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Show -o ''f y? 1 ' . '' vr V ' w VOIi. 13 EPHRAIM, SANPETE COUNTV. UTAH. FEBRUARY 25, 1904 NO. 26 gglEeb 4i of the track on his head, breaking Council Proceedings his neck and making a fatal wound on his head. The city council met in special hastened for at McSorley help session Saturday evening. Mayor Col. Theodore Bruback fall 15 once, and took James Shields and Dahl being absent, Councilman feet in Daly Judge mine and Joe Holland back to where Bru breaks his neck Was hv back lay dying. He lived about Thompson was chosen Mayor pro-tertwenty minutes after the fall. A specting the property. doctor was telephoned for and Le A petition of the North Ward hastened all with possible Relief Society asking the city to A very tragic and cruel fate Compte to the services his but mine, was that which befell Col. Theo- speed help defray the funeral expences were not required. dore Bruback one of Utahs proof N. Nielson and Andrew Ros CAUSE OF DEATH. minent citizens at the Daly- J ndge While the exact cause of the quist was granted and an appropwas made. mine at Park City Thursday after- accident will never be ascertained riation of $20-0Mr. Bruback came up it is known that Bruback was sub noon. Mart Christensen was granted to and it ject spells may 00 for extra Thursday morning to inspect the be thatfainting he was overtaken by one an additional $20 on the work as mine, in which he was interested while on the ladder. and after having dinner with TAKEN TO THE CITY. petition of Jos. P. Andersen et al. A special R. G. W. train came Foreman John McSorley, the two On motion the committe on fire started out. They had inspected up from Salt Lake and the corpse department was authorized to pur was taken to the accompanied thoroughly the workings on the by McSorely andcity Mike Hennessy. chase the neccessary supplies tunnel level and then went down Colonel Theodore Bruback re- for the departmentto the 1400 level. They were in ceived his military title from the The chairman of the investithe west drift on the back ledge, hands of Governor Wells, who gating committe on electric power of and coming to what is known as appointed him lieutenant colonel plant reported that, to the best TRAGIC DEATH -- n. er - the May raise, about 200 feet Mr. Bruback from the station. expressed a desire to go up and ii 6ee what work had been done m there. Mr. McSorley tried to dissuade him from such an idea Hi saying that there was nothing new Hi to be seen. The gentleman per- Hi sisted, however, and started up Hi the ladder. McSorley did not go in on account of an injury to his arm Hi which he had received in the tun- Hi nel the day before, but stood at Hi the foot of the ladder waiting for Hi his companions return. Hi BROKE HIS NECK- Hi When Bruback had gone from Hi 12 to 15 feet, as judged by Mr. Hi McSorley, there was a seconds Hi silence and the Colonel came plunging headforemost down the Hi raise. He struck on he iron rail Hi 1 Hi Hi SPRING IS COMING The robins and blue birds are not So is yet here, but theyre IEW SPRine GOODS ' My business last year was 50 per cent bstter than the year before. I am going to smash all previous re n the county. Josle Frost Jorgenson, 0 a! v! ib Ephraim, Utah. Main Street, - . 4 . J 5 ... m f. 7 SmSTITUTS ; Farmers in south part of San pete object to increased Grazing Since the recent modification of the order of the department reN s' P sheds. P The agitation is wholly among P the agriculturists, who claim their interests in the question have P made of secondary consideration (P to those of the large sheep owners, (P and that they will be greatly damaged if the present modified order CP relative to the grazing of sheep P on the reserve is carried. out. P A petition from Gunnison and Mayfield has been sent to He was born in their judgement, there were Pittsburg, Pa , and spent his about 200 inches of water all to- early life in that state. He was gether from the springs. educated in the common and high The bid of Albert Johnson of schools of Allegheny county, Pa., and graduated from the Iiou City' $564.00 for the erection of a college in 1866. A year after his house in the Park cemetery was arrival in Utah he secured con- accepted- The bid ofThomander trol of the Sanpete railroad which & Soderburg. of $631.00 for the was constructed in 1882. He was same building was rejected. elected president, and made it a standard guage line. He built a The committee on pubio grounds branch to the Morrison coal mines was authorized to have the Cenand later built another to the tral school house insured for $1000. brown stone quarries at Mount . A number of claims were alNebo lowed and the council adjourned, on his staff. c Milliner AGRICULTURISTS ft "ll cords during 1904. To do this, I am going to make lower prices than ever. My stock of goods will be immense, the largest-i- PROTEST FROM lative to the increase of the number of sheep allowed on the Manti forest reserve daring the coming season the farmers of South Sanpete have been greatly agitated over the question of grazing privileges. Several meetings of the farmers have been held and committees are appointed to act as walking delegates to secure signatures against the modification of ' the modified order, which allowed 175,000 head of sheep on tbere-serv- e r this year. The order as modified grants grazing privileges on the' reserve to 300,000 head of sheep during 1904. The petitions of the farmers are receiving hundreds j, of signatures, and the war between the farmers and the cattlemen against the sheep owners is growing intense. The sheepmen are jubilant over the second modification secured (P by Senators Kearns and Smoot. On the other band, the farmers of the south end of the county (P have determined to seek Govern- (P mental protection of their water- 0 sub-watermast- 27-3- 9 Way Down East are on sale at Dan Olsens barber Seats for shop. PROGRAM For conjoint meeting to be hold in the tabernacle Sunday evening Feb. 28th. Monthly Ruiller.... Tenor Solo.... Loot are. Musio, phonograph. Recitation Orrin Anderaop WUford MoAUiiter .....Adolph W Jeaien LoeU P Chrlitenitp Edith Erloktepi The meeting commences prompt ly at 7.30 oclock. . |