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Show I ' 'STATE NEWS I Gathered from Various Sources and Condensed, H Nathaniel Pierce ot al. located the H Utah, situated in Battle Crock mining H district, Utah county, Tuesday. H The threatened frost came, and came m early in Pinto county. The night of m Sept. 2 brought deatii to bcniiB, corn, m cucumbers and all tnder vines and B plants, und greatly injured the second B -crop of lucern . B Leu Warner, the young man who was H injured by falling from a scaffold in tlio B Mormon Tabernacle at lUcli field B Wednesday morning, iu getting along B nicely, and is no longer In serious dnn- B gor. ' His worst injury is a brokon rib, B though his spino is quito badly bruised. H A few weeks at most will see him at ?. work again. lit J yfip Charles Do Comto of the Sttutz Theater H company, now performing in Sprlng- B yillo, was adjudged insane Thursday H , night befoto Judgo Dusonberry at Provo H and committed to tho asylum for treat- H nient. Do Comto is fully awn re of his H condition, and expressed his willingness B to bo placed in tho institution. Drs. H Allen nud Robinson were the exnmin- H Jng phys!cians. H The finding of a skoleton of a human H being a fow days since by some cowboys, H about ton miles east of Statolino, recalls B ono of tho many tragic, blood-curdling H depreciations committed by tho "Tas- H kor" gang of horsothioveB and murder H era that held full sway there for so H many years. This gang had hendqunrt- H ers right at tho vory spot wherb now H stands the town of Statolino, which H promises in tho near future to becomo H .a prosperous and populous town. H Pike's Diggings in tho extreme south- B snd of Statelino district, is showing up K ninauy fine voins, carrying high values in H gold. This part of tho district, as well H s tho town of Stateline, has a little h j romance connected Willi its past history. H Away back in tho early '70's an old H man named "Piko," hailing from Mon- H - tana, drifted down to then lively camp H. of Pioche. Iu his dreams of hidden H fortunes he was led to tho spot which B now bears his name, where ho toiled H incoesantly for several years, until death B -claimed its victim. His labors were B dirocted towards uncovering what he B -flaw in his dream to bo vast deposits of B placer gold, leaving the ledges which H now show so plentifully in tho yellow B inotal untouched. |