The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-25
LOCAL BRIEFS.


County.
WELLS. FARGO & Cos shipments yes
terday were: fine bars, $50 8G4; ore,
81, 300. Total, $50 ,1O4.
McCoRNICK e. Co. received yesterday;
Hanauer bullion, 81 $40; silver ana leso
ores, "a 400. Total, Sc O2O.
THE WIND blew from every point OF
the compass yesterday. Its greatest
velocity ma3 eighteen miles an hour.
FAST DRIVING along the principal
streets OF the city is a practice tnat is
too often INDUCED in, and the police
are making efforts to stop it.
THE EARLY strawberry crop Will be
materially decreased by the hardness
in getting water into the bitches. Inc
late crop will probably be larger:
THE SOUTH wall of A. @. Smith d
Co.'s drug store has been ornamented
by a well-ezecuted, red-an6-Whlte sign
for Smiley, Grosheh & Cooke. 1t IS q
very attractive adv.
Ben. STEVENSON has purchased
Arthur Pratt's interest in the firm of
Alderman, Pratt Il Wach, and after
the 1st of May the firm will be known
as Alderman & Co.
A
Washington Square this afternoon.
All interested are cordially invited To
participate. Lacrosse promises TO De
Quite popular the present season.
THE CITIZENS OF the eastern part OF
town are doing considerable kicking
lust Low, b cause the canal water has
been shut off from them so long. Their
garden crops have been suffering.
THE POLICE took il young fellow
last evening, about7 o'clock. He was
almost helpless under the load OF ar
dents he had aboard, and had to be
literally packed. He gave the name OF
Lin Psart.
A FORCE of a dozen or more men are
at work on the plaster of Paris works at
the mouth of Salt Creek Canyon, and
have heen for the past two weeks. The
manufacture OF plaster of Paris will be-
gin some time in May.
THREE BOYS. named Butterwood. Nc
Donald and Gindrup, were arrested by
the police yesterday, for breaking into
the Hebrew synagogue, situated on the
corner of Third South and First West
Streets. They will be tried to-day.
ISAAC BALDWIN has been appointed
deputy registrar for the second Ogden
precinct, vice James Trimball, resigned,
and J. 7. Black has been appointed
deputy registrar for tina third Ogden
precinct, vice Philip Rack, resigned.
THE WORK of extending the street
railway along Second South Street, is
being pushed ahead rapidly. A large
force of men IS at work, and the graders
have already reached the corner Of Sec
ond West Street, working eastward.
IKTHE Probate Court, yesterday, in
the matter of the estates OF Don Carlos
Whitney and Orson X. Whitney, ord rs
were made allowing and approving the
final accounts of the administrators
and making distribution Of the residue
of said estates.
TIE STATEMENTS of the insurance
companies represented in this city by
81. J. Grant g. Co., W. e. Smedley,
Lewis Rogers, s. w. Darke and Fuller
IL Young, will be Interesting to insur
Rnce people. The representations made
in them all indicate prosperous con-
dition.
The CHAMBER of Commerce has re-
ccived a communication from the
Rochester Board of Trade, asking their
corporation in movement for the re-
dnctlon of letter postage from &c. to
lcs The matter will be brought before
the board OF directors az their next
meeting.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, the driver Of
q buggy, at the corner of Main and
Second South, in order to avoid COLI
sion with en- approaching street car,
backed his horse with the result OF
coming in cantact with Sprouts ex-
press wagon, which was being driven up
the street, and denoralizipg the bug
,gy's off wheel.
TIE PREDICTION that people would be
zfving in tents in Salt Lake within
sixty days. has been fulfilled. Yes;er-
day, q Well-kuoWn gentleman of this
city erected TINT on some ground con-
trolled By him near the D. & 4. g.
depot, and will occupy it with his
family, pending the erection % one of
the several cottages ne proposes to
build.
THIS Is the way member of the
Colorado Springs Board of Trustees
talks: Joe EDz nsperger wanted to
talk street sprinkling. This brought
McResvy to the floor with r jump. The
city, he said, should not pay out one
cent for that purpose with his vote, and
he would fight the measure if proposed.
II the business men have not public
spirit enough to attend 70 this they
should get along without it."
SOME OF the country newspapers are
making mention of the tact that the
peace officers are to be atired il regu-
lation clothing. One paper says 1.-THE
Salt Lake police are to be uniformed
before long," and another remarks that
the "police of the metropolis are shortly
to be 'uninformed' Perhaps if the
journalists OF the Territory were TO
form a sort of news syndicate and
agree to publish items Contemporaries
ously, they might give such informa-
ton as the above nearly uniform.
JOSEPH STAY, who was recently com
mitted to the County Jail, suffering
from dementia, as the result of drunk,
made a desperate effort to suicide
lately. Some of his relatives went
down with the jailor to pay him visit,
when they discovered him hanging by
the neck from beam, he having
stripped off his clothing, and out of it
made q rope. 1t is said that a few
minutes only would have sufficsd to
end his checkered career, and it was
with the greatest difficulty that he was
revived.
A YOUNG woman, named Maggie
Goodwin, was locked up last night.
charged with petty larceny. She had
been in service, and. it is alleged, after