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Show evsfro;.i ' I j FOUR STATES. "Utah. ,' ' MOUNT PLEASANT: The proposition to Install a system f waterworks in Mount Pleasantx has assumed definite form. The Council committee which has the matter in charge has visited Richfield and Salt Lake, and at a meeting held this week for the purpose reported its findings en(Kmade its recommendations- to the body of the Council. These recommendations recommenda-tions were adopted and the Council stands pledged to them.-' EPHRAIM: School trustees from nearly near-ly every school district of the .county met in the scademy building in Ephraim Saturday Sat-urday afternoon to consider the advisability advisa-bility of uniforming the school districts of this county, making it Into one-district, with one set of trustees to have charge of the whole county, instead of having the county in districts, as the present system is. By nearly unanimous vote they decided decid-ed not to uniform the school districts, but to 1 leave them as they are at present. They are opposed to the bill which was introduced In the Legislature having for its purpose the merging of all the districts In one oounty into one district.. PRICE: Representative Ed C Lee and his brother, A. J. Lee of Price, assumed management of the stage line from Pries to Vernal yesterday, Lee Bros, having relieved re-lieved H, B. Proutt of the mall contract for the coming three years and five months. All stock and equipment of the line has been purchased by Lee Bros. . SPRINGVILLE: . The Home Guard and Minute Men's association of 8prtngvlll held its annual reunion and campflre Friday Fri-day evening in Reynolds' hall. The hall was well filled with the Indian fighters and their friends. A banquet was served at 6 o'clock. The time from then on until un-til 1 o'clock was spent in dancing, speech-making speech-making and a general musical and literary liter-ary programme. . SCOFIELD: Harry Harvey, a Bix-year-old boy of Scofleld. died Saturday after drinking half a pint of whisky. He found the liquor in the absence of his mother and was unconscious when she returned. PARK CITY: Summit tent. No. 3. K. p. T. M., gave a pleasant entertainment in their hall Friday evening, when the members and their families listened to an interesting programme, consisting of music mu-sic (vocal and instrumental), recitations, etc. Delicious refreshments were served and the large attendance enjoyed an evening even-ing of j-eai pleasure. MOUNT PLEASANT: The financial statement of Mount Pleasant for the past year has been given out. The total receipts re-ceipts for the year were 39569.96, the largest larg-est item being licenses. $4118.20. There is a cash balance of 82987.08 on hand, leaving the amount of expenditures at $6682.88. The street department was. the most expensive ex-pensive one. ' i Idaho. j WEISER: An important mining deal was made in Marshall lake properties; near Weiser. last week. The sale comprises com-prises the Kimberly and Bewet groups, ! and the price paid was $60,000, a large portion por-tion of which -was a cash payment. The ! claims were purchased by James L. Hill, i a prominent banker of New York City, j The mines are gold-bearing and run very high. A. large amount of development work has been done on them. A two-stamp two-stamp mill has been operated on the ores from these claims for two or three years, but even with this crude and small affair the owners have made good wages and paid expenses of the development of their ground. BOISE: In committee of the whole on Saturday the Senate favorably considered the following measures: Senate bill No. 16, by Keifer, making the quarantine laws against sheep more stringent; on Senate bill No. 17, by. Pence, giving the Governor Gov-ernor enlarged powers in the issuance of sheep quarantine proclamations; on Senate Sen-ate biil No. 4, by Yost, authorising divorces di-vorces in cases of insanity, fixing the time at six years; and on Senate bill No. 7. by Stevenson, giving a majority of quorums of the members of religious, social and benevolent corporations the right to mortgage mort-gage or sell property. DEMPSEY: Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State of the Dempsey Irrlaating company, with five directors, as follows: Theodore Monroe, D. A. Monroe. W. W. Cooper, 8. J. Palmer and Lee Merrick, all of Dempsey, Demp-sey, Bannock county, Idaho. The capital stock Is $150,000. divided into 15,000 shares of the par value of $10 each, which is subscribed for by the Incorporators. F. J. Palmer is named as president of the company. com-pany. 1 Wyoming. CHEYENNE: The Coroner s Jury impaneled im-paneled to probe the death of Jesse Jes-sen, Jes-sen, the Union Pacific air brake inspector cut to pieces beneath a train in the Cheyenne Chey-enne yards Wednesday morning, after three days of investigation returned a verdict that Jessen's death was entirely due to his own carelessness. At the same time the verdict severely censures the Union Pacific for not enforcing the rules rclativo to the display of signals by car Inspectors and repairers. The rules provide pro-vide that Inspectors shall place blue flags or bl ue lights at either end of trains on j which they are working. Had Jessen displayed dis-played signals the. accident which cott him bis life could not have occurred. CODY: The United States Potash company, com-pany, capital $101,000. and with a $20,00i exploration ex-ploration fund, has been organized by Detroit, De-troit, Mich., tnrn to mine for potassium-chloride potassium-chloride at the Di: Maiis hot springs, near Cody. Wyo. Nine claims .have been secured and operations will begin early In the spring. The company is convinced tnat a large deposit of potash underlies their claims, and as there is not a producing pro-ducing potash mine in America; and never has been, it is confident that it has a bonanza. - , , 1 - Nevada. CARSON: Aaron D. Tradway, one of the oldest, most prominent and best-respected citizens of Carson, died Thursday at bis old home. He was 8H years of age. a pioneer of California and of Nevada, and died of natural old age exhaustion. He Jeaves relatives and a goodly amount of property, and everybody will remember remem-ber him as one of the most genial, kindly, diposed, friendly and good men in the world. ELY: A grand Jury called by Judge Brown to investigate the Ely tragedy which occurred on January 7th, in which three men were killed and two wounded, closed its session- today. . Mine Managers Traylor and Gaskill were exonerated, but two indictments were brought in against William Lloyd, president of the Miners' union, who is charged with having concocted con-cocted a scheme for getting rid of Traylor, Tray-lor, either by kidnaping him or taking his life. . |