The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20
LOCAL BRIEFS.

SPENCER g. KIMBALL's slippers are the
cheapest IN town.
A MASQUERADE ball was given at
Heath's Hall last night.
A CASE OF scarlet fever is reported at
the residence of DR.. Anderson.
SALLY DAVIS was arrested last night
by the police for being drunk.
Dr.. YoRK's lecture at the Opera
House drew quite an audience last
night.
f. w. LYMAN, JR., was yesterday
commissioned surveyor OF Tooele
County.
SEE JOHNSON, PRATT & Co. IS adver-
tisement. Three Christmas presents 10
every child.
SEE SPENCER & KTMBALL's display of
SentIemen's, boys and youths slippers,
the finest in town.
TIE FRANK DANIELS Company is
auartered at the Cliff and will leave this
morning for Cheyenne.
MCCoRNICK s. Co. yesterday received 4:
Hanauer bullion. 81 300; Woodside ore,
$40 200. Total, So 100.
LORENZO PETERSON was appointed a
Jus tice of the peace of FalrView, San
pete County yesterday.
WELLS. FARGO & Co.'s shipments
yesterday we're: Fine bars, S35 .399 OF /;
base bullion, Sc. 10000. Total, SAL
799. OF.
PEOPLE WHO want to see veritable
feast of fat things and a spectacle of
beauty. should call in at the Presiding
Bishops market.
TIE Masonic Aid Association yester-
day sent draft of So 500 to Chris Diehl
for Mrs. F. Meacham, widow of the late
DR.. Mescham, of Fort Douglas.
A RUMoR reached this city last night
to the effect that the residence of Mr.
Webb, at Deseret, was burned to the
ground. No particulars could be
learned.
Miss MARION D. WooLLEY, daughter
OF the late John M Woolley, died at
her home yesterday. Funeral services
viii be held on Friday at pm. in the
Ninth Ward Meeting House.
WILLIAM O'CoNNoR. one of the gang
some small articles from q store on
First South Street, was arrested yester-
day for petit larceny. The other boys
are IN jan for another ottense.
A PATENT has been issued to Carson
G. Cook, of Camas, Idaho. for an i'm
proved mail bag with a new locking
devise, the object of which is to prevent
mail matter from being removed with
out leaving its mark. The formation
of the bag has also been slmpli6ed.
TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY, as reported
from the Signal Service oficer.-At 6 a.
n: SILT Lake City, 3d. Helena, "a
Boise City, Is; Fort Washakie, II;
Rawiins, q. At IL am: Salt Lake
CITY, 80; Ogden, 30; Stockton, 30;
Bingham, 50; Park City, 30; Provo, 40;
Alta, 80.
THE LIBERALS are very much eXer-
cfsed over the Statehood movement.
Petitions are being circulated in Park
CITY, Ogden and other places protesting
against the admission of Utah, and
Judge Powers screams in the Ogden
Uai0u: "a common peril unites US and
therefore, without dissenting voice,
the Gentle Republicans and Democrats
of Utah protest against the admission
of Utah as a StaCe.
THE SIXTH annual ball of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen will be
he'd in the Grand Opera House on
Christmas Eve. The invites, which
are novel and pretty in design, have
Just been issued. For those who are
DESTROYS of attending the ball from dis
tlicts outside OF Salt Lake, special rates,
as seen in our advertising columns, will
be allowed by the D. & R. G. and o. G.
railway companies.
THE CHAIRMAN of the Territorial
Board of Equalization has Issued call
to all the assessors of the Territory to
meet in this city shortly TO consider the
matter of the assessment OF taxes for the |
coming year. Councillor Dooly is bent
upon knocking the old plan of assess
rdents in the head, so far as this city is
concerned, as will be seen by the reso-
luton introduces by, him in the City
Council Tuesday night. Whether the
hoard will catch on" and regulate"
MON this same basis remains to be seen.