Show IDAHO the people of this town are forging ahead at a very rapid rate new stores and residences are being erected brick is fast taking the place of lumber and the business portion is assuming quite a metropolitan appearance in the past the mercantile houses were on a five acre lot and a naked ten acre block on the east side of main street made preston every inch a country town now they are changing that ten acre block and business houses are being erected sidney stephens is putting up a large wagon and machine shop on this property and ere long both both sides of main street will have business blocks in close proximity the thrashing machines closed up their heir the t ir work only last saturday and the t he enormous crops of wheat and sugar beets are without a parallel in the history of preston and vicinity the farmers smile as they meet you and well they may for where they formerly raised a hundred or two bushels of wheat this year they have raised thousands mr joshua adams raised bushels and just as he had got it into the granary the building bulged out so he had to get sacks backs and gather up that large amount and rebuild and ha could replace it the tons of beets that have been shipped to the ogden sugar factory or it would be more properly to say carloads have been an eye opener to the preston gr angers the beets and wheat shipments over this loop of of the oregon short line ane 3 railroad should have had an additional train also induced this company to build clear around the beautiful valley of cache and if the short line dont our standing committee who have this matter in charge will offer some very flattering natt ering inducements for some other company to build our way from ogden As there is a fine grade up ogden valley to paradise and the distance to logan dogan is twenty miles shorter than the present route by way of cache junction rio grande western railroad since my last visit there has been a new ward organization bishop john larsen holds the reins as william parkinson has been called to preside over the pocatello stake of klon kion at the close of the hot and dry summer typhoid fever set in in n an epidemical m form and the people sent for three doctors and they blamed the water these good people have been using this same aqua pura from the same wells for twelve or fifteen years now everybody is wiling riling bk this water and no more oases cases have developed deveo ped and an all cases are rapidly recovering about light eight deaths haive occurred the people of preston have held several meetings with a view bo a city government and they should lose no time to in consummating this very desirable object they can never become a county seat from village swaddling clothes the following follo clip clipping plIng from a local paper Is the sensation of the hour here john gees saloon building was set fire to on tuesday morning abbout day ight mr gee had just come from Ms his home and saw the blaze just in time to save the place coal oil had been poured on some gome rags and trash between the joists foists under the edge of the building and on the outside outride of the house had it not been discovered aad extinguished in st ime time the whole comer of that block would have been destroyed and probably some lives lost as john doherty was sleeping in a room in the rear of the saloon and would doubtless have been burnt up and C A larson learson and wife and geo gelo B E jordan were all sleeping in rooms up stairs la in the preston block near the saloon on the south while others were sleeping in a building to the north on tuesday evening ed hollingsworth was arrested on a complaint sworn to by mr gee charging him with arson in the first degree and today he was taken before justille Just ilce williams who postponed hearing of the oase case until monday at 2 to in order to give the defendant time to obtain counsel the preliminary hearing to being held before mr justlee williams Q 0 rich and maughan of dogan boga are the attorneys at this writing the case Is not inot closed should it be before awil time I 1 will give the result one thing is certain if proved it is a most dastardly affair and had not the fire been seen before it got any headway the best part of Pres tons business houses would have been to tn ashes and many lives lost the case is dragging along and will occupy all day they need a stenographer |