Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-02-13
LOCAL JOTS.

DR.. Burroughs, where are you? -.
Dickson & Varian have dissolved their law
firm.
Lewis b. Rogers was appointed notary
public to-day.
The bar at Becls's Hot Springs has been
closed for the present.
Lead in New York has reached the graft.
flying figure of $47216 per hundred.
Wells, Fargo & Co. to-day received base
bullion, $3.50; ore, $1,000; total value,
$3.50.
Tho sentence of s. H. B...Smith, which was
to have been passed to-day, was postponed
till the 28th.
Those who attend the Grand Concert in
the Theatre Monday night will enjoy a rare
musical treat.
Mr.. Christy will not give his stereopticon
entertainment this evening, as announced
1t is indefinitely postponed.
Miss Alice Dinwoodey gave delightful
party to few of her friends last evening ut
the family residence in the Seventh ward.
II was Policeman William Hilton who did
the remarkable testifying in the Smith case
yesterday; not George, as our report had it.
"The Pirates of Penzance" is being thor
oughly rehearsed, and will be put on the
stage in good style n week from next Mon
day night.
Mr.. Leo Hollander will present silver
card receiver to the best round dancer at the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen's ball
next Monday evening.
Policeman Smith imagined he was in a
yeritable sweat-box yesterday afternoon.
comfortably hot for him.
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Hanauer bullion, 81, 100; two bars Stormont
silver, $1,000; and silver and lead ores,
$3.50; total value, S1G,99O.
The Supreme Court was in session this
afternoon. 1t was not known whether they
would render decision in the Speirs- Yea
rian case to-day or not.
The street cars on the First ward, Warm
Springs, Sixth ward. Eleventh ward, and ID.
and II. G.. lines, will run after the close of
the Firemen's ball, Monday night.
The weekly output of base metal was as
follows: Seven carloads of bullion, 416,555
pounds; four carloads of lead, "a, S95 pounds;
twelve carloads of ore, 100000 pounds.
The following county registrars were APP
pointed by the Commissioners to-day: Il. Is.
Stephens, for Weber county; James A. Stark
for Piute county; and John Phillips, for
Sewer county.
Prosecuting Attorney Dickson's examina-
ton of witnesses in the Smith case yester-
day was conceded by lawyers and other close
observers as being the ablest work of the
kind ever witnessed in this Territory.
Ogden Ne,cs: Adjutant III. @. Beeler ia
again in receipt of a letter from General
Dement,, informing him that the new Sur
veyor-General of Utah will give the G. A. II.
guests on the 22d the benefits of his expert
ence in Washington.
The other cases against George H. Taylor
and James Moyle were continued for the
term, according to the custom that obtains
where parties confess or acknowledge guilt
in the first case. John Y. Smiths second
indictment suffered n similar fate.
That Inflated team of Charlotte Smiths,
over which two attachments and one re-
plevin have been served, was sold at auction
in front of the Federal Court house this
morning Captain Greenman was the auc-
tioneer, and the price for which the horses
wagon and harness were knocked down was
an even 500
At the regular meeting of the James b.
McKean Post, G. A. r., last evening, several
addresses were made ON tho death of Cen
eral Hancock, by Governor Murray, Colonel
Page, Il. O. Bailey, Mayor Bradley, and Col
onel Sells. Colonel Page was on Hancock's
staff for four month, with headquarters at
Winchester, Va.
Did John Y. Smith forget yesterday when
he testified on the witness stand that what
he stated was all under oath? 1t would seem
SO, when after having plainly denied the
charge in the indictment while under oath, ,
he admitted afterwards to the prosecuting
attorney that he "would not care to swear
himself