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Show 'LOOKING BACKWARD I :55 yrai-s af;o I July 1S99 Cattlemen are ; waging a war on mustangs on the cattle ranges. They eat the ;salt that is put out for cattle. R. A. Morris and party killed j thirty-six at Mt. Trumbull last ! week. The Canaan and Pipe ! Springs cattle owners rounded iup and shot 250 mustangs. The : branded horses will be held for 1 the assessor and sold for taxe;. Pine Valley reports the loss of sixteen cattle by bears, the footprints foot-prints of one measuring 7 x 11 inches. Toab, an old Indian, has gone to Pine Valley to join in the bear hunt. Four bands serenaded the city on July 4. The martial band, a brass band and two string bands in separate wagons with an organ or-gan in each. Franklin Turnbow Carter died June 14, from Delamar chest poison. Orin N. Woodbury of St. George died June 23 of Delamar Dela-mar dust poisoning. Pioneer day was celebrated by the people .gathering- on a camping ground at 1:00 a.m. dressed as pioneers, with wagons and ox carts. A gu: r.1. was set ai ri a group of young men dressed dress-ed as Indians trit-t' to stampede the horses and cattle from inside the circle of wagons, but the guard drove the r.ttackers off without accomplishing the:r pur-rose. pur-rose. A buffalo (steer) was killed, and at 5 a.m. campfires were lighted and breakfast was prepared. pre-pared. Old pioneers pronounced the scene as very realistic. Bishop James Andrus was marshal of the day. The emigrants wore on the line of march by 7 a.m. The procession was three blocks long. The oldest person present was Samuel B. Hardy who was in Ms 95th year. Joseph Hammond, a peoneer of St. George died Anguft 4th. H,e brought the first thrashing machine to Dixie. Mrs. Mary A. B. Larson, an old St. George pioneer died August Aug-ust 1. John Mathis, St. George pioneer pion-eer died in New Harmony, July 29th. 25 years ago July 22, 1909 This issue carried car-ried a report from the Salt Lake Tribune of a new disease "Goat Fever" which has broken out among the goat raisers of Kane and Washington Counties. Local Lo-cal doctors report no such disease dis-ease in the County. Washington correspondence Will Prince, Jr., and Miss Mary Sproul were married Monday and left for Deneyville. July 29 All correspondence reported a lively time on Pioneer Day. The county financial statement state-ment was published in this issue. is-sue. B. F. Saunders, a well-known cattleman died at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in Salt Lake City. He held a lease on the Buckskin range in the St. George district and had, at one time, several hundred thousand head of cattle cat-tle in Utah and other Btates. August 5, 190 9 A letter was published from Elder W. A. Whitehead who was laboring in the Eastern etates Mission. Santa Clara Peddlers are out with fruit. About 19,000 pounds per week is taken to Pioche Newhouse, Gold Springs and Del-mar. Del-mar. Several people from here have moved to Panguitch Lake during dur-ing the hot weather. New Harmony reports a severe epidemic of Typhoid fever. |