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Show St. George Locals. Tho grain harvost Is over for , this year." Tho crop is poor owing to tho chinch bug nnd rust. -Oet in tho hnblt of calling on your printer for your stationery, oithor blank or printed. Mr. II. Picket fumigated the two Eardloy houses last Friday uud tbo quarantino was raised there. Thoro were a fow patriotic peoplo in town on tho Fourth judging from th'o display of bunting nbout their houses. All business was suspendod in St. George on tho Fourth that tho business busi-ness men might tuko part in the exercises ex-ercises of, tho day. Mr. E. R, Cox iind family left for Codar Tuesday morning to Bpetid ho summer. Ed is a toraplo worker nnd will return iu a mouth or two. R. O. McQunrrio is in from tho Dlxlo nud roports everything moving along thoro nbout ns usual. Somo oro is being taken out above tho tunnel lovel. Ivo Stratton camo In from Plocho Tuosday wboro ho has boon working iu tbo mines. Ho met with n slight acoidont tbero wbioh hurt his kudo and bo will remain homo until it gets better. Gcrorgo Lund wau down from Shorn Mondny to have a very painful carbuncle lanced by tbo doctor. George wns not nblo to rest for several days with it, but after being lanced ho was easier. Henry Atkiu nud family intend leaving leav-ing Friday for Cedar mountain to epend tho mmmor. They woro undecided un-decided nbout going until this hot weather came on, nud thou it did not tuko long for thorn to make up their minds. Tho spacious lawns surrounding tho homo of .Mayor Macfnrlauo wns tho scenu of an ioo oroam sociable Moudny evening. Lanterns hung about tho grass added to tho beauty of the soono. Refreshments wcro served nud nn nil around good timo was reported. We aro in doubt us to what the peoplo hero aro praying for. If it ia dry woutber thoir ,'iJraynrn nro beirif annwroed fnr tronro linvlutf u upload It) drouth. Tho fish iu the Virgin nro beginning, to kick up n dust und tho hogs have, to bo 6oaked up boforo they will hold swill. Won't tho farmers please chango tho tenor of their prayers now that tbo harvest is up and tho smallpox over? Brig Moacbam returned from Las Vegas and Bullfrog this vook. Ho thinks bo was fortunate to "escapo, " hb ho puts it. Brig lost two of his best horses iu that couutry nnd wns sick several days. A great many of tbo freighters' horses die on account of tho wntor aud ulkuli dust that rises iu clouds in front of the team. Tho roads aro badly cut up and tho dust Ib hub doop. Tbo water is bad nlong tho road and eomo of tho drivers tako sick. Brig roports a lull iu hauling just nt present nnd some of tho tenm nro leaving. Managor Bowles of tbo Utah & Eatern Coppor Co. was in town on Wodnosdny, accompanied by" Mr. Froe, tho book-Tfoopor nt the amotion Mr. Bowles reports wrok progressing favorably at tbo mlno. Tho tunnol is now In ono hnudrod foot nud in nbout ten days tho Burleigh drills will bo in running order. A lino body of high grado oro has been on countered in tho old workings nbovo tho tunnel lovel. Somo is boing taken out nnd it is oxppotod that tho smoltor will muko a short run Iwforn loug. Tbo compnny is going to put somo man to work on tho toll road to do Borne ropnlr work. Alox Morris returned yestordny from hla trip to tho head waters of tbo Virgin Rlvor, wboro ho went, accompanied accom-panied by Bp. Lnugston of Rooky Hie, to explain tho purposo of tho friendly suit to tbo runchmon living on tbo tributaries of tho stream. Theso poo-rol poo-rol bavo nover boon ronresontod iu tbo meottlngs called in tbo past, and letters addressed to thom bavo falold to olloitn reply. They have evidently thought tbo movement wns going to infringo on their lights, bo they romulnod silent. Tho visit of thoso goutlomen resulted in good, for whon tbo object of tho suit wns ox-plained ox-plained they woro hoartily in accord with It, and with but ono oxcoptlon promised to bo present at n meeting to bo hold nt La Vorkln in tbo near future, at which this matter 'will bo (liecussed. ' |