Show AND ath E R MATTERS MATTE 9 FROM ata pamy dant fl I 1 I 1 the last sad rites over the remains of hyrum beck were conducted conduct pd yesterday after afternoon Woon from the family residence ther speakers were bishop beatte beatie and bishop whitney of the seventeenth wards respectively ively both of whom hom expressed os Is of comfort and consolation to the bereaved sweet singing was furnished by a quartet made up of ashworth and Pit dittrick Patric trick fc with prof prank frank merrill at the argan interment was at the city cemetery bishop 0 F whitney dedicating the grave last monday morning while geo ockey and john cowan were unloading 1 a car of coal at the de depot at this city an old shoe was found in which the following to id a copy oct 28 1897 we the undersigned undersigner under signed being near pieer deaths death s door and to tree an innocent visa nan hereby confess to tor the murder of miaanne williams and blaunch lament W 0 are starving to death I 1 in I 1 the ata new carson city j W C JONES this slipper belonged to durant in where you flad find this thas note I 1 please tell the officers as agpoon soon as s po possible Ible W S P age 28 0 J SO the letter was written on a piece of ordinary notepaper note paper and bears beam the mark of time it to is viewed in the light of a fake by witnesses but if it to ia true it is too late to be of any use to dur rant nepal republic I 1 hon anthony amthony W aina formerly of st george utah and now president of the mormon mission in Mexico with headquarters at colonia juarez to is in the city attending conference to a news man he said today that the mormon colonists in mexico were in a decidedly happy prosperous condition their numerical strength Is about two thousand elder ivins says he recently purchased acres of agricultural and grazing lands for colonization purposes seb this is a valuable one and will greatly benefit the colonists who are constantly ana industriously carrying on development work in the way of building up the country which is a good one tor for men of energy and brawn As yet the opportunities for professional men are not Promising but du al who are accustomed to and who dan endure hardships incidental thereto can call soon become pres i airous I 1 As an evidence of the prosperity of the people in colonia juarez juares he says there are none among them who are in want none who are out of employment all who want work can pet get it they are paid t mexican money of course but he says the people are thoroughly satisfied with it ft as tt it answers alt all the tee purposes of exchange every man owns s his own home and better still it to isaree free from mortgage in every instance A steady accession to the population is going on and the indications are that we the increase of immigration gm tion will continue until a magnificent commonwealth springs into ex istance I 1 elder andrew kimball president of the th e 1 t joseph josepho stake arizona Arl sonk came 16 from that of c country yesterday day looking andr and feeling well and in a happy mood ovey over conditions aar as now are in what tie ie terms aoe of the it garden e spot of ile e nation aver over which erv to preside some same tjong aring A ciflie 40 top months t ago I 1 elder kimball called on the N ne shortly atter after aliv N arrival and r a very interesting story I 1 as aft to CO eions in genera in that abai section iff going down there two months montha 1 go NT b imagined that hs trip was fay to a jumping off place so his conception concept ton of the country tio cloned ned now however tate different he has seen it as it isi anaf a to use nse his own words has been hap in A wa disappointed everything a goo good people says elder amt good soil and good conditional condition 6 brally there being a progressive community wt 7 conditions of the very best I 1 the gila valley in which elder kimball live covers an area miles the soil to is rich anspro 1 there is a good water supply and that ts Is needed to is energy and a al funds to brin it into there Is 1 room m for good trades professional men and all such who have any degiere to get luo a now new country make new bomes and it elfar kimbal be very vary pleased to mett before iw in consequence COMM of taft th la at members 0 ot tho p the reorganization reorganisation a aba months ago there ebig exists a aal t unity among the people al da vv tri lee haa as set in the residents f for and being forgiven and trying fa e cometh becot be batter day batot spirit of public and personal improve ment is to a great ext efat afflic not less than shade trees tree haw been planted within a sh short olwe time each of the ten warps w g ip ML stake arranging for a grove chef meetings can cah be held in th forture I 1 elder kimball came in to attend conference and abd when that to is over ile he ilar attl move his family from this thia city tor to their new southern home at That thatcher cheil i headquarters of the st joseph stake he says the erroneous erroneous ideas formbly entertained by him concerning arizona have all been dispelled and he feels that though he has a good home ft salt lake he can establish estable oh just as aa grood good a home in arizona and live happy and contented FROM danl 7 lehi banner some time ago afro we had occasion to mention t the he beriou ill illner