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Show BATTLES SHERIFF OVER CLOSED ROAD Provo Juno 3. Pelican Point, on tho west shore of Utah Lake, where three young men were murdered in February. 1895, was the scene last week of another encounter, but fortunately for-tunately thlB timo no one was killed. Some time ago the county commissioners commis-sioners ordered the road commission er for that seotlon, a Mr. Mendenhall, to close a certain road, which was done according to Instructions; but on Friday of last week a Mr Clair, while traveling his usual route, camo to the fence and at once proceeded to demolish it, ,and In this the road commissioner, being on hand, registered regis-tered objections. The result was a fight and It required re-quired the services of a doctor to fix up the cutB and abrasions in Clair's denhall with hitting him with a carpenter's car-penter's hammer, and Mendenhall avers that he was only defending himself him-self against the assault of Clair Sheriff George T. Judd. accompanied accompan-ied by the county commissioners, went to Pelican Point today to Investigate Inves-tigate the trouble, METAL TIE PROBLEM IS BELIEVED SOLVED Salt Lake, June 4 The Acme Metal Tie company of this city, which filed papers of incorporation last Saturday, giving its capital stock as 1,000,000 shares, at the par value of $1, and Its treasury stock at $500,000, was formed by a number of prominent Utah men who believe they have solved tho metal met-al railroad tie problem. Those who assisted In the formation of tho company com-pany and havo been elected as officers offi-cers a3 as follows: George F. Goodwin, Salt Lako, provident; prov-ident; William T. CannoA, Salt Lake, vice president; E. C Candland. Salt Lake, secretary; Rodney T. Badger, Salt Lake, treasurer. Tho directors are H. S. Kerr, 8alt Lake; Peter Clegg. Tooele; Dr. Waltor T. Hasley, Lehi; Robert Murdock. Logan; A. C. Candland. Provo; Henry Jackson, Fountain Green, and Eugeno T. Wool-ley, Wool-ley, Grantsdalo. A. C, Candland was the patentee of tho device, ,on which, It Is said, tho company has twelve patents. Ton of these cover the combination wood and steel tio and two cover tho tie mado of cement and steel, the lattr doslgned for use In street railways. The steel tio. for which tho company alleges many advantages over the old wooden trough compressed at tho center Into a single bar, Tho rails rest on wooden wood-en blocks set in the trough at tho 'ends and aro fastened by means of clamps. It waa said at tho offices of tho company yesterday that tho prospects wore good for Interesting railroads In tho proposition. |