Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-11
LOCAL JOTS.

The City Fathers deliberate in regular
meeting tonight.
Mccormick & Co. to-day received one lot
of Crescent ore, valued at $4,000.
The streets were alive to-day with mer-
chants from the adjoining settlements.
The Ladies Relief Corps of the Eighth
Ward, this city, held pleasant social at LIB
srty Park to-day.
More than a dozen families are camped
along CITY Creek for distance of six miles
from the city.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars was dis
tributed among the employees OF the Utah
Central yesterday.
The Scandinavians of the city took an ex-
cursion to the lake to-day, and a good-sized
crowd turned out.
Diphtheria still continues to be the scourge
of the city, and yet our City Fathers make
no move to check its spread.
An article of incorporation concerning the
Southern Pacific Railway company was filed
to-day by Secretary Thomas.
On Thursday, August Goth, there is to be
three races at the Utah Driving Park. Jake
Moritz says some flyers will participate.
The noval ice machine in the cellar of the
Salt Lake Brewery attracts many visitors to
the artificial winter zone these heated days.
The board appointed 10y the Utah Com
mission to canvass the returns of the cleo
ton will meet in this city the 18th of this
month.
About 8 o'clock last evening a carriage
and buggy collided east of the City Hall,
and the buggy was pretty badly demolished,
though nobody was hurt
The great Mexican National Band that
held forth at New Orleans during the Expo
sition this year, is to be at the Theatre on
the evening of August DIST.
1t is a mistake that Miss Emma White,
just returned from a two months visit
among relatives at the coast, is to take part
in 'Mikado." No such arrangements have
been made.
At the K. of p. excursion to the lake toe
morrow prizes will be awarded in the after
noon for the running and swimming races
also, handsome set of jewelry and goblet
for the best dancing in the evening. Trains
will leave at lilo, $40 and 3 p. IN.
The Nottingham reunion at Fullers yes
terday was attended by nearly 500 people.
Speeches, music, dancing and refreshments,
were enjoyed by the aged as well as the
young people present.
Louis Reggel, who was taken to Pennsyl-
vania on n requisition some months ago, will
return to Salt Lake tomorrow evening, hay
ing been acquitted of the charge brought
against him of defrauding his eastern credit
ors.
The u. r. X. of p. will award cash prize
for the sweepstake free-for-all shooting
match; also a handsome set of jewelry for
the best lady dancer. The last train will
leave for Lake Point at o'clock tomorrow
evening, August 10Th.
The only case before the Police Court this
morning was that of neighborhood row in
the Eighth ward, in which the female fra
ternity got into a little squabble. The diff
Guilty was settled by the payment of So into
the city treasury by the aggressor.
Erastus Young, auditor of the Union Pa
cific Railway, and A. G. Powell paymaster
of the Kansas division of the q. p. accom-
panied by party of thirteen, left in a spe-
cial this morning over the Utah d Northern,
after a couple of days in Salt Lake City.
Mr. Bates, of American Fork, has arranged
an excursion from Nephi, one hundred miles
south of Salt Lake, to Garfield and Lake
Point, on the 10Th inst. A great many peo-
pie from intermediate points will avail them
selves of the opportunity for bath in the
lake.
The Salt Lake Music Hall was well filled
last night with an audience that seemed
pleased with ''Sullivan's Mirror of Ireland.''
This entertaining company will present
their interesting panorama in the Fifteenth
ward every evening this week. Admission
- and 25 cents.
DIR. +. G. Nichols, the well-known dentist,
will leave with the California excursion next
Saturday, to be gone on a needed vacation
for few weeks and to once more look upon
the stock ticl1ers of Frisco, as he did in the
palmy days of the bonanZas. Those wish
ing to see him before he leaves should call
in day or so.
Three passenger trains and the United
States mails since Saturday arrived over the
Denver q Rio Grande last night at 1920
o'clock. The delay was occasicned by sew
eral washouts along the line from cloud
bursts during the recent heavy storm. Every
thing is now in running order, and many
passengers awaiting the trains will depart
to-day.
The attention of city taxpayers is called
TO an advertisement in this issue, in which
notice is given that the City Council is to sit
as a Board of Equalization, for the regula-
ton of taxes, on Tuesday, August 18th,
1886. All persons interested will take notice
and lay any complaints they may have to
make III regard to their taxes before the
Board on that day, as required by law.
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