| Show local and personal A A new boy arrived at the home of mr and mrs sam rolph last sunday harden bennion returned saturday night from a brief business trip to salt lale lake city grant carpenter has moved his family from the old central school building to a house adjoining james jamea griffins residence the water came down the dry fork creek on may 4 but stopped again after a few hours the next day however the water came down again and has been increasing steadily ever since frank has discovered four or five new claims of ela tente during his stay at indian canyon he did considerable prospecting eting the veins range from three to ten inches in width ed levin of leadville the prime mover in the organization of the peoples protective association called at the express office wednesday and renewed his subscription he has a promising homestead on the blue bench and implicit faith in the future greatness gie gle atness of the reservation the experiment of bennion davis and samuels of culling out their old el ewes es and lambing early and shearing in the bad lands is so far proving satisfactory they have some lambs nearly as birge as the mother in a short time they will ship them to tennessee pass and put them in shape for early market J M roseberry returned from denver saturday night while away he ordered the refining tanks for the dewey oil property ile he says they are holding the flow back as much as possible and work N ork on the tunnel has been discontinued until they have installed the tanks and refining vats so they can handle the product and make preparations pa rations for shipping it to market mr roseberry returns enthused with theider the idea that leading denver houses are making strenuous efforts to capture the business of the ashley valley valey and reservation country last saturday was a record day at the land office as 1100 acres of land on the notorious strip were sold the land is not a part of the reservation but was cut off several years ago to give the discoverers of the gilsonite Gilso an opportunity to develop the property As it was strictly government land it was sold at 1 25 an acre and the title at once conveyed to the purchasers no residence or other conditions being required most of the sales were made to denver partle parties 3 the total amount received at the land office was 1375 not a bad record for one day the hutchinson imperial dramatic company arrived last sunday evening their last engagement was played placed at grand junction colorado the company ri as aa constituted this season is an exceptionally good one the names of the members of the troupe are fred R ay fred L doty jack M hutchinson jack hutchinson jr lillian mason james bosen ethel E lawton and francis B wilkin they have been playing all week at the opera house to good audiences and will give a matinee this afternoon and a play this ev en ening from vernal they go to fort duchesne thence to salt lake and ogden where they have an engagement to play sixteen weeks my uncle from japan is the title of the play this afternoon and kathleen tonight to night monday night the they will p play lay A domestic blizzard etues and tuesday a y night in the heart of the blue ridge mr hutchinson has a stronger troup with him this time 1 than ever before and is drawing good houses although he came practically J 11 II dooseman Mo eman has moved to his claim ea st of white while alo rocks aks R S collett left tuesday evening for whiterocks While rocks and the tha dry gulch district the first rot consignment of goods for the new store of winder bingham was delivered thursday lena the adopted daughter of president S R bennion had her arm broken saturday afternoon the broken bone was set by dr brownfield the home of mr and mrs 11 II C meadows was brightened last friday by the welcome arrival of EL a new girl all concerned are doing well col john G taylor formerly of guthrie oklahoma who has a homestead near was in vernal several days during the week marriages licenses were issued saturday by county clerk hanson to samuel R bennion jr and blanch nelson also to john bennett and cora haws fi ad miss i s s alta new nea combe of provo will be in vernal in a few days for the purpose of starting a photograph gallery she has the reputation of being an art lot lat in her line frank hadlock adlock II has charge of the uintah railroad blacksmith shop at dragon A C hadlock adlock II has bas been helping out there also the past month but will return home in a few days S D smith of theodore was in vernal wednesday lie ile came over to file on a homestead near john Hol gatea gates claim on the duchesne ducheane river he returned to theodore thursday morning the mining company has put another force of men to work on their property the party left vernal wednesday morning for ouray jim stewart will have charge of t the he men for the present W robert hunting the eleven year old son of nate hunting of naples has been suffering from rheumatism for about seven weeks during the last ten days lie he has been very low the disease having attacked his heart J B philippi of the law firm of philippi wilson was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the state of utah during his recent visit to salt lake city he was formerly a member berof of the bar of the supreme court of colorado and was admitted to the bar in utah upon presentation of his certificate fir ate richard pope says we were mistaken in our statement that in his opinion all the ore near the mining companas comp anys property has been located he says there are large areas of copper bearing ground outside of the original florence companas comp anys property and it has not all been located in fact much of the ground is virgin territory and has not been prospected he thinks there will still be many more claims located there in the near future |
