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Show TERRITORIAL TOPICS- Thos Ross, of Joseph, has been rob bod. Harvey Catuniir.g9 who has hail his nher-p on shares, sheared them a! Miuersvilie iat week, gold tlie wool and absconded with the money. Tho arrangement ar-rangement had been made to do ths shearing ia Garfield comity ennsider-ably ennsider-ably later, so that it was very easy to have time to do the shearing and leave I t lis county with the mouey before Ross j became a .vare of it, At last ac;ounts Mr. Rosa was tracing up the wool with ' the intention of replevying it.-Advocate The Reed hotel' closed its doors this morning and Proprietor Locke trade ac ussifznment for ths benefit of creditors to H, II. Hake, the well "tnown cattleman,- Tonight Jhe blinds are drawn and the hotel is deserted, ecpt by a watchman. This Is oae of the heavies-; biows Ogden has received altnongh the Hsraid man is assured that the hotel will cot remain ciossd long, as ths gentleman gen-tleman who holds a mortgage of over $20,000 oa the furnitore and fixtures, and is owner of the leass, which hts three years yet to run, cannot afford to let the prcp?rty lay idle, as he will be forced to pay $1000 a month under the lease, whether the hot.'! is closed or not. The gentleman is Banker Risling of Joplla, Mo. In addition to mortgages on the farnitore and -fixtures, the liabili ties will go over $1,500 and the assets eover about a third of that amount, The creditors are local merchants and help of the honse. Herald. Sheriff Mathis arrested a man at Fer ron, says the Price.Telegraph by the name Robinson, The arrest was made upon advices from Sheriff Girardst, Delta county, Colorado,. and the charge was grand larceny. It appears that the man had been working on a farm be longing to a widow. The ladv had occasion oc-casion to visit Denver and left him in charge of the farm bnt prior 10 her dt parture for the city ehe also made ar rangemects with a local merchant to supply the man with what he wanted from the store, A short time after the lady had gone Robinson went to the merenant referred to and got about $10 worth of supp-l'es hitched up a good team of horses tied another good one behind the wagon end started for Ara zona, but for eome reason he stopped at Ferron, with the result stated. Hheriff .Mathis reached Price with the prisoner on Saturday night and Sheriff Girardet left for Colorado with him on Snniar. A gentleman frem Buukerville. a liiile Mormon town on the Rio Virgin RiiC. a short distance belew St. George in the corner of Lincoln county, Nev., is here. In speaking of that seludsd little nuce- lus ha says: We are a distinct aommu-nity aommu-nity dawn there: U,S. Marshals neve; bother us though fifty per cent of th married men are polygamists, Being so very far from the county seat we havt no benefits from courts gad judges ana ars forced to settle our own disputes Tho tov, n was founded fifteen years ajf and though it has now grown to bo a populous little plaee, not one civil or criminal case has ever come before the Justice of the Peace, or a law suit of any kind has never been taken to any court The Weather Is extremely warm and we make plenty of wine from grapes aud raise plenty of sweet potatoes and semi-tropical semi-tropical fruits. Advocate. A small fire occurred at the residence of John il. Thomas about two milt.-from milt.-from town on Sunday night last, a smail boy aud a matea of course wet tho cause. The little boy got a match and set the clothiug on fire In the clothing cloth-ing ci'oeet and before Mr. Thomas dit-covered dit-covered it, ail of the clothing was nai ly burned, the value of the clothing wi i prcbol-iy amount to $150 in all. H .c not Mr. Thomas been present the entir. building would have been consumed Tho t-los.-t was almost air tight, hw:r. the fl imes did not get out and do iUiu awe, other than burn the clothing moti tioued, and somewhat charred the close. Mr. Thomss had not hardly euoKgb clothing to cover himself after the fire, but ho wiil patronizs the Y0U33 M -n's co op by g-itting la another supply fm himself, Spanish Fork Sod, |