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Show both cattle and horses in that ' locality. Wasatch U'uve. Perhaps there ai e persons in every town in Utah who sometimes write to newspapers except in Monroe. Mon-roe. We are sorry for a town of one thousand inhabitants where not one person can be found who can be depended upon to write one letter during a year to its county paper. Rich field Adrocatc. Chas.'Weiser, of Gunnison, was in town last Saturday. He is stopping stop-ping out in Grass Valley this summer sum-mer and says the crops are backward back-ward out there on account of the cold weather. Fishing though is good and the streams are swarming with trout. They will over-balance all other defects in the eyes of a sportsman. Salina Jirna. The Sugar Co. now have about seventy men engaged on their beet farm hoeing and thinning the beets. We visited several this week and were encouraged lo nee the crops looking so well. Since the warm weather set in the beets j have grown very fast. Some of the land has been let out on contract ! to private parties and many others j have sent in bids. Those who aro well up in the work can make .f2. j a day. Lehi Banner. A Walk about the city at the present lime will convinco the most skeptical that in spite of the i low price of silver, the unusually backward (spring and the wet i blanket that a presidential campaign cam-paign is always supposed to throw ' over the entire country, Park City i is experiencing a forward movement move-ment in the way of business and residence structures going up, that speaks volumes for the future of , the camp. Park City Record. Hi rum C. Morgan, of Willard. Utah, agent for the Leach Roaster 1 and iiakev Co., Paxton, IIl.,ismcet- ing with great success in canvassing orders for the improved Roaster and Baker. He is now taking orders here for that very useful 1 article that every intelligent housekeeper house-keeper should have. He is general agent for Wyoming, Utah and Idaho, and will canvass in every town in the States and Territory named. Rock Springs Review. Prof. Leo IJaefli', a well-known journalist in Utah, was found on Sunday suffering from an overdose of laudanum at. his lodgings on Slate street. Medical aid was at once summoned, but the victim died a few hours later. It was the general opinion of his friends that the deceased, having been addicted to the use of the drug, had taken an overdose by mistake and this was the verdict arrived at by the coroner's jury yesterday. Herald. The "changed conditions" in Idaho politics are very noticeable and encouraging. At the Democratic Demo-cratic convention held in Pocatello on Wednesday, the delegates from the "Mormon" counties were seated without a murmur of oppositional- uiougn some oi mem were wen known to be "Mormon." Of course there was no good reason why they should be excluded, but the difference differ-ence between the conditions now and those of a few months ago is very striking. Deserel Neivs. Speaking of lightning striking Clarkston last week, the Logan Journal says: Little Alice Dahle was at Stewart's, having gone there j on an errand, and was in the room with three of the Stewart children. She stood before the big looking glass when the lightning struck, and the glass was shivered in ten thousand pieces, driving the child's face and body full of the fragments. Great gashes were cut in her head and arms by the larger pieces, while the finer dust literally filled her skin. She ran about crying and saying she was blind, while the blood was pouring from her many wounds. PITH OF THE PRESS. Pen 1'irtnrt'S CulW Tr-mi the Best Jlirmrs of Our Count rv. It is reported that the La Plata and Sunrise mines, at La Plata, j will put on a force of from 50 to I 75 men by June 10th. S. L. Min-j Min-j ing Journal. Several men came in from their stock range in the Uintah country last week and all speak very favorably favor-ably of the present condition oi |