Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-26
LATE LOCALS.

Wholesale and iobblng houses are be-
ginning 10 take account or STOCK.
city Treasurer Harris today redeemed
city warrants OF the total value OF
sl2170I57.
President Joseph f. Smith and party
were scheduled for visit to the Hill
Cumorah today.
There is considerable sore thcoat re-
ported about town, with not few cases
OF intercostal rheumatism.
Today's local bank clearings amount
ed to sl,lgs,5O2 81 as against $751;
1G5. so for the Same day last year.
Dealers say that the snowstorm will
send the price OF hay up on account OF
the difficulty In getting II 10 market.
A popular entertainment will be Civ
en- Thursday evening in the Y. NJ c.
A. auditorium, under the management
OF the Social director.
There are a number Of sleighs on the
streets today. and the sleighing Is fairly
good The boys will make merry this
evening on the hill streets.
Dean and Mrs. Eddie arc occupying a
cottage at Manhattan beach, Cal,
where they will remain until the dean
regains his health sufficiently to return
TO duty.
Teams and dredging apparatus are
being gathered at Saltair perpetrators
TO beginning work OF construction on
the great bathing pool to be built at
the pavilion.
Tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
childrens party will be given in the
Fourteenth ward hall, to which all
friends of the ward are invited to bring
their little folks.
Parties who have been up In Alberta
and Montana recently report that Il
IL not dsagreeably cold up there; In
fact they did not experience any more
inconvenience from the weather than
in Salt Lake.
DE White b. Lowe has returned from
q pleasant New York trip. He is vet
eran OF the New York Seventh regi-
ment. and while In New York visited
the armory OF the Seventh, saw the
regiment drlll, and met many old
friends In the guard.
petition for letters OF administration
deceased, was fled in the clerks Of
flee today by Rasmus b, Christensen.
who asks that he be appointed admin
istrator, The estate consists of real
property OF the total value OF 100.
The coal land contest case of w. L.
Symonds vs owen l.. Davis Is being
heard before the land office in this city
The land In question Is 100 acres In Sc
vler county east of Richfeld, or town
ship "a south, range 4 east. The suit
Is protest against validity OF entry.
The street railway management was
somewhat embarrassed this morning by
the failure OF quite a number of car
men to report in season to take their
cars. The boys were up too late the
night previous celebrating Christmas
day However, the absentees showed
up later.
Prof. Swendsen Of tho reclamation
survey has received notification from
the interior department that there Is
money appropriated for the Strawberry
Reservoir project, and construction Is
authorized. However, active construc-
tion can not begin until along in the
spring when the frost gets out of the
ground.
Governor Pardee OF California IL Civ
ing able assistance to the movement
OF See America First by sending 10
every commercial body In the state Of
California a copy of the letter sent out
by the special committee OF the COM
merc!al club Of this city, and urging all
these commercial bodies TO send dele
gates TO the conference.
Printed letters are i'm circulation
asking members of the Congregational
churches Of the intermountain country
and all persons affiliated with that de-
nomination, for contributions In aid of
the Congregational Home Missionary
society whose headquarters are In New
York. The society Is $4,000 In debt.
which IL found embarrassing In the eff
fort to extend the work of the society
through the far west.
There will be civil service examina-
tios in this city Jan. 10. for the posi-
ton of engineer In the Indian service.
with salary varying from 5000 to 81. 900.
Applicants will be examined In steam
engineering. electrical engineering,
heating refrigeration, gas and gaso-
line engines and hydraulics. There
VIII also be an examination for the
position OF computer at the naval OBJ
servatory. with salary from $500 to
$1,000. Applicants will be examined in
pure mathematics, including geometry,
algebra, triRonometry, calculus. astron-
omy. etc. This examination viii be no
picnic.