The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-06-20

II. A. Petersen was a business visi-
ton at Preston Wednesday.
The regular Tuesday evening SER
vices at st. Johns Episcopal Mission
have been postponed, the pastor, Rev.
Albert Brown, finding it impossible
to be here on that date.
N. NJ. Hansen Jr. has returned to
Logan from Harvard University and
will spend his vacation here. Mr..
Hansen graduates from the big Eastern
institution next fall.
The many friends of Robert A. Balm
throughout the country will be pleased
to learn of his convalescencc. Since
the recent operation for abscess he has
been gaining strength each day.
The orchards in Smithficld are sim
liar to those of Logan, Invested of
every leaf. They look as though they
had been scourged by fire. West of
Bear river there are no worms in the
orchards.
The Thatcher people have just re-
ceived number of pianos and have
opened up their splendid room on
Center street. This is probably the
prettiest and most effective show
room in the city.
The Logan forest reserve as set
forth i'm President Roosevelt's pro-
clamation of May 30, contains about
l07, $40 square acres and embraces all
of the following townships: II north,
3 east; - north, 3 and east. The
townships which are cut up are all of
ID north and east, except sections 8,
I, IS, 81; II north, . east, except sec
tions 6, I and the west half of Is; all
of II north east, taking in sections
to inclusive and II to 20 inclusive.
Prof. G. L. Swendson has begun the
work of investigating the irrigation
proposition for the state of Utah,
sending out two surveying parties on
Wednesday. Both crowds have gone to
Bear Lake and Gentle valley and
will spend considerable time i'm that
locality. 1t is the intention to start
surveying parties from other parts of
the state, with the intention of ac-
complishing the work in view as soon
as possible. Prof. Swendson is utiliz-
ing avaible men from the Engineering
Department of the A. c. of T., hav-
ing sent out Warren Swendson, James
Jardine and John futile, thoroughly
competent young men from this de-
partment.
Nathan Thomas, one Of the clerks
Of the Idaho Sugar company is ex-
porting boys by the score to the COM
pany's beet fields in Idaho. A second
batch of them, thirty in number, left
Logan Thursday, making total of
siXty-four that have gone. Mr. Thorn
as represents the affairs of the COM
pany as being insexcellent shape. The
building was started on March 18th.
The foundation is now in and the
structural steel placed. which will be
filed in with brick walls. The COM
pany has contracted for five thousand
acres of beetS, which look excellent.
Idaho Falls and the surrounding
country is booming in great shape.
Two little urchins, aged respective
ly four and five years, on mischief
bent, with their pockets full of
matches, found, to their hearts con-
tent, what they were looking for in
the shape of new hay shed, stable,
chicken coop, etc. in the southwestern
part of town Wednesday afternoon.
The little fellows gathered some hay
and straw, and not thinking of the con
sequence, lit the same with the result
that all the buildings went up in
smoke. But for the timely aid OF
neighbors, who formed bucket
brigade, the house of four rooms
, would have followed. AS 1t was, the
, damage done by the fire was estimated
at 1856.
: Thursday evening about o'clock,
Q DR.. Karl Moench, of the A. G. of u,
T visited this Office with the intention
= of using buggy whip on the editor
g The doctor had the whip taken away
: from him and used on his own peda
! extremities until the whip was taken
: from the editors hands by W
! ii. Hurst. DR.. Moench then proceed
ed to brand us as a coward, 'scound
q rel" and what not, finally getting in.
to his buggy and driving away. The
q affair occurred in front of the REPUB
! LICAN office, and furnished some fur
for large number Of spectators. The
r trouble grew out Of an item written
: at the time of the Lincoln Hotel fire
in which little foible of the Dr. s
, was touched upon in a jocular manner