Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-26
LOCAL JOTS.

The sixteen stockmen who left for the
convention yesterday went in a special d. &
r. G. sleeper.
An infant Democrat arrived last week in
the family of w. F. Williams Everybody
concerned is happy.
In view of the status of the Bell telephone
litigation, there is some prospect of the
Molecular exchange to resume operations in
Ogden.
A real old-timer polygamy sermon was
preached in the Fourteenth Ward Meeting
House, Sunday evening. by home mission
airy.
The Deseret National Bank Board have
drafted and passed series of resolutions of
respect to the memory of the late William
Jennings.
Two deaths from diphtheria were reported
yesterday, one in the Hamlin family and
the other in the family of Joseph Bull, Jr.,
in the Nineteenth ward.
L. G. Karrick purchased from S. W. Sears
yesterday the store and ground occupied by
Kahn Bros, on Main street. The consider
alton is reported as being $4,000.
Mrs. Luella and Miss Fanny Young give
complimentary farewell ball to their friends
this evening in the Eagle Gate hall, and will
take to-morrow's train for New York.
A washout along the G. p. DELAYED the
train arrival in Ogden yesterday some ten
hours. A special d. & r. G. brought the
passengers and mail down late last night.
The efforts made by N. V. Jones' attorney
to get the latter's bonds reduced this morn
ing, suggested that perhaps the Collector is
pinlng to join Fanny Davenport and some
others.
John ID. Hernbroke. the party brought be-
tore Judge Spelrs yesterday for petty larceny,
was to-day sent up for eighty days hard |
labor on that count and an additional charge |
of yagrancy.
the late Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Patterson the |
victims of the Park City snowslide, will be |
held in st. Marks Cathedral tomorrow
afternoon at / o'clock. The Rev, Mr.. Put
nam will officiate.
John Il. Rice, the bartender at the Con-
tlnental Hotel, in pulling cork from bot
tie yesterday received severe cut in one of
his eyes, inflicted by piece of broken glass;
The injured optic will disqualify the GEN
tleman for duty for some days to come
The Walker Brothers Company is new
incorporation which filed its articles with
the County Clerk to-day 1t will conduct
the merchandising business heretofore oper-
ated by Walker Brothers, who, by the way,
are the principal stockholders. The capital
stock of the company is placed at $1S0,OOO.
George w. Davis, the witness who got
slightly mixed in his testimony in the Collin ,
examination the other day, is endeavorinp !
to throw some peculiar responsibility upon ;
lawyer Rawlins. 1t may be a fact that the
latter did much to cause the witness en- a
barrassment, but as to any effort to COM |
promise with him, any one who knows Mr. f
Rawlins will feel sure that the witness is o
again getting mixed, when he makes any =
such assertion.
A gentleman residing In the Fourth Mu- "
nlclpal precinct of this city, in speaking of +.
the primaries of the Peoples party the other :. :.
day, offered to bet two to one that at the .'
meeting of that precinct Bishop Whitney !"
would be nominated for chairman by his Ia
counsellor, Robert Patrick. The report from f
The meeting lastnight sure enough confirmed "
she fact and the DEMOCRAT regrets that it
lid not take the prediction for the report as Il
It could have been thoroughly relied upon. =,
The Neaos is reckless enough to feel sorry
hat Deputy Collin did not shoot the other OF
parties who were in the alley on the night of 3;
november 18th, and still persists, in the ~,
ace of all the evidence recently developed, W
hat those persons were friends of Mr.. Col ca
In, and possibly associate deputies. The pc
'e,cS will possibly not be kept long in sus- ay
ense as to exactly who those parties were, 81.
nd had better begin now to frame some
litlgatlng excuse for the presence of some TO
the brethren with McMurrin that night. -
An editorial in the Salt Lake Herald this be
forming on the McMurrin case is marvel de
gall, Mormon logic and base mendacity.
The public" says that Latter-day second 10
"still has confidence in McMur- ~
ms absolute innocence, but his persistent an
lence will i'll time shake that confidence. Di
ence the necessity for him to speak, AS Su
cMurrin is silent and does not answer. the wa
Ier'ald should note that he himself seems to
ave less confidence in his absolute limo ;t,-
, particularly vehement in the case "I r. 10 am
fought McMurrin would deny the charge me
the columns of the Herald, but that he is ]
raid of again being "foully murdered. the