Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-04

two horses vii be forthcoming in ten
days. Then the equine wants Of the
Twelfth battery Will be attended to.
There will be civil service examina-
lions In this city, March 3, In the Fed
era court room for the position of
steam engineer In the quartermaster
department with salary at $3.50 per an
num- also of the position of local and
assistant inspector OF hulls, with salary
OF $1,000 also for the position of seed
laboratory. assistant bureau of plant
industry, department Of agriculture.
President l.. s. Hills OF the Deseret
National bank was notified this morn
ing by the Colorado National bank in
Denver of the capture of Berry, the
bogus j. A. Sharp, in Montana. Mr..
Hills also learns that Berry tried first
20 get money In the same way from a
Wyoming bank where Mr.. sharp had
an account, but as II CHANGED, Mr..
Sharp had overdrawn his account there,
and consequently the game failed to
work At the same time, Mr.. Sharp
was astonlshed to receive a reply to
draft he had never made, that the
same could not be honored.
l. company, Eighteenth infantry,
which has been ordered to Fort Apache,
will lose thrty-hye men In the next
thirty days through expiration of terms
OF enlistment; and by April viii have
lost sixty more, so that by next may,
the company will be entirely different
as to personnel from what 1t Ia now.
Quite a number Of Boise merchants
and business men have taken advan-
tage Of q business lull at home to take
salt Lake trip and do some business
here In addition to taking In the town
and enjoying change.
Sheriff Naylor today secured reaulsl-
ton papers for the return to Utah of
w. 10, Henry. the absconding collector
who has been apprehended in San
Francisco. The sheriff expects to be
gone about q week and anticipates no
difficulty In bringing Henry back.
Late this afternoon a telephone mes
sage was received at the police sta
ton that boy named Frank James
at 2l2h state street, had been run over
by wagon and severely injured In the
right foot The driver of the wagon
was said 10 be Christian Boss OF Mil
Creek The wheel OF the wagon
passed over the boys foot and while
the injury is very painful II IL not
thought to be at all dangerous,
County Recorder Aston has filed his
statement Of receipts from the begin
ming of his term, Jan. TO Dec 81
1901. The report shows the total
amount OF receipts to be Sl0.ssi.3 49, OF
which Sl1S2.OS Is for miscellaneous
items and $9,6S23O for regular fees. The
total number OF documents handled Is
lO,S5S, which Is divided into documents
filed and recorded. 1924, miscellane-
Gus items such as abstracts and certl-
fed copies etc, 5Si. The figures show
that the average fee for recording tye
documents Is sih cents each,
County Superintendent OF Schools
Ashton addressed a large and inter
ested meeting az Pleasant Green last
evening on the high school question.
He viii visit the people Of Farmers
ward next Saturday night
The committee appointed by the
Commercial club TO secure the South
ern Pacific cutoff for Salt Lake met
this afternoon at o'clock and went
over the data collected 20 date and
discussed the ACCESSIBILITY Of holding a
meeting OF the members OF the club. At
the meeting Chairman T. G. Weber
reported that he had received wire
from T., II Harriman's secretary nOti-
Tying him that he had received the
dispatch sent by the committee and
"A ha1
General Manager Kruttschtt who
would later meet with the Salt Lake
committee.
The r, NJ. Bell Telephone company
has received a series OF mans from the
Paclnc States Telephone and Telegraph
company, showing n system covering
2,O2S towns with l0S.S5t subscribers res
ident In l2j counties, The Rocky
Mountain company now touches this
system at Huntington and Spokane.
and later on VIII connect with II M
Phoebe. Lucin. and Lewiston. The n
NJ, Bell company has now the big con-
per mines near Milford connected ana |
an exchange Is being nut in AT Mil
ford. The exchange at Douglas. Wvo..
has been completed. and the exchange |
az Casper II under consideration. The |
company has secured eight cara OF |
poles for the line between Rlackfoot
and HALEY and the wire and other ma.
terial In within immediate reach 40 |
that as soon as the weather viii per. |
NIT the line can be rushed along.
w c. b. Allen heard further from
the Debeque oil fields this morning. and |
the Information was to the effect thar |
two 5O0 gallon tanks had been erected, |
and oil from the first we'll was being |
steadily pumped into them. The oil |
~ so line that II can be burned IN |
lamps without refining. and Mr.. Allen |
says he is thus using Il in his Office In |
this city. In the meantime the reputa- |
ton OF the country Is spreading and To- |
cation OF oil lands has become a thing
OF beauty and a Joy forever,