Show dymm the provo judge kmer sons soils court spanish rork torfe various improvement SPANISH FORK utah co jan 8 1874 1674 editor deseret wems news the circumstances under which your correspondent traveled from salt lako lake city to provo this morn ili lii hig were materially different from those under which ho he did aid the same thing seven years ago awo ago there was no railroad then but bli t how different dif dil lerent now in isalt la ket city at A seven ven and 1 in n provo at abl half p past as t ten ton on ott the tho cars I 1 learned that the flagstaff Flag stanl mine little cottonwood was making arrangements to ship wenty twenty nive five tons of ore oro a day down the he canyon by the Wasatch and jordon valley railroad there was but bub little time to do ele vote to looking around provo as a start southward had bad to be made from that point within half an hour after arrival A glance was sufficient to show however that the progress fro pro giess gless of that city during tho alio p past rast ast seven years was not a whit behind that made by any other city eity in the territory according to the population at the tho beginning of the time aforementioned besides the enlargement of the borders of the city numerous largo and handsome buildings have taken the place of smaller and less imposing ones probably the most creditable of them all however is the large woollen factory of which the people of utah uta 11 county and especially of provo have every reason to be proud judge emerson was holding t court in the new court house bu building alding this morning he is anly engaged in hearing civil cases which can be disposed of without a traverse jux jury ya the latter having 0 been dismissed for the present the grand J jury ury urs is still in session you have already learned by 4 telegraph ele eie graph that the judge declines to have criminal cases tried tiled in his district his reason for this decision being that there is no district attorney for lor his district and ho he claims that the law provides that such an officer shall officiate and that the territorial orui orul attorney general cannot act outside of the district in which his hia office is located As in other places business ia is somewhat dull in provo even a reverend lying gentleman is illy lying on his oars which ia Is so somewhat me of a change from his doing so on the mormon it will be remembered that he heis is th the e reverend who in a public gathering somewhere in the eastern states asserted that lie he was in continual danger daner dan er of his life from bloodthirsty blood thirsty mormons cormons Mor mons when ho he preached methodism hereabout and that when ho he ascended the pulpit lie he did so with the bible in his hand and a pistol in his pocket according to this his own statement he must be an a pis tolio preacher indeed I 1 have not been able to ascertain whether it be really tr true ue that after he gets through spinning spin nin such yarns lie he purposes to S strike k out the finst first two letters of his name in passing through several public ani and other improvements were noticeable duriel during mrk irk a brief stop therea a jocular incident ent occurred A gentleman made a purchase at a store and the storekeeper in giving back change included in ita it by way of joke of course a bogus five dollar bill if that storekeeper epen had ever evar heard two purchaser lecture on finance ho he have tried that joke anyhow it take the bill was instantly thrown back and ft a sickly kind of Colfa xian smile flit ted across the face of the store man I 1 had the pleasure of meeting with Brother lyman woods of springville Spring ville t the he well known indian interpreter it will bo be remembered that he took a ent part in the council with the indians in con COD conjunction junction with general morrow general thurber and others a little over a year ago the telegraph office at spring v ville is temporarily closed I 1 at fori eori iliavi been informed that there thero is sufficient wheat were it retained to bread the inhabitants for four years anew tithing office has just been erected which is a good sized as well as respectable appearing building there is a line lino public square here twenty four rods square it has just been enclosed with a neat new picket fence the finishing touches are being f put upon the en trance gates th the tho e necessary roc 16 for a two story city hall is now oil od the square it is proposed to commence the erection of the tile building buIl bull din as soon as the weather opens the cooperative operative co store is doing di steady business and things arill arcil aru are generally pro prosperous here heie J N |