The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-18
LOCAL BRIEFS.

A BASKET has been placed in the win
dow of the Wasatch Drug store with
the following sign attached: This
basket for the poor children's Christ
mas tree; drop pound of candy IN it
and see the kids laugh" This is good
advice and should be needed.
THE POLICE last night run in ]. Sho-
blum, Olef Erickson and J. Cronbund
for refusing to pay hack driver. The
driver claims that he drove them
around from 7.30 to IL PM, and they
were liberal minded enough to offer To
compromise by paying % cents.
TEMPERATURES YESTERDAY, as reported
from the Signal Service officer.-At Ga.
NJ: Sslt Lake City, AZ; Helena, 81;
Fort Custer, 81; Boise City, So; Fort
Washskie, 10; Rawlins, 30. At IL am:
Salt Lake City, 40; Ogden, 40; Ste OK
ton, 40; Bingham, 40; Park City, So;
Provo, A; Alta, %.
THREE Iowa gentlemen heard of Salt
Lake and were so favorably impressed
with the prospects that they imme-
diately chartered car and started for
hold goods They arrived few days
the city, and will advise all their
friends to 10 likewise.
wv. SUMMERHAYs, who has just re-
turned from a trip to ReIburg, Idaho.
reports business as being in very good
condition there, all the stores being
we'll satisfied with the condition of
trade. Theatricals have been instituted
in the hall over Duran & Winters
store, and the first performance was the
time-honored Charcoal Burner.
The WoRKINGMEN' Coop. of the
Fifteenth Ward, who are the pioneers
here in the custom of allowing pur-
chasers to share in their profits, state
that they have paid customers over,
81, 900 on this plan during the last eigh-
teen months. Mr.. Arbuckle, the Su-
perintendent, states that the plan
works very satisfactorily with them.
The VOTERS of the Tenth School Dis
trict met last night to vote on the prop
osition to levy q tax on the property
of the district one-half of per cent. for
the purpose of maintaining a free
school. The proposition was carried
by a vote of AZ to 33, and the next term,
which begins in January, sees the Tenth
District in possession of free school,.
THE UTAH Commission has ad journed
until April LIST, and the members are
returning to their respective homes. G.
L. Godfrey returned to Iowa few DAYS
ago, A. B. Williams to Arkansas and
J. A. McClernand to Illinois yesterday,
and A B. Carlton, the chairman, will
return to Terre Haute, Indiana, to-day.
No important business has been trans
acted at this session.
BARNEY HARVEY has on exhibition
sectional view of the First National
Mine, located in Iowa Gulch, Lake
County, Colorado. 1t represents the
mine in working order, and is made
entirely of ore from the mine by its
foreman. The piece is the property of
General P. E. Connor and has been ex-
hibited at the New Orleans Exhibition,
Smithsonian Institute and number OF
other places.
The HORN Silver management will
be changed on the first of the year. Mr..
P. T. Farnsworth, of Beaver, succeed
ing Major Hill, who has manipulated
the working of the mine for so many
years. Mr.. Farnsworth is an energetic
business man, and it is thought that his
policy will be to p1sh out in n " Gi-
+ ct s,nd atteml t to bring the mir e
back to the excellent working order that
existed of old.
CoMrE D,ADHEMAR, president of the
Comet Smelling Works Company. ar
rived in this city yesterday from Paris.
accompanied by NJ. Sallandrouze &c
Lamornsin, stakeholder in that COM
pany. The gentlemen are quartered
at the Walker House. where they were
met Yesterday by Professor Sebbillot,
the manager of their COMPANY, who ha 8
just come up from the works. The
three gentlemen will go south in few
days to inspect their plant at Copper
Gulch. near Frisco, and when they re-
turn they will probably have something
of interest to make public.