Show r LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS I 1 DAILY 6 early this morning destroyed art t side aide of the block in the cen medford I 1 T causing an ag loss JOBS of insurance evan evanson of spanish called at the news office this ing and reported his return from ision to indian territory for 1 part of the country he left his i september 3 1895 he made nu friends met with fair success aurally rally enjoyed good health al afflicted with rheumatism a of the time this is elder lions ft B second mission returns of the enrollment at the t schools on sept 30 have been jed in supt bupt office comparison nip arlson purposes the total burshay burs day showed whereas opening day it was and t so 30 1896 the number of pupils was a gain of the e figures indicate the rapid h of the school population and Emst antly increasing percentage dance if shortage of the sugar beet crop utah county will have quite an t ln in reducing the amount of sugar need at the lehi factory this sea tt it is said that there will not be t than half a crop of beets and aln in some places the percentage of sarine ane matter is higher than last in other places it falls less leav ut the same as 1896 this means dorable erable Id falling off in the sugar t this year sprae evening of october ath at a jaack a large gathering of saints jo paries who had ad labored in ghani conference held a rein the fourteenth ward as y rooms oms after a good hearty baking a program was rendered ting of songs recitations and ad ju A delicious lunch was served eting was dismissed at about tun the ommittee committee on arrange b feeling well repaid seeing that jowe one I 1 had spent a few hours in a enjoyable manner supreme court handed down an today inthe case of elizabeth ens respondent vs union As society appellant affirming jalon n of the lower court with r stice miner wrote the opinion art and chief justice zane tee bartch concurred I 1 ease plaintiff filed a common on may 2 1897 to recover upon alley cy of insurance issued to her pendant on november 18 1895 personal nal property valued at 4 ae property was insured for one p kin the sum of 1600 1500 and was ayed ed by fire december 15 1895 dant t refused to pay the loss cee was tried before the court jury who found for the and awarded judgment an t of 1500 prom from this judg defendants appealed aney ey general bishop has reny an opinion in answer to a ques D H morris county actor at washington county in which i 1 I I 1 have your favor of the et in which you refer to an tendered by this office in this year relative to the ap nt t of taxes collected on tran ae the opinion was to the ijar one half of the taxes JHn imposed posed by the action of the iberis should be j pe re bitted to the county entitled thereto in cases to which you refer it was held that the county school tax should be considered when making the apportionment tion ment it seems that the county to which you refer has remitted a certain amount but has not remitted the amount of the county school tax which is due your county on account of transitory herds for the reason as claimed c that the taxes so collected had been placed at the disposal of the school district and hence beyond its reach you ask for a supplemental opinion as follows will you kindly give me your opinion as to how the money in such cases can be legally drawn to pay such claims I 1 would suggest that your county make a demand upon the county to which you refer for the balance remaining unpaid if it has placed the funds specific funds beyond its reach it is nevertheless liable for the unpaid balance and I 1 am of opinion that it would be the duty of the county commissioners ners of that county to remit the amount due your county in the prem aises and that they would be entitled to 0 reimbursement at the hands of the school district to which an amount has been paid greater than that to which it is entitled FROM THURSDAYS DAILY OCTOBER 7 miss may jones who departed this this life today at the family residence on apple street had been a great sufferer for two years past her affliction wets was consumption and although she had been failing for some time neither she nor her family expected her death so soon miss jones was the oldest of two daughters and before she was stricken was quite prominent in social circles she had many friends who will be pained at the news of her death just budding into womanhood and with a bright and happy future before her she bhe has gone to her rest may the thoughts of her worth and goodness comfort those who are bereft of her society here there was an exceedingly heavy downfall of rain accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning and great peals of thunder at an early hour this morning the storm came up quickly and struck the city about for a time the electrical display was of a dazzling nature in its character A little later a big illumination was seen some distance south of the city and a police officer thinking it was within reach of the department turned in an alarm from the corner of second south and east temple streets in response to the call the department ran down second west street to tenth south but as the blaze was still far in the distance it returned the presumption is that the fire was started by lightning elder john druce of the twelfth ward of this city passed