The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-08
TOWN TALK.


Lieutenant Lafferty yesterday received
his commission as captain in the regular
army.
The birth record of the city during the
week just past was II males and q fe-
males.
A slight epidemic of measles is reported
as existing IN the southeastern portion OF
i1ae city.
The county school census is not yet
complete. The enumerator at Draper is
responsible for the delay.
City Treasurer MAJ yesterday paid
SzS6.S5 to employees of <ne city engineer :
office for services rendered during the
past week.
The shopmen and motormen of the Salt
Lake City Railway company played a
game of baseball yesterday, the shopmen
winning by score of Is TO Z.
The health department records show
thai during the past week there were only
three cases of infectious diseases reported.
All are typhoid, and of mild type.
Dave Felt is in the city from Spring
vile, making final arrangements of his
business interests prior TO his departure
on mission to the southern states on
AaS. IS.
Attorney General Bishop yesterday gave
out an opinion for the benefit of the state
board of equalization, advising as a, mat
ter of law, that unsurveyed railroad lands
are not taxable by the state.
Yesterdays clearings were S251, 754. as
compared with Sl6S. 49i for the same day
up $l.54s 1853, as compared with $l,2OS SO
for the corresponding week of 1896.
The Jubilee commission is getting ready
20 retire from business. Headquarters
block, where Assistant Secretary Lew
johnson can be. found during business
hours.
In the rear of $40 East Fourth South
street there are five cases of scarlet fever.
The stricken Tamily's name IS Bailey and
five children, ranging in age from , to
years, four girls and a boy, are down
with the fever.
Jack Dolan, a cowboy at Albion, Ida,
challenges Roy Knight of Payson to d
rOping contest for the worlds champion
ship and $3.50 a side, if the contest takes
place at Albion. or for $500 a side if it
takes place at Ogden.
Mr.. Leon L. Waters Of the class of '97
OF the university of Utah left last evening
over the Union Pacific for New York city,
on q visit, after which he viii enter Johns
Hopkins university and take a pOst-grad-
uate course in chemistry.
The health record of the city during
the past week averages we'll with that for
the corresponding week of last year.
There We're only five deatAS-fOur females
and one male. Two bodies We're received
from outside points for interment.
Prof. Whiteley will lecture this evening,
Oe5lll.zS d. b-oU y. H. III TIE O-Alecnln
ward Westinghouse. His subject will be
Problems of the Day." and members
OF the Mutual Improvement association of
the ward are expected 10 be in attend
ance. The public is invited.
The recently appointed medical board of
pension examiners have met and elected
The following officers: President DR.. s.
Ewing; secretary, Dr.. George H Penrose;
treasurer, DR.. A c. MaclSan. The board
will hold sessions at the office OF DR.. Pen
rose. 416 Mccormick block, the third Wed
nesday OF each month.
George Hancock is down from the Park.
He applauds Senator Frank J. Cannon for
his attitude on the Dingley tariff bill and
says. in his terse and vigorous way, that
he doesn't care a d-n who knows it,
Yesterday Mr.. Hancock received his COM
mission as appraiser OF state lands in
Summit county from the secretary of /
state.
H F. McGarvie, manager of the new
Grand, IS in New York engaging stock
company and booking vaudeville attrac- /
7i0nS for the season, which opens on Sept. |
% and continues for 40 weeks. Alterations !
in che theatre are now under way and !
when completed ii will be one of the hand |
S5meSt IN the west. James 5 Anderson /
is in charge OF the interior decOra tive /
work and will also prepare new scenery.
BY some inexplicable means, the inns |
preston has gotten abroad that Mrs. Ag- /
mes 3. Young, who a few weeks ago en-
tered suit for divorce from her husband, /
and on Friday had the action dismissed, /
was formerly Mrs. g. NJ. Brown widow !
of the late Constable Brown. Such how
neither been getting married or divorced, [
or anything of the kind, and feels consid-
erably annoyed at the liberty people are
taking with her name.