nem of george harrison and later his re removal j to a salt jake hospital As alie lower limbs limba and lower part of his bodet h waw was paralyzed there was waa but littie hope of his recovery when rem removed moved A but it was his wish word waste was te re vedon eel calved on sunday of hta his oath and TO ro leaste from earthly cares carea and sorrows he leaves a wife and lawe large family t mr harrlson harrison was president of 0 this city for a number of years yeara before tak taky y ing uw up hla his abode at lehi he emigrated to salt lake from wales walea lehl lehi banner A t chhoa rhodes e acts to leave for far la grande or this weed he is one of the best drill men here 8 mid d will assist in planting beets fort for r the ze ff la grande factory he expect 4 to tobe be jaja jam n six months or more 1 superintendent austin of the augir company made a trip through taft southern beet districts last week weela he 4 says nearly all the land Is ig tor for planting and Is in ano aln he says gayb the lehl farmers have tie pre 0 vered their lard land better than wow yer bt fore and it Is in better cona condition thata the far fenners ibers in any other othe w s chetem no of the theT lai SladE V who heido in ill lehi met ov aa anc tt PP i wa 1 W th T arti 0 1 i WOO lox ok first 11 james kirkham second lieutenant also secretary and treasurer the veterans hold an annual campfire campf lre at provo on august advocate the expected has happened saturday morning the lo 10 lower dam of the Maryo reservoir broke and emptied a flood into the sevier bevier river which conveyed the torrent down the canyon and inundated the little farms along its banks near sevier and vaca breaking head gates of irrigation canals nearly drowning a man crog crossing sing the stream and almost sweeping the railway bridge at sevier from its damage to crops bridges and canals may aggregate 1000 there seems some ground for the suspicion that the reservoir dam was blown up the great artificial lake covers 1700 acres of land and its average depth was thirteen feet its full capacity vat t the time almi of the break considering this it Is in fortunate that no lives were lost lose and no greater damage was done by the flood it was the lower dam that went viqi FRIDAYS DAILY APRIL 8 JE D E crafts Cratt 43 who has bas just returned from the animas rive region in san juan county was a caller at the news office today the story he tells of that section shows it to be abundantly blessed with a good climate fine soil unlimited water supply good grazing lands plenty of cheap coal firewood lumber building stone and in fact almost everything that is necessary to make a people prosperous and contented mr says he became iti in that section through reading of it in the news not long since and accordingly he be boarded a train and went directly to the place to maki make an investigation vesti gation on his own account the result is he is more than pleased so pleased in fact is he that he will at once begin to arrange his affairs with a view to changing his home from deseret to the animas country several other millard county families he says will do the same thing the latter are getting ready to leave now and will take their departure within a week or two to mr crafts says there are a good many mormon settlers along the animas and san juan rivers abdat and at farmington and aztec and that they are all doing well the animas land and irrigation company has just let a contract to construct a twenty five in mile I 1 canal tapping the animas river on the east it will cost and under the contract roust must be completed by august lot it will reclaim dicres acres of mesa lands which are a sort of rich red loam cabble of very high production an other canal of about the same size and costing about the same amount of money will shortly be taken out on the west side of the river fi A very great proportion of the land artl 1 A is yet and can bo b taken up ir under either the desert entry or home lead ghead acts permanent water rights can be secured at the rate of per acre two dollars and fifty cents down with nine years time to make settle ment fo tot the balance wheat corn boorn and potatoes yield very heavy crops i there and as for fruit mr crafts d dej de e j clares he has never seen anything to compare with the apples of this region i the same he says is true with refer ence to peaches pears and all other fruits excer those of a tropical character I 1 As to other resources he says there are very jod good grazing lands surrounding those that axe are best adapted to agriculture cedar wood and pinyon nine 0 no covers the hills and from f two to four loads can be hauled I 1 in n a day it Is thirty mile to the big timber used for or building purposes lumber is worth 8 to 12 a thousand at the mill good coal can be had at the mines eight miles from the town of aztec at from seventy five cents to one dollar a load there is an abundance of good sandstone for building and a very fine quality of clay for brick making purposes most moat of the houses are of brick and settlers who went into the country four or live five years ago have good homes farms and orchards and are in a very prosperous condition generally mr crafts says that he will gladly furnish information free of cost concerning this region to any person who