from mortality at his residence at this morning after an illness of several years from the effects of paralysis in the eightieth year of his age elder druce is well known in salt lake city having resided here for a great many years he occupied the position of counselor to bishop hyrum B clawson of the twelfth ward for many years and was highly respected by his friends and acquaintances since coming to salt lake and until the condition of his health prevented he has been engaged in n contracting and building and in his business relations his character for honesty and uprightness is thoroughly established in business circles he died as he lived a faithful latter day saint mrs susan woodruff ter of president woodruff died at sioux city iowa under very distressing circumstances yesterday morning mrs scholes was a resident of this thia city and a member of the twenty first ward about the middle of september she concluded to go to iowa her former home and look after some property interests she was slightly indisposed at the time as was also alao her daughter miss phoebe scholes one of the teachers at the wasatch school no serious attention was paid to the illness of either one of them at the he time and on the of september mrs scholes undertook her journey she went direct to the home of her daughter mrs M rl R william wiliam I 1 cody C od y of 0 f sioux city and was then compelled to go to her bed with a well developed case of typhoid fever in the meantime her daughter to phoebe was obliged discontinue teaching and take to her bed with the same Irn malady alady yes berday a telegram was received announcing noun cing her mothers death and to in her own weakened condition the intelligence telli gence was a terrible blow notwithstanding the gravity of her own illness and the effect of her parents death it is confidently expected that she will recover mrs scholes was fifty four years of age and was born at nauvoo illinois she leaves seven children four of whom are now residents of this city and three of whom reside in the east bast her husband has been dead for some years the deceased was an intelligent and widely respected woman and profound sympathy will be felt for her suddenly sorrow borrow stricken family her remains will be brought to tos this city for interment FROM FRIDAYS DAILY 8 the millennial star liverpool of september announces that elder A Z marshall who has been laboring in the leeds conference of the british mission for the past four months has been honorably released to return home september 25 1897 on account of sickness mr R A berry who is in the city from Ka narra iron county informs the news that they have had good crops down that way this season attributable to an abundance of rain the state normal school at cedar city he says is doing nicely aam and promises to make its initial one of great success A telephone message from the county infirmary conveyed the information this afternoon that the most diligent search had failed to elicit elloit tho slightest clue that would lead to the whereabouts of lemuel peterson the old man who escaped two weeks week ago it is feared that he wandered away to some obscure or secluded spot and died he was 80 years of age and very feeble his voice being so badly impaired as to be almost inaudible he had been an inmate of the in firmery since january or february of the present year and prior to that time lived in the third ward of this city the old gent lemans mind was very much affected he labored un der the constant hallucination that some one was going to murder him and it Is thought that it was this fear that caused him to run away parowan carowan iron county utah october 5 A most heartrending land and fatal accident happened here yesterday morning the ath dinst robert A miller son soft of df robert E E miller a pio neer of this place while working with a threshing machine got on top of the machine to fix some bolts while it was still running he slipped and lost his footing and went head first into the thresher the teeth of the cylinder tore the back of his head off also his shoulders His arms and part of his body were badly torn the horses were stopped as quickly as possible and he was taken out he was of able to speak and lived only about twenty minutes he was a quiet industrious dust rious young man and leaves a wife and three children father mother sisters sister sand and brothers and many relatives to mourn his untimely death the sad affair has cast a deep gloom over the whole community his face was not marred in the least and he looks as natural as ever only that he is pale and white through the great loss of blood WM C mcgregor following is the report of state treasurer chipman for the month of september receipts september collections see list balance on hand august 31 1807 1897 total expenditure state warrants redeemed general fund account 04 state university lands balance Balan ceon on hand september 30 1897 memorandum a nd um balance in funds september 30 1897 1807 state district school fund account general fund a accounts C u ants state school fund account university land accounts totals RECEIPTS ITEMIZED 1897 sept 1 I beaver county 1205 sept I 1 summit county sept 1 I salt lake county sept 2 sanpete county sept 2 sevier county 1782 sept 2 sevier county sept 2 sevier county sept 2 utah county 