Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-04-02
LOCAL JOTS.

Conference weather is now in order.
Mayor Armstrong; friends scout the idea
that he is in polygamy.
The Spring has come, the deputies, too,
My own sweet Daisy Dean.
The Salt Lake Bicycle Club will take n
run to California next month.
Of course Mayor Armstrong is innocent,
too? SO was Naisbitt and Dean.
While the festive burglar is a-burgling,
The policeman's lot is still happy one.
The d. q II. q. was more than three
hours late to-day, owing to the @. P.'s tar
diness.
Wells Fargo u Co.'S bullion shipments
from Silver Reef tor the month of March
aggregated 1923, l03.25.
Yesterday afternoon james II. Travis of
Texas, was nominated to be agent for the
Indians of Ouray Agency i'll Utah.
Mccormick & Co. to-day received Hunauer
bullion, S2,743; Park City bullion, S1,500;
slye and lead ores, Sli,750; total value.
S1S,993.
The rainfall for last month, as reported
by Sergeant j. b. Marbury, of the Signal
Office, was 2.G0 inches, while that for March,
1886, was but 0.64.
The James b. Mexican Post, G. A. r., have
leased the old Odd Fellows Hall, over Geo.
M. Scott d Co.'S, and are renovating and re-
fitting it with elaboration.
Butte Inter-Mountain: Superintendent
Footner, of the Northern Pacific express.
says that his company will commence run
ming into Butte by the list of July next.
The Grand Jury was investigating the
alleged Armstrong polygamy case to-day,
and host of witnesses were seen to emerge
from the Marshal's Office with script in their
hands.
serious conflagration came very near
resulting from n lucerne bonfire on the
Tenth ward bench last night. The timely
work of n bucket brigade saved the property
of r. McAl!ister.
Three of the soldiers who appeared for
trial in Justice Pyper's court to-day had
their heads literally covered with bandages.
The examination will not be completed this
afternoon it is thought.
Deputy Marshal Oscar Vandercook re-
turned last evening from his jaunt through
Park City, Kansas, Peoa, and that neighbor-
hood, whittier he has been hunting jurors
for the April term of court.
veritable surprise party is said to have
taken place at the Office of n prominent ply
stefan in this city recently. The surprise
seems to have fallen most completely upon
the young lady who took the lead. She
didn't stay long.
John A. Groesbeck, president and man.
ager of the Bannock mining company, ex-
poets to leave tomorrow for the Idaho Horn
Silver property. The recent rich strike will
be followed by some extensive operations on
the part of the company.
In mentioning that d. A. Mcmillan OF
Park City would wrestle anyone in Salt
Lake, the DEMOCRAT erred in regard to the
sum when it made Mr.. Mcmillan say $500
would suit me better" Mr.. Mcmillan does
not limit the amount, and Salt Lake has
not yet been heard FROM
In the melee which occurred Wednesda,
night between the policemen and the soldiers
who had created the disturbance in front OF
the Mint saloon, it is said that two of the
soldiers were shot, neither of then seriously,
however. The encounter took place mt the
foot of the Tenth ward bench.
Sheriff Turner telegraphed from Prove
this afternoon that he had examined the
parties on this mornings train for the south
but found nothing to confirm the suspicion
that they were the burglars who made tn,
raid on Carriers gun store last night. 1t is
now supposed that some of the local ex
perts did the job.
Burton, the non coDlpOs ieitis ex-guarC
of the penitentiary, has furnished anothe
subject for Herald interview. He arrested
gentleman on the street yesterday withou
warrant or other authority and after sub
jecting his victim to thorough search
stated that he had probably got the wron,
man, Burton should be sent to the asylum
or the Herald Office without unnecessar,
delay.
Bishop j. w. Greenman of Marshal Ire
lands corps is rapidly coming into notoriety
as n parson. Last night he was summoned
at late hour, to perform n marriage cere
mony in the Twelfth ward and was con
veyed thither in princely style by the gentle
men that came for him. The nuptial til
made one flesh of Max Lewis and Susann;
Scheib, and it is needless to say that Parsol
Greenman kissed the fairer one of the twain
to cap his ministerial climax.