The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-02
TOWN TALK.

The forecast of the weather for today
is, partly cloudy, warmer.
Compared with the corresponding
month of last year the city license
revenue for September shows an increase
of sS67.95.
The Salt Lake Rapid Transit company
have rendered the soldiers free rides on
Its cars to and from Fort Douglas for
yesterday and today.
DR.. J. e. Talmage will deliver an ad-
dress in the Eleventh ward meeting house
this evening at o'clock to. the Mutual
Improvement association of the ward
The public is invited.
Yesterdays bank clearings amounted
to $l97 G91 as against 1901 058 for the corre-
spending day of 1897. The clearings for
the week ending yesterday were 81, 1862, 469;
corresponding week Of last year, $l,S64, 1854
The state land boards clerks were the
only employees in the Joint city and
county building who were not given a
half holiday yesterday forenoon to par
ticipate in the greetings to the Twenty
fourth infantry. All the other offices in
the building were closed until noon.
Last week four new cases of typhoid
fever were reported to the board Of
health. There are yet four cases of
scarlet fever and one of diphtheria under
quarantine. During the week there were
81 births and deaths, exclusive of 2
bodies brought to the city from else
where for interment.
The people of the Twenty-second ward
will tender a farewell reception on Tues
day evening next 10 Mr.. Alonzo Haddock,
who is about TO depart on a mission to
Great Britain; A fine programme has
been arranged and an enjoyable time
is anticipated. The entertainment will
be gotten up under the auspices of the
ward missionary entertainment commit
tee. Friends and everybody are invited
to attend. Admission free.
The Tropic Cooperative Mercantile &
Manufacturing institution filed a copy of
fits articles of Incorporation yesterday
with the secretary of state. The capital
stock is $4,000, and the officers are: Will
lam j. Joley, jr., president; Jedediah
Adair, vice president; Elizabeth j. Alt.
secretary and treasurer and Ole ALL
strOm and Louisa A. Bybee, trustees. The
company'S principal place of business is
at Tropic, Garfield county.
Ex-Deputy County Auditor Wood yes
terday succeeded Joseph w. Cohen in the
county treasurer Office Clerk Cohen re-
tired to accept position at the state
Democratic headquarters. Mr.. Wood
will step into his new Office, the county
authorship on the first of the year. Alex
c. Piper yesterday commenced - act as
deputy auditor in anticipation that his
appointment by Mrs. Game will be con-
1irmed by the county commissioners on
Monday.
The Newsboys' union is making an eff
fort to start a small home where such of
the boys as have no homes may find a
shelter during the winter. Some of the
business men have agreed to pay the rent
of a shelter and benevolent citizens who
nave pSQ ClOlQlIS ana SO IOELn TO spare
are invited to donate ii to the home
Donations of that kind will be sent for
on notification being sent to President
Simpson Of the Newsboys' union, care of
The Herald.
Yesterdays storm swelled the noun
tain streams and sent up the pressure in
the pipes TO the maximum. The storm has
ended the water famine for this season.
but the delay of the city council in
authorizing the procurement of measure
ments, surveys and other necessary COM
parative data for use in the determining
how best 10 obtain more water for next
season, will make the task extremely diff
ncult. Little Of a satisfactory nature in
that direction can be accomplished this
late in the year.
Anetta Jensen, the aged woman from
Sandy, who was found wandering about
the tithing Office the day before yeSter-
day, had a hearing on a charge of in
sanity yesterday and was ordered COM
mitted to the state asylum. Mrs. Jensen
condition was not considered very seri-
Gus. She seemed to be the victim of
melancholia caused by family difficulties
She declared that she was being perse-
cuted by her husbands children by his
former wife but this was probably not
so, as neighbcrS testified Jensen was a
good man. She was quite willing to go
TO the asylum or anywhere to obtain
medical assistance and escape worry incl
dent 70 household duties. Sheriff Lewis
Will take her to Provo today
Utah Commercial and Savings Bank.
General banking business; interest