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Show V. El well: Police Magistrate, Judge C. M White; City Engineer, Charles Sonnen-kalb. Sonnen-kalb. ' t m . the following Officers were elected: George M. Hays, exalted ruler; Colin McMurphy, esteemed leading- knight : Hugh Heffer-ruin, Heffer-ruin, esteemed loyal knight: Gustave Heb-bell, Heb-bell, esteemed lecturing knight: Frank Higson, secretary; Jere Driscoll. treasurer: treasur-er: William Embleton. tyler: James Crooks, trustee. Jere Driscoll was also chosen as representative to the grand lodge, to be held in Baltimore next August. Au-gust. The local lodge will run an excursion excur-sion to l'rovo on April 9th, at which time a new lodge of Elks will be Instituted. PROVO: Mrs. Esther Burnett died yesterday yes-terday at the Richard Brereton homestead in Provo, after an illness of several weeks. The deceased' was born in Hart-hill, Hart-hill, Chester. England. September 2. 1x24. and came to Utah in li2. In the year lfc&", with hir family, she removed to San Francisco. Cnl.. where she has resided until un-til November last, when she came to Provo Pro-vo to visit with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Richard Brereton.' who died last month. She was a sister of Richard Brereton, deceased. de-ceased. Mrs. Burnett leaves one son and three daughters, all residents of California, Califor-nia, to mourn her death. It has not yet been decided whether the remains will be shipped to California or be interred here. RICHFIELD: The Gold Mountain Supply Sup-ply company, owning one of the three big pNEWS FROM I FOUR STATES. TJtah.- RICHFIELD: Sevier county has started start-ed an effort to secure the location of one of Jhe experiment farms provided for by the late Legislature within its borders. In Grass valley, in the eastern part of the county, dry farming has been carried on more or less successfully for years past, and it is believed that, under proper direction direc-tion and with proper experiments, it can be made a standard industry in that valley. val-ley. If dry farming can be made a success suc-cess on an extensive scale in that part of the county it will open a lot of good land to farming that has hitherto been idle. State Engineer Doremus has expressed the opinion that Grass valley land Is very suitable for this purpose. - PROVO: Jesse Knight and James A. Bean of Provo have returned from a trip to- Alberta, Canada, where Mr. Knight went to look after his business interests and- Mr. Bean for the purpose of inspecting inspect-ing the country. Mr. Knight reports an exceptionally hard winter in that country, but the snow was rapidly disappearing when he left, and prospects for a pros- mercantile- establishments at Kimberly, the mining camp of Gold- Mountain district, dis-trict, has gone into Involuntary bankruptcy. bank-ruptcy. Secretary J.'E. Wilkinson of the Utah Credit Men's association took, chargfe of the business yesterday. An inventory will be taken at once. Exact figures on the liabilities and assets cannot now be obtained, but each Is approximately $7XXT. Idaho. BOISE: W. G. Filer, manager of the Twin Falls Land - and Water company, and E. B. Critchlow, attorney, were before the State Land board yesterday, and left for Salt Lake last night. They submitted a list of suggestions in connection with the project which the board has now under un-der consideration. It was suggested that Inasmuch as innumerable applications are being made to select lands, - and people were constantly coming to the tract for the purpose of locating homes, the company com-pany should receive the applications and issue contracts for water subject to final approval by a rfport of the board. Sixty Six-ty days' notice by publication will be given giv-en before the lands are opened. ; IDAHO FALLS: Late last night James Stevens and Isaac Randall were arrested on a charge of the murder of Joe Brown, who was held up and shot last Saturday night while on his way to the depot; ORCHARD: The Indian Creek reser-olr reser-olr at Orchard, about which- there has been so much fear this season, is now pronounced absolutely safe by the engineers engi-neers who have had charge of the work done on it. Nearly i000 were expended on It. POCATELLO: 'The Republicans of Po-catello Po-catello last nieht nminated-a full municipal muni-cipal ticket, with Dr. O.- B. Steely, who has served the, city, for the past year in the same office, as the nominee for Mayor. The balance of the ticket follows: - For Clerk, H. W. Davis; Treasurer, Mrs. Mary perous year for the farmer and stockman were good. ' The town of Raymond is steadily growing and the settlers are busy making Improvements in every direction. Work on, the big sugar factory enterprise is progressing favorably. A force of men is now at work erecting the boarding-house boarding-house to be used in connection with the factory. EUREKA: Tony West, a well-known character of the Tititie district, was found dead in his cabin in the eastern part of Eureka yesterday by City Marshal Colin McMurphv. The absence of West-from his usual haunts led to the investigation, and it is quite probable he had been dead for a day or two. He was a sufferer from asthma, and during the past two months he has done no work. lie occupied his cabin alone, and the last time he was seen Was Wednesday of this week. Mr. West was 65 years old and had lived in Tintlc for twelve years. SPRINGVII.LE: The six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Groeslieck of Springvllie met with a very painful and serious accident last evening. He fell under un-der a heavy wagon, which was loaded with gravel, the wheel passing over one of his legs, crushing it very badly. PROVO: Doretta Stoddard of American Ameri-can Fork has commenced suit against James A. Stoddard on the grounds of failure fail-ure to provide. Plaintiff asks for the custody cus-tody of a. minor child and the-restoration to her maiden name. Doretta Hudson, and for costs. The parties Intermarried at American Fork July 25, 1902. EUREKA: At Thursday night's meet-i meet-i lag of TtoUc lodge No. 711, B. P. O. E., '".'-''' ." . - ' . , |