The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-07
TOWN TALK.

Yesterday clear1nSS were SlS5,4oi' as
compared with S2O4.O7O for the same day
OF last year.
Eugene Body was fined IS for fighting
yesterday. and E. c. Cooper was fined So
for drunkenness.
H H. Petersen has returned from a
trip to Seattle. where he went intending
TO locate. He reports the town so over
done that its boom is already fast col
lapsing.
Sheriff Turner is down from Logan. He
reports that DR.. Darlington of Brigham
City. who is awaiting his second trial
on a criminal practice charge, is fast
losing his mind.
The statement in a contemporary to the
effect that a boy named Selby Clays had
cut another little fellow in the face while
several youngsters were playing marbles,
was erroneous. Clays is the boy who was
cut.
The Fountain Green Pasture company
filed its articles of incorporation yester-
capital stock, $500. is divided among 20
residents of Sanpete county. H. c. Han
sen Bogh Is president; George Carter,
secretary; P. NJ. Oldroyd. treasurer, and
?. p Alfred and J. c. Livingston. jr.,
the other directors.
Joseph H Haslam will commence work
this morning, under the direction of City
Treasurer Morris. as an additional license
inspector In accordance with the city
councils action, on recommendation of
the treasurer, this extra help will be
utilized for 50 days in the hope of still
further increasing the license revenues
by experimenting all who are conducting
business without license.
Hulda Anderson was arrested yesterday
on a charge of petit larceny 1t was al
legged that she committed the theft of
some JeWelry. 1t appears that on Tues
day evening James ADAMS noticed a pin
which was being worn by a man named
Mike ketter. Upon closer examination,
Adams saw that the pin was one which
was stolen from him. policeman was
called. and at the station It was explained
by Ketter that he borrowed the pin from
Hulda Anderson. A search warrant was
taken out yesterday and several missing
articles were found in her apartments.
She was arrested. and when tried in police
court yesterday was found guilty of petit
larceny and fined SIS.
Commencing this morning. three more
new faces will be noticed in municipal cir
cles. Mayor Clark three last appointees
qualified yesterday afternoon by filing
their official bonds with the city recorder.
after having been approved by the mayor.
The bond o. Joseph A Peck is in the sum
of Sl.50, with a. F. Barnes and David
Hearsley as sureties; James W. Ure's
bondsmen are ]. Alma Cunningham and
h B. Elder, who qualify for $1,000. and
Henry =. Richards sureties, c. F. Wilcox
and S L. Richards, stand good for 81 900.
Mr.. Peck will succeed T. a. Reamer as
sealer of weights and measures. Mr.. IRE
wald. and Mr. Richards will take the place
of ). 5. Stone as inspector of Illuminating
oils.
Two exciting runaways occurred yes
terday afternoon The Blythe Grocery
company's delivery team made a dash on
Second South street and threatened to
do some damage to pedestrians on Main
street, but in the nick of time an en-
ployee of the Salt Lake Hardware COM
pany rushed out ana caught the chargers.
It was d brave act. but the heros name
viii be unknown to fame. The second
horse affair was attended with more
fr0r
rural district SHE'D at a Rapid Transit
car on State street Just below Third
South In the frightened animals short
run it collided with Buckleys furniture
van team. and TO the great surprise of
the spectators the shaft struck one of
Buckley's horses in the region of the
heart, causing the instant death of the
inoffendins brute.
A letter was received in this city yes
terday from Tom Lloyd and Doc Norrell
who are now seeking their fortunes in
klondike. 1t was written at Dawson
City on Feb. 10, and brought out by a
Mr.. La Sale. In it the Salt Lakers re-
port that they are working their claims
and have plenty of foo4 for an indefinite
period, as indeed everybody has. The
letter also states that a discovery of
coal 50 miles from Dawson on the KIon-
dixie river was hailed with joy by all the
gold seekers. because wood sells for $40
a cord. The transportation companies
we're arranging 70 prospect and develop
the coal md in the hope of solving the
fuel problem in Alaska. The long
descriptive letter written by Utah's ex-
coal mine inspector and ex-deputy mar
shall on Dec. l. and posted by Canadian
mail, has not yet arrived although this
last letter makes the second received
from them since Jan. l.
Jake Greenewald yesterday received full
and ample consolation for the loss of the
political Office which he sustained at
the hands of the city council on Tuesday
night The consolation came from Wash
ington. D. c.. in the form of large and a
small piece Of parchment which bore tes-
timony in the Latin and Hebrew Ian
guages to the fact that Mr.. Greenewald is
a thirty-third degree Mason, and they are
the only documents of the kind ever re-
ceived bys a citizen of Utah. The larger
parchment is intended for framing and
the smaller to carry in the pocket when
travelling. The former is a most hand
some. document deliberately printed bv
hand, and hearing the insignia and seals
of the supreme council, mother consistorv
of the world. 1t is termed d thirty-thirI
degree patent. and has the sigma lures of
Thomas n CasweI, grand commander:
Samuel z. Adams. deputy grand com
mander; Frederick Weber. scribe gen
eral.