Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
7o-day'S Metals.
SILVER, Bar SO ~.
LEAD, S4.45
CASING COPPER IS ~ cents q ID.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

For the last quarter Of this year state
Auditor Richards collected the sum OF
tS6S.JO for recording marks and brands.
The Coop Wagon & Machine com
pany remembered all It's employees win
4 Christmas turkey yesterday. II look
a good many loads, but none were
overlooked.
Harold Felt the eight-year-old son
Of George +. Felt, Is afflicted with
Fcarle, fever, and as result Mr.. Felts
residence, Il east First North, Is under
quarantine.
Services commemorative Of the birth
day OF the Prophet Joseph Smith VIII De
held this evening In the Sixteenth ward
meeting house, beginning al 5 o'clock.
A very interesting program has bssn
prepared.
All the children OF the public schools
have been invited 10 attend the eXhiDil
Of the State Art Institute next Tues
day and Wednesday evenings. There
will be no admission fee charged.
with the compliments Of the Peoples
Cash Store comes q handsome calendar
for 1900 OF very unique design. IL u
made up Of a flock Of birds, the months
being suspended from the neeks OF ihe
songsters by blue ribbon.
Heber ]. Grant & Co. received a wire
this morning from the Eeinore Coop.
stating that they had sustained Z severe
loss by FIRE. The exact extent OF the
damage Is not known but the firm car
ries $500 Insurance.
Watermaster Seddon's clerical force
are busy writing up records OF water
rights In which the municipality or salt
Lake Is interested. The data Is OBJ
tanned from the offices Of the county re-
.order, city recorder and city engineer.
Councilman George Buckle of the
First municipal ward has fled his new
official bond In the sum OF $500 with
Recorder Backman. Mr.. Buckles sure
lies on the bond are Horace q. Whitney
and William X. Jones Jr
Elder John Nicholson will deliver an
address In the Seventeenth ward meet
ing house tomorrow night, on a subject
specially suitable for Christmas eve.
rhe singing and music will also be APP
propriate to the occasion.
Boise Statesman There Is a porter
running on the Boise-Salt Lake sleeper
who was all through the campaign In
Cuba and also served under the Stare
and Stripes In the Philippines He
aad his leg shattered and Is drawing a
pension Of s22 a month. With that and
The perquisites OF his position he man.
ages to make ends meet.
Charles H. Schwed, the hero Of the
Oooly block fracas, was given hearing
IS TO his sanity yesterday afternoon
and ordered sent 10 the insane asylum
II Provo. Schwed Is 81 years OF ags
and native OF Germany. He came
here from Texas about ten years ago
He claims to have brother and sister
residing In California
The reception rendered by the faculty
Of the Latter-day Saints college to III,
pupils Of that institution last evening
was a great success and was enjoyed
by several hundred Of the college
friends The affair was given In Christ
snsen's hall, where refreshments wer'
served and where the young people en-
Ioyed dancing until late hour.
The 1900 calendars turned out by Ella
Morris and Sons Co will be especial.
Interesting 10 the friends OF the lat
head Of that firm. Hon. Elias Morris
The calendars are headed with beauti
'ul picture Of the bridge q Conway Cas-
lie In Wales, which was constructed b!
Mr.. Morris and his father II was yer.
happy thought for the present firm Z
obtain II for their calendars.
Wasstch No. A. +. and A. NJ. in
stalled It's officers last evening at tn
Masonic hall, corner Second South an,
West Temple streets. The officers 10
he year are w. o. Bridgman, W. NJ
4. r. III. Atkinson. S. w, George II
Oern, J. w. Herman Hill, treasurer
\. J. Lowe, secretary; X. S. Conner, 5
D.; Arthur Brown, Jr., J. D.; p. II
Knight, s. S.; j. T. Brecken, ]. $. Ate
he installation the members sat down
o banquet served by Henry Simon.
A deed has cen filed for record con
ieylng from the German savings LOAF
ociety OF San Francisco 10 the Utal
savings Trust company Of this city
KY rods OF ground fronting south Of
rhird South street, west OF West TEN
'le street The consideration was Sc,
w This property some time ago be
\ oneed 20 Kelsey & Gillespie. The
we're foreclosed last August In the die
sns court BY the grantees.