Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-13
LOCAL JOTS,

Another bright. pleasant day, just trife
too cool.
There is a message at the Western Union
Telegraph Office for Mrs Elizabeth Bur
lingame.
S.H. Gibson and Il. A. Franks have estab
lished n detective bureau and collection
agency at 25l s. Main street.
1t is reported that first-class mile track
will be built at Lake Park in time for the
next bathing season, and that efforts will be
made to give some good races there.
The bi-monthly meeting of the Salt Lake
Shooting Club came off to-day. III. Den
halter won the gold medal. j. w. Campbell
won the silver medal for the third time, and
is the owner.
George Jewett went into the Police Court
this morning to answer to the charge of
being drunk. Jewett had been drunk and
he knew it, and, not caring who else knew
it, he decided to enter plea of guilty. The
Court sentenced him to pay fine of 50.
The total receipts of the G. A. X. benefit
at the Salt Lake Theatre, was Si89. After
paying all bills in satisfactory manner,
there remains in the Quartermaster' s hands
for charitable use by the Post, 5000 in round
numbers. In another column the thank
offering of the Comrades is presented.
About fifty young men have already
Joined the Knights of st. Dennis for the
balls this winter. The first will take place
in the Walker Opera House Thanksgiving
night, and promises to be grand affair.
The invitations will be out in few days,
and all who receive one should attend.
The 2,Sl0 votes for Colonel Ferry repre-
sent the intelligence, loyalty and man and
womanhood of the Territory. The 1865
for Caine, the power of the priesthood over
its deluded victims. Does any intelligent
American believe that the boon of State
sovereignty should be conferred upon Ter
ritory under such infamous control?
The recent snow storm scattered the beau.
tiful in this valley in larger proportion than
in the West Mountain. But in the Cotton
woods the fall of snow was deep and winter
has fairly set in. There will be more work
done on mines i'll the mountains this winter
than during last season. In fact the min
ing outlook is every way encouraging al
present.
drunken soldier, leading a drunken
woman with Il red cotton handkerchief
pulled down over her eyes, were depraveC
looking spectacle on lower Main street this
morning. Evidently the woman had re
ceived some pretty hard Treatments; hel
clothes were torn and she looked an object
of both contempt and pity. They had lost
their bearings, and were inquiring of pass
ers-by the direction to the Post. When
last seen they were slowly and unsteadily
meandering eastward.
There is nothing very strange in the fac
that Mike Fleming was arrested yesterda,
afternoon on the charge of being drunk. Ii
fact, it would be strange if an afternoon
passed when Mike was not arrested for be
ing drunk unless he happened to be in Jail
The trial came off in the Police Court thi
morning, and the man was given twenty
days in the city jail, which, however, he viii
soon serve out. Mike has gotten so used tc
the business that he can get drunk and servt
out n twenty days sentence more times in
one month than any other man on record.
An affair which was kept so very quiet tina
even the newspapers have not gotten hold o
it, occurred in this city on Wednesday last
1t was nothing less than the marriage o
Miss Rhoda Woodward, of this CITY, to Mr.
George Goddard, of Park City. The cere
mony was performed by Judge Speirs in tn
presence OF the families only, and tn
happy pair have already gone to their new
home at the Park. The young lady is wei
and fayorably known i'll this city, and MI
Goddard is one of the most popular of tn
Ontario boys. The DEMOCRAT extends con
gratulations and best wishes.
COMMISSIONER. w. Midgley, of the South
western railway and the Colorado Uta
associations, has just issued a joint circula
announcing that all tariffs, circulars or othe
HuVlCeS issued from MS OlllCe prior TO J0nu
airy i, 1887, naming classitications of rate
on traffic embraced in the above-name
associations will be null and void after De
cember |, 1886 The tariffs circulars, etc
to be issued taking effect January l, 1887
will contain all the information necessary il
regard to the rates, classifications, ETC.. t.
be applied on shipments forwarded on AM
after that date.-Rocky Maintain NelcS.
Annie Wright, the somewhat frail spous
of that well-known gambler whose name sh
bears, was to-day arrested by the police on
charge of vagrancy. The defendant wa
arraigned before Judge Piper and entered
for Monday morning at 10 O'Clock. Tn
lawyers for the defense insisted that the,
had right to be heard on a demurrer to thu
complaint Immediately, and the prosecute
insisted that this matter should also 90 owe
until Monday. At last accounts they wer,
still wrangling on this point, and viii
probably agree upon it in time for the Mon
day session.
A lady who should know called at tn
DEMOCRAT office this morning and state(
that the report given i'll yesterdays issu
under the head of "a Strange Funeral, ;
was all wrong. She says that the young cir
who gave birth to the child was the victim
of breach of promise on the part of he
lover, and that the babe died thirteen hour
after it was born. While the lady admit
the illegitimacy of the child, and the othe
circumstances as published, she insists tina
no effort was made to conceal the coffin ant
that there was nothing secret about TIN
matter in any respect. 1t seems clear fror
what the lady says, that those who assiste
at the funeral were simply doing a charita
BILE act for an Outcast girl, and should there
fore not be implicated in the affair