Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-26
LOCAL JOTS.

Butte shipped nearly 100000 worth O
bullion last week.
The Barratt circus company's adver
Using car is at the D. & r. q. depot.
Excursions to Ogden, Provo, and tire
trains to the lake will form part of tn
attractions of Decoration Day.
Thirtv-seven bars of Ontario bullion
valued at 23,264.54, were received by
Wells, Fargo & Co. to-day.
Ii CDR. Foot, Jr." is not CDR. Foot
Jr.," in the chaste language Of Don Cesar
de Bazan, "who the devil is hep"
The petit jury OF the Second Judicial
= District was discharged last Thursday,
and Judge Foreman has adjourned Court
till the September term.
During the past six months the Alice
mine has yielded more ore daily than
during any similar period in the last three
years, ore eXtractions now averaging sixty
tons per day.
r. Z. Joyce, sentenced to four years
Imprisonment in October, 1888, for kill
ing Dan Fitzgibbons, received the benefit
OF the pardoning power of the Governor
to-day.
George w. Catlin, of Ogden, sentenced
in 1882 to be shot for the murder of
Games Brown, afterward committed to
imprisonment for life, was to-day par
doned by Governor Murray.
A note dropped to the DEMOCRAT to-day
asks if the alleged CDR Foot, Jr." is a
regular physician and whether he has a
diploma. Next we expect some fool to
ask us if the Salt Lake Herald is a news
paper.
Messrs. Roberts & Nelden received
yestday carload of celery, Beef &
Iron" and were busy all day distributing
1t about the city and shipping it to towns
in Utah and adjoining Territories.
Mrs. Alice Munson, wife of CAPTAIN
Munson, died very suddenly at Fort
Douglas yesterday afternoon from an
affection of the heart. The deceased
lady was OF a delicate disposition, and
was only taken sick Sunday night.
There will be a speed contest between
the telegraph operators of Ogden, Chey-
enne, Virginia City, and San Francisco,
the winner OF which will go to New York
IN the fall, to compete in the international
contest which will be held at that place.
The worms are making sad havoc in
the lower wards in this city. Already
hundreds of trees have been stripped as
bare and leahess as they are in mid-win-
ter. The worms are on the crawl, and
are as thick on picket and post as the
hair on dogs back.
The woodcut of CDR. Foot, Jr., Amer
lca's Greatest Author, Lecturer and
Specialist" was not to be found in the
columns of the Tribune this morning.
He has gone and we shall miss him. !
There will be one unpaid bill, )" ETC.. etc. f;
but then we don't want to harrow up our !
cotem's feelings
Washington square will present q fine |
sporting attraction next Saturday after
noon, the bicycle championship of Utah |
Delng announced to be contested for. |
Base ball and cricket will also form q
feature of the entertainment, and a pro-
gramme interesting to the public gem
orally has been prepared.
The canvass on the directory of Salt
Lake City that is being published by the
Z. ): Directory Pub. Co. of California is
nearing completion. The book will be
very complete and handsomely bound in
red leather, embossed in gold. The book
VIII have large circulation and will be
IN excellent medium for advertising pur-
poses. pm
A farewell send-off was given Bishop
fothenngham, of Beaver, the night be-
ore he was sentenced by Judge Bore
nan. Among the exercises two Young
auIes sang 'Do.They Miss Me at Home''
ma some Day I'll Wander Back Again. r
these "send-off'' proceedings are going
pe so popular music dealers will have a
lay IN supply of music appropriate Il
Or the occasion. V