Show UTAH NEWS the blackhawk k war veterans at a meeting mechin held at springville Spring ville last week deck decided lato to hold a camp fire and sham battle at provo august 25 and 26 edward boyce president of the western miners federation is in salt lake looking after matters pertaining to the meeting of the federation in salt lako lake next month seventy two descendants of patriarch george davis a dixey pioneer gathered at his home in st george last week and celebrated his seventy fifth birthday ile he was the first man to locate in the townsite of st george hank stokes who was recently captured while operating a still and placed in jail at st georee pending trial escaped last week by digging through the wall ile he lias has so far escaped recapture ile is regarded as a desperate man and is abo thought ight to bo be in no mans land arizona herman vogel a logan brewer attempted suicide last week by shooting the only cause assigned 0 is trouble with F C kidgell his stepson step son over wages vogel blew his lower jaw jav off with a revolver but contrary to expectations did not die and has a fair chance of recovery mrs lou hamilton who was last fall acquitted of tho the charge of killing her husband hus aud john 11 II hamilton is asking for letters of administration on his estate she is being opposed in this by the decease ds mother who asks that a sister of hamilton bo be selected the estate is small dinall consisting of in money and a little personal property benjamin edgington Egg ington lugton who is serving a six years sentence in the state prison for killing martin mock at sandy in september last has decided not to appeal to the supreme court as he originally intended lie he will ask for a pardon adf affa several of the jurors who tried him will sign his petition david lant and harry tracey the two utah outlaws accused ot murdering V S hoy in browns park colorado will not be tried before the september term of the routt county court judge A IV rucker kucker of aspen who hears bears all cases from routt county has decided it was not best to convene a special term of court during the past week the utah sugar company has distributed pounds of beet seed among the farmers of utah and salt lake counties planting will begin the first of next week the soil is in excellent condition and a large portion of the higher parts of the fields are already smoothed down ready for the seed the railroads have been figuring on transporting the twenty fourth infantry to the atlantic coast the troops will need one pullman ten tourists four baggage one palace stock and possible two wo freight cars ill all of which can be ready in a short time when ordered the troops would be sent east in two specials of eight or nine cars each after spending several days in a fruitless search to recover the remains of frank krigbaum the park city man who lost his life in the butte fire alre john dunn has returned from butte when the fire was raging in the boarding hause several men claim to have seen heen krigbaum and others appear at the windows in the top story but before ladders could bo be raised the walls fell in and buried the unfortunate men mell the ruins have not yet been cleared away secretary of state hammond has collected in fees during the past quarter and paid the money into the state treasury the sum of was received as fees from insurance companies and in addition to this insurance companies pay byj aj per centon their gross premiums there are a few companies yet to report their premiums and more funds will ill come from that source the secretary has settled with insurance companies and the inspection of their vol voluminous ous reports involved a great deal of la labor bor joseph betenson who lives near pan duitch recently took in a stranger who gave his bis name as frank leo lee and gave him lodging lu in the morning betenson Bete neon found his guest had departed taking along with him two fine saddle horses borses a revolver and a quantity of flour and meat lee was overtaken in the mountains about ten miles distant distan t where ho he had taken shelter ayaltin awaiting 9 darkness 11 in malting making a run for cover lie he lost his revolver and was easily captured A distressing accident happened to edward tree aged 67 near snyder ville tille last week while hitting on a box in a sledge lie he tipped over and fell out breaking both wrists ile he was as taken to the park and received the necessary medical attention for pouring alcohol on oil george stroll strat tons feet and setting fire to it while was asleep george barr was fined the affair occurred in ogdon ogden some time since two other men were implicated in it Strat tons injuries will lay him no for some time almo yet |