The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-13
TOWN TALK.

A number of local musicians are ar
ranging concert trip TO CoalVille on the
Miss Ms Edith edith corbin viii sing Rest in the
chapel this evening.
William C. Dunbar the venerable
Scotch citizen, was reported greatly i'm
proved in health yesterday.
Mrs Mia Upper Maynard will speak at
the opera house in Mercur this (Sunday)
evening. Subject: Why There Is a
Labor Problem
Yesterdays cleaTings were $3.50, go as
compared with $500, 6I7 for the same day of
last year. The clearings for the week
Footed UP 81, 49, 20 as against 81 557, 153 for
Inc corresponding week of 1887.
There viii be a called meeting of the
WomanS Christian Temperance Union to-
DAY (NoY. l4 at 2:30 p. m at DeaconesS
Home Tor special business. All members
on committees are especially urged to be
present.
County Auditor Game returned yester-
day from second trip to Omaha Mrs.
Gaines mission was to supervise the ship
ment back to this city of Utah's splendid
SILK exhibit at the Trans Mississippi eX-
position
Chief of Police Pratt has received a
letter from Miss Lulu Snelson of Indian
apollS, Ind, seeking to locate her father,
j. Il. SneiSon, who, she says, came to
Salt Lake in 1894, and has been engaged in
the mining business.
The remains of the late Olive Snyder.
who died IN this city Nov. 8, of heart dis
ease, were shipped to Park City yester-
day morning. and the funeral services
were held there during the afternoon from
the residence o. Mrs Nellie Thiriot
Car. No. "a. Salt Lake City railroad, was
derailed on the corner Of Sixth East and
Second South last evening about $3.50 by
some hoodlums fixing rocks in the switch
NO damage resulted. other than the de-
% Of Tr~farf Oh Ia
Spencer Clawson, jr has succeeded
SAT- Lake Opera company, now rehears-
ing the Chimes Of Normandy Miss
Lottie Levy will sing the role of Germaine
IN lieu of Miss Fisher, who leaves for the
east today.
The funeral services over the remains
OF Annie. the beloved daughter of Alex
ander Liddell who was killed by a train
running over her, will be held on Sun
day at z o'clock in the Sixteenth ward
meeting House. All sympathiZing friends
kindly invited.
Six cases of typhoid fever and three Of
WhooplnS cough were reported to the
health department last week, and ten
cases OF scarlet fever in six households
are under quarantine. Thirty-five samples
OF milk We're tested. all showing normal
The Sbirths for the week numbered 10
and the deaths L. exclusive of three
BODIES brought from outside the city for
interment.
Fritz Hobish, the German baker at the
Idaho bakery, Al East Second South. got
decidedly gay last night and was locked
up at the police station for drunkenness
and disturbing the peace. Fritz misbe-
hayVed himself to such an extent that Po-
ncenan EddlngtOn was constrained to
take him to the station. He asked TO be
locked up, just to know how it would feel
and his request was cheerlElly granted
The Union Mercantile company was in
corporated yesterday III this city TO con-
duct a general merchandise business at
Mercur. The capital stock is fixed at
$4,000, in shares of 500 each. z. H. Airs
IS president; Martin Mahnken. vice presi-
dent and general manager; Mccormick q
Co. s bank, Mercur, treasurer; George z.
Airs. secretary, and w. S. Mccormick
Frank D. Kimball and A. B. Gibson are
the other directors.
The state board of land commissioners
yesterday accorded a hearing to Jesse W.
Fox, H. S. Young, the d. c. Calder es-
tate and others on their petition for a
further reduction in the appraised value
OF school land in TaylorSvilie, upon which
petitioners have settled and hold pref
erence right TO purchase title from the
state. The land is appraised at from 81 so
TO $40 per acre, and the states valuations
were reduced % per cent a few weeks
ago. but the petitioners claim that The
figures are still excessive. The board
took the matte under Amusement.