Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-09-07
LOCAL JOTS.


Bar silver was quoted III New York to-day
at $1.04 per ounce
The Methodists take an excursion to the
Lake tomorrow.
The Knights of st. Dennis hold business
meeting tonight.
The First District Court convenes at Provo
on the 2lst instant.
Grace Hawthorne commences weeks en-
gagement in Butte tonight.
The livery men report yesterday a quiet
Sunday. Very few rigs were out.
Many of the district and private schools
of the city commenced their fall terms to-
day.
S. A. Kenner has temporarily succeeded
Mr.. Anderson of the NetOS The inspiration
of the local page will be of different brand
now.
new and extended directory for tele-
phone subscribers has Just been completed
for distribution.
Two bootblacks dissolved a six weeks
partnership to-day by 6rst-class fight on
the Wasatch corner.
Frog legs are being shipped from Brigham
City to Butte, Montana. They come high,
but Butte epicures have got to have 'em.
The grand jurymen on duty last term pre-
scented themselves in solid phalanx before
the District Clerk to-day for their we'll
earned wages
The Second District Court started grind
ing at Beaver to-day, with Judge Boreman
on the bench, e. B. Critchlow prosecutor and
Mr.. John w. Pike as stenographer.
Rumor says that the Herald local went to
I,Nron for OAhar thu1, 10 1r+b han ba
interest of his paper. Can it be that he had
an eye on tao celestial kingdoms?
Kate CastletoH, with her inimitable kick.
will appear in her budget of music and
lunacy at the Theatre tonight. "Crazy
Patch" promises an excellent entertainment.
Mrs. ]. Leviberg and Mrs. Agnes Olsen
Thomas will assist in the Bane Testimonial
Concert. The musical portion of the pro-
gramme will be under the direction of Prof.
Krouse.
Mccormick g. Co. to-day received four cars
of Hanauer bullion, $3.50; two bars of
Stormont silver, $500; Crescent ore, $1,000,
and Queen of the Hills ore, 81, AGO; total
value, $17,350
There will be q meeting of the Salt Lake
Shooting Club Tuesday evening, at 7:30, at
the usual place of business, to arrange for a
wing shooting match to take place Wednes-
day, the 9Th inst.
Fred. Hopt, alias Welcome, visited the
city this morning in company with guar d
from the Penitentiary. He called on his at
torney preparatory for his fourth trial for
the murder of young Turner. On the street
Welcome was looked upon by large and
curious crowd of spectators.
Some crack safe blowers made an entrance
into Mosher's butcher shop, in Park City,
I,-A .s~.l.4
Park is becoming the field of all sorts of dis
orders lately, and it would be no surprise to
hear of the whole town being turned upside
down some of these mornings.
John McCook, for being drunk and dis
orderly was fined $40 in the police court this
morning. Bessie Parks and Daisy Clark,
"oolored," for disturbing the peace, 80 each
Frank Adams, a soldier, for interfering with
the police in the discharge of their duties,
was turned over to the Military authorities
at Camp Douglas.
Mrs. General M. NJ, Bane will be sup
ported by able talent in the complimentary
Testimonial rendered her, Thursday evening,
the 10th, on the eve of her departure to her
new home in Washington Territory. A
large attendance is assured her, and q rare
evening of intellectual enjoyment awaits
every patron.
BY order of w. NJ. Anderson, James Poul-
ton and A. G. Gianque, trustees of the Sixth
school district, that place of learning threw
open its doors this morning with free school
ing henceforth TO the young idea" The
example is commendable, and the heretofore
exacted tuition throughout the city should
be dropped from the public system.
Last Friday night two well-known bunko
steerers of Salt Lake run up against an Eng
ish physician named Webb and worked the
unsuspecting doctor for what he had with
him in the way of spare cash. After intro
ducing the learned MD. to all sorts of losing
games, decidedly American and not English,
they left him unconscious. On Saturday
they tapped him for a claimed sum of money,
but got left. The doctor left for the East