The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-24
BRIEF AND BREEZY

Charles T. Wilkes was yesterday com
nissioned notary public for Salt Lake
county.
A marriage license was issued Yesterday
to Harry e. Boring, aged Is, AMI Carr1e
M. Briggs, aged y, of Denver, Colo.
Articles of Incorporation were issued
yesterday to the Hercules Electric Power
company, and to the Ogden and San Juan
mining company.
At a. m. yesterday the thermometer
registered Sc, at noon Is. and at D. m.
76. the maximum temperature being IS and
the minimum So Observer Salisbury S
forecast for today is: Fair weather,
warmer.
The Fourteenth ward Democratic club
will meet at the council chamber in the
Wasauch building on Tuesday evening, at
o'clock sharp. All Democrats of the
ward are invited to attend.
The chamber of commerce yesterday
furnished complete statistics of the wheat,
rye, oats and barley prospects of L tab for
the last five years to a Kansas City man
who expects to engage in business here.
Yesterdays clearings were $156 500, as
compared with $25L2S7 for the same day
of last year. The weeks clearings foot. d
up $l004,259 as compared with S1,2l2,732
for the same week of 1893.
: A surprise party was rendered Mr.. John
9orgensen by number of his friends on
Friday evening. The hours. sped all too
quickly in the enjoyment of music, con-
versation and refreshments.
Genial Joe Jenkins has had paternity
ADDED TO his other honors. Yesterday
quarter pound Journalist of the masculine
persuasion. Mother and child are doing
well and Joe is able tc be about.
The members of the bar of Ogden held
a meeting last night to consider the ad-
NlseOllty OF uniting in the recommends
ton OF some one to succeed Judge Miner,
Y hose term WIN soon expire. What action
was taken could not be learned.
Day nursery VIII have an outing at Salt
ar on Tuesday. Mrs. n. ". Clayton has
rendered q car for the coca sion and Grant
BROS. VIII convey the little cnes to the
uepot at II a m. A committee of ladies
Will take lunch and serve and generally
look after the comfort of the children.
A movement is on foot to have all bust
ness houses in the city close next Friday
Leroy day, after l p. m, in order that
their employees may have an opportunity
70 wltress the races. Already a number
OF merchants have signified their willing
ness to close their houses and the pros
pect for the success of the movement is
good.
Henry George Gaylor, the youth who
was implicated in the killing of Clyde
f i1s5 as9s5 Just year ago, met with a
bao accident on Friday. The lad went to
work on farm at Mill Creek few days
ago. and while assisting in arranging a
pole to load hay, fell about sixteen feet
The left thigh was broken in such a man
ner that the bone protruded and the suf-
1erer was taken to his home on Friday
evening, Drs Witcher and Root attend
ing him. The lads mother has been i'll
for some time.
A barn near the mills of the Salt Lake
MIL and Elevator company, with its con-
rents, burned. yesterday afternoon entail
ing loss of several hundred dollars In
the building was a horse, and the poor
creature was cremated The west side
department responded to the alarm. but
the structure was doomed. 1t is supposed
the fire started from a spark from one of
the motors on the lire of the Great Salt
Lake & Hot Springs railway.
The Laboring Mems association met at
the county court house last evening with
President Rawlings in the chair. Reports
were received from various committees
and matters of Importance were dis
cussed, President Rawlings making an
interesting address. Six new members
were initiated and about twenty-five ap-
pllcations were received. These will be
admitted at the meeting next Saturday
evening.
There was a very pleasant family gath
ering on Thursday at the home of Miffiin
Palmer in the Eighth ward, to celebrate
his eighty-first birthday. The aged gen
tleman enjoys excellent health. and was
wished ''raany happy returns of the day"
by many friends and neIghbors A boun-
tiful repast was served on the lawn, and
while all were doing ample justice to the
same, he expressed the wish that his wife
and children might live to see as many
happy birthdays as he himself had
passed.