Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-26

Mrs. Gilbert McClurg OF Colorado
Springs on the cliff dwellers. The
stereopticon Views were well selected,
and the collection OF relics and curios
were much admired Mrs. McClurg Is
an entertaining speaker and her lee
ture was very much enjoyed.
A passenger on Rio Grande train
yesterday afternoon, complained that
during his trip over here from
Pueblo, he was robbed of purse con-
could not be learned. and he was UNI
able TO give any Information that would
in any way justify the officers In MAX
Ing an arrest The officers think No
had been dreaming and they gently
murmured forget IT,"
The naval recruiting detail has Sc
cured three more recruits. William n.
Wlngett aged "a, fireman second class;
John j. Kent, aged 23, fireman second
class Charles Roe, aged q, musician.
The members Of the detail believe that
their Inability 10 get more men Is due
TO the bad Influence eSerted by the
desertiOn OF so many Utah recruits
from the naval service.
President Angus M. Cannon spent
plant where the board Of presidents
held meeting, at which II was decld-
cd To add n third pump to the two al
ready in operation. To this end three
small transformers have been put In
ana the pumps are now working very
nicely The lake has also been dfcdged
for the removal OF clay distractions,
and the outlook for excellent service Is
all that could reasonably be desired.
A. l.. Lovey and j s. Sears, tn Her.
aid cart0onist, and newspaper artist, g.
spectIyely. have formed partnership
and opened a studio In the TempetOn
building. where they VIII hold classes
and develop budding artists into fun
blown genuses. The partnership in the
school Of art follows the leaving OF
Clyde SquIres for New York. where he
has gone to continue hIs studies The
cosses In composition. the foundation
OF art and cartoon work win be taken
up in his absence by Mr.. Loyey.
o. Y Gee. a Celestial OF some proml-
nenoe In this city and ogden, returned
from work on the Lucin cut-off the
other day, accompanied by that tired
feeling" laid lin down IN his Plum
alley bunk, and yesterday joined the
ancestral shades. There was no Nell
dences of natural death were so plain
that there viii be no inquest, As the
departed belonged to the Chinese Ma
sons, the order viii give the customary
send off tomorrow afternoon, with tenn
pcrary interment In the city cemetery
Section Director Hyatt OF the weather
bureau went out to Saltair yesterday
afternoon, to reset the water guage
as the recession of the briny deep has
been so great within the last six weeks
that the guage was set last spring in
two feet of water, Is now high and dry
with the water not nearer than 80 feet
Mr., Hyatt set the new guage where the
water was three feet deep, and dug
trench from the water to the old guage
30 that the water could reach II for
comparative readings, The question
u.s. When Is this disastrous process OF
reduction going to cease
A messenger boy named T.. G. Schus-
ter, aged 10. thought he would save
three or -four feet by shooting across
the sidewalk corner on his wheel at
Godbe-Pltts corner yesterday afternoon.
As might have been expected. the shoot
was erratic, and the scOrcher struck
Mrs. r. II, King of ogden, who was
standing on the sidewalk with two
years Olu tnllu III nfl ulIlSs nt
child was Knocked into the street, by
the force of the collision, but fortunate-
ly only sustained few bruises net like
ly to be serious. Schuster was arrest
ed and locked up on the chareg of rid
ing his wheel on the sidewalk, contrary
TO law.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. d. Piper cee-
| brated the goth anniversary of their
N,.iJ In ha n a.
| number OF their relatives, confined al
most to the Pyper and Whitney faml-
| lies. descended upon them with china
| shower A delightful evening was
| spent, the main entertainment being the
| writing OF eight lines OF poetry by eve-
| ny lady and gentleman present the sub
| ject being the bride and groom of twen-
| ty years ago. Some very clever Inn
| promptus In verse were the result
| First and second prizes were offered for
| the best effort, and as Bishop O. r..
| Whitney was one Of the contestants, II
II needless TO state TO whom the first
| prize WAS awarded. The second was
won by Mrs. Minnie James.
| Salt Lake lodge No / of the Unterri-
| fed Concentration of the Ancient and
| Alluvlal Order of Hoo Hoos was estab-
| llshed last night In this city by Colora~
| do members OF the black feline aggre-
| CATION, In A. O. L. w, hall The cere-
| monies were stupendously impressive,
the initiators being robed In black night
| dresses, on the breast of which was
| painted In white Il cat sleeping peace
| fully upon fence, while n bass drum
and box Of tin whistles figured as part
| of the initiation paraphernalia. After
the racket was over the kittens or
ganized Il back fence lodge with these
John Thomas Henery fellnes as Off
GERS. Shark OF the universe II. II.
Hemenway, senior hoo-hoo, 6, G. liill;
Junior hoo-hoo, h. w stewart dojum.
NJ. " Geoghegan scrivenoter, Il. II.
Lefner: japperwack, G. A. Stoops' GUS
tocatlun J, Il. Preston, arcanoper, c.
A. Trip; gurdon, George II. Bennett.