected, and a supper will bo served by the entertaining committee. Columbus day will be appropriately celebrated cele-brated by the pupils of the district schools. Henry II ire chin an, who has been one of the prominent merchants of the city ever since its infancy, is closing out his stock and winding up hii financial affairs, preparatory prepar-atory to leaving the city. diaries Lnofborouu'k and Sex Snyder have leaned the Black Diamond and Nimrod mining claims from Henry liirschman and are pushing development work. Dr. Le Compte has purchased a twelve horse-power engine inul a fifteen horsepower horse-power boiler for his concentrator in Thayer's cnyi u. The machinery will be put in shortly. E. 11. Buchanan, editor of the Record, has gone on a four weeks' trip to visit relatives and friends in Missouri. M. C. Sculley left on Monday for an extended ex-tended visit to his old home iu Corry, Pa. Some think that a young lady will return to the mountains with him. E. D. Clyde, H. M. Aird and A. Wootton have been selected as a committee on the , World's fair from the Wasatch County Educational Edu-cational association. The teachers have also signified their intention of celebrating Columbus Co-lumbus day in an appropriate manner. They have decided that they could not take any active part in the territorial fair this fall. The People's Roller Mill compvjy has been organized, and filed articles of incorporation incor-poration with the county clerk. The board of directors and principal stockholders are: Mark Jeffs, David Van Wagenen, John M. Murdock, Orson Lee and Yilford Van Wagenen. Wag-enen. Mark Jells is president and Dvid Van Wagenen is vice-president. The capital capi-tal stock is placed at $iK)ao, divided into shares of $100 each. Work is about completed on the new scboolhouse, and the building begins to indicate in-dicate that school days are coming. The county court has advertised for bids for plant for a bridge over the Provo river at the bead of Provo canyon, near William Wright's. The successful architect will receive re-ceive t35 dollars for the plan if the specifications specifi-cations do not exceed $700 as cost of the bridge. . This indicates that a bridge will soon be built, and travel made better on that road. Postoffice Inspector Nichols has been mixed. Three parties have been working, and it was supposed that the Democrats and Republicans would unite on one ticket to defeat the Alliance. These arrangements are now declared off and each party will probably put a ticket in the field. Professor Nelson G. Sowards began the second year of the Uintah stake academy on Monday, the 3d inst. The tuition is $6 per term, payable in advance in cash'or grain. R. C. Camp, county prosecuting attorney, made an unsuccessful appeal to the county court at its last session to have his salary increased in-creased to $-100 per year the former price. The county ofliciils stoutly refused, and he was given a warrant for $77 in full payment of salary for the last quarter. The regular Democratic county convention conven-tion to nominate candidates for county offices will be held at Workman's hall, Vernal, Ver-nal, on the 2'ud of this month. Primaries will be fceld in the four precincts on the h'-h. The apportionment of delegates is as follows: fol-lows: Vernal 12, Ashley 7, Riverdale 4, Mountain Dell 3. James II. Black and Conrad Franks have ordered a steam drill, and when it arrives will bore for artesian water in this valley. They" are competitors for the 51000 prize recently re-cently offered by the county court for an artesian well, and it is hoped they will succeed. The primary fair held last week attracted considerable attention and was a credit to the ladies and children who contributed to make it a success. A separator and traction engine en-gine built by Merrill Brown, John Brown aud Martinus Kane was a fine piece of workmanship. work-manship. A Bplendid parade was made through the principal 6treets, and all voted that the children were entitled to . much praise. Tbe Nephi brass band has been organized with nine instruments. It is expected that the number will be almost doubled in a short time. W. W. Jenkins is leader and George Foote manager. J. N. Pexton and wife of Salina have been visiting relatives and friends in "Little Chicago" Chi-cago" for several days. They returned home the first of this week. The Nephi Athletic club has fitted up a The Columbus day committee has appointed ap-pointed Ezra Shoemaker permanent chairman, chair-man, E. II. Gregory, secretary, and George Scott, treasurer. Arrangements are being made for having a creditable celebiation. John S. Lindsay and his troupe gave two very fine performances at Grier's hall last week. "L nder One Flag" and "The Octoroon" Octo-roon" were both well rendered and elicited much applause from the large audiences. John P. Horseley met with an accident last week which will lay him up for a few days. While out driving the horse became frightened at a dog and ran away. The vehicle was upset aud Horsely and his sister were thrown. He held to the reins and was dragged some distance which resulted in fracturing bis left arm. Miss Horsely escaped es-caped unhurt. Guy Nelson was severely injured on Monday Mon-day by being struck with a board. He was on a woodpile when the board was dropped against the wood and bouncing up, struck him and knocked him off the pile, breaking his right arm. A large delegation