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Show STATU n8. I William Merrltt, a pioneer i.f Mt. Pleasant, died at his homelut Friday aged 78 years Apoitle Lyman, Taylor and Merrill have been holding meetlngi In tbe Cache slake the patt week, and have removed sereral bishopt of wards, Installing In-stalling new ones, At the meeting of the university fac lty yeittrday afternoon Miss Estella K. Watson wai selected from tbe college col-lege leniors to deliver the valedictory (or her dais upon tbe commencement platform In June. Mile Watson It the first womsn student In tbe history of the university to represent the college graduatlngclais. On Tuesday morning last, a few minutes min-utes after 'o'clock, Henry A. Sberwood breathed bit last and want to his final rest. For the past year he baa bttn suffering with miners consumption, and although everything that kind and loving lov-ing hands tould offtrwaa donoforhlm, tbe dlstate progretied ateadlly until Ik victim waited away and death resulted. I'ark Record. D. Mcl'hsarton, a miner In the Ontario, On-tario, received very palnfol Injurle while at work Thursday. He was running run-ning a car out, whtn a plec ot rock about a foot In dianelcr fell, striking blm on the hand which was resting ou tke car. Tbe hand wa terribly bruited, bruit-ed, thoogb no bones tre thoughtto have been fractired. Dr. Yiko dressed tbe Injured member, and wbil the patient la geltlag along all right it will be tome time before he will be able to resume work. rark Record, Axle I'earson, an Ontario miner, waa severely Injured Wednesday eyenlng about 7.30, and narrowly escaped being crushed to death. Ha was working In a ttope betwetn the MO and 1000 levels whtn he noticed the ground beginning M t ltY..r U-it. Ma..ll," deavored to dodge It and at the tame time started to make his axlt, whtn a large rock about the also ol the box on a mine car fell directly In front of blm, railing blm against and pinning him against the footwall. His fellow miner went Immediately to lit relief and extricated ex-tricated him, and not a moment too aoon, tor ho bad barely been gotttn out when a large quantity ol rook fell where he had betn worklog.and wbleb would hae burled him had be been In there. The Injured man waa lifted onto the ahouldert ol Thomas Connelly, whj, carried him bodily down a ladder, a dli; tance ot over forty feet to the 1000-fcft level, where he was put on a tru. taken to the station and hoisted to the top. Considering the weight of the man, IBS pounds, thli wai no until' feat of ttrength, coupled with tome danaer. and Mr. Connolly Is deserving of much credit for bit prompt actio. I'ark Record Richard Wblttaker li In town again for a few days from the Black Rock country whtre he has been ftr tome time buying wool. He baa tucceedtd In gottlog about 210,000 poundi already, for which he hat paid fourteen and fifteen cents per pound. Ho Is In receipt re-ceipt of some Instructions from hla house which should be heeded by theepgrowert, Thty request him, In the purchasing of woo), to be particular 1 to avoid aa far aa possible buying wool where the sheep or wool has been treated treat-ed with lime dip or lime mlxturea ol any kind. Tbey claim that in manufacturing manu-facturing they cannot get the belt results re-sults la the fading of goods with wools treated In thli way. Buyert are therefore there-fore Instructed to discriminate against wools so treated and discord them, as far aa practicable, In (avor of wool treated treat-ed otherwise, and it possible to gel all tbe wools required by avoiding wools treated with lime mixtures, and to look In the direction ol wools treated with other solutions than lime. Mt. I'leas-ant I'leas-ant Pyramid, There was a wreck on the Rio Ortndu Western In Ibis city at 2 45 ilomlay afternoon, as a result of which Engineer William Konold waa cruthed to death, a paiienger train wai badly wrecked, ; i , j- and ttn ""ge was done to tbe bulld'fi nd machinery of tho Portland cenienj0lk- As train No 1 whirled Into ttclljr fromtheioutbattlie rate ottwotty miles an hour, It struck an open iaVch at Mnlli boulh street, just UlowtTo Portland cement works, Tbe rate o1I'"J " Kl that the train coulJnlknlne track, the engine and tch ol the five cars Jumjed and heajJ fur the cement woiks, that stand clottjo the switch at thatrolnt. Kn- ginKT Konold, terlag what he tuppottd cerltln death ahead, climbed down (rem hlsSbtothe deck of his engine and msTealcsii tor his lift. lie struck sgamit a pile ol cement recks, was thrswn back under the wheels of tke mall car and wa. literally ground to piece. Tho unfortunate man waa drifted lor some dlitar.ee, and when tbtiiorrlbly inutila'ed body was found It vis under the rear trucks ot the mall carjaslopposltt the point white the trait bad torn tbe corner out of the c-neat c-neat factory Herald. |