1403 sept 2 utah county sept 4 iron county 1778 sept 4 iron county 2155 sept 4 boxelder Box elder county sept 4 carbon county 1188 sept 7 uintah county 1252 sept 7 uintah county 22 sept 9 weber county sept 9 morgan county 25 2560 60 sept 22 utah county 48 sept 23 tooele thoele county 2645 2646 sept 28 state engineer fees 2000 sept 30 90 supreme court fees total sept collections attorney general bishop sent the following opinion to state auditor richards today in answer to the question as to whether he would be required to re record a brand in the name of an heir of an estate which had formerly belonged to the decedent ot said estate application being made under the law of 1897 in answering your qu question tation it may be pertinent to observe that under the statutes of this state a brand when duly recorded constitutes a property right and as an such to ie the subject of assignment sign ment in the same manner as other personal property it might also be the subject of bequest and be disposed of by the will of ohp decedent in the absence of any such bequest however the title thereto would vest in the executor or as against all others and would be subject to administration the same as other personal property belonging to said estate if sold or assigned by the administrator it must be done in the manner provided by law and as is usual in such cases by an order of the court having jurisdiction of the subject matter the assignee of an owner of any brand might make application to have the same re recorded in his own name and when satisfied that such assignment had been duly and legally made it would be your duty as recorder of marks and brands to grant the application so too the assignee of the executor or administrator of the deceased might also apply to have the same re record ed in his name and when satisfied that such assignment had been duly and legally made it would be your duty to re record the same in his name from the foregoing observations it follows that the heir of a decedent as such has no legal right to have re recorded in his name a brand which belonged to his deceased ancestor nor would it be incumbent upon you as a public officer to recognize such application at a meting of the state board of horticulture held today the following letter was drafted to be sent to the various fruit growers of the state to all nurserymen nurseryman Nursery men realizing that the interests of the tree grower and tree planter axe are closely allied the state board of horticulture takes pleasure in congratulating all nurserymen nurseryman nursery men upon the great revival of interest apparent in the matter of fruit tree planting throughout this state there is no room for doubt that the judicious planting of properly grown stock will for many years to come prove remunerative to utah farmers there is a growing tendency to patronize utah nurseries exclusively and almost without exception we believe the patronage thus bestowed is merited in view of this very gratifying condition the state board of horticulture believes that the nurserymen nurseryman nursery men throughout the state will readily operate cooperate co with this board in all reasonable efforts to eradicate every form of injurious insect and disease from the stock in compliance with the provisions of the horticulture law the state board will insist upon strict enforcement of the sections requiring of nursery stock the attention of all persons concerned is especially called to sections and eleven 11 of the horticulture law the various county fruit tree inspectors acting under the direction of the state board of horticulture will be charged with the enforcement of bf the law on this subject in LA the LAM work of herein referred to the formulas approved by the department of agriculture at washington will be insisted upon the letter to is signed by president thomas judd vice president 0 H Blom and secretary J A wright at the meeting it was also decided that a bulletin on the winter storage of fresh fruits and the fall cleaning of orchards should be issued in the near future and any one making application to any member of the board can get a copy free of charge FROM DAILY OCTOBER 0 carl J baren the earliest and one of tike the most highly respected settlers of moab was drowned at that place on thursday evening A heavy storm had just swept over the valley and in attempting to cross mill creek he was carried from his horse and drowned his body was not recovered and it to la feared that it has been borne into the grand river the deceased decea aed had a son attending the agricultural coln 0 at logan benjamin F whittemore w known in this city for the past twe five years or more died from heart dj ease at ten last night tt years ago he was stricken with pana par sis and since that time has been poor health he was in the seven devent se vent year of his age and leaves a wife tan one son the later proprietor of of railroad exchange A private telegram received at ti office of studebaker brothers at ta this afternoon announces v death at alma michigan at nocal noon day of mr P E studebaker alce M aident and treasurer of the big fac fracturing turing firm which bears the of himself and brother tg mr studebaker was 60 years olt of his death was due to heart di desei with which he had been troubled the past two or three |