Show SPANISH foric FORK CITY may 18 1871 istl aj editor evening mews news dear sl sir r on saturday the we held our annual meeting of the mercantile operative cooperative co institution tion of this place when a dividend of 4 42 2 J per cent or four dollars and gild twenty five cents to each share of often nen fen dollars was declared since it was organized gani zed which is now two years athas exceeded our most sanguine expectations we have received during that time in dividend dividends more than the cap capital invested th the people have also subscribed liberally to the county co opera tive stock raising company about one hundred and fifty head of cattle have been paid in last sunday mpr ning at aboul about 2 0 clock a bear came upon one of his usual nocturnal visits to prey upon the stock herded in spanish fork kanyon samuel M hicks andrew dudley and J W robertson Eo bertson were on the look out and when bruin got near enough they fired each shot taking effect he immediately sprang at them and struck against a fence that was between them and him but being unable to continue the conflict he fell back and walked off about a mile and was found dead at daylight day light by the boys he weighed lbs ibs the bears have destroyed over worth of stock since last fall the health of the people is good no grasshopper 4 to amount to anything and und our crops look excellent yours truly WILLIAM gre GREEN EN CACHE VALLEY vanley eider elder george L lar lae 1 a rell writing from logan on the dinst says the crops look first rate where thero ther oare arc no grasshoppers but they are very numerous in many places laces and are taking the ero cro crops ps clean as they go Man alan mandoc yoC yos of t the brethren have lost most of their gr grain aln ain already and they are still working vigorously on both sides of the rivel river but they are not discouraged yet they are planting corn where the grain has been taken which is all in good time born BOKN AI at Lambet bs la 1 lucy wife of frederick dorma dotard r d of a son mik mall mir mtr star may 2 |