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Show STATE NEWS J. R. TWELVES DIES IN PROVO Provo, March 26. John Roberl Twelves for many ;irs a prominent Citizen of Provo and widely known throughout the state, died at bis home here today of Bright'6 disease Mr. Twelves was one of Provo's pioneers. I having come here from Gosberton. Kisegate. Lincolnshire. England, where ' lie was born on November 8. 1S44 He came to the United States with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs Charles Twelves, and crossed the ' plains with them in the handcart company headed by Captain Jesse B Martin In 1866. He came lo Provo Later be made three trips to the Missouri river to i bring immigrants back lo Utah In 1866 he took part in the Sanpete Indian In-dian war. Despite the limited educational educa-tional advantages. Mr Twelves ac-I ac-I quired much knowledge by diligent study and soou became an expert accountant. ac-countant. He entered the employ of the Pro- vo Co-operative institution as book-; book-; keeper and later was mnde secretary and treasurer of the woolen nulls He : left there to become the Tlrst cashier cash-ier of the Provo Commercial & Sav-1 Sav-1 iocs bank Later be became secretary secre-tary of the Grand Central Mining company, which position he held until un-til his retirement from business, some two years ago. At various times Mr TweUes new the positions of county recorder and treasurer and also the same offices under the city government He was a great lover of music possessed an excellent tenor voice and was a member mem-ber of the local Tabernacle choir for rears. In 1878 and 1879 he filled a two year mission for the Mormon church in England. In 1868 Mr Twelves was married to Eliza. Luella Daniels Besides the widow the following children survive him John William Twelves of Pro-Mrs Pro-Mrs Mabel Knowlden of Provo. James Albert Twelves of Provo; Murray 'Twelves Of Salt Lake; Mrs Fawn Winter of Ogden. and Jean Twelves'. of Provo; two sisters. Miss Elizabeth Twelves and Mrs Emma Foote, both of Provo, and a number of grandchildren, grand-children, also survive. CATTLE RUSTLER CONVICTED Twin Falls. Mar 24 - The trial of Frank Dolan. second defendant in the cattle-stealing ease? on trial dur-ling dur-ling this term of the district court. ' Pas just closed with the verdict of ''guilty ' rendered by the jury. Dolan was charged with stealing cattle and delivering them to the Robertson-!;,nks Robertson-!;,nks Packinc company Tail Falk. ' the butcher at the packing plant, was i ( presented by Prosecuting Attorney I Hicks and Attorneys Longley and Herriott, and the d.-fense by Attor-ney Attor-ney Guthrie of this city and Judge Pcgers of Burley. The jurv. drawn from various parts of the tract, were Andrew Matson.! H F. Rait Crover Davis, H M I Fletcher, C 3 Kalina. Jack Craig. A J. Mills. M G Becl.. II Howard. I I Leedom and F. T Parish 1 lie trial of the other two defendants defend-ants in this sensational cattle-niBtling cage Charles U Tanks and 1 S. Kirk-bride, Kirk-bride, will be heard during the April tern, of court Charles B. Janks Is a brother of W. C Tanks, president of the packing company, who was tried and convicted ten days ago. charged with having received stolen cattle. DEATH NEWS SHOCKS Ephraim, Mar 2". The death of j Paul Poul-en of this city waB a j;reat shock to the people of this community. Mr Poulsen was III oulv a few days with pneumonia, which ised his death He was one of the prominent and prosperous men of the community aud his death will i, mourned by many. He was born in Denmark July 24 184.". and was the sou of lars and Caroline Poulsen. In the fall of 185.1 the family left fori Utah, crossing the plains In Captain I jOlsen's company, and arrived In I Ephraim the following year They assisted In tne building of the I fort, the father carrying the rock and the mother driving the team in the hauling. Mr. Poulsen took part in the I Black Hawk war In the Solina can-I yon and Grass valley engagements I In 1S63 he weDt to Missouri by team I latter emigrants and in 1897 went to ' Denmark on a mission He was married mar-ried In 1866 to Annie Overson. They ! had five children. George, Hcber. jJotin, David and Annie Hansen, all of 'them married and living in this city. In 1894 Mrs Poulsen died and the .following year he