The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-05
PArRoNlzE OUR ADVERTISERS.
CITY AND NEfeHsoRHoop.


Local dry goods men say that bust
ness this season is one-third heavier
than it was at the same time last year,
which is regarded as a very good sign.
The supreme court, in an opinion
. handed down Monday, held when a
party to an action fails to appear at
the trial Of the cause he may not sub
Requently come in and plead the stat
ute of limitation, when that plea might
have been successfully interposed in
the action at the trial.
The health of Salt Lake City at pres
ent is better than for several years.
There is absolutely no epidemic of any
kind in the city at this time-not a
single case of diptheria, scarlet fever,
whooping cough, measles or other con-
tagious affiiction of childhood. There
are only two cases of smallpox and one
of these will be discharged from quar-
antine today. Thus it viii be seen that
the city is practically free of conta-
gion in any form.
While a large stone gargoyle was
being hoisted to one of the towers
in st. Mary's cathedral Monday
morning it slipped from the cable and
fell to the ground, and was broken.
No one was injured and the loss is
nominal.
Fred Wey has bought for S575 two
unusually large heads of buffalo and
a moose, at Seattle, which are due
here in the morning, and which he
will set up in the lobby of the Wilson
hotel
The level of Utah lake is 1856 feet
below compromise point and 500 sec
ond feet continues to be taken out
of the lake every day and spread over
the valley below. The lake has fallen
one foot in the last thirty days.
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Contractor P. j. Moran has resumed
laying asphalt on East South Temple
street, and says that in less than three
weeks the entire remodelled street will
be opened to the public. The north
side street intersections are being laid
out, and the cutters finished.
Architects are com planning that |
there is no more large work to do. |
There are only two new buildings of !
them being the proposed new Masonic |
building, TO go up at the northeast cor !
ner of Second South and First South |
streets.
John ]. LOTUS. the Salt Lake railroad |
man, whose appointment as superin-
tendent of maintenance of the Panama
railroad, was announced last week has |
received a telegram from Assistant |
Chief of Construction Pepperton of |
ID. C, in which he is auth |
orized to employ fifty good carpenters
at a salary which Will bring them S6.16 |
for ten hours work day. Transports
ton will be furnished the men from the
port of sailing, which will be New Or
leans, and their salary will begin at
that place
Mr.. and Mrs. LOTUS expect to leave
at their earliest opportunity for New
York, stopping en- route at Pittsburg
Here Mrs. LOTUS will visit relatives
and will later join her husband on the
isthmus.
August has been determined on by
the members of the city council for
their proposed trip to Portland to in
spect the Lewis and Clark exposition.
They will be accompanied by their
wives and other members of their
households, will travel in special cars
and will go equipped for trip of two
weeks duration.
A Los Angeles dispatch says that ION
good authority il is stated locally that |
a. Fred Wey of Salt Lake will acquire
Ia the near future control of the new
500-room hotel now in course OF con-
struction at Spring and Fifth streets.
Mr.. Wey opened negotiations while on
bis visit in Los Angeles last week. The
house concerned. while not the largest.
viii be one Of the most rK-S%.n in the
sity."
The Mormon church is said to be ne
gotiating for several pieces of property
n the vicinity of Ely. New, on which
t proposes to establish a large Mormon
'olony. The church desires to purchase
he Sunnyside and Lewis ranches. in
White Pine county, both in rich agri-
cultural valleys, and if it succeeds the
'anches viii be cut up into small farms
with townsite in the center The
;hurch sought to buy the property a
year ago for colonization purposes. but
allied in its efforts.
President James A. Pollock of the
mining exchange says of conditions in
he east that they are all favorable. to
IN unprecedented boom in coppers, and
hat an advance of % per cent over the
present market is quite well assured.
Colonel Thomas Keogh has returned
lfter participating in a reunion of boy
rood friends at his old home in Bell
vile, Canada. He testifies to a most
time, during which he was
ccompanied by Mrs Keogh, but is glad
o get back home
Rev. ]. Y. LaMarre of Notre Dame
hurch, Chicago, arrived in the city
asst Wednesday and is the guest of Mr..
nd Mrs. Edward McGurrin
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.