Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-15
LOCAL JOTS.

There are good prospects for several days
fine sleighing.
South Cottonwood is said to be badly af-
ficted with diphtheria.
The Knights of St. Dennis ball takes place
this evening in the Olympic Hall.
Mollie Cottington was to-day committed
to the city Jail for thirty days for vagrancy.
The estate of the late William Jennings is
roughly estimated i'll round figures at n
million dollars.
of Hanauer bullion, $3.50, and Crescent ore
$4,000; total value, $9,940.
Geo. A. Lowe has a large assortment of
cutters, which are going off as rapidly as the
sleighing is becoming good.
ID. j. Griffith, who was assessed 5000 for
Il. and l.. the other day, is still in the Gus
tody of Sheriff Groesbeck.
"A great many sleighs were out to-day.
The warm weather made the enjoyment
more than usually attractive.
In the Supreme Cont to-day the judg-
Inent of the lower court in the case of U. j.
Wenner vs.. Elias Smith was affirmed.
1t is rumored that among the musical
events of the near future will be benefit
performance for Miss Hawley, the much
admired Iolanthe.
The flags on the u. @. M. l. and several
other stores were hung at half-mast out of
respect to Mr.. Jennings.
Walter Wheatley was fined $3.50 in the
police court this morning for drunkenness
and committing nuisance.
And now it is the "Iolanthe" people that
are going to give sociable, and the event is
being arranged for next week.
adopted at their meeting last evening, and
was presented in the Legislature this after
noon.
Mr.. Will Jennings, who is attending col
lege in the East, and his sister, Mrs. James
Eldridge, residing in Idaho, have both been
summoned by telegram TO the bedside of
their father.
Tho Empire meat market, on receipt of
the news of Mr.. Jenninga' denth. closed it's
doors, and VIII not reopen for business until
after the funeral.
Street Supervisor Charles Livingston, ar
rested yesterday for unlawful oohabitation,
was bound over by Commissioner Mckay, in
$1,000 sureties to appear before the Grand
Jury this afternoon.
The New York Mining Record of the 9th
says: Horn Silver has been irregular, selling
from $3.45 down to $2.65 and then up to
$780, showing wide fluctuations, but the
trading has been moderate, only 2,70O shares
changing hands.
Tomorrow, says the Ogden Ne,os, will be
.shangman's day. in the First District
Court. Several pairs of knees are tremb-
ling in anticipation of the oracles then to be
rendered by Judge Powers.
The directors of the Deseret National
Bank met to elect officers this morning, but
owing to the preoarious state of Mr.. Jen-
nings the meeting was adjourned without
the transaction of any business.
The juvenile chicken thieves of the
Eighteenth and Twentieth wards had an ex-
animation before Judge Speirs this after
noon. The six boys with their associates
and relatives looked like IN assembly of the
ward Sunday school.
The Philemon Debating Club will hold
their regular meeting at the Ninth Ward
schoolhouse this evening, at O'Clock. The
question to be debated is, "Resotued, That
Salt Lake should have reform school,"
To be followed by an interesting miscel-
laneous programme. Everybody invited.