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Show HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Mtraf Bits of Information Gathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Headers Don't forget to look for the Lost Chaperone at the high school auditorium audi-torium tonight. Some claim that It was Sam Cline'a white shoes and other light summer togs which caused the breeziness of the day yesterday. The Utafornia Ranch Company has leased the Brigham eighty and the Gooding eighty adjoining and will farm the same in connection with their own holdings. A little child of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Arrlngton gave the household a scare last Wednesday by upsetting a bottle bot-tle of liquid from a shelf which burned the little one slightly. Alfred Frank, president and general gener-al manager of the Montreal Mining company, operating a big property near Milford, has just returned from a trip of inspection. The mine is sending out about 100 tons of ore a day that averages from 2 to 3 per cent copper. Salt Lake Mining Record. Rec-ord. D. S. Vincent returned from Montana Mon-tana this week to visit the home folks. He has been firing on the Oregon Or-egon Short Line. Later he may take a similar job on the Salt Lake Route. He says that for weeks the thermometer thermom-eter registered 25 to 54 degrees below be-low zero up there and he is hoping to get back to sunny Utah. H. C. Lewison, without intent or premeditation, is accumulating quite a stock of wet goods. It's a long time until August and there is no need of laying in a stock at this time but Lewison gets his without expense or effort. Returning home to his ranch in the evening he has twice recently picked up a full, sealed quart bottle of whiskey fresh from the shelves. Some thirsty traveler is no doubt the loser and Is short several jags in consequence. At Las Vegas the Bees went up against a pitcher who came near "getting their goat." He is an Irishman Irish-man from the Northwestern league and was in fine fettle. The score was 4 to 5 in favor of Salt Lake when the game stopped at the first of the eighth inning on account of the fatal accident to the little girl who was electrocuted by a live wire. For several innings the score stood 4 to 1 in favor of Las Vegas, and with proper support the Irishman would have held the visitors to one lone run. A little girl watching the game of ball at Las Vegas Wednesday between be-tween the Salt Lake Coast League team and the locals of that city, met a terrible death. She was In a tree from which point of vantage she was enjoying the event, when she started to fall and reaching out grasped a live electric wire. People rushed to her aid and many were severely burned in trying to rescue the unfortunate un-fortunate girl. Her body could not be recovered until the electric power was finally shut off. She was killed almost instantly. N. B. Nielson, the county Ford agent, is to have the finest garage in Beaver county. This announcement announce-ment has been made before, but is clue again because the plans for the building, the hauling of material for which has already begun, have been materially enlarged. The building will have a frontage of 90 feet on the business street in the heart of Beaver City and will he 80 feet deep. The floor space of the building will thus be 7,200 square feet. While the building will be only one story at present the walls will be heavy enough to later support another story. The front will contain a modern mod-ern automobile display room and a reception room equipped with many conveniences for customers. The brick block will have a cement floor throughout. A substantial improvement for the south end of town is the residence resi-dence a modern six-room bungalow being built by Contractor C. J. Mclntyre for himself and family. Gillies & Yardley the nrst of the week received a carload shipment of pure bred Herfords and Durhams which they drove to Beaver Tuesday. The shipment was young cattle bought at Ness City, Kansas. There were 3 4 head in the herd. The local fuel famine has been broken again by the arrival of three cars of coal at the lumber yards. The past week the shortage has been as great as at any time during the winter, win-ter, but fortunately the splendid weather has made the need less pressing. When any one starts something which he feels is for the good of his home town there is always somebody ready to throw cold water on the proposition and to propose something different. A better way is to boost for every good thing that is started and to keep a'boosting. The county school board has been at Beaver since Wednesday morning. The first day was spent in visiting the Beaver schools and yesterday and today the Board has considered school matters of the county in general. gen-eral. A. L. Dotson took W. J. Burns over to the county seat Wednesday