Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-04
LATt LOCALS.


at these cold nights which prevent lhe
proper ripenIng Of their crops.
Engineer Bywater Of the Y. G. NJ. /
VIII make steam connections with tne
new motive power tomorrow afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. M. J, Cheesman ana
daughter, Miss Bee cheesman, leave
next week fer New York, where MISS
Cheesman will enter school,
Bishop Cutler Of Lehi II In town to-
day. and SAYS that while the beet crop
I'm some places is not UP to last year B.
taken 81 a whole II will average UP
very well.
sergt. Ball and Privates Watson,
Thomas and Hacker OF the signal
corps were run into the guard mouse
last night, for trying TO run the INES
They were put TO work today. cleaning
Up the company streets.
Miss Griswold, daughter OF DR.. Hec-
tor Griswold was reported as much
better today. The young lady under
went an operation for appendicitis
some DAYS ago, and took a sudden turn
for the worse yesterday. Her many
friends will DO pleased to hear OF her
Improvement,
The many local friends Of Capt. Sam
NJ. Donnell OF San Francisco VIII be
pleased 10 learn that he has successful
ly passed his seventeen birthday, ana
TO use his own expression he feels IKE
fighting cock" The captain was
formerly the Salt Lake manager OF the
Pacific board Of underwriters.
The guards at Camp Funston have
been given ball cartridges. with IN
struction to use the same II occasion
calls for It.. An attempt was made last
midnight, by unknown parties to steal
a saddle, when the guard fired. intend
ing to hit the would be purloiners, but
the latter managed to escape unhurt,
and without their intended booty.
Brigade commissary Sam Porter says
that the troops at Camp Funston have
no Just cause to kick oyer the quantity
and variety of the proyender served.
The appropriation allows just A cents
per day per man. and the commissary
department is doing the very best II
can with the means at hand. Moreover,
Capt. Porter says that the men knew
before they went into camp Just what
they might expect
The official guage at Saltair shows
the lake to have shrunk two inches in
the last two weeks, making the level
now foot 3 inches below the zero
mark. Section Director Murdoch fig
ures that the lake will continue to
shrink until December. and that the
level will by that time have gone at
least q foot lower than II Is at pres
ent.
John T. Robinson, late member of the
Twenty-eighth ward. and resident OF
Simondi avenue, died al sc. Marks hos
pltal yesterday from appendicitis. The
funeral services over the remains viii
be held at the Twenty-second ward
meeting house tomorrow at noon. The
remains can be viewed by friends at
the family residence tomorrow morn
ing between the hours OF 1880 and
noon.
Mgr. Campbell OF the Utah Light &
Power company says that the reloca-
ton Of the centralized steam plant OF
his company on the west side Will do
away largely with the smoke that Is
now proving such a nuisance, and this
relocation will be accomplished In few
days. Then construction work can be
started as soon as material can be got
ready. Mr.. Campbell says that machin
cry ordered by him last February Is
now just being shipped.
The architecture OF Thomas Weir's
residence on east South Temple street
continues to attract the tsntlon o.
eastern tourists, Some months ago an
English nobleman was SO taken with
II that he had Architect Ware send him
on O set OF plans as he seriously
thought Of building residence like Mr.
Weir's just outside OF London. Then
day or two ago Mrs. c. u. Catlin OF
Chicago was 40 pleased with the resi-
dence as she drove past that she called
at the architects office yesterday ard
secured set Of blue prints. Then this
morning, William Pore,a wealthy Pitts
burger, stopping at the Knutsford.
called at the architects Office to re-
quest a similar favor. which was readl-
~ granted, Both Mr.. Weir and Mr..
Ware are much gratifed over this ap-
probation OF the residence by eastern
people.