desires it his address for the present will be Ds deseret eret millard county utah FROM SATURDAYs DAILY APRIL 9 in the matter of the estate of james harvey deceased judge hiles today rendered a decision overruling the demurrer t to the petition of martha ellis bills praying Pray ingLat that alma harvey a polygamous child of petitioner and james harvey deceased be adjudged a lawful heir of the deceased the announcement that miss mary young taylor is dead will cause sadness in many hearts mamie as she I 1 was familiarly known by her friends was widely known and respected while as the result of a surgical operation she had not been strong for more than two years her condition was not regarded serious until within the last few days on friday evening last she att tended an entertainment in the thirteenth ward meeting house and was taken suddenly ill she was conveyed to her home and given every possible attention but grew worse until the end came shortly antei ten fen thursday night the deceased was waa the youngest daughter of the late president john taylor and was 22 years of age the glowing stories of the fabled richness of the klondike have attracted a good many utahna from the peace and quiet of their own homes among these may be reckoned roscoe E savage who with rugged physique visions of possible wealth and splendid equipment in the way of clothing and food left for the new eldorado about I 1 six weeks ago but rock is home now and to use his own ian language guage is mighty glad of it for he had bad a hard time during his brief adventures in search of precious metals mr savage returned last evening and was seen by a news man today the rigors of the trip have left their marks upon him speaking of his experience peri ence he called attention in vigorous language to the hardships and sufferings of many of the men who have rushed ambitiously and I 1 in the direction of the gold bearing section that it contains gold in considerable sid erable quantities he says there is no doubt but the stories regarding its richness are he says exaggerated through organized effort to an extent that Is criminal even the strongest men are stricken down with heavy colds on account of exposure in a great many cases spinal meningitis results and then death is almost a foregone conclusion several very sad cases that came under mr savages personal supervision er vision were cited this condition of affairs has started the tide of passenger migration this way at a rushing rate and men axe are getting out of the country just as fast as they can sell their outfits and get money enough to come home on on the steamer danube that brought mr savage back were fifty other dis heartened men when they landed there were five corpses to take off the boat one of them was a great big fellow from iowa his constitution was a very strong one and he lived nine days after being stricken down a much longer period than most of the men last atter after the disease takes hold of them this is cited as an an example of maz beins being claimed that the prospecto off like sheep when once attacked 01 MONDAYS DAILY A IL 11 word comes from mesa city adzona announcing the death at that place on the of march of henry W brizzee the deceased had been a resident of arizona for twenty one years he was a native of new england and was 71 years old he was a member of the famous mormon bat and remained with it during all its trying experiences mrs robert C brown wife of the night emergency man of the city wa ter works department met with a most tragic and lamentable death on saturday night about 10 mrs brown had just left the home of her parents at ait tenth south and eighth west streets to return to her own residence on canyon road she was making the trip in a cart with her three children the oldest a little boy held beld the reins as an they passed along second west went between fourth and fifth south streets at this point the horse took fright and ran away going along at a lively rate until it encountered an electric light elijht pole and threw the occupants to the ground tho th young mother made an heroic effort to save her children from injury but it was at the cost of her own life mrs brown was picked up in an unconscious state and carried into the residence of albert mckenzie and drs dr hughes mclean and bower were summoned all efforts at tion failed and an hour after the accident the unfortunate died in her husbands arms the deceased was the daughter of mr and mrs john A and was twenty eight years of age stretched on a table in the patrol mens room of the old city hall building with four physicians attending him and little hope tor for his recovery is the body of carl whitsitt plans if they had bad not net been interfered with would have led him to the altar tomorrow the dinst where he be would have taken unto himself a wife in the person of miss annie hansen of this city whitsitt was found at the point of death in the basement of the old lyceum building on second south street at one this morning his groans leading to the discovery which was waa made by W S wearing a colored olgar bigar dealer and R J gibson gibeon a min ing man when approached the man was lying on his back groaning faintly and in an unconscious condition he was shortly conveyed to the 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