Show LOCAL AND OTHER MATTERS DAILY AUGUST 3 attorney D 0 willey jr of davis county has submitted a question to attorney general bishop asking whether or not the county board ot of equalization when reconvened by the state board has the power to raise of property replying mr bishop says it has continuing the attorney general says bays when reconvened by the state I 1 board as is provided by law it has me be same power to deal with any subject eat matter properly coming before bufore it Q as it would haye have had originally the jo difference being the manner by it is convened the procedure when rhen so reconvened by the state board beard would be the same as aa at the original session thereof there has been considerable speculation as to the probable aggregate of maine monument contributions as made in the different wards of the latter day cuy saints at the special services held m pioneer day july the committee in charge grant and ift have been in dally daily receipt of llie subscriptions subscript ons ever since that time F glad axe are very much pleased with them they have come from all sections far itami jand near and up to this afternoon reached the substantial sum or of some tjong over 2700 but that will not af represent the entire collection as there wards yet to hear iise ye a good many grom from when the contributions axe are all fu it is expected that they will reach ja least taie me committee desires through the 1 to request that all delinquent ards forward their contributions N 1 without further delay also to announce y eliat th if any wards have failed to hold and make collections that be called at once to comply 4 sath alth the request under which all other wards varde have acted FROM THuM THURSDAYS DAYs DAILY AUGUST 4 54 5 4 f S brown ogden standard clifton ittia one of the pioneers of weber manin nd utah died at his home sit aft ams avenue wednesday morning eight of stomachs stomach armble tro uhle be e funeral will be held from the first stord rd meeting house priday friday at 2 p m sa was 69 years of ave age the state board of equalization has tsaK aen sn a rest until friday next be im ore doing so BO however it ordered 4 A an a increase of c 6 5 per cent in the as 1 essed ossed valuation of real estate im t movements tove ments personal property ex apt money in the following counties sanpete San pete boxelder Box elder cache rich em dewy util utah 1 I salt lake bakr washington f f fhyr ber morgan davis carbon epta mastach Wa stach county bounly av ar increase of 6 5 ale iber ercene cent was ordered on improvements ga 43 ud briercy erCy aba w I 1 Tf cy assessments in all other counties jimmi is approved proved jv ath ahe board issued an order fixing the tevy f state tax at 4 mills mille for state and a 3 in n ills state school xa toss 18 lie letter to bishop W B fon Is self explanatory and dis ea the fact that the publication in anwa ot of an article concerning van buren and a large new t estate of which she was one of wait not nat without beneficial mantl manti utah aug 3 1898 ar mirin in behalf of the children lucy van buren I 1 take pleas ne you for the publio atson in the news for information wanted by musser kohler in relation to mrs lucy van buren I 1 am a grandson of mrs mra van buren my mother being her daughter ellen both are dead also mary but andrew is still alive living at present in orangeville Orang eville emery county utah we have given the matter to our bishop wm T reid held to look up W C snow san francisco chronicle battery C of the first utah volunteer artillery reached oakland last evening at after an uneventful thirty three hour trip from salt lake city in the detachment are men and three officers captain frank W jennings is in command the other officers are first john D murphy and second W D J stacey the battery which was mustered in july is contribution under the second call for troops an effort was made to have the government authorize a battalion of infantry but as utah has exceeded her quota the request was denied by the war department one battery of artillery was the limit and battery C was at once organized in salt lake city and took up quarters at camp douglas As two bat batteries ot of utah artillery are already in the service and on the way to manila the men of C expect to be sent to the philippines as part of a utah battalion if this be done captain grant who is now at manila will probably be raised to the rank of major battery C has neither guns nor uniforms and is to be equipped here the men like all of volunteers are of fine physical appearance all the new arrivals are enthusiastic in their praise of the red bed cross ladies who greeted and feasted them at sacramento other california towns extended true western hospitality the utah men slept in their cars care at the sixteenth street station last evening this morning they will take the first boat to this city and march to the presidio Pre where they will be made a part of camp miller FROM FRIDAYS DAU DAUT T AUGUST 6 J W houston received a telegram today announcing the death of mrs george R shaefer Sh aeter formerly of salt lake city at that place the cause of death is not given the deceased was well known here where she had man many y friends who will be pained to learn leam of her demise mr shaefer was engaged in the real estate business