Show D Duchesne 20 Years Ago It is fear feared that a terrible calamity has bas over 1 token taken Frank Frnnk White of Upper Duchesne and Oscar o car Wi Wilkins lkins of Bo Bo- seta neta The former left teft Kamas by wag ag agon on en emonte route for his home about 25 ml miles mUes les from Theo Theodore lore on the Duchesne river lver on January 21 He has not yet s showed hawed u up lip About the same date Oscar Wilkins Wil- Wil 11 kins taus left Boneta westward bound for tor Kamas KamOR across the same moan mountain taro pass c that at Frank White was to cross At this writing Mr r. r Wilkins has tins not been reported as reaching Kamas The friends and relatives of both men have become alarmed as t to their safet safety and lur large e searching parties have gone one out both hoth from the east ast and vest and west sides of the time divide It is feared that they have been caught in sides snow slides which it seems are common in this r region gion about this this time of year ear There has bas been a heavy henvy fall of snow on the Uinta range during the last two weeks Two weeks after a failure to organize organ organ- ize a n fire department Theodore has a disastrous fire A little after 12 o'clock last Friday ni night ht while the time dance Inthe in inthe inthe the hull hall was in full blast a blaze was WOR discovered to shoot up the rear of Perr Perrys Perry's s 's dru drug store All AU hands rush rushed d to the rescue but of or course there was neither water nor apparatus near nt at hand It is a mystery how quickly the flame was wm extinguished Something exploded ex ex- in the building a 1 moment after the door was opened and the concussion concussion concussion concus concus- sion smothered instantly the blaze However the smoke and fire had pretty thoroughly done its work before before before be be- fore it discovery discover and the entire stock of medicines and notions was almost a total loss loss lossl Mr Perr Perry estimates this at 1000 No insurance was carried The building sustained but sli slight ht damage dam dam- a age e. e Mr Perry will open up a fire sale and di dispose e of the damaged ed stock at nt a reduced cost Mr Perry intends to re restock tock at nt once Some believe that the fire was of incendiary ori origin in but hut the evidence does docs not seem to substantiate substantiate this claim It is possible but hut hardly probable Charles Smith is again the deputy county assessor for Theodore ore precinct and was around last tast week Wee asking aBkin those questions about our business that we are loth to tell an any one not even the assessor but of course we must He has gone to Heber as a witness witness witness wit wit- ness in a case in the district court of the state vs YS l I Myron ron Lance and Nephi Anderson The latter ment started Tuesday l. accompanied by George Smith for Heber 1 P. P O. O Madsen is the deputy assessor for Boneta precinct He Re has also quat- quat Continued on Last Page Duchesne Duchess e 20 Years Ago I 0 Continued from first page I Hied as lis notary notary- public The new play The Honor of a Cowboy will be given ghen b by the Theodore Theo Theo- Theodore dore Dramatic Club Friday evening Everybody is Invited that has the price Judging by some of their their posters one would suspect that Josh Billings had come to life Ure Mart hart Marsing l Henry Remund Wood Alexander Harvey Partridge Paul Cluff and Alf AIL Youn Young came down from the Tabby sawmill last week to get acquainted with their folks The They say it is snowing every day up there but they have lut an awful pile of lumber sawed up Our huge Ice jams are withering awa away and are not near so picturesque as a week ago While lle they caused some of our people a little inconvenience Inconvenience er very little damage was done clone Joe Benson and Judge Dickerson have both been laid up with lagrippe Mr 11 and Mrs S. S B. B Shelton were tendered a surprise pound party by a number of their friends Tuesday evening even even- ing The merrymakers merrymakers' assembled at nt the home of S. S M. M r. r Shelton then marched in a body to Steves home Steve and his family had gone Jone to bed but bit the visitors routed them out The evenin evening was spent in pla playing ing games and dancing At midnight alight a alight light lunch and refreshments were served served I |