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Show More teams left for Copper Mountain Tuesday to haul ore. Charles Whipple left for White River Thursday on a visit. Orchard orioles are doing much damage to fruit at Toquerville. An Idaho exchange says the prospecting pros-pecting fever is the only one in the world that leaves in its wake prosperity pros-perity and plenty, builds cities and railroads, and makes the desert blossom blos-som as the rose. The first death on the Utah & Arizona Ari-zona railrord occurred Tuesday afternoon after-noon at McConnioo Junction, by J. L. Abernethy getting caught while making mak-ing a coupling and crushed to death between be-tween the bumpers. Deceased was about thirty-eight years and had only been in the territory a short time. Kingman Miner. The newspaper in all countries has proved a moral force; one of its chief functions is to expose, to castigate on the one hand; to advocate, to persuade, to influence on the other. When a newspaper is afraid to publish pub-lish anything, but statistics, crop reports, re-ports, and a few extracts from foreign consuls reports, with nothing personal, simply stating "a man from Denver is in town," or "a family on the Alameda are fixing up the front of their back yard," such a boneless pusillanimous newspaper ought to apologize for its existance and give up the ghost. Chihuahua (Mexico) Enterprise. LOCAL AND GENERAL M. E. Paris of Leeds was here on business Tuesday. Dr. W. XV. R.-tts, of Salt Lake City is a guest of Dr. J. T. Afl'.eck, Samuel II. Weil-J ana wife left, last Saturday to visit relatives at Kanab. Mrs. R.oe Jarvis left for Salt Lake City Tuesday to take in Mutual conference. con-ference. John I. Pace returned from White River Friday. He has been working there about four months. 4 Elder John E. Pace has been appointed appoint-ed second counselor to Bishop Andrus, vice Elder Ed. H. Snow who is on a mission. Conference rates on Utah & Pacific V. M. & Y. L. M. I. A. conference, at Salt Lake City, 3 for round trip Mo-dena Mo-dena and Milford. THE WASHINGTON ROLLER mill is running', and ample notice will be given when about to close. We are prepared to do an exchange business at ail times. Had our usual southwest wind been blowing on Tuesday night it is more than likely that the principal business block would have been destroyed by fire communicated from the Daggett barn. W. Harris of Silver Reef passed through here Sunday on a prospecting trip in tbe Grand Gulch district. He was one of the hands employed to clean out the Jennings property, and thinks that section is going to come to the front. The general conference of the Y. M & Y. L. M. I, A. will be held in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, May 28th, 29th and 30th, 1899. The Utah & Pacific will make a round trip rate of $3 from Modena to Milford for this conference. Dr. J. T. Affleck received a telegram from Virgin City Wednesday, to the effect that William Wright, who was operated upon at Salt Lake City about a year ago for appendicitis, was very sick again with the same complaint. Dr. Affleck left soon after receipt of the telegram, Joseph Price returned on Sunday from his prospect about 85 miles south of here. Charles Dodge and U. H. Norris are interested with him, and they believe the property to be a very good one. Mr. Price will return with help in about two weeks and do further development work. XV. XV. Old, of the Dixie Mining & Smelting Co., returned from Salt Lake City early Wednesday morning, bringing bring-ing with him General Manager Klepetko, of the Boston Montana Mining Min-ing & Smelting Co. The latter gentleman gentle-man has' come down to look over the mining property of the Dixie company. J. A. Swapp and H. S. Marshal returned re-turned from the Copper Mountain mines Monday, and proceeded on their way north Tuesday. They have made the first shipment of high grade ore, about fourteen tons, which passed through Washington Monday enroute to Milford from where it will go to Salt Lake. James G. Bleak, Jr., left for his home in Salt Lake City Tuesday. Ho has been employed as chief mason on the new school building here, and has given entire satisfaction to the school trustees, trus-tees, being prompt and efficient. Rock-laying Rock-laying on the new school will be suspended sus-pended for the present, the building being squared at the first story. Quarrying Quar-rying will be continued, and the joists will shortly be put in. The work done shows what an elegant and substantial building it will be when finished. A meeting of the leading business people of St. George was held in the Woolley, Lund & Judd office on Wednesday to further consider the matter of patronising the Utah & Pacific Railroad, and after much dis-eussiou dis-eussiou it was decided that until a more favorable freight tariff is made by the Utah & Pacific Railroad Co. that all freight business be done via Milford. The following business people were present: Erastus B. Snow, John Pymm, Mrs. Addie E. Price, E. G. Whitehead, Bert McQuarrie of R. G. McQuarrie & Sons, Alexander Andrus of Woolley Lund & Judd, David H. Cannon, E. M. McArthur. Mgr. of St. George Co-op, and J. R. Michels. Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured dur-I dur-I ing the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson, of Rossville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of service at the front, is now frequently troubled with rheumati?m. "I had a severe attack lately." he says, "and procured a bottle bot-tle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It did so much good that I would like to know what you would charge me for one dozen bottles." Mr. Anderson wanted it both for his own use and to i supply it to his friends and neighbors as every family should have a bottle of ! it in their home, not only for rheumat-j rheumat-j ism. but lame back, sprains, swellings, ! cuts, bruises and burns, for which it is ; ur.e.jualcd, For sale by All Druggists. WKDNESDAVS M ETAI.S. Silver iili. Lead 4.25. Casting Copper 16 3-4 cents a lb. Lafe Carter is expected in soon from White River. The first crop of Jucern was far below be-low the average. Miss Eva Price has a neat sign over the St. George Millinery Shop. A new stock of Dishes just in. Call and see them. Miss Eva Price. Miss Tena Woodbury has been sick for some days, but is now on the mend. Mrs. Elizabeth Snow anticipates leaving for Salt Lake City soon, where she will reside. Max Ottenheimer, representing the Siegel clothing Co. of Salt Lake City, arrived here Thursday. Bishop James Andrus returned on Thursday from a cattle hunt in the country above Silver Reef. President David H. Cannon, who accompanied the Church party as far as Cedar City, returned Monday. Col. A. P. Hardy has been confined to the house for about a week with a very severe cold. He is improving. M. J. O'Meara, of Salt Sake City, came in on Monday to have a look around the mining properties of this section. Samuel Adams, Jr., left for Milford on business last Sunday. His wife accompanied him. They returned Wednesday. George Miles, who has been clerking in the Co-op since his return from the mission field, was taken sick on Thursday Thurs-day with chills and fever. County Clerk George F. Whitehead received a call on Monday to report in Salt Lake City on the 22nd Prox. for a mission to the Eastern states. Ed. R. Frei, Charles Miles, Misses Zaidee Walker, Lena Nelson, Mary Thompson and Nellie Woodbury left on Tuesday for Salt Lake City to attend the Y. M. & Y. L. M. I. A. conference. Mrs. S. A. Cowley expects to leave for her home in Clevelahd, Emery county, on Sunday. Her mother, Mrs. Sarah Alger, will accompany her and remain in Cleveland on a visit for some time, William Wright of Virgin City is very ill with kidney trouble. Dr. Affleck returned Thursday night, and left the patient feeling much relieved. The case was not appendicitis, as feared. An agent is required for this section to handle Hoard's sheet music. Mr. Hoard is the author of "Parted in a Dream," "Darling Lenore," "Mother's Darling Yet," and other compositions. Address Halbert L. Hoard, Fort Atkinson, Atkin-son, Wisconsin, Adam Paul of Salt Lake arrived here Sunday evening enroute to some copper mining property near Bonelli's ferry, near the junction of the Rio Virgin with the Colorado. The property is on the other side of the river. Mr. Paul is representing Salt Lake people. Dr. J, T. Affleck ampntated the index finger of the right hand of Ted Batty of Toquerville last Saturday. The finger had been troubled with a felon, and Batty had an operation performed by a traveling doctor (?) for the cure of the felon, since which he had not been able to use the finger, I have been a sufferer from chronic diarrhoea ever since the war and have used all kinds of medicines for it. At last I found one remedy that has been a success as a cure, and that is Chamberlain's Chamber-lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. P. E. Grisham, Gaars Mills, La. For sale by all Druggists. Thomas Jennings returned from the Grand Gulch on the 19th inst. He had a large assortment of samples of ore from the mine, and it will depend upon results of assays from these samples whether operations are resumed on the property or not. The mine has been thoroughly cleaned out, and the ore in sight appears to be very rich in copper. Erastus B. Snow, who went as far as Cedar City with the Church party, returned re-turned Wednesday, bringing with him his son, Erastus B. Jr., who has been attending the B. Y. A. at Provo, and who will leave Salt Lake City for the Southern states mission field on the loth Prox. His daughter, Mrs. P. J. Jensen, of Provo, also accompanied kim, and will stay here for some time with her parents and relatives. Fire broke out in the barn of Judge Francis L. Daggett about 11:30 o'clock on Tuesday night. The Tabernacle bell was rung, and a bucket brigade was quickly on the spot, but their efforts were confined to preventing the fire spreading to nearby property as it had got such headway that it was seen to be impossible to save the barn. The damage amounts to between two hundred hun-dred and two hundred and fifty dollars, the barn, a buggy, some harness, etc., being totally destroyed. The stock were saved. Mr. Daggett is at a loss to account for the fire. No insurance was carried. Born A son to the wife of James Crawford, at Springdale, on the 17th inst, See change in the advertisement of the Washington Roller Mills in this issue. Miss Nellie Atkin was quite ill this week with pleuresy, but is now on the improve. Freeborn D. Gilford of Springdale was here on Friday, and paid this office a pleasant visit. Elder Ed. H. Snow has been appointed appoint-ed first counselor to the Eastern states mission president. Our weather is not so warm as usual at this time of the year, consequently crops are backward. Heber C. Smith moved his family to their new home at Lund, White Pine county Nevada, on Thursday. Joseph Randall, who has been quite unwell for some time, is now much worse and confined to the house. Moses W. Gibson of St. Thomas passed pas-sed through here Thursday enroute to Milford, where he expects to meet his son, who has been attending the Brigham Brig-ham Young Aceademy at Provo. M. J. O'Meara, of Salt Lake City, returned from a visit to the Dixie mining property Thursday. He is of the opinion that it is a wonderful property pro-perty and very rich. He located the Alex Entention, formerly the Black Warrior, in the Tutsagubet mining district while out, and recorded it here the same day. The railroad gang is near town, and will soon have the work of cutting brush for the shovelers and graders out of the way right up into the suburbs. The depot will be located west of the public pub-lic square about 300 yards, but a switch for the mines will be built from the ! south end of Silver Hill. Chloride Cor 1 Kingman Miner. |