of our people are attending at-tending conference and the territorial fair this week. John James, representing The Times, interviewed in-terviewed our leading citizens during the past week, and secured a large list of subscribers sub-scribers for both the weekly and daily. Considerable complaints have been made regarding the waterworks and system of 1 taxation. SALINA HAPPENINCS- A few teams loaded with wool arrived in toM n witliiu the last two or three days. These teams comprise the advance guard of the host that will be required to haul in the fall clip. It is estimated that nearly one million dollars dol-lars will be paid out before the end of the season for wool shipped from Salina during this year. Jesse Goodfellow, a wool buyer from Salt Ltke City, has arrived and taken up quarters quar-ters for the fall season. Captain Whitlock brought in a small clip of wool last Saturday, about SOW pounds, which was purchased by Jesse Goodfellow. The people of Maytield have commenced a large reservoir on 1 wtlve Mile creek. The water which goes to waste through this creek in one year would irrigate a large section sec-tion of country. This reservoir will be large enough to store the water until such time as it is needed. They hope to have it completed com-pleted in time for next year's crop. Maytield will soon have a new roller mill. I room over Gage & Edgehill s saloon. Ihe first meeting was held this week and the members are very enthusiastic over the success suc-cess of the club. J. Frank Pickering's Mandolin Club and Panorama of Utah exhibited here the other night to a good audience. Rev. Wilson has been assigned to the Presbyterian church at this place. He arrived ar-rived last week and seems well pleased with the outlook for work in "Little Chicago." The Democratic drum corps appears in new blue caps, trimmed with gold, and carrying car-rying small torch lamps. Albert Woods and Ettie nenroid were united in marriage last Wednesday at tbe residence of Alfred Lund. Judge Charles Foote performed the ceremony. The festivities fes-tivities closed by a grand ball in the evening. Carroll & Freed, who have charge of the old Erixign plant, are making a good paper under the new name, the Courier. RICHFIELD. Politics waxeth warm in this city. Dur ing the past week we have been rallying and only men selected on their merits. Politics Poli-tics seems to have taken a firm hold on the people, and in everything we hear of politics first, last and all the time. A party of Coalvilleites returned a few days ago from an expedition to Yellowstone park. Mayor Beard has a fine lot of about one hundred photographs taken on the route. C. D. Evans of Spriugville delivered a lecture on Wednesday evening on the sub- ject of: "What Can Atheism and Infidelity I Teach Us." lie is a good speaker and had j an appreciative audience. I Our quiet little city again has a news- j paper. The Chronicle was supposed to have j ceased to exist, but last week It came out under new management and enlarged to a seven-column foiio. E. E. Newell is editor of the new paper, which will be independent in politics and religion. The city council at its last meeting revised re-vised the ordinance pertaining to sanitary regulations and will hereafter enforce it, in order to prevent any epidemics. The new ordinance requires alt filth, dead animals, pools of stagnant water and other causes of making a thorough examination of our postal pos-tal route. He recommends a change in schedule time, so that the mail will leave Wallsburg at about 6 o'clock a. m. and arrive ar-rive at Heber at 9 a. m., in time to catch the Park City mail. The carrier would then remain re-main in Heber till 4 p. m. and take the mail from Park City back with him. OASIS BRIEFS- The people were entertained one night this week1 by Hon. Ben E. Rich of Ogden, who spoke in behalf of the Republican principles. princi-ples. Several converts were made for the party. Times are picking up here. There are several buildings in the course of erection, and others are being talked of. Joseph Huff, formerly of Provo, is building a 40-foct 40-foct fjont, and contemplates running a res- A new schoolhonse is one of the improvements improve-ments to be added to our pleasant town in the near future. Bids will be opened on Saturday, the 1st inst. The house is to be 25x36 feet inside with fourteen foot ceiling. The following pupils are reported by R. L. Woodcock of the intermediate department depart-ment of the district school as perfect iu deportment de-portment during the first school month: Ada Ashton, Ada Rich, Elizabeth Popo, Alice Bahen, Nellie Nobles and Hope Blank-inship. Blank-inship. Three pupils, Elizabeth Pope, Rachel Ra-chel Merkley and Frank McCarroll, were not absent or tardy during the month. "Whose your tailor V Try Buckle A Son, Main St., opposite Walker house. -- Arcadian Waukesha Water. L. W. Ditt-man, Ditt-man, Agent Telephone 384. There is nothing to equal Hygeia. BEAVER. j The grand jury appointed M. O. Billings 1 and W. C. Reilly to investigate the charges against county officials recently published in the Utonian. In the report the committee stated that the books and conveniences furnished fur-nished by the county are inadequate to the purpose; that the records have been mutilated; muti-lated; that the county court destroys all warrants after they are paid instead of retaining re-taining them, and that there is now due the |