Show il linia w craze we have just had an illustration of the wisdom of president brigham youngs policy in discouraging mining during ring pioneer times in utah mon men will go wild over minin mining g quicker than over any other pursuit the rumor of a gold discovery entirely upsets some people they are ready to drop everything else and hunt bunt for tho the yellow metal gold was reported di discovered covered near lake shore and without confirming the truth of the report in a single ni night lit hund hundreds redi of staid and steady farmers rushed for the ground and commenced making locations one was a little behind so bishop argyle of lake shore reports to secure a location on the supposed lode and as lie he watched his neighbors digging on their claim he said 11 1 1 I 1 will give you adee a deed dright right now to my house and farm for a sixth interest in your mine that little incident shows just juit ho w excited men will get over mining matters home seems nothing to them when the visions of wealth from mining get possession of their brain had the pioneers pursued these fancies the prospects would indeed have been slim for the permanent settlement 1 of these obese valleys i today the people are differently situated from what the pioneers were starvation cannot well result from any mining excitement the farms are redeemed the canals are dug and the reeds and bridges are built there is no crying necessity for all available help to devote the entire time to the reclamation of the desert the men who now go wild over mines nia may injure themselves perhaps but their neglect of home duties will not be so great an injury to the community president youngs policy was the best thing and time tells it THERE seems to be a little too much letter writing on the late manifesto by men no authority in its interpretation the document is not designed to be a discomfiture to democrats any moret more than hanto to republicans it isan is an old doctrine of the church reassert reasserted by the manifesto and some who took partin part in a convention last fall denouncing noun cing the church for disciplining officers under that rule of course feel the effects now of their rashness 7 1 P would have been the same however if republicans had taken a like position PEOPLE in this vicinity get the mining fever badly every spring but it does not take such a virulent form i as in in colorado it is announced by the press of that state that one on man there has discovered a mineral which yields such rare metals as niobium ce cerium gium thorium yttrium uranium and others 0 of f enormous value one pound alone of some of them costing th thousands of dollars trie THE enterprising newspapers of the country contained a few days ago an alleged confession on the part of ff i H holmes of some twenty seven deaths that he had bad caused on the gallows the doomed man madeno made no confession he declared his inno innocence except in two cases where women died from criminal operations MAJOR mckinless McKin leys star is on the ascendant cen dant indiana also fell in line for him notwithstanding her 11 favori favorite te son gen harrson hamsun it begins t to look as though th the e leader of krotec zionists would get his nom nomination by acclamation |