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Show UTAH NEWS. The recent strike in the Bonneville. Lakeside district, is proving all thai was predicted. Lieutenant Wells, who was wounded at Santiago, arrived in Salt Lake last week, almost recovered from hij wound. Dr. J. C. Ross of Salt Lake has been appointed a surgeon in the regular army, and ordered to report to Ft. Mo Pherson, Ga. Lehi people, whose crops are suffering for water, have resorted to flowing wells for relief. Several good flows have been struck. Paul Smith, a Kaysville young man, 21 years of age, was found dead in bed when he failed to answer a summons sum-mons for breakfast. Ileartfailure was pronounced the cause. Butch Cassidy has been seen and conversed with so many times recently that there is no longer any doubt as to his being alive. He is in the mountains moun-tains of Emery county. C. L. Maxwell, the Springville bank robber, has a wife and child living in Massachusetts, from whom he receives touching letters. He had a good education edu-cation and evidently drifted into bad liabits after reaching his majority. Mt. Trumbal, a lumber camp about Beventy miles from St. George, has been destroyed by fire. The mills there supplied all Dixie with lumber. The mill will be rebuilt, but it will be some time as the long haul and heavy nature of the machinery make it a difficult dif-ficult job. Charles Sykes, city salesman for the Neldeu Judson Drug company, of Salt Lake, committed suicide last week by taking morphine. I;l health is given as the probable cause, ne was a competent com-petent man and esteemed by all who knew him. He was married but left no children. Pearly Jones a young man of Logan ivho got into trouble and drew a gun on an officer who attempted to arrest him, later taking his departure to scenes unknown, has returned after an absence of two years. He paid a fine of 810, and is at liberty. Hiram Cowley, Cow-ley, his associate in the disturbance, returned some time sinoe and was fined S15. It develops that Captain Ducat, of the Twenty-fourth, was not wounded in the charge on San Juan hill. He i had captured a block house and the Spaniards were fleeing. He could not resist the temptation and grabbed a rifle from a private and fired a few : Bhots after the enemy. His con spicuous form and uniform made him & target for the Spanish sharpshooter, with the result that he was badly wounded. Private Bridgewater of the Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth who has just returned, to Salt Lake, tells of the firing of Spanish sharpshooters upon litters bearing wounded to the rear. Private Hawkins Haw-kins of that regiment, who was the third best shot in it, fixed one of them who was firing at Captain Brereton while he was being carried to the rear. Hawkins picked up a Krag-Jorgenson which had been thrown away by a wounded soldier and dropped the Spaniard from a tree some 300 yards distant, shooting him through the neok. By the death of Christopher Layton, Davis county and Utah loses one of her foremost citizens. For nearly half a century he has been recognized as a leading spirit. He came west in the Mormon battalion and was discharged dis-charged in California in 1847. He.went to England from Los Angeles in 1850, and returning to America, stopped in St. Louis in the fall of that year. In 1852, he and O. A. Smoot had charge of the first company of immigrants that came by the perpetual immigration fund. In 18S2 he was appointed president of St. Joseph stake in Arizona, Ari-zona, and labored zealously there for sixteen years. In January last he was relieved of the responsibilities of that position on account of failing health. About six weeks ago he submitted tc an operation, hoping for relief, but was too weak and exhausted to recover from it. He is the father of 65 child ren, of whom 51 are living, and his numerous descendants are all respected respect-ed and industrious citizens. The man who piloted Sheriff Allred's force to the lair of Joe Walker, one i McPherson. when the latter and a man supposed to be Cassidy, was killed, is disposing of his stock and preparing prepar-ing to leave that country while he can do so unassisted. Vance Angell, a 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Angell, of Bea-l Bea-l ver, died at a hospital iu Salt Lake I last week where he had been taken foi j treatment. He was thrown from a horse into a barb-wire fence and frightfully lasccrated. ' Miss Elsie Reasoncr of Salt Lake ' who went to Cuba as a correspondent to report upon the condition of the : ho-pitnl service uud the Red Cross, ha; returucd to this country, and sa, s tht acc.'ininoflatioi'S were all that it war uossililo to ali'ord. |