The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
BY THE HERALD PUBLISHING co
BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Fifteen cents per. copy win be paid for
Semi Weekly Heralds date of December
II, 1892. sent to this office.
The funeral OF the late Mrs. wilford
Woodruff, Jr-, will take place at the
Ninth Ward meeting house at Il o'clock
noon. today.
At 6 a. m. yesterday The thermometer
Registered 80 at noon 80, and at p. IA
%; the maximum temperature being ~
and the minimum q.
The remains of the late Major II. Q.
GooGspeed win be shipped TO Boston by
the Collins Undertaking company at .
z. m. today, going over the Union Pacific.
Marriage licenses were yesterday issued
3. White. aged 20; Caleb J. Bywater,
aged %, and Carrie ". Garter, aged is,
all OF this city.
The resignation Of Second Lieutenant
,Fsl9mas +. McGraw, Of Company II, OF
Ottinger, yesterday The cause assigned
was the immediate departure from the
territory Of the officer.
Yesterday was Children's day al the
Poultry show and about SOC or the niue
ones attended. They all seemed TO ENJOY
tt, and the closing day OF the pes poUl-
try show Utah has ever seen was one OF
1he most entertaining.
Mrs. Henry Rudy celebrated her sixty
ninth birthday on Tuesday last by giving
children. Mrs. Rudy WAS the recipient OF
many tokens of good will in the form OF
gifts and congratulations.
Police Court Clerk John James has
turned ever to City Treasurer Duke The
sum OF $1,034.50 fines and forfeitures col
lected during the month Of January OF TINS
year. This Is $500 in excess of the amount
paid over during January last year.
Despite the assertion of a contemporary
20 the effect that Captain Donovan was
aa1a cd EN7sa feC.iScO nv the service
of a writ OF habeaS corpus, Ch1ef Pratt
stated last night that he and his prisoner,
J. c. Williams. Will arrive in the city TO-
day, as stated in The Herald short time
since.
Several contractors visited the office or
the city engineer yesterday for the pur-
pose of looking over the pronleS, plans
and specifications for the proposed sew
er on First South, between Eight and
Eleventh East streets, for which bids
VIII be received up TO noon on Feoru-
AIRY g.
Hynaen distanced the rider of the pale
6orse last week, according to the health
report. There We're u births and y deaths.
AS to sex, the newly arrived were boys
and girls. OF the Z deaths, was from
diphtheria. Eight quarantine f1ags are
outstanding, four diphtherla and four
scarlet fever.
At the last regular meeting OF the La
boring Mems association, there was
LARGE attendance The association is DO
ing a good work, and with tue aSSlSt-
ance Of the business men of the city. mas
distributed nearly 10000 pounds of c"al
since December, as well as groceries ana
other necessaries.
Prisoners will be released from the
penitentiary this month as follows: Zeb
Garldun, fornication, February I: Mag
mus Erickson, adultery, February IL;
Theodore NanLoon, adultery, tepruary ~;
J. II. Patterson, counterfetung, February
y; II. Smith, hOusebreaking, February 2;
ITf1co1a aCC1TIfr with deadly
weapon, February 26
One more county has made final set
Element of 1898 and 1894 taxes with the
territorial officials. This time it was
Sewer. which cleaned its slate and struck
p balance, Collector Wells having sent IN
his check for S792.S1 TO Treasurer White
head. That amount was due on the tax
collections of the past two years There
which have not made firal payments or
even approximately final returns.
The surplus of the Salt Lake postofice
for the month Of January, was an even
$1,000, that amount of cash having been
sent out TO the subtreaSury at san IRAN
CISCO the last remittance Of 5000 going
forward yesterday afternoon These funds
included the proceeds Of the sale of stock
and deposits made by outside Offices, but
out of the revenue of the Office all eX-
penses we're paid before the $l2,09O Was
sent forward.
There was rather remarkable close
ness Of the clearing house totals for yes
terday, and the week. as compared with
those of the same periods last year. Ac-
cordIng to the report OF Manager Hoag,
The clearings for the week just closed
ere S. O24 0S4, or $50 S03 less than for the
me week in 1884, the total then being
oS4, S97. For the day a. total of Sl58.S91
IS recorded, as against $157,2 for the
lrne day in 1894, q gain OF 81, l57.
A leading member OF the "Anortnes''
said yesterday that the party giving IN
formation that the joint meeting toDlOr-
row night was not to discuss ritu3listic
matters as stated but to pass resolutions
TO be presented to Congress regarding the
recognition of an apostolic ambassador
from the papal court and TO protest
against any such action; further TO dis
cuss and pass resolutions regarding the
latest encyclical from Rome.
Yesterday was Ground Hog Day, when
the Woodchuck and the bear are supposed
10 4haw out long enough to sit on the
front porch and watch. for their reSpec-
tive shadows which, II seen, are, are ac-
cording TO tradition, ample grounds for
going back in their holes and waiting six
sun shOne not a whit in Zion, but over
on the Oauirrh range his rays danced on
the snow drifts for q. half hour. Now
sf the tradition Of the ground hog be
correct while Salt Lake revels in linen
busters and mint juleps, bingham can
scr will be forced TO tie 10 Hot Scotch
and ulsters.
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