The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-17
BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Juvenile choir on Washn9tonS birthday
is progressing rapidly.
Susan Killidge an old offender, plead
guilty to the charge OF being drunk, Dui
sentence was suspended.
Mr. ]. 3. AIoreton, clerk of the board d
education, is celebrating the arrival OF
a daughter, born at O'Clock yesterday
afternoon.
The Rescue mission supplied $50 meals
and lodgings TO destitute men qilrlne lne
past week, a small decrease below the
previous week.
There are now confined at the city jail
twenty-one petty offenders These prls-
ofers are still engaged breaking rocks IN
City Creek canyon.
John T. Axton one of the most enthus-
iastic and able workers in the 7: NJ C. a.
has been honored with the election as
general secretary of that organization
1t is a good selection
STEPHEN Starley. a we'll known resident
of the Seventeenth ward, died at an early
hour yesterday morning OF general de-
bility, aged II years and 10 days. Notice
OF the funeral will be given hereafter.
Delegate Rawlins, of Utah, has won
a place of distinction alonSlde Colorado
brilliant young champion, LATE Pence.
Colorado viii jubilantly welcome ner
sister. Utah, TO the sisterhood of states
Denver News
versity theology class will be held in the
assembly hall at 1890 p. m, today: an
invitation to be present is extended to all.
A brief printed synopsis of the lecture TO
be given viii be provided each one who
attends.
Marriage licenses were yesterday issued
to Aubrey c. Weber and Minerva b.
Hennessy; to S. E. Barton and Nellie Rid
dlebaugh, all of Salt Lake, TO John Han
sen. jr., and Marina Nichol. of Riverton,
and to Henry e. Bird and Isabella Rey-
holds. of South Cottonwood.
A meeting of the Students Society of
The Latter-day Saints college was held
iii the assembly hall Of the college yes
terday afternoon, ard q most interesting
address was delivered by DR.. Karl M2eser-
The doctor spoke very earnestly ana was
listened to throughout with great a1ueh-
ton.
The plans and specifications for the new
Oquirrh school viii be completed by
Monday, and it is very probable that work
on the building viii be commenced At
once. This school viii be located in the
Ninth ward on Fourth East between
Fourth and Fifth South. It will be a
handsome hfteen-roomed structure
The jefferson Drum corps held another
enthusiastic meeting at their headquarters
on Friday night. This organization, under
the direction of d. L. Levey, bids fair
soon to become the finest drum corps in
the CITY The members viii celebrate
Jackson day, Jan. s, by a grand ball at
Gifts hail.
Notwithstanding the severe criticism
made on Councilman Lawson's redistrict-
and intimates that he has enough Republic
can votes pledged to pass the ordinance
next Tuesday, and those who are back
of the scheme seem confident that LOOT
borrow will sign it.
A union meeting of several Of the
churches viii be held this evening at the
First Congregational church to raise
funds for the Rescue mission which is
doing a noble work here. During eleven
months. the mission has supplied L, tic
meals and lodgings to destitute men. who
each performed a certain amount Of work
for the association.
President Angus NJ. Cannon yesterday
received a letter from his son, Eugene
NJ Cannon, now on mission to Tahiti,
Society Islands, in which the young man
states that all the elders and Saints on
the group are enjoying the best of health.
Although he has not been on the islands
q great while, Eugene has several times
addressed the natives in their own Ian
guage.
The legal matters in connection with the
sale Of school bonds viii receive attention
the first OF the week and the papers will
be sent east for the inspection of the
attorneys of the purchasers Under the
agreement entered into between the board
of education and the purchasers of the
bonds the first payment of $4,000 will be
made on January / and the others, So, 900
each, at regular monthly intervals.
At last Salt Lake is 10 have a GYM
nasium. IT viii be established in the SAM
tarium building. the hail being LEO feet
long. The gymnasium will be filed up
with all the best muscle developing ap-
planes and viii be in charge of Charley
LANCE. The movement is a good one. and
the opportunity to exercise viii be grasped
by a good many young men. whose oc-
equations tend 10 produce hollow chests
and slim biceps. The gymnasium Will be
thrown open some time this week.
At a. NJ. yesterday the thermometer
registered 30, at noon -, and at p m.
So the maximum temperature being AZ
and the minimum g. Observer Salisbury's
forecast for today IS: Fair weather,
warmer. The observers comnara tive re-
port for yesterday was as follows: Salt
Lake so; Baker City, %: Cheyenne. "a:
Helena, a: Miles City, 40: Winnemucca
"A; Idaho Falls, "A. At 10 a. m: Salt
Lake, %; Ogden. %; Logan, 30; Park City,
Is; Provo, %.
The Salt Lake Herald had the master
headlines over the news of the result of the
vote IN Congress on statehood. That devot-
ed paper has worked in season and out of
viii say it is entitled to crow a little over
This joyful result The Herald has been
a persistent and able worker for statehood
while the tribune has been equally as
efficient against it. Wednesdays result
Is distlnctively triumph for The Herald
upon its honored brow.-ProVo Dispatch
The farmers residing at Mill Creek and
vicinity have been greatly annoyed fol-.
some time past by the deredations of
chicken thieves. and yesterday morning
night previous they had stolen abont
thirty-tive chickens and cached" them
away in the brush. Yesterday morning
they returned f"r their Booty and were
nabbed. They nowledged their guilt
and returned be irkens 10 the owners.
The consta' has aken the men in
charge, and hey viii robably be prose
cuted
Yesterday was the lightest day Justice
Gee has hss- in the police court for many
moons. but &C cas- beins under con-
sideration. TIE 1vcket OF arrests was
blank and matters and things from a
police standpoint Were on a standstill.
Charles Miller. the Self-alleged miner.
VINO when arrested had a great wad of
confederate money on his person and
SS6.65 in good currency, was fined S. for
drunkenness. He paid the fine but was
held on an additional charge of CARVING
concealed weapons. This case win he
called on Monday, meanwhile the police
will look up Ailler's record.