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Show ; " 1 ' a that remorse for his crimes drove him mad. In his lucid intervals he would Inflict In-flict severe injuries upon himself. , NEWS FROM I FOUR STATES. Idaho." SILVER CITT: One of the richest strikes ever made in Owyhee county is reported from the Homeacake group, three and a half miles north of Silver City. No discovery, even in the early days, ever made a better showing, not even those that were made on War Eagle mountain, that led to the great gold bonansas in that section. The prepei ty shows from four to six feet of ore that runs from $440 to more than $740 a ton. The values are practically all in gold. LANDORE: Word is received from Washington that Mrs. Emma L. Brown has been appointed postmaster at Lan-dore, Lan-dore, to succeed Mary A. Strouse. who has been removed. JCLIETTA: Miss OHle DumbauM committed com-mitted suicide at Julletta last Sunday by drinking carboUo acid. She left letters which showed her rash act was fully premeditated and was the result of a Quarrel with her lover, GARDEN VALLET: The Idaho Northern North-ern Railroad company has sent out a crew or engineers from Emmett to extend the surveys of the One to Garden Valley. The proposed survey will follow up the Payette river to the mouth of the Middle Fork and win thence follow up that tributary to Garden Valley, an approximate approxi-mate distance of thirty-five miles. Utah. PRO VO : The following marriage licenses were issued yesterday by County Clerk Bachman: John Braithwaite, aged 22, and EUa Chlsholm, agod 23. both of Spanish Fork: Otto Sonne, aired 2fl, and Sarah Thacketon. aged 22, both of Mammoth; Mam-moth; Robert Taylor of Lehi, aged 2. and Agnes Giles aged 21, of Springville. The two last named couples were married by Judge Booth. RICHFIELD: The City "Council has awarded- the contract for supplying the pipe for the waterworks to- the. Crane company of Bait Lake for about $16,000. Work will be begun at once on the construction con-struction of the Intake tank and It is expected ex-pected that- the pipe will be on the ground and the system will be under way within two months. TROVO: Ilia, the eleven-mouths-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Holdaway of Provo, died yesterday, from pleurisy. The funeral will be held Wednesday. EPHRAIM:. Miss Mamie Bowden and James W. Jensen of.Ephralm were married mar-ried in Salt Lake last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have returned from a short wedding wed-ding trip, and will make their home in Ephralm. PROVO: The following orders have been made In the Fourth district court: Petition of James Whitehead. Jr.. for order amending decree and description of property In the estate of William J. Stewart deeeased; set for hearing April 25th; estate of David T. Malcolm, deceased; de-ceased; petition of administratrix for or-dpr or-dpr of distribution set for hearing April 25th. RICHFIELD: Farmers in the vicinity of Richfield, who are doing their spring ploughing find that . a large per cent of the grasshopper eggs are destroyed. The severe winter is supposed to be the cause of this and there la reason to believe that the grasshopper plague, if there Is one, will not be nearly so severe ss last year. MERCT7R: The annual conference of the Mereur ward was held Sundav. The ward officers were appointed and confirmed. con-firmed. Geo nfe W. Bryan was chosen bishop, John Peterson and Parley Bryan, counselors. MILFORD: A copper strike has been made at the Blue Acre, near Mllford. The company has been prospecting for some time, without success, but in digging a cellar a veto was struck, and now the bottom of the shaft is all in ore. PROVO: James Burke, an ex-convict died at the State insane asylum yester. day. The man had been confined to the institution for two years past It is said Wyoming-. EVANSTON: The slide at the east end of Aspen tunnel has been repeated at frequent fre-quent intervals since early yesterday morning. Late in the afternoon on of gigantio proportions came rushing down the mountain side, covering the track fifty feet deep for a distance of 800 feet. ; completely blocking the way. at this point. Which is in a deep out. The end of the tunnel also is badly caved and officials state that the track will net be passable for ten days or two weeka "EVANSTON') The news has Just been received in Evanston that the Union Pa clflo Railway company has filed lncorpor ation papers for a new line to extend from Hampton on its matn line to Cum berland on the Oregon Short Line and back to Altamont on the main line, thus running through the newlydeveloped coal fields snd consequently through the heart of the Uinta ell field. Much satisfaction Is manifested among the oil men at th prospect of this line runninar through their valued holdings, making In many cases a ready means of transportation without laying' pipe-lines. Nevada. TONOPAH: -There are now fully 80ft more prospectors snd mining' men la Tonopah than there were six weeks ago. Every section of the known mineral sons is being carefully developed and the present pres-ent season promises to be a banner one in the history of the great camp. ' |
