The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-06
TOWN TALK.

Mrs Mary Krigbaum has gone to Park
City TO spend month with her daughter
Yesterdays clearings were s546 $50, as
against $751; for the same day Of last
year.
State Treasurer Chapman announces
that ne has funds on hand to pay war
rants up TO No 2.400 inclusive
County Commissioner-elect George a.
Whitaker was an interested spectator at
yesterdays meeting OF the board of
county commissioners.
Deputy Sheriff Dan Cronin of Juab
county was in Salt Lake yesterday on
official business. The day after New
Years he viii assume the Office of sheriff,
TO which he was recently elected.
The Seventh ward club and the news
on Fourth South, between State and MAIN.
yesterday afternoon. The newsboys Were
defeated, the score standing Il to o.
Private Isaac Russell of Battery a has
purchased the American Soldier, the
pioneer Yankee paper in the Philippines.
Charles Mabry is the business manager.
Cannoneer Russell is The Heralds CORE
spondent at Manila.
An operation was performed on the lit
tie son OF Frank Knox of the National
bank of the Republic for appendicitis yes
terday. The physicians say if he can live
through the night and up till noon today
he VIII recover, but his condition is
serious one.
Inc report oil the Young Ladies Aid
society. Miss Therese Alff, president Tor
November, shows that fifty families were
assisted, SS9.l5 being expended as fol-
lows: Rent, S6l.75; coal, S6.S5 merchan-
disc, $3.50; cash. $3.50 In addition the
committee distributed sixteen mattresses.
Miss Clara Dickert. who has been i'll for
some time, and in destitute circumstances
having been an inu=ate of the county in
Urinary, Will be removed tomorrow TO the
Holy Cross hospital, where she win re-
ceiVe careful attention. Subscriptions
from kind friends render il possible for
Miss Dickert TO thus improve her con-
dition.
Late yesterday afternoon the state
board OF examiners commenced 10 open
bids for the printing, books, stationery
and supplies needed for the legislature
and several state offices the ensuing year.
AFTER the taoularion OF figures Is COM
pleted, the award of contracts will be an
nounced. In the printing line, especially,
the contracts viii amount TO thousands
OF dollars.
The tile flooring on the city side of the
joint building on the third floor, bulged
up yesterday morning and left large
patches in very bad condition. II will be
q big and expensive job TO relay the tile.
The settling of the building, the defective
manner in which the tile was laid four
years and a half ago, and the reverend
ing stacking of the lime that was mixed
with the cement. have all contributed to
the working up process from what should
have been perfect adhesion.
During the trial Of the Haynes damage
suit against the city yesterday, one of
the plaintiffs Witnesses declared that the
pump which was kept in operation on the
gravity sewer trench in front of the al
legged damaged residence. discharged a
How at the rate OF go gallons a minute
and that per cent of the flow was mud
and sand. One of the city's witnesses
from the engineering department detected
the apparent eXaggerauon of the state
ment by demonstrating that d per cent
discharge of earthly matter at the rate
claimed would make a daily output OF III
wagcnloads of mud and sand. The salts
faction of the defendant $ attorneys over
this expose was lily concealed.
Utah Commercial and Savings Bank.
General barking business; interest
paid on savings deposits: T. arm
strong, president: J. Z. Jennings, cash
Ter; a East First South street.
DIAMOND COAL.
Wholesale and Retail.
All sizes.
Office, 121 Main street. Telephone..l6s
DIAMOND COAL & COKE co.
o-~-
Utah Coal.
Castle Gate and Winter Quarters
lump, nut and slack; anthracite. All
sizes. D. J. SHARP, Agt.,
70 South Main. Telephone No. 42s.