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Show ROUND. ABOUT THE STATE. Items of Interest Culled From Yarl-ous Yarl-ous Sources. BRIGH AM'S . VOLCANO . The sensation of the week has been the reported volcano out west of Brigham. First came the story there was a volcano in Great Salt "Lake southwest south-west of Promontory. Citizens of Corinne said they saw one there. A Promontory correspondent . to The Bugler yesterday says they cannot see any such spouter. But Martin Rohwer, a thoroughly reliable young farmer who lives oaa ranch out west of Corinne, tells :a most convincing story. He says that threej weeks ago he saw a great column of smoke rise up into the heavens. At first he thought it must be a sheep camp on fire, as it came right out of the lake, or flat alkali lake lands where nothing Continued on texn$ ' 1 i. m ii ii i eta. created when the story was told and numerous ideas advanced as to who? were the workers of that ancient mine. Developments will be watched watch-ed with interest. We shall keep-our keep-our readers posted in case further work is done. Messenger.. Gen. Fred Salomon died at Salt -Lake last Monday morning of heart failure. The Salt Lake Tribune says it-has it-has investigated the Brigham volcano vol-cano story, and pronounces it & "fake". Chris M. Peterson is in jail at 'Richfield for assaulting his mother with a chair. He was drunk and at" a dance at the time.. Yee Yen, the absconding Salt 5 Lake Chinaman,, was captured at Pueblo, Colo., and brought back.. He had shipped his- plunder. to-China: to-China: It is reported' that Kofford and' Mickle, . the Sanpete murderers, have been captured at Wilmington, Del., and an officer has been sent to get them. Dr. J. A. Schubart; an aged citizen citi-zen of Corinne, was beaten to deaths by a tramp whom he. had fed, last Thursday. No steps have been-' taken to apprehend the miscreant-Stephen miscreant-Stephen Garboline, a miner at: Mercur, was struck on the head byr an empty bucketL while at the? bottom of a 260 foot shaft in the: Lillian Russell-, mine, Monday. He was a native- of Italy and 25 .years of age. , An Ogden lady thought sh'e heard a burglar trying to break' in at her door and promptly opened fire. A neighbor woman whom- the fusilade attracted was shot in the forehead. The wound is not serious. The; burglar got away, of course. Earl Haymond, a 15 -year-old' Springville boy, tried last week to "lick the teacher", but on getting the worst of the argument planted-suit planted-suit for assault and battery. Ther teacher in question was the stalwart Prof. C. E. Christenson. A verdict-was verdict-was rendered of "not guilty". The impression seemed to be that the.-Professor the.-Professor hadn't walloped the kict jsufiicierttly. BOUND ABOUT THE STATE. Continued from first rf.re- ,grows. Later his wife called his attention to the same occurrence and by closely watching it he found this column of smoke shot high up jnto the air several times an hour. Tt was especially active every afternoon. after-noon. The smoke would first rush up like a- great smokestack several hundred feet high; then gradually sink down until it could hardly be .seen. Later he could see a mound of earth in the vicinity; one never before seen there. It was undoubtedly undoubt-edly cast up by these convulsions of nature. Mr. Rohwcr is positively convinced con-vinced it is an active volcano. From his ranch the position- appeared to him in the region of the mouth of Bear River, nearly. 20 miles almost due. west of Brigham. At this time of the year when the snow and mud are so deep he says it would be impossible im-possible to reach the scene of'thls natural wonder. Another convincing fact is that its location is near where the recent numerous earthquakes were severest. sever-est. In that vicinity for weeks at a time shocks were felt daily, some of them making the ground rise and fall like a. billowy ocean. Brigham Bugler, 1 THAT MEXICAN MINE AGAIN. On Monday last a Mr. Larson of Ephraim and Mr . .Petersen of Spring City came into town from an exploring ex-ploring expedition out of the mountains mount-ains west of Manti. A- sheep herder herd-er out in those bleak regions, while j wandering aboutnoticed.a striking) peculiarity in the lay of the ground. On the side of a hill appeared a depression de-pression which, by closer observation, observa-tion, turned outto be an ancient trail. Large trees were growing up in a road once used for travel," showing show-ing that many a decade had passed since it had been used for. conveying convey-ing the burdens of man. Following Follow-ing up this trail, the sheepherder came abruptly to an excavation which, however, through the corrosion cor-rosion of time or perhaps through the desire of some former civilization civiliza-tion to conceal its place, was filled up. Certain parties in the neighborhood neigh-borhood were apprised of this discovery. dis-covery. They immediately com-menced com-menced digging it out.' It turned out to be a hole in the side of the mountain, with solid stone steps leading down into it. Step by step they decended until they had made considerable of an excavation, when they determined to give it up until they could get horses and scrapers at work. Some excitement was |