Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-01
LATE LOCALS.

County clerk Eldredge reports the
fees OF his office for the month Of Feb
ruary to be Sl,9S9SO.
Today's local bank cearings amount.
ed to 1856, II as against 1851 2ll22 for
the same day last year.
w. X. Nibbelnk takes the position OF
room clerk at the Wilson hotel, vacated
by the resignation Of Mr. Dusenbury.
The level OF the great lake is four
inches above the zero mark, or six
inches higher than a year ago at this
time
A carload Of California fruits aud
vegetables arrived this morning aud
the same is now being disposed Of by
retailers.
Tourists returned from Los Angles
say that crude oil Is selling down In
that country at Is cents per barrel,
while In Salt Lake II costs $l2,
John Phillips Mealtln, who has been
absent from Utah for the past three
months on lecture trip in the east,
returned to Salt Lake today
Two OF the great boilers for the Fed
eral building are on the ground, and
the third win be here from Iowa In two
. weeks, The three boilers are 800
horse power,
A fine carload Of Central American
bananas was received yesterday by n
west First South street commission
firm, and the fruit Is being retalled at
20 cents a dozen.
Deputy sheriff Andrew Smith had
ft,u l. NJ
gallery this morning. One Is a swind-
Ter just sentenced, and the other
VIII be brought into court TO plead
tomorrow
A third boulevard electrolier has been
erected IN front OF the Emery Holmes
apartment house