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Show Copper company several months a so for $1."'.U9 ami tS,C"0 wrs to be rfiU September Sep-tember 1, ;. .The balance will be in payments of Jti'.Oo each, the first falling due July 1st ani the other three at Intervals Inter-vals of ninety days. RAWLINS: Oliver H. Pauteen and E, R. Roe were brought -to Rawlins yesterday yester-day on a charge of selling liquor without license. They were arraigned before a Justice of the Peace and bound over t (he District court lr the sum of $2 each. They are conducting a drug- store on Brush creek, about Iwenty-three . miles from Saratoga, near a tie camp, i - N ' ' - Nevada. ."ELKO: Dr. C. Alexander, Mrs. Seymour Sey-mour Jacobs and Mrs. George Letter returned re-turned Thursday from Salt Lake City, where they had been with the body and 'to attend the burlnl of their father, the )ate Jacob Alexander. . ... - ( NEWS FROM j I FOUR STATES. man; -:. SPRINGVILLEi W. C. Cooper of Sprlngville, proprietor of the City drug store, was given his sentence yesterday by Justice Boyer on two- convictions for Illegal whisky selling. He was fined 375 and given twenty-five - days' imprison- frtent on one case and 370 and thirty days' mprlsonment on the other. He took an appeal to the Disyict court. . STERLING: Warren Petty, a resident of Sterling, died of d-iphtheria Tuedav last. He was a son-in-law of Daniel Buckley Funk of Sterling and left a family, fam-ily, the .wife of the deceased being dangerously dan-gerously ill at the present time. PRICE: Freighters and others, over the Vernal route, state that the recent warm weather is beginning to tell on the road and within two weeks it will be almost al-most Impossible to eet over the road with a loaded wagon. They say that the road this spring is apt to get in the condition It was several years ago., when, for nine months, it took four horses to pull a buck-board buck-board through the Nine-Mile canyon, ! SPRINGVILLE: The bids for the con. tracts for the new -schoolhouse In Bpring- Iville were opened yesterday and the con-ract con-ract was awarded to Anderson & Rey-olds Rey-olds of Sprlngville for 3'i5S0.16. The contract con-tract for the heating plant for the building build-ing was awarded to Perpone & Healon of Provo for 31185. Work will commence on the building as soon as the weather Will permit . -. r -.. ' &ICHFIELD: Reports from the various vari-ous precincts where the grasshoppers appeared ap-peared last year are that it is generally believed the storms and extreme cold of this winter have destroyed the fertility of the eggs deposited by the hoppers in the fall, and that this year the county will rot be bothered by the pests. The ground had become unusually wet early in the winter and became frozen to a considerable con-siderable depth. At the time of the laf v cold snap there was not a great deal of anow on the ground, so that the intense cold penetrated below the depth of the eggs. ' ' ; LOGAN: Catherine A. Ashment of Logan Lo-gan filed suit yesterday for divorce from James G. Ashment. alleging cruelty as the. grounds for the decree. The couple were married in 18S8 in Smlthlleld and have five children. The plaintiff alleges that her husband "has repeatedly beaten and abused her. She, states that on July 24, 1900, he Struck her in the' mouth With hia fist, knocking out many of her teeth, and then-beat her until she was nearly senseless. She asks for divorce, the custody cus-tody of the children and alimony. MANTI: A petition was sent to the i City Councirof OTsntl at its last session, asking that the Council take necessary steps to have a decree of court rendered, establishing the several water rights of the people. Steps will be taken to this effect, as a committee for that purpose waa appointed. This matter was upon the suggestion of some members of the farm- ers institute so actively in operation Jn the city. Meetings of this organization are held once each' week. PROVO: Frederick M. "Webb, aged fe, and Jennie Allred, aged 22, both of Lehl, have been granted a marriage license. BRIGHAM: At the meeting of the Brlgham City Council last evening an agreement was reached between the7 city and the old electric light company, according ac-cording to which the old plant and the labor performed by the old company" is to be appraised and the city will buy the property, rights and privileges belonging to the company. Idaho. BOISE: Word Is received In Boise that John Slett, aged 68 years, a pioneer of the Basin, lost his life on the trail between Pioneer and Rock creek some time during the past week. The supposition is that Slett became fatigued and. lylpg down, froze to death. Slett left Pioneer Friday to go to Rock creek, but failed to rtach his destination. A searching party started start-ed over .the trail and found the body. BOISE: Louis Richie of Boise died yes-terdav yes-terdav afternoon while in a plunge bath at the Natatorium. Heart failure was i the direct cause of his death. BOISE: Consideration of the beet 'sugar 'su-gar bounty bill brought on a hard all-day fieht in the Senate yesterday. Final pas- sage will not be reached until this afternoon. after-noon. All the Democrats and Senator" Brlgham, Republican, are opposed to the measure. . POCATELLO: William H. Edward, who shot and killed Louis Lackenby at Soda Springs, was acquitted of the charge of. murder by a -jury in Judge Budges court yesterday afternoon. The Jury was out thirty minutes. BOI8E: Tbe House' yesterday passed House bills creating the office of lumber Inspector, for election of road overseers, amending tire militia law, for payment of employees In money, extending toll road franchises, appropriating 312.000 for Albion Al-bion normal school, appropriating 330.000 for a road from ldiho City to Thunder mountain snd creating the office of game warden. The House passed the Senate bill providing a penalty for injurylng electric elec-tric lines. - ' POCATELLO: A telegram was received re-ceived bv the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce-from Senator Fred T. Dubois yesterday yes-terday stating that the House conferees on the Indian appropriation bill refused absolutely to asree to the amendment which Senator Dubois had tacked on to the bill, providing, for the entry at 32.50 per acre of the lands in the five-mile limit of Pocatello.' This means that these lands cannot now be entered until after Congress meets again. ' Wyoming. RAWLINS: A check for 325.000 was re-ceived re-ceived yesterdajt at the Rawlins National bank covering the second payment on the Kerrls-Hasrarty mine In the Battle Lake district, which falls due March 1st. This mine was bought by the North American |