married Anna Jorg. ensen, who surlves him. also one daughter, Annetfa. by the second marriage. Mr. Poulsen has taken an active part In all public improvements and was an actlvo church worker. The funeral arrangements have not been made. NEW BANK TO OPEN. Logan, Mar. 23 The new Farmers and Merchants Savings bank will open op-en Its doors for business tomorrow.! J Vice President John A. Hendrickson returned from Salt Lake yesterday ;with a charter for the institution granted by Secretary of State David Mattson. This ends the fears e Z-1 'pressed by some here that an attempt j ; would be made to prevent the new bank from getting a charter The capital stock of the new hank F $60,0un, divided Into shares of $100 'each. George T Odell is president, J. A Hendrickson firse vice president. presi-dent. J E. Wilson, second vice president: pres-ident: Reid Shamhart, third vice president, E J Broherg, cashier; Wilford O Johnson, assistant cashier; cash-ier; directorate. Ell Bell, Lorin A. Men ill. W W Hal). Leo Nielsen, J. II Marshall George Mlklelsen, D. C. i Perkins James E Hansen. Elias B Larson, T. H. Reese and Joseph Campbell. MUST STAND TRIAL. Pocatello. .Mar 2r District Judge Alfred Budge this morning overruled a motion to quash the indictments against Franklin ft Hayes, brewers, nnd W F. Kasiska, proprietor of the ' Bannock hotel who were charged iv. ith violating the liquor law of the state. The three defendants were called upon to enter their form of plea to Ihe indictments. All three defendants pleaded not guilty The trial of Franklin and Hayes will oc-.cur oc-.cur April 7 and of Kasiska April B. Twelve per ret indictments were rc-, rc-, ported today by the Bannock county grand jury it is reported thai these are against owners of property on the east side, which has been leased to or occupied by women of 'he underworld under-world The names of the men Indicted In-dicted will not be made public until the bench warrants have been served THREE TICKETS FOR CITY ELECTION. ELEC-TION. Twin Falls Idaho, March 24 Interest In-terest In tli coming city election is grow ing The Citizens ticket and Socialists' So-cialists' tickets were placed In the lield a week or ten days ago. and the third, the Independent, has just ' been filed with the following candidates can-didates nominated For mayor. J. J Pilgerrlm; tor clerk. John Claar; for In usurer. E. 11 Snyder; for engl- j neer J A. Bybee; foi councilman Firs! w .rd. I K Fmney and George E. Bryan Second ward William Gra- I ham and George W Gardiner WILL ENTERTAIN OLD PEOPLE. Gunnison. March 25. A committee has been appointed here to arrange to entertjin the old people of the I community and no efforts are being spared in making it a success. The social and dinner will be given on Thursday nnd the program arranged for the occasion Is as wollows At 12 o'clock, following a speech of welcome by Chairman Nephi Anderson, Ander-son, dinner will be served. At 2 o'clock the guests will be escorted escort-ed to the theater, where a program will be rendered. . In the evening a public danco will be given. MERCHANTS ORGANIZE. Vroo, March 25 The Utah Couu-i i t Merchants' association was or-Ka or-Ka nizr-d hfjrc e -1 crda r ith the object ob-ject of forming closer relationship , among the business men of the val-! val-! ley and to create business condi-I condi-I tions that will be of advantage to both the merchants and the buying public Office quarters have been established estab-lished In the Loose building, at Cen-I Cen-I ter ami Second West streets Secre- tary Saxej will be In charge The j officers are: David R Beebe. pres fident; Joseph W Dunn, vice president presi-dent 1 H McEwan, Arthur N. Taylor. Tay-lor. Edward Hatton and B. D Sut- ton. directors; John Saxey will act as secretary and treasurer MRS. MARIE ROBINSON DIES. Provo. March 25. Mrs. Marie Robinson Rob-inson wife of Joshua Robinson of Am -1 erlcnn Fork, died here yesterday from 1 apoplexy at the age of 38 years She j is survived by her husband and five children The body was taken to American Fork today for burial issfl SEARLE FUNERAL TOMORROW Provo March 2 r Funeral services for W. B. Senrle will be held at the residence, 239 Fast First North street, Thursday at 1 o'clock under the auspices aus-pices of the B. P. O. E. The body U expected to arrive tomorrow. |