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Show I HEABplllTERS I ARE MOVED Jfr If General headquarters for the Black- L hawk Coal company hnvo hecn movod 1 from Ogden to Salt Lake, and tho re- organised corporation has just begun U a series of Improvements at and J1 around tho Blackhawk mine In Biack- 1 hawk, Carbon county, that will nocea- ' h, 1 sltato expenditures amounting to I W $150,000. ' f Tho Blackhawk Coal company was I formerly a David Eccles corporation, 1 I but for somo time past the concern I has gradually undergone a reorganizu-k reorganizu-k tlon, vhich now makes of It an ad-,' ad-,' junct to the United States Smelting & Refining company. The officers and directors are as follows: George Helntz, president; W. D. Maclean, ' vice president and treasurer; E. R, Gibson, secretary;. F. N. Cameron, H. i R. MacMillan and R. H. Butterfield, fSt directors. , Material is now on the ground at Blackhawk for fifty new minors' cottages, cot-tages, whfch will be erected at once. - Tho company also is putting in automatic auto-matic box car loaders, electric locomotives, locomo-tives, undercutting coal machines and ; railroad yard betterments, the whole B of which will cost approximately 5 , $150,000. The- mine is now capablo of 5 '. producing 1000 tons of coal daily, but I r after these Improvements shall have It been made the capacity will be doub- II Ied I II - PROVO MERCHANT IS Ml ' CALLED BY DEATH jUll Provo, June 24. George Passcy, llll : well known in business circles in Ida- II ho, Arizona and Utah, died at his HI i- home hero last night of uremic poison. Ill He had been in poor health for the II tV past year with heart trouble, and in f addition to that affliction Mr. Passcy I r, has been partially blind for a number If of years, but up to two years ago was Hi actively engaged in the mercantile HI business in this city He was born JJ : In Strensham, Worcestershire, Eng- 'j land, December 14, 1S44, and camo to II i America when 17 years of age. 1 1 For a few years he resldod In Paris, III ' TdnW Tl'Vlorn Vio vac mnrrlnrl on in ,1 I ! 18S3 went to Meca, Ariz. From there rj I 1 he moved with his family in 1899 to III Provo, wflcre he had since made his II home. y 111 Besides a widow Mr. Passcy is sur- zJJ - vived by three daughters, Mrs Ida S Fuller, Mrs. Retta Broadbent, Mrs I Ml Annie Beck, and two sons, Roy and l Lorin Passey, residents of this city. I Funeral services will beheld from the j Fourth ward meeting house Wedces- j y. day, commencing at 1 o'clock p. m. TO EXPERT INSTRUCTION fji FOR IRRIGATIONISTS HI Circular No. G of the Utah Asrlcul- t tural college experiment station, on If the "Measuiement and Distribution HI of Irrigation Water," has Just been ia- l sued Tho author of the circular is II Professor L. M. Winsor, assistant Ir- f rigation engineer. i The subject is treated thoroughly II and is illustrated with many diagrams. i The circular is devoted to giving defl- l nltions and hints which niaj bo of J value to the Irrigation farmer. The U most important features are the com- 1! pleto directions for constructing and using the water-measurlpg devtCe I' known as the "Glppolettl trapezodlal weir," and the best methods of dl- II J verting water Several pages In the I back of the pamphlet are devoted to It a complete table for guidance in III measuring the water discharge over L the "weir" WINTERGREEN KILLS CHILD. I Springvlllo. June 24. The little son I of Mr and Mrs. L. J Harrison, who ll' would have been 2 years old next I August, died last night from the ef- Jjft. : fects of an overdose of wlntergreen, .Hj taken Saturday afternoon In some gii : manner the child got hold of a bottle PI ' of wlntergreen and drank the con- ipi; tonts- mjt THIRD STROKE FATAL. PIS Murray, Utah, June 24. Mrs. Mlrl- ffljj am E Taylor, widow of the late TB Jabez Taylor of this city, died this HB afternoon at 5 20 o'clocka t the home HI of her daughter, Mrc. Mary Oatran- der, 131 Vine street ParalyBla was tho cauao of death. Mrs. Taylor had suffered two strokes of paralysis prior to tho last and fatal one which occurred oc-curred two weeks ago. She was 50 yoars of ago last April, and is survived sur-vived by four children. Besides Mrs. Ostrandor, thoy aro: Mrs. Sadie Fields, Mrs. Jane Reynolds and Frank A. Taylor, all of Saft. Lake. Notice of tho funeral will be given later. MORE TEACHERS FOR PHILIPPINES WANTED The United States civil service commission has announcod an examination, exami-nation, to bo given August 28-29, for positions as Philippine Islands. Graduates Grad-uates of colleges and normal schools and of polytechnic and agricultural schools are desired, though teachers with successful experlonco are also eligible Tho service- roqulres women for homo economics and men for agriculture, agri-culture, manual training, high school science, mathomatics and English departments de-partments and supervisors of school districts. Salaries range from $1200 INSTANTLY KILLED BY LIGHTNING BOLT Tooele, June 24. As Mike Miller, an Austrian, and Georgo T. Toplch, employes at the International smelter, about three miles north of this city, were leaving the smelter at tho changing chang-ing of shifts at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon, aft-ernoon, a bolt of lightning descended, Instantly killing Miller and knocking Toplch unconscious. The body of the dead man was taken to the undertaking parlors of Moroni Englander. One of the miners' orders or-ders of which Miller was a member wilyl havo charge of the funeral. EPHRAIM WILL CELEBRATE. Ephriam, Juno 24. To make the coming Fourth of July celebration the most spectacular in tho history of Ephraim was tho unanimous vote of the committee at its meeting Saturday Satur-day nighL Plans were accordingly adopted for a programme that provides pro-vides entertainment for every minute of tho day. |