Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-31
LOCAL JOTS.

A dead day at Camp Douglas yesterday.
All life is on the Weber.
Grace Hawthorne plays in Park City to-
night and tomorrow night
The ammoniaphone is attracting con-
siderable attention among musicians.
Mrs. Dilley got helplessly drunk Saturday
night, was arrested by the officers, and fined
IS in the Police Court to-day.
Coffee John has started some well-drivers
in search of water on his place, at the corner
of ninth East and Brigham streets.
Comrades was presented by the Provo
Dramatic Club at their new Theatre last
Saturday night. A handsome turnout wit
messed the performance.
Sheriff Turner, of Utah county, offers SOC
reward for the capture of escaped John Muir
phy, from the Provo jail, or $25 for informa-
ton leading to his recovery.
AD. d R.. G. special left this morning
with w. II. Bancroft and Judge Zane and
party on a tour of inspection of the line
They will be gone several days.
Since the rise in the price of lead several
mines are being worked that have lain idle
for wears. A number of men were sent to
Stockton this morning to work in old prop
critics.
The Utah Central Company is making
some fine improvements at the depot grounds
The yard is being leveled up and ballasted
and the new car and engine shops are fast
being completed.
Sheriff Mcbride, of Tooele county, took a
crazy man and a woman, named Mrs. Willis
to the asylum at Provo last Saturday. The
unfortunates had been at DIR. Young's insti-
tuition for some time previous.
The new Utah county stake Tabernacle
just completed was formally opened yester-
day by Conference, which is now going on
The building is very large, and has cost con-
siderable taxation and labor.
Prof. Richardson is to give two recitals in
independence Hall. On Wednesday he gives
king Lear" and on Saturday "Ihe Merry
Wives of Windsor Tickets at Roberts
Nelden's and at Moore, Allen d Co.'S
The prospects of the Curfew Law strikes
fear to the hearts Of many old maids who
have chung to "sweet sixteen" 10, these
twenty years. with all the privileges of grown
women and now they must go in or be run in
at o'clock at night.
The many friends of the Salt Lake City
Band will be given an excursion to Garfield
on Friday, the 4th inst. 4 free concern and
dance in the afternoon. Trains leave at
$40 am, lilo and BIO pm, and general
good time is promised.
Mamie Shovel was arrested and brought
to the station house late Saturday night
under four charges-drunkenness disturb
ing the peace, profanity and obscene Ian
guage. Her maternal guardian accompanied
Mamie for the same list of violations.
Chief Justice Hays decided on Saturday
last at Albion, Cassia county, that the test
oaths passed by the last session of the Idaho
Legislature were not unconstitutional. The
decision prevents any Mormon in Idaho
from exercising the elective franchise.
Thomas Guest, the chief clerk and pay
master of the Rio Grande Western, rallied
off his gold watch among the boys at the
city ticket Office last Saturday night for
eighty chances at 50 per chance. Mr.. Geo.
b. Dodge threw the lucky number, AZ out of
possible "a, and won the ticker
The Portland (Oregon) Ne,cs, in comment
which the Mormons are claimed TO be Gag
leaders are such aggressive Democrats why
is it they are hiding from Government Off
oiGls who are carrying out the laws under
Democratic administration
Under the head of wanted" Yesterdays
Herald had this: "A competent young man
for a paying position. Address at once to b.
Herald Office" Young man, don't 90. You
may be honest, ardent, industrious, frugal,
and have considerable means, but you can
never expect to pay the HerdLd'S debts It
would take Vanderbilt to fill the Herdld'S
paving position"