Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-04
LATE LOCALS.

The Y. NJ G. a. has now 600 members,
and Is still growing.
a party of 40 New England tourists
Is at the Kenyon today en route east,
Local dealers report remarkable in
crease IN the sale this year OF fishing
tackle and lawn tennis goods.
Today'5 local bank clearlngs lmount-
ed to 1888 1854. as against {3g2,SN.OS
FOR the same day last year
The funeral OF Mrs. Emily Grlsepth-
waite was held this morning from ST.
Mary's cathedral, with intUment IN
Calvary cemetery
Implement houses report a greater
sale OF reapers ana less Of mowers than
year ago, one cause Of which Is tho
increased acreage given TO sugar beets,
The mercury climbed up to 90 dc.
Rrecs at 1880 y. mr. today, and the
highest yesterday was % degrees short.
~ after 4 p, IN. However, the weather
office looks for cooler weather tonight
and tomorrow
h. w. Lees OF Manayunk, Pa, writes
Postmaster Thomas, asking that off
cial to please locate the whereabouts
Of Rubin Taylor Of Delaware county
Pa who came to salt Lake with his
mother and sister while a boy.
Railroad men report the travel IN and
out OF the Sanpete and SEWER country
as surprisingly heavy People get ON
and of the cars at all stations. and
often 1t is a question how to take care
Of the baggage,
Thomas Hlnckley a nephew Of Don
II. Porter of this city. has resigned his
position as chief clerk in the master
mechanics office at Grand Junction,
and taken a position ON the civil en-
cheering stalt OF the san Pedro
1t is reported and generally believed
In national guard circles that the COM
Ing annual encampment viii be held at
Manti d company OF the guard is now
the senior company and win appear at
the head OF the regimcntll column ON
parades
Frank NJ Raft superintendent Of the
inspection department Of the State Life
Insurance company of Indiana Is I'm the
city eu route to Sar Francisco his
headquarters Mr. Rai0 has quite a.
circle of friends In this city and is one
Of the best known insurance men In
the west.
The Rio Grande trains to Provo this
morning carried large excursion OF
intending Uiutah applicants from Brig
ham city and vicinity. Last night "a
crowd Of 60 people came I'm from Idaho
and Wyoming points. The outgoing
trains from Provo today brought up l6S
registered applicants
The felicitous speech Of welcome
made by Hon. John Henry Smith last
evening TO the Charities and Correc-
lions delegates at the Kenyon hotel IL
the occasion VI much complimentary re-
mark today A very happy response
was made by W. II. McClaln for the
visitors,
Paymaster George f. Downey Of the
army, ana son Of Major DoWncy Of this
city, was In town today, en- route Tor
the Preside, having nctn transferred
from the headquarters of the depart
ment Of the Colorado. lie does not
relish the transfer, but Lieut. Col W.
II, Comegys, the senior deputy pay
master general, whose headquarters are
at the Preside made the request OF tho
department that the young major be
sent out there 90 assist him. and 50 he
had to go.
II. Il. Cushing, travelling passenger
agent of the Denver x Rio Gronde road
has lust returned from a 10 days trip
into Colorado, where ne has been work
ing up the annual Utah excursion. The
field I'm which he worked extended
through southern Utah and Colorado
and northern Arizona, lie states that
the crops are IN good condition through
that section. that peace prevails In the
labor field, and that the excursion ought
ON this account TO bring to salt Lake
fully 5000 people this year.
one Of the two long delayed cars Of
marble for the federal building arrived
this morning from tho east, and the
other will be here by tomorrow MORN
ing. Contractor Campbell, who has re-
turned from Chicago says that the
building will now be completed Wlth-
out further delay and turned over TO
Postmaster Thomas by the first OF the
month. The delay I'm the shipping or
the furniture from Chicago has been
caused by the strikes I'm that city,
which turned the local business world
pretty well upside down.