| Show our country contemporaries ogden junction function march 28 last night we had a nine fine shower of delightful rain which has bas laid the dust and lil all nature looks more smiling and beaud beautiful ful fui today to day this thia afternoon the clouds again gathered up thick and dark the tb thunders rolled lightning flashed unshed vividly yiv idly and the tiie rain and ha hail hall i ll 11 poured down in gushing torrents for about twenty minutes the sky is now again clear provo enque enquirer z fer march 2 8 there ia Is every prospect of great success with the company owning coal mines in pleasant valley the coal has been experimented on with care and largely and it ft shows according to reports of experts that it will make coke equal to twenty per cent better than thau that made in pennsylvania indeed it is characteristic te of the common burping of the coal that it fuses together and becomes cokey in a comm common on stove we are told that the company has been offered for their claim but they would not sell we learn with regret that mrs urs irs irb Mary maryann ann Anu whipple wife of edson whipple esq of provo died in this city on monday morning last A report has been circulated that she died of bf smallpox small pox but we are informed by the quarantine phyll cian clan tha that such tsuch is not corie corre conert ct she died of nervous prostration slid bad attended young heber hober whippie whipple during durin ghis bis his bia sick zick sickness ne sa night a anid arid ri daysud day bud aud rud nud and with her hen usual devotedness lo 10 the sick blei sacrificed herself to his care eare s alle 8 lie ilo seemed workout worn out by the duty arid being eing now of an jt 0 o i age not so abie able bleto to endure the anxiety and fatigue her physical powers gave gaye way on monday surveyor general jesse I 1 W IT fox passed through prevo pr ovo on his way south to survey the country co uw and to ascertain cirtain as which would be the beat route to take to extend the utah southern line as it itis is purposed to do this season beason he will survey the route from santa quin to lintig mining district it is thought by many that the grade will be too great to overcome profitably fo for r the prosecution of the interests of the company making santaquin San the point of divergence the route will be thoroughly I 1 explored by mr fox he will then survey a route contemplated from a point about four miles south of york station y turn ing west so as to touch some convenient point in the wintle wintie mining district this latter route it is thought by those who know well thal that whole region of country to be the best beat and easiest to make cable it is fully expected that after aate r mr fox has completed his survey and given in his preposition proposition the work of grading and extension will begin many persons are waiting for the beginning of the work and it is expected that business will recuperate in the region of this county and the adjacent ones I 1 the third term of the academic year of the brigham young academy closed on monday last fast last A meeting was held in the upper room or theatre the atres of the building and the students and friends of the institution gathered at fit an early hour and the room was comfortably filled the platform was occupied by the president and board of trustees arid and the faculty and visitors were interspersed among their student friends throughout the room prof carl 0 maeser principal of the academy read the report re P of the faculty to the board of directors D ors and made a few remarks remarks were also made by professor hardy professor miss tennie smoot and professor J E booth of the faculty of instruction and addresses by bishop wm won bring huret of spring ville bishop M tanner chairman president smoot secretary W H dusenberry mrs M A coray and judge W WW N dusenberry several of the students were called upon who responded in n neat short and appropriate speeches for themselves an ald and the departments which they represented the student speakers were L 0 woody wood S da D moore isaac bullock and miss agathy parry ogden junction function march 81 31 another storm set in last evening the rain and sleet continued to come down heavily the storm continued all night and all of day up to the time of going to press the mountains from base to summit are covered with snow and um umbrellas brellis br ellas eilas overcoats and overshoes have been called into requisition A case was brought before alderman browns court this morning in which N J sharp postmaster and L R freeman editor of the charged with engaging in a fight contrary to the tile city ordinance in such caso made and and provided judge brown said he felt satisfied that the charge in the complaint had been Fu sustained stained that both sharp and freeman hau haa engaged in the fight and each had bad broken the ordinance in relation thereto he fined sharp 40 and freeman 30 and each to pay ills his shareef t the tic costs tho the wounds inflicted on the side of freemans freemanb Fre emans head bead are severe fevere they bled profusely but no bones are fractured and dr adama does not think them dangerous provo enquirers enquirer march 31 we had quite a nice fall of rain on early morning of friday throughout the valley which was waa gratefully received by thirsty mother rio earth by a paper received from the east we learn that an old re resident of provo well known for many man y years has departed thia this life at his residence in gal gai galesburg esburg illinois alexander Willin William williams ms 3 I 1 aged 73 3 jears sears died of rheumatic fever october ath 1876 he lie is s spoken poker t highly of in the paper that he e died calm and peaceful alid and had a prem 0 his hia death part of his family i le e side in provo i by letter fram G W John johnson sori esq of diona mona juab county wi vt are pained to learn of a lamentably lament ablo accident that occurred in that place on the 1401 of this thia month mouth r n 3 in the death of a four year old daughter of mr B S P ewan A team to which was attached a wagon laden with manure was standing en on the street near the door of their house the little child climbed on a wheel of the wagon when the team started off and the little one was thrown under on tho ground the wheel passing over its head death ensued in about an hour after the accident the funeral took place on the 16 irth ath attended by a sorrowing company olly POLICY OF THE unior UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY tiie TUB chicago railway review thinks the best policy of a railway Is is to build up and anil foster its local or way traffic speaking of the union pacific railroad and its purposes the review says ays the union pacific railway hallway la Is stirring 9 itself for an active year in new construction the omaha republican valley road will be extended according to the tho original plan and a road willalou wil wll laloo be built to the black ellla surveying parties have already been organized and there will be no delay for lack of means tho the binck black hills region is it fast proving itself the beav roid rold field east of the mountains exaggerations ge rations have now given way to u solid facts there will undoubtedly be great emigration thitherward this season and from froin what wo we learn and arens areas are aured ined iwed of or theroan the themo thero roar arm aro substantial attractions which will keep the population pr pu lation and contin cont inu tin to draw more with the theo c lines iines completed and the utah and montana narrow gauge feeder 1 tho the union pacific places itself in a position to build upa up a local traffic which will render it in a largo measure independent of tho thu through business which may some rome day oe drawn away by the texa pacific and other roads to be built perhaps much sooner rhan than has been generally anticipated this ia is good generals generalship 1 lp a farsighted 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