The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
TOWN TALK.

Carl Is. Hard, the Tribune reporter. is
III at st. Marks hospital.
The state treasurer has funds on hand
TO pay I'D TO registered number LIPS
About fifty water service connections
We're cut off last week ny order of City
Treasurer Morris because of non-payment
OF water rates due.
DR.. Elias S. Wright is out on the
p streets again after having been laid up
more than month with d broken leg,
received in fail from his bicycle.
Mrs. L. H Gray had the misfortune
last week to fall on an icy step, striking
her head with great force Her injuries
are quite serious put her early recovery
is assured.
Yesterdays clearings We're $685., 1S5, as
compared with S3S2,074 for the same day
OF last year. The weeks clearings footed
up $2173,679 as against S1,90 900 for the
corresponding week Of 1897.
The weeks building permits aggregated
5000. They were twelve in number, the
mos important one being that issued to
the Continental Oil company for a brick
barn and wagon shed, near the Rio
Grande Western depot to cost 81, 200.
Mrs. Mary Hedegaard, the woman who
was found walking barefoot in the snow
with badly frosted feet in City Creek
canyon Friday afternoon was reported
resting easy at the Holy Cross hospital
yesterday. No amprtation is thought
necessary.
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sermon today at the First Congrega-
Sional church in memory of the soldiers
who fell in the SDanish-American war,
Woman's Relief corps TO be present
There are still eighteen cases of scarlet
lever under quarantine in fifteen house
holds. Four new cases of typhoid fever
We're reported to the health department
last week. The births for the week num-
bered eighteen and the deaths fourteen,
exclusive Of two bodies brought from out
side the city for interment.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Eldredge yesterday
received the information that his son
Frank and Ray Pratt of the Utah cav
airy troop We're in the Baldwin hotel fire
The boys, had ten-days' leave of alb
Sence and were spending it in San Fran
cisco. Both had narrow escapes, getting
away in their night clothing.
The Utah Wool Growers association
will make en- effort at the coming legis-
lative session to secure the enactment of
law authorizing the payment of bounties
on ScalpS of coyotes In the meantime
the task Of trying to exterminate the
wolves, which are so destructive to sheep,
Is carried on by the association from as
sessments levied upon its members Leg
lslatiVe action viii make the eXtermina-
ton more effectual.
Reports from the natural gas fields yes
terday were to the effect that the flow
OF the huld has again almost entirely
given out, and the Union Light & Power
company people say that so per cent of
the gas used in the city last night was of
the ARTIFICIAL kind. The Stoppage of the
natural gas, as on previous occasions,
may be only temporary. Mr.. Driver
thinks so and expects the flow to be in
creased in a few days.
Yesterday was the last dav of grace for
the payment of taxes. On Monday County
Treasurer Lynch will set his force of
clerks to the task of preparing the long
list of delinquents for publication for ten
days, commencing on Dec. ). Toward the
middle Of the week this work will neces-
state the closing of the Office 1t is estf-
mated that about S250000 remains delin-
Quent from about 1000 taxpayers ana
on these the penalties of costs and inter
est viii commence to attach Monday
morning.
While on his way to the tabernacle yes
terday morning Christopher Nielsen the
aged father of Justice c. NJ Nielsen was
struck by boys ccast1ng on the hi | at Filth
North and Second West and was some
what injured. Being so wears of age he is
quite feeble, and was working his way up
the hill by holding to the fence in the foot
path, when a coaster caught his leg
throwing him on the fence and cutting his
lace Some Of the boys helped him home
and medical attention was summoned
He was reported suffering considerable
pain last night. The boys should be made
TO keep in the road when coasting
Mr. and Mrs McOuesten of Wasbino-
ton, D. c., will arrive at this CITY today
on their way to Tacoma, where Mr. Nc
QueSten VIII enter upon the duties of a
government once TO which he has inst
been appointed. During the three wears
which have elapsed since he resigned his
position as assistant clerk of the board
Of education he has been in the Indian
department of the civil service He has
Tot only done his work there in such a
manner as to result in one or two i'm
pOrtant promotions, but has conplefed
the law course of the university located
there with honors. Mrs McQuesten wac
q teacher in the schools of this CITY he
fore leaving, and both have a host of
friends in Zion. They viii be enterfained
by Mr.. and Mrs Eddingfield. ~