The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-25
BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Rock Springs Wyo., on Tuesday 10 ac-
cept a lucrative position.
There are messages at the Western
Union Telegraph office for Rogers q
and Jennie Slukey.
r. b. Whittemore and Hyrum j. Young
OF Salt Lake county and Eugene A. Hen
foid, Of Utah county, were yesterday
commissioned notarieS public.
Despite the statements made in the
Denver papers, nothing official is yet
known at Fort Douglas in regard to the
alleged determination to retire Captain
of the Sixteenth infantry.
The family of j. C. AIidgley is happy
over the arrival of a daughter, the first
81 Der sex out OF a family OF seven The
father is happy, the mother cheerful and
the household generally rejoices.
At 6 a. m. yesterday the thermometer
registered IS, at noon % and at o. m.
So the maximum temperature being 5S
and the minimum 35. Observer Smiths
forecast for To-Day is: Fair weather,
merely stationary temperature.
On F'riday Elder j. C. Lyon and Elder
r. 7. Winter returned from the Indian
territory mission. The latter was COM
PEELED TO return on account of an attack
OF majarla fever and was accompanied
10y Elder Lyon. Within the next few days
ELDERS Lyon and Beasley will return to
their field Of labors.
The funeral services over the remains
Of John Frederick Zeender, the 23-year-old
was killed at the Conkling sampiing
works last Thursday, detailed in yes
derday's Herald, will be held today at y
o'clock in the Fourth ward meeting house.
Friends Of the family invited
There will be a meeting of the Salt
Lake Horticultural society held Saturday
Dec. l, 1894, at o'clock p. m. in the
selectman's room in the new city and
90 h11iI at w To-
tin prepared by the board will be pre-
scented. A full representation of the fruit
growers of the county is earnestly re-
Quested at that time.
4 large number of school teachers from
the outside precincts met yesterday in
County Superintendent Aliens Office to
discuss the pros and cons of the metric
system Of weights and measures. There
is a growing sentiment in favor of incor-
porating the metric system into the new
state law, and the teachers are inclined
to be abreast with the sentiment Of the
times.
The county clerk yesterday issued mar
rage licenses to Andrew j. johnson,
aged So, and Wilhelmina Pouelson, aged
u. both Of Salt Lake city, Charles d.
WiGgiuton, aged %, of this city, and
Pauline Winterbottam, aged Is, of New
Castle, Colo; and to George H. Robin
son, aged % of Peterson, Morgan county,
and Ada b. Hemenway, aged l9, of Gran
ger, Salt Lake county.
William Burke and Mrs. Florence Cud-
6lihy. of Ouray, Colo, were married on
Friday evening at the residence of JUS
tice Whitehorne, Sal South Second East
street. Mr.. Whitehorne performed the
ceremony in the presence of a few Sc
iect friends, after which an elegant sup
per was partaken of and general felicia
tons and good wishes extended TO the
newly wed pair.
The Utah irrigation commission has
Just issued volume of nearly hun
bred pages embodying the report of the
commission to the third national irriga-
ton congress held at Denver in Septem-
her last. The book is handsomely gotten
up and contains number of handsome
cuts of irrigated sections Of the terri.
tory and irrigation works and also some
5fne photograYures of prominint members
Of the eommigson The book book. has has highly E6rE
and conditions in Utah and on the prob
lem of the arid west. 1t is replete with
exceedingly valuable information and
suggestions to all interested in irrigation
matters and should be widely circulated
among our people.