morning. E. C. Blanpied, the poultryman and a well known engineer on the Salt Lake Route, received a telegram last Saturday bearing the news of the serious illness of his father. Mr. Blanpied left on the next train for Mulvane, Kansas, the home of his father, to be at the bedside of his aged parent. Manager Woolsey of the Murdock Academy was over from Beaver Tuesday night and went to Salt Lake City Wednesday to secure the engravings en-gravings for the production of the school annual this year. It promises to be an excellent production requiring requir-ing originality, much thought and hard work for the students as well as fcr the printers. Will Knowlton, who left the project proj-ect last fall and went to Oregon, Is back again in Ventura county, California, Cali-fornia, and has sent for the News to keep in touch with this country which, will some day be one of the most prosperous agricultural districts dis-tricts in the West. Knowlton and Hays had an eighty northeast of the demonstration farm. Milford should have a good, live chamber of commerce, board of trade or some such organization to encourage encour-age industries, start enterprises and to father moves for progress and upbuilding up-building of the town and community. communi-ty. Please excuse us if there is such an organization for we are new here and if there be such it's certainly making mighty little noise. The Salt Lake base ball team and party included twenty-one players, Manager Bill Bernard, Billy Burk, the trainer of the team, and Mrs. Burk, and John C. Derks of the Daily Tribune. President Murphy, who is a lumber magnate, was called to Los Angeles, probably to assist in raising the price of lumber, and was unable to be present at the slaughter. Engineer T. W. Parry, superintendent superin-tendent of water distribution for the Beaver County Irrigation Company, has two gangs of men and teams at work on the canals getting them ready to turn in the water for the first irrigation of the season. Farmers Farm-ers are very busy on their own ditches and the project Is taking on considerable activity just now. . Richard Stark, wife and two children child-ren have arrived to take charge of the Roosevelt Hot Springs this summer. sum-mer. The springs are located 14 miles northeast of Milford and are the property of A. P. McKeon. Mr. and Mrs. Stark come from Butte, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. James Ma-loney, Ma-loney, also late of Butte, will spend the summer at the springs. They went over to the springs via auto last Tuesday. Mir. and Mrs. Sly who have been in charge of the property for the past four years are removing to their ranch above Beaver Bea-ver City where they will ranch this season. The temperature of the Hot Springs is 210 degrees Farenheit and it will boil an egg hard in four minutes. Improvements are being made at the springs which promises to become a very popular resort toi which many Salt Lakers and tourists tour-ists will spend vacation weeks during dur-ing the summer. There is a bath house and a capacious swimming pool alreadly there and It is delight-ful delight-ful place to rest and recreate. The waters are said to have great medicinal medi-cinal properties and many cures of rheumatism and other ailments have been recorded by patronB of the Springs in past years. Attorney and Mrs. W. F. Knox of Beaver attended the base ball game at the high school campus yesterday and seemed to enjoy it in spite of the score and the dust. a John Ellis and Marshal Kirkland have removed from the Kelting house on the project to their own holdings on the north end. They had spent the winter on the demonstration demon-stration farm. John C. Derks, sporting writer for the Salt Lake Tribune, met the ball team at Las Vegas and accompanied them to Milford and sent in the result re-sult of the game to his paper. Mr. Derks made the News a call and swapped yarns with the "sporting editor" of this sheet. There is a foot race planned for Minersville which is causing considerable consid-erable interest. The champion sprinter of Iron county has issued a challenge and a member of the Minersville Min-ersville school faculty has offered to accept. Here's hoping that the race will materialize; it's good sport. The athletic grounds and the new grand stand present a splendid appearance ap-pearance and the building of them an excellent example of community spirit. Let's have a field meet. The News will present a handsome silver loving cup to be contested for by school teams of the county. What do you say? The first number of the Farm Bureau Bu-reau News, the official organ of the Beaver County Farm Bureau, will be issued from the Beaver County News office the coming week. It will be a small four page paper containing contain-ing many things which every farmer in the county should read. It is sent free to all members of the bureau. |