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Show Mrs. Wm. Merrill of Richmond was a caller Wednesday. Andreas Petersen Is agent for the famous Douglas shoe and they arc the best. The easiest lltting, most comfortable comfort-able sooe for ladies Is tho "Julia Marlowe, Mar-lowe, at Dunbar, lloblnson & Co.'s. t J. P. Griflln has Just completed a tlno rcsldenccon Second South St. Just east of Main, that is a credit to that neighborhood. Cache County will likely get ono or two of tho appointive positions of the legislature and already there are several seve-ral candidates in the Held. Merchants complain that business Is not as good as it should bo at tills time of the year. Probably the muddy roads has something to do with It. Geo. IUichti North side IstN. street makes a specialty in cleaning and rc-pairingclothes. rc-pairingclothes. Partlesdcsirlngwork of this kind will receive prompt attention; atten-tion; prices reasonable. Hyrum Petersen, charged with assault as-sault and disorderly conduct, was sentenced by Justice Pedersen Wednesday Wed-nesday to pay a fine of $15 and spend ten days in the cooler. Nothing dcilnite has been done in the matter of the appointment of deputies by the olllcers elect. It is quite likely that nothing will be done until after the llrst of the year. C.W. Wendelboe, located cast of the Tithing olllcc Is doing a good business in the Jewelry line. Being off main street Ids expenses are lighter, he can there sell correspondingly cheaper. Tho wife of Ulshop Ciias. G. Hyde gave birth to a pair of twins on Monday, Mon-day, Dec. 11th, a boy and girl. Wc arc sorry to state the boy baby has since died. Wc hope to hear of all doing well hereafter. Hyrum Poterson dldnot take kindly to the surroundings over at the City Jail and prevailed on his wife and friends to Intercede in his behalf with the result that Mayor Hansen had him released last night on parole. Sugar is going sky high these days. For a long time it stood firm at $4.85 per sack in the local market, then all of a sudden it Jumped up to $5.20, then to $5.50 and $5.75 and now it is above the $0.00 mark. Some of our dealers were lucky enough to lay In a good supply at the low figure and arc now profitting by the advance. Tho Oregon Short Line is putting on a train between Ogden and Salt Lake to make the run in fifty minutes. Wc wish they would continuo that service On up as far as Logan. Wc would like to see how It would seem to make the 15 mile run from Cache Junction to Logan in anything less than 40 minutes. The people down at Springvillehavc been working on a water system proposition pro-position for somo timo hut did not knowwheioto get the water. They have finally decided to put In a pumping pump-ing plant below the mills on Spring Creek and pump the water back up into the town, and a proposition of this kind will bo submitted to the people In the near future. Moses Thatcher lectured before the 40th quorum of Seventies at the 11. Y. College Tuesday evening.on tho external exter-nal evidences of the authenticity of the Hook of Mormon as revealed in the traditions of the aborigines of America. The Speaker narrated a great many instances in Indian traditions tradi-tions and customs that coincided with statements of the Hook of Mormon as to the customs of the Nephltcs. Walter Haw kes of Hyde Park returned re-turned last Monday from England. Brother llawkes labored in the London Lon-don Canference mo-t of tie time white upon his mission, which lasted 20 months. Spiritually ho is feeling first class although reduced somewhat In llesh owing to a little lung tumble. He reports favorably in the missionary work, stating that many high-class and intelligent people are being converted con-verted to the faith. The Utah Home Tclephono Co. have applied for a franchise in Ogden, and lcpresentativo were in Provo Tuesday, feeling the pulso of the people down there, with a view to making an application ap-plication for a franchise. Wc will likely hear from the new organization organi-zation within the next few days. The principal promoters and olllcers of the Home are: President, Gov. Hcber M. Wells; Directors, Hon. John Henry Smith, S. F. Fenton, Geo. T. Oclcll, II. W. Urown, Nephl W. Clayton and Elmer U. Jones. Hcst goods for least money at Dunbar, Dun-bar, lloblnson & Co.'s. t ,wS,upenisor Holt Is putting in a foot crossing on Main Street In front of the Tabernacle. A big line of sample shoes for men at 25 per cent off at, Dunbar, Robinson Robin-son & Co.'s. J. P. Nellson on 1st