while a resident of this city and still owns considerable property here the funeral will be held on sunday at 2 p m the storm of yesterday afternoon was in some places in this valley much more severe than in others it appears to have spent the greater part of its fury in the region near the point of the mountain west where it took on some of the he characteristics of a cyclone it did some same very peculiar things in that neighborhood but in no place were its antics more pronounced than on the premises premise of peter J reid who lives a little east and south of the point the wind came along in corkscrew fashion sweeping over a narrow neck of country and struck an outhouse amidships on mr reids place it was a good sized shed too being about 16 by 28 feet in dimensions well floored covered and other otherwise wal ble equipped the zephyrs lust just picked that structure up bodily played with it as a oat does with a mouse fora while and then dropped tt end up alongside a haystack it is very fortunate indeed that no people were in its path as it was evidently no respecter of persons FROM SATURDAYS DAILY AUGUST 6 the raising of rye is something that mr thomas weir of this city thinks could be carried on to good advantage throughout utah mr weir recently made a tour of the southern part of the state and noted with regret and surprise that rye was not among the products of the farm in the tar far eastern states says the gentleman it is raised to quite an extent and yields the farmers good profits it is usually planted in the fall flourishes in growth all winter and can be cut in the early spring when water is plentiful besides says mr weir it brings a good price and would be a splendid inducement for the starting of a paper factory here if razed more generally by utah fax farmers mers FROM MONDAYS DAILY AUGUSTS AUGUST 8 mrs annie white wife of william white senior member of the firm of white sons company died at the family residence last night at of erysipelas after an illness of ten days the deceased was a woman whose personal qualities won for her a host of friends and the demise comes as a shook shock to then them the th e many friends of william hennefer will be pained to learn of that good mans death which took place yesterday in this city resulting from a complication of diseases mr Henne genneter Hen neter fet had been sick for more than a year past but not seriously until about live five weeks ago he was a native of stalford staffordshire ford shire and came to utah in 1861 1861 he w was as a barber by occupation and in that business was the pioneer of utah peter hansen danish consul tor for utah stated to the news this elfter afternoon that the war prize money of US to each of the one hundred and fifty danish veterans who participated to in the holstean war of will not be paid until atter after the next session of the danish Rigs dag when it is expected they will appropriate a sufficient amount to cover the necessities in the case the first appropriation of kroner has been exhausted the presumption is that it will require that much more to liquidate all claims lander wyo aug 8 the excitement emch was caused by the report of the finding of a buggy and tea supposed to belong to W P noble of salt lake at the reservoir near welter w was as partially allayed this morning by the arrival of a messenger mess engell who was sent out from here yesterday by mr nobles relatives this man says the bul buggy aywas was a buckboard with a top to it and instead of there being two horses only ohly one was found the buckboard had been driven directly from the wagon road which to Is on a bench about fifty feet above the reservoir into the water the horse had been shot and was lying in the water at the time he left the scent scene of occurrence par parties ales had recovered a body from the hie wa water ter odthe of the reservoir but it in no way resembled re either mr noble or the man who accompanied him when lie he left lander the messenger only fe satisfy himself that the buggy aad bained at the reservoir long enough ito horse were not mr nobles outfit and hastened back to lander to ito allay ORO he fears feaks of his friends when he be lift left the reservoir parties were still dragging tue tte water in hopes of something further which might oro some bome light on the identity of the unfortunate man who game came to such an untimely death mr F F noble cashier of the banking house of noble lane noble of this city and brother of W P noble in a conversation convers this morning said that he was waa now entirely satisfied that the outfit found was not the one that belonged to his brother as he had left lander with a two horse rig and the vehicle he used did not resemble the one found the reservoir where the find was made is one which was built by the niobrara Nio brara Transport transportation altion company to store water in for use of the many freight teams running between lander and casper and is situated about midway between st stephens mission and the dit sance from lander being about fifty miles A more desolate ds claie spot spat and one better suited to tire commission of a crime like that which is indicated would be hard to ao find anywhere FROM TUESDAYs DAILY AUGUST 9 orl on sunday evening while a mrs brown and her sister of lake breeze were driving along the roadway which parallels the oregon short line railway going to garfield gar field the train came along in the same direction as that in which the ladies were going the horse started to run and the road being enclosed by embankments there was a lively race between horse and locomotive for a distance of about a mile during which the ladies jointly exerted all their efforts to stop the animal finally the train went by and by that time the horse had kicked birse hl self elf and the harness and buggy all up into a knot there were four children in the buggy with the ladies and one of them romella romelia brown aged five was severely verely ae kicked in the back of the head the little one Is not yet out of danger and remains under the care of a physician the wonder is that someone was not killed and more of them injured two highwaymen on sunday night at grugeon springs near butte montana held up jacob Shift Shiff mans saloon and secured about 1300 all AH difficulties in the way of a reorganization xa rAtIon of the montana power company at butte have been removed and work on the companas comp anys plant will toe be pushed with vigor manse manae coffin and two sons and howard gravely arrived at boise on sunday from wood river they were accompanied by ed coffin and family of salt lake the statesman says a proposition hw been received by the executive board of the intermountain fair to have the fair at base opened by telephone toy by the governor of california with epe peaking aking communications from the governors of oregon washington aton and montana the long distance telephone will be completed in time to make this possible state auditor richards recently wrote attorney general bishop calling attention to section erection 2425 2426 R S which provides a penalty of twenty five per cent damages and ten per cent interest in case of delinquency on the part of 0 persons entrusted with tie me handling of state funds and have failed to make settlement of the same etc and de this provision as to sureties upon the sired aired to know the force and effect of bond of a delinquent official where the bond was waa executed prior to the ell enactment th thereof t f 1 I am of opinion that where the bond was wa executed prior to the enactment of the penalty the sureties upon said bond would not be liable for such pen alty it being the imposition ofa condition which would operate to enlarge the beyond that assumed in the first instance to hold otherwise would be to assume the law to be i retroactive and to give it the korce force and effect of impairing Imp the original contract the rule would be different in respect to the principal as the lature unquestionably hai hasa the right at any time to change the duties of or impose new and additional conditions upon a public officer president J T kingsbury of the university on behalf of the executive committee of the board of regents recently enquired of attorney general bishop as to whether any part of the funds appropriated by the last legislature I could be used for supplying a heating and ventilating plant for a state institution replying today mr bishop says under date of july an opinion was rendered by this office to the hon morgan richards jr state auditor which answers fully the same question propounded by you in that opinion it was stated that heating apparatus pa ratus would not come properly in the meaning of the word furnishing it being more in the nature of a pee permanent fixture and therefore part of the original plant 1 I still adhere to that opinion and dj d nut not believe it would be a proper subject to which the appropriation in question could be applied lieutenant lieu tenant briant S wells brother of governor wells and an officer of the second united states regiment of infantry returned home this morning on the train and spent the greater part of the day with his family the lieutenants many friends will be pleased to known that he is looking and feeling well although quite severely wounded he has haa not been ill a day or a moment since he left home his wound was waa in the hip and was produced by a mauser bullet which had first passed through the leg of a private of his own company who was fighting bravely at his side aide this was on the second days beige against santiago when wells says bullets flew and whistled about with the fre of hailstones in a violent storm he says the men regulars rough riders and volunteers fought like tigers in what was possibly one of the sharpest battles in history lieutenant wells gives a different portrayal of the care and treatment bestowed upon the wounded from that of others he says that within five minutes of the time that he fell he was carried away in a blanket and taken to the hospital ship chere his wound was dressed and where he was made as basy as possible under the circum stances atances what was true in this particular of himself was also true of others nothing that could be done seemed to be neglected lieutenant enat wells tells a modest but graphic story of the whole engagement and is sorry that he has been taken from his regiment he expected that when he be was conveyed to fort monroe va he would be permitted to ido this but the surgeon general said he could not do so as the wound gund was of too dangerous a character the bullet |