Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-16
LOCAL JOTS.

A block of Crescent changed hands
yesterday at $1.10.
Horn Silver was quoted in New York
yesterday at $2.45 and Alice at $3.50.
James Kelly, charged with drunken
ness and trespass, was fined IS by Justice
Speirs this morning.
There was an increased attendance at
the Theatre last evening, the house be-
ing pretty fairly filled.
The Fish and Game committee is doing
an energetic work in providing fishways
in tributary streams and removing OBJ
structiOns.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. o. Horn is recovering from her severe
and combined attack of diphtheria and
scarlet fever.
The special Council committee APP
pointed to consider the prayers of the
"dry benchers" will hold another meet
ing at the City Hall tonight.
1t is rumored that Salt Lake ieweler
will purchase the Emporium clock and
use it for sign. If it is to be nothing
more than dummy hereafter it should be
removed.
The Patience Opera Company will hold
a business meeting at Calder's Hall to-
morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. The
managers will present statement of their
disposition of the profits, which will be
acted on.
The Salt Lake City canal is now boom
ing and measures are being taken to pro-
vide against an overflow. The Jordan is
also high and con the rise," but it is too
early in the season to apprehend any
serious danger.
The consolidation of the two Danish
weeklies will probably result in the estab-
ment of Scandinavian paper. A Mr..
Sandberg is reported as the protector If
there is anything Salt Lake needs, it is
Scandinavian newspaper
Last nights d. & R. G. express did not
arrive until nearly O'Clock this morn
ing. The delay was occasioned by the
slow speed now necessary through the
canyons, the recent melting of snow
having loosened the rocks.
The DEMOCRAT is the only evening pa
per in the city that publishes a full re-
port CT the important decision delivered
by Judge Zane in the liquor cases this
morning. The morning press will steal
the DEMOCRATS report and publish it to-
morrow.
The DEMOCRAT is indebted to Mr. H.
Pembroke for the latest and most reliable
war map of the British and Russian pos
sessions in Central Asia. Mr.. Pembroke
has also received Captain Codman's latest
work, entitled Solution of the Mormon
Problem"
Several miners, while exploring a tun-
mel at Bingham last Sunday, were put to
flight by encountering huge grizzly bear.
AT least, they declare it was a grizzly,
although they did not make very close
examination. A party was to be organ
lied to go back and annihilate the mon
arch of the mountains.
A boy named Jensen, living in the
Second ward, was found drowned in the
ditch yesterday morning. The boy was
subject to epileptic fits and it is supposed
he was seized with one and fell into the
ditch. The coroner was notified, but as
no doubt existed as to the cause of death, !
no inquest was held.
"a very sensible letter" was the OBJ |
servation of Mormon after reading Mr..
w. II. Shearman's letter in last evenings |
DEMOCRAT. at could not have ex- |
pressed my sentiments better had writ
ten it myself" said lady who has had
some personal experience with polygamy. /
The letter, however, is not endorsed by |
the editor of the Nel0S, who, when asked |
last evening what he thought of it, shook
his head and declined to commit himself.