Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Auction Sale of Fourteen Thousand Sheep at
Manti.
BOY AND MATCH FIX A STACK OF HAY.


Morgan Mirror. Sept. IS: Joseph
Francis left this morning FOR Chicago,
with train load of sheep belonging to
Moss & Hatch
Bingham Bulletin: Considering the
scarlet incident that recently shook up
the Utah Methodist church from cellar
10 garret, the red rag performance Of
the late conference was in bad taste.
Wasatch Wave: If some of our de-
linquent subscribers would each bring
us II load OF wood they would not only
square up n long standing debt but
greatly accommodate us as well. Cash
Or grain just as thankfully received.
Wasatch Wave CHeber city,: Con-
siderable petty larceny has been going
on here for the past week or 50. one
person is reported to have lost IL good
fat turkeys and others have had their
cellars pilfered and such things as bot
tied fruit, meat and other edibles TAX
en-. 1t seems that some one Is not go
ing to be caught by winter without a
boarded supply of provisions.
Payson Globe. The appearance OF
the streets of Paysun could be greatly
improved by the use OF II moving
could get in it's work among the
weeds to advantage. There is an or
dinance which. II enforced, would keep
the sidewalks Mt least, from being
overgrown with burdocls, cookie burs
and other obnoxious weeds.
wasatch Wave: Sheriff Murdoch
arrested John Zweifel of Midway
Wednesday on a charge of attempted
rape alleged to have been committed
on Mrs. John r. Smith Sept. LIST. The
accused man was brought before jus
tice Barzee. The complainant ia the
alleged victims husband whose abode.
where II Is claimed the crime was
committed. is at the old Nugent place.
about four miles north of town. The
defendant was bound over to the dis
trict court in the sum of $500, his
father and Morgan Empey becoming
sureties.
Springville Independents: Harry Ar
reas, n conductor on the Rio Grande
Western had n narrow escape from
death at the yards in this city. last
Saturday night. He was making a
coupling of combination passenger
coach onto a freight train, when the
Drawbacks passed each other, catching
AREAS between them and bruising
him in the chest quite severely. He
was taken to the home of his father
in-law, Proctor Humphrey, and DIR.
Mum was called in. An examination
of his injuries found them not to be OF
a very serious character.
Davis County clipper: Reports
come In from the different sections of
the State to the effect that bees are
not doing so well this year as usual.
one writer maintained that Utah
county. the great bee county. would
scarcely make enough honey for local
consumption. Very few new swarms
We're made last spring. Mr.. William
N. Nalder's experience. however, was
somewhat different, as he says his
bees swarmed the same as usual. As
far as we can learn bees in our coun-
~ have made about the same guam
tity of honey this season as they have
other years.
Manti Messenger: on Wednesday,
Sept. 18th, very important business
transaction with an exchange of "a
large sum of money took place in the
office of l.. I. futile, administrator of
the estate of the late II. ]. Christensen
Fourteen thousand head of sheep We're
sold to the highest bidders. There
We're quite number present who kept
the bids going, but finally,as the figures
rose, fell out: $500 were sold to II. A.
kearns of Gunnison at Sl.Si, $500 to
Patten and Anderson for 81 95ih, $500 to
David Shand for MIR. Keiser. at ST.
90, and some 800 to Theodore Christen-
sen for $l.15 per head.
Wasatch Wave (Heber city: Satur-
day night ID. ID. Sabin's store was
burglarized and about $500 worth of
goods stolen. The door was pried
open by means of n crowbar evidently
made for the purpose, and six pair of
shoes, a few hats, some clothing, about
$3.50 worth of jewelry and cutlery and
n small amount of cash were stolen.
The burglars seemed to enjoy them
selves while committing the robbery.
n q soda hntt1au
stubs were found scattered around
the room the next morning. Four
suspicious parties are under arrest and
are now awaiting trial.
Davis County Clipper: The
cannery at Woods Cross, under
the management of C. w. Mann, Is
now running at full blast and an
average of 10000 cans of tomatoes are
put up daily and sixty gallons of
catsup. Sixty-two hands are en-
ployed ga males and IS females). Up
to date over 100000 cans have been put
up. Last year the company paid out
81 800 for labor and over $4,000 for to-
mntoes, Si,050 going to one farm in
Riverdale. Some experimenting is also
-Four carloads Of canned tomatoes have
already been shipped this season.
Wasatch Wave CHeber city,: A If
Nv IVY nhh hNhiS Ntft tnt
cause OF big blaze Tuesday about
noon. The four-y ear-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Fraughton came in
possession of "A lucifer and proceeded to
build n bonfire close to n rick of hay
containing about twenty tons. The
south end was shortly a mass of flames
and the alarm given, soon bringing
over 100 men and boys on the ground
with buckets of all sizes and shapes.
Everybody went to work In dead ear
nest and after half an hours labor had
the fire under control. Fully one-half
of the hay viii be n loss, the smoke
and water running as much as was
burned.
Castle Dale correspondence Of the
Eastern Utah Advocate says: The
largest flood of the season and also
the greatest one within the recollec-
tlon of the oldest settler occurred here
evening The bridge held ont
against the mighty force Of the cur
rent. The water had fallen nearly |
two feet when 1t began emitting around |