The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
TOWN TALK.

Manager Driver. Of the Natural Gao
company has now cleaned out the pipes,
dnd the gas Is flowing better and the
pressure is heavier than ever before
Caroline Beekman, aged S4 and Ann
f1odge, aged 69, both of whom have been
inmates of the county inhrmary for some
time, we're adJudged insane and ordered
sent to the insane asylum
Yesterdays clearings were S317 los. as
compared with s2l5.0Si for the same day
ol laSt year. The Clearings for the Weeh
We're Si-Spy,6l6. as against Sl.150,Sl6 for the
corresponding week of 1896.
The governor yesterday appointed
James Gardner, of kanosh, TO supervise
efe expenditure of $500 appropriated by
the legislature for the Improvement of
the highway in Dog and Bakers canyon,
IN Willard county
A meeting of thu Free Lance society
VIII be held in the Commercial block Sun
day morning. Oct II. at II o'clock A dis
cusSaon of the history and philosophy of
mormon p0lygdmy win DE opGned by A.
/. Schroeder. AN free cfl,nkers invited.
The health department. 5 report for the
Week shows that there were % births. 10
o. winch number being females. OF the
l. deaths 5 were females, and besides 3
bodies were brought from elsewhere for
1nterment in this city. There are 10 con-
EagtouS disease flags, representing scarlet
fever cases outstanding, While Curing the
week , cases of infectious diseases were
reported, all being typhoid fever.
a puglistic mill occurred on Friday
evening near Eureka between Morris
Jacobs and Charles hensler. 1t was given
out as a 20-round boxing contest with
Ave-ounce gloves, bur it Was cut short by
Referee Woods giving the decision in
favor OF kensler on a foul in the third
round Up TIL then Jacobs had by far the
pest OF 1t and kensler was prettT badly
used up. Jacobs wants TO meet Hensler
again for a purse of $3.50 to $500 a side.
Robert Ross, the counterfeiter from
Arizona, who Piled his trade recently at
RlChfleld. was brought TO the city yeSter-
day by Deputy Marshal Smith and is now
IN durance at the county Jail. He was
given a preliminary hearing at Richfield
and VIII now await the action of the
United states court Ross came to Utah
from Arizona, and the story of MS ex-
ploits WAS detailed at the time in the
correspondence TO The Herald.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
20 Ben Lots'euherg. aged 80. and Addte
Newton, aged lSs BdSgndle Nurano. aged
=, and Mary ScarDa. aged IS. all of Salt
Lake City: Jtdediah Sessions aged -. and
Mary Ellen Moss, aged IS both of Bounti-
ful, and TO Samuel Smith. aged q. of
Murray, and Jessie l. DenneV, aged II,
OF Union The first named couple We're
married by Deputy Clerk Blair, and the
father of the brido-elect in the last named
couple consented to the issuance of the
license.
On Friday evening next beginning at 7:30
Prof. G. Nj. Marshall win deliver a lecture
IN the university laboratory building on
the subject Of Scenes of Historic Inter
est in America" The lecture viii be
richly illustrated by a large collection of
stereopucon views. These views are made
from photographs and represent the
places as they are today. Pictures viii be
shown OF ST Augustine. jamestown, Ply
mouth. Fanneil han. Independence hall.
Washington home and many others The
professor has visited most of the historic
places Of the east. and is thoroughly
familiar with the history connected with
them. The proceeds from the lecture
are TO be turned over to the college paper.
Secretary of State Hammond. who is
one of a committee from the state board
Of land commissioners appointed to in
Testigdte the merits and conditions in
VOWED in the contest of the White Noun
tain Reservoir company and the Lake
Bonneville Land and Power company. re-
turned yesterday from an inspection Of the
land IL controversy. State Engineer
Young and Commissioner MacfarIanf4 re-
NAMED to gather additional data for fnt-
committees report. While Commissioners
Reese went TO Fillmure Ia appraise some
state selections in that vicinity Seere-
tdry Hammond reports that the settlers
in those parts of Judb and Willard cuun-
ties are favorably disposed toward the
projects Of both companies and are ready
TO assist the enterprise which, when
brought 10 fruition. mean so much in the
way OF reclamation of the arid wastes and
their phenomenal prOductiVeness BY
means OF applied irrigation.