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Show I LOCAL NEWS. I - H jj Aslx-year-oldson of M.J. Mallard H' jS H In a very precarious condition from M M nropsv. H -luiUe V. II. Klntr, of Sail Lake B Sf' nnc to Logan Thursday night, and M V returned Friday morning. B II Louis S. Cardon went to Salt Lal:e 1 S- yesterday on bjslness pertaining to ', U the Logan Real Estate company. !""fJf Relatives and friends of Herschel Bullen Sr. went to Richmond yesterday yester-day to celebrate the gentleman's sixty-eighth' sixty-eighth' birthday. . ' Mrs. Winifred Jones, of Preston.was r brought down yesterday to undergo . ' an operation for appendicitis at one fi of the local hospitals. I . . Considerable good local news will be found on pages 2 and .'J. Dr. Davis nnd Wllford Chatterton, of Preston, w ere In the city ou business yesterday. ' x This evening the Y. M. 0. A. basketball basket-ball team of Salt Lako plays the H. Y. 0. team In the college gymnasium. It is expected that the gamo will be a snappy one, for tho Salt Lakers have lost honors to retrieve, that bunch having been already walloped by the local bunch this season. Word comes from Robert Murdock at Salt Lako City that he has sold some of his mining interests for $20,-000. $20,-000. Just what stock or property he has sold is not known by his son here, to whom Mr. Murdock 'phoned. We may now expect Rob to put up ;i new postolllce to be run In opposition to that one Uncle Sam Is going to build here In tho course of Uvu or ten years. As n result of recent publications by one Geo. Gilbert, International Correspondence Corre-spondence School agent, J. W. Eames, former local agent, secured anaftldavlt for his arrest on a charga of criminal Ilbrt. Mr. Gilbert appeared Friday morning nnd the preliminary was stfor 2 p. m. yesterday, but owing to the fact that A. G. Horn, Mr. Gilbert's attorney, Is now engaged in a trial and will bo busy for some time the hearing was postponed until some time in February. Mr. Karnes says he Is Innocent, nnd claims that Gilbert cast unfair Inferences and has done him great Injustice, hence he proposes to push the 1 C. S. agent. The Agricultural College enrollment for the winter courses has already passed the 100 mark and the. total enrollment en-rollment for the year has reached 700. Naturally enough the school management is highly clutcd. That so many havo enrolled for the various winter courses speaks well for the effectiveness of the advertising done and the growing popularity of the school. Tho Farmers' Institutes and personal work of various" heads of departments de-partments art doing much to popularize popu-larize tho agricultural work and it Is gratifying that both young and older men are awakening to u realization of the splendid opportunity that is theirs at tho A. C. of U. From a private source we havo been glvc.n certain Information In reference to President; W. J. Kerr and the Oregon Ore-gon A. C. that will undoubtedly' prove of considerable Interest to his friends In this valley. For Instance, though the Oregon school never before enrolled en-rolled more than 700 students, the number this year, Including those joining the winter school, .will reach somewhere between ,1,100 and 1,200. There are at this time 035 cadets organized or-ganized Into thrpo battalllons of four companies each A class In calulus numbers as many as sixty-five, a rather .remarkable showing in comparison with the number taking advanced work In A. C sof the Inter-moilntaln region At the Oregon school a woman's building costing $S5,O0O has Just boen accepted and new shops costing cost-ing $75,000 are now almost ready for occupancy New barns costing $22,000 will bo completed in March and another an-other new stiucture costing 803,000 Is to be put up Immediately. President Kerr seems to be enjoying his work in Oregon very much, and he Is said to bo enthusiastic over the outlook for the future Professor and Mrs. James Dryden, who will be remembered here, arc at tho O. A (j.. also, a'nd are said to be charmed with tho school, and Corvallls ns a place In which to live. Miss Jcanette Ostlund, of Brigham, came home to Logan Tuesday. She has had typhoid fever and is Improving Improv-ing slowly. |