The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-18
LOCAL AND OTHER BRIEFS.

PROF. j. H. PAUL will lecture in the Ninth
ward meeting house on Tuesday evening. Ad-
mission free and all are welcome.
THE regular quarterly conference of the On.
eloa Stake viii be held at Franklin on Sunday
and Monday January 18th and 26lh. All off,
GERS ana members are respectfully invited to III
tend. GEO. Q. PARKINSON, President OF Stake.
AT ABOUT o'clock yesterday afternoon a
stoveplpe IN room over Nelson's real estate
ONCE. on Second South street. tumbled down
ana tne room was soon filled with smoke. An
alarm was sent in and the flremen turned out,
put their services were not required. No
damage.
SERGEANT FrTzMAURICE's report OF yester-
days temperature is as follows: At 5:33 am
Salt Lake, 22; Helena, 81; Fort Custer -;
Fort Washable, 10; Rawlins 10. AT II am
Salt Lake city, "a; Ogdel, %; Stockton, 5;
Bingham %; Park City, IS; Provo, Ia; Alta, %
Logan 10.
AT the recent meeting of the Sewer Valley
Canal company, the following officers were
elcoled: President, w H. Clark; vice president,
y. NJ. Peterson; secretary and treasurer W. G.
Baker; directors, Peter Christensen. b. H.
Greenwood, j. c. Jensen, Asa X. Hawley, Jo-
seph Erickson.
| THE ball given by the Denhalter rifles at G.
A. R. hall on Friday night was brilliant sue
cess. The principal feature of the evening was
the drill, and the young men displayed great
proficiency IN the military art The boys so
well pleased with their success that they con-
template giving another pail in the near future
BELOW is the full text OF the bill recently in
| troduced in the Senate by Mr. Edmunds and
winch was read the first ana second times by
unanimous consent: Bill to provide for
the creation of fourth judicial district
in the Territory of Utah.-Be II enacted
! by the Senate and House of Represen-
latives of the United States OF America in Con-
| gresS assembled That the governor and legis-
latlve assembly of the territory be- aud they
are hereby authorized to establish fourth Judi
a i'm fl-r
the districts in said territory in such manner
as to best promote the convenient administra
ton of justice therein. Section =. That as soon
as may be after the execution of the power con-
ferred by section one of this act, the Supreme
Court OF said territory Shall assign Judge to
each of said districts, and shall have power
from time to time to change such assignment
and to provide for occasions OF disability or
absence in such cases according to the practice
now authorized by law.
ANOTHER of those interesting meetings of the
Students society was held in the Social hall
Friday evening. After the usual opening eXer-
students on the subject previously announced,
Divine Mission of Joseph 8 NTH" The
| speaker related the Circumstance of the first
visitation TO Joseph Smith, by heavenly beings,
and his subsequent declaration that all tue
churches then eXtant had departed from the
truth. He spoke of the persecution that fol
lowed the prophets vision; how on many occa
SionS he was preserved from apparent injury ;ot
| reception and translation of the Book of Nor
mon, and the organization of the church; all OF
which was done by some unknown power. He
! quoted many passages of scripture substantial
! ing the principles of the newly revealed re-
| ligion, and traced the history of The Latter-Day
| Saints. until they entered Salt Lake valley
The lecture was very conlmendable. and may
be published in full hereafter. The Tenth Ward
Harmony Glee club then sang
| selection Come Where My Love Lies Dream
ing Miss L. Harries from tie same ward
| recited st. Nicholas The listeners expressed
| their interest by rendering vote of thanks tc
the reciters. After singing and benedction
| meeting adjourned for one week.