N. Street, repairs re-pairs Byclcles and keeps full stock of repairs on hand. Arrangements have been made to hold the monthly Sunday School Stake Olllcers and Teachers meeting at 2 p.m. instead of 4 p.m. as heretofore. Tho M. W. of A. has ordered a line set of Band Instruments through the Harris Music Co. Mr. A. J. Clark will be the leader. Ex-Postmaster Mclghan of Ogden has been convicted In the Federal Court, of embezzlement. Ho will ask for a ne w trial. J. Pierpont Morgan drew a check the other day for $2:1,000,000. If one of our subscribers gave us a check for $2.30, it would take our breath away. John Thomas, the pioneer tailor, 74 West 1st North street, lias a good force of men constantly employed, and he can servo his customers on short notice. Satisfaction given In every particular. Ingolff Ahnc, son of Ivor Alme,dled last Wednesday afternoon of heart failure. Funeral services will be held to-day (Friday) in the Sixth ward meeting meet-ing house. The remains will be shipped shipp-ed to Mantua for interment. T. II. Merrill representative elect has spent most of the week in Salt Lake looking up legislative matters. Hazcn is a candidate for the speakership speaker-ship and ought to get it. He would make a good presiding officer for the House. Utah contractors arc becoming famous fam-ous as railroad builders all over this western country. For several years they have been doing about all the improvement and construction work on the Union and Southern Paciilc, the Oregon Short Line and the Rio Grande Western. And now they are budding on the Clark road to Los Angeles and the Moilat road from Denver to Salt Lake. Jos. II. Knowles reached home Wednesday Wed-nesday after an absence of 29 months in England, where he has been on a mission. He spent most of his time in the Manchester Conference. He crossed the Ocean on the same vessel as Frank Thatcher and wife. They had a rather rough passage but he escaped sea sickness. On his way home he made a Hying visittoNlagara Falls. John Christensen of the Oth ward, came home Tuesday. Ho has been filling a mission in Norway. Most of ids time was spent in the Christiana Conference. The mission Is In a prosperous pro-sperous condition andagreat many additions ad-ditions have been made to the church within the last two years, until the branch In Christiana now numbers over 000. Their church has become too small for them and they arc now-engaged now-engaged in electing a new ono that will have a seating capacity of over 800. They have a young peoples tract-lug tract-lug society, composed of young men and young women that have charge of the distribution of tracts In the city and they arc doing very cirectivc work. The" choir is tho largest and best In the city and attracts a good dearof attention. There aro 23 ciders laboring in Christiana and neighborhood neighbor-hood and about 55 in the Conference. There are 1400 members In the Norway Nor-way Conference. J. '.. Stewart talked before the Archaeological Society, Wednesday evening on the subject of his trip Into Mexico in 1875. The company left Nephl Sept. 10, 1875, and crossed the Colorado liver below Kanab. As they entered the desert country the animal's manifest a disposition to return home and even when hobbled they would go for miles towaids home during the night. At last, one of tho party lilt on an ingenious device to prevent their wandering oil'. He took the animals, ani-mals, 17 in all, and tied the head of one to the tall of another. This enabled en-abled them to feed, but when they traveled it was hi a circle. The party visited theMoquI Indian vllllages and spent several days among them. These Indians had built their pueblos onthe point of acHlTorhlll.where they could be easily defended. Tho people weie expert weaver and made large quantities of Navajo blankets. They weie also expert in the manufacture of pottery, many of which were artistically artis-tically decorated. The party explored the legion aftciwards settled In the Mormon people In Northern Ailzona. They passed through the Salt River and Gila Valley, passed through Tucson Tuc-son and visited El Paso, whcio they temalned for some time. They then visited Chihuahua, and then explored the legion In the Sierra Madre Moun-tains Moun-tains where tho Mormon Settle-nents aro now located. Inreturnlngthrough Arkona, they traveled at night and hid up days to escape the Apache Indians, whose signal fire they could see on every hand. They had many narrow escapes but come out O.K.and reached homo kaoly. II a mt ..?. , |