Show ah AND gossip decoration Dec oratio n day wag was appropriately observed in price prim laba monday A number of persons from outside settlements tle ments with nith relatives lathes re buried at the arko 1 cemetery bere here hero last monday juno june as the tile birthday b ot the prophet Prop liet brigham young appropriate exercises exorcises nele eio ald throughout the barlou communities corni of A thia this of pf tho tile state i chatlin leger have opened a saloon saloan nt tit helper in the Cr choaley ottley building they aa e a it wholesale ber beer burriess bu Ariess handling tho the product I 1 of an indianapolis ind I 1 brewery it R W crokett cro CroL kett resident agent of 0 the hartford fire insurance company last monday settled tho the lire tire loss of tho the castle gate knights of eythl is 13 lodge lod go by del I 1 erl n g to trustee thornas at T lamph a it check for twenty live hundred collur dol lur the full amount of the policy professors merrill arld hutt after an extended investigation have chosen choson a piece of ground five miles south of monticello and one mile north of verd verdure u re for tho the id daiy diy ty farm for east am ern utah the gentlemen are entha over the prospers pro for dry land farming and predict a great success they look forward to the testa tests which will bo be made hy by thia this station tor for it if all Is favorable it will open tho the largest tract of land in tho state to tho agriculturist uncle sam has a post office at duchesne bridge to DO ne known as amton maori after hon how ell P myton former united states indian agent H culvert post trader at the bridge will be postmaster he ile Is a democrat but Is probably the moat most popular man on the reservation for tar several years he was postmaster poat master and post trader at whito bocks rocks and has the confidence of both white people and indians I 1 discussing the building of the cutoff Sall sun san of last friday says through the canyon is being pushed with all speed and will bo completed in a few days the present force of laborers rith the exception of a few who will be retained hero here to ballast and adjust tho tile track will then be the assigned to points on the tile main line where much impair and construction work Is going on some time ago it locked as its if there were enough tiei ties oll oil d up hero here south of the depot tol build ld a railroad to now york city last friday the tha last of these ties was taken up the cannon canon and since that time many tics have been brought down from the north something like a hundred d and alft men are now at work near salina on the elo rio grande western cutoff it is generally conceded that the road will be built on through during the summer to the desert division of the main line at aarnham o 0 the cutoff will run from salton miles south of salt lake city on the Mar makavale Mars avale val division tc farnham nham miles cist cast c of salt lake city on the main inala line and will bo be mile long it will shorten the distance between those two points by dunles n md ld em 81 ahe same distance to los angeles in connecting with the dark clark road most of the tile through california business will go over this lino line and the clark road when completed and will not touch within miles of salt lake CI city t Y it will shorten the distance between imer domer and 1 icim angeles over the dark clark line from 2011 miles to 1374 miles or a total saving of C 67 miles friends friend 8 of the contracting parties announce tho the marriage during luring tho tile present pre sent month of thomas thomm L me mc carty of green river anil and MIs Hiss delia della mcintire tire of price one of the largo large tanks used in generating soda water blew up tip at tho the establishment af of davia davis bros last monday fortunately no one waa was hurt several bystanders getting out of the tile building before the explosion came there will be civil service examinations at salt lake city juno june oth and loth for the position of local and assistant inspector of boilers in the steamboat inspection service from 1200 to 1800 per annum and on july ath for the position of chinese watchman in the emigration bervice 1 and for game gamo law assistant nt at a eal sal ary of 1200 in tho the department of agriculture ri charles J leo hae has been acquitted by the federal court nt at salt lake city olty of a charge of ot violating the tile postal ian laws s leo wag was engaged in collecting funds for the sufferers in the eld mine disaster in 1900 and it was flis charged that in issuing circulars to collect these funds ho he signed himself as its chairman but on inquiries being made it as discovered that ho he had not been so appointed his ills fart trial was in 1901 the jury decided that he had no fraudulent intentions and unanimously acquitted him according to newspaper newe paper reports grand county is to be opened up to the rest of the world by an electrio clec t trio road forthe for tho enterprise will be generated by bv the great falla falls niong along tho the proposed route the tile no new lino avill ox tend from cisco along tho file line of the old toll road to moab from that point it will make a circuitous route to tho the la sal mining region the new read road will traverse tra veree one of tho tile most promising copper fields of the southwest and will open up tho oil belt in tho the northern part purt odthe of tho county the promoter promoters of tho tile echeme scheme who aro are represented at salt lake city by M 11 kriebel arc capitalists of portland ore ane territory to bo be opened has frequently tempted speculators who so a golden opportunity in the great ore hauls to bo be secured in that unexplored region iho la sal mines alene alone no ito it n o said to be of richness to warrant tho the building of tho the road and ah u a fruit country it is unsurpassed j there nas nits a good sized crowd out tuesday evening nt tit tho the dance the music was as lico and everyone present reports having spen spent h ii most cN ening chief engineer ridgeway of the dewer northwestern estern mid Is duo due to archo arri 0 in vernal in it few daia da a to look took oer thia this portion of the proposed now 11 line no tho the county commissioners ire are in receipt of it f from roin 1 I 11 II met fat expressing appreciation of the recent action of the tile board iu ili adopting resolutions of good will and extending a welcome and promise of support to tho the enterprise the letter nas ue ory nery encouraging in its tone rind thero there is now ery cry little doubt that tho the roud road will bo be built I 1 ahe fact that k tile union lifts a party of sarv surveyors byors tit work mork to tho tile proposed territory near vernal has caused oo 00 end of cominek t the moffett hove have been fully advised of the situation by major myton und and w will III no doubt tithe some action in the matter the region la Is one of tho tile richest in tile west and annually annun lly tho tile union pacific nt at stations between bets icen gwynta and evanston has a large tonnage of wool sheep aud and cattle from the region so that company knows what it is worth orth from a standpoint stand polut it Is said that a branch can be built from tile union pacific follow following lag one of tho streams and pen et rating tho the heart of tile region but whether this will be dono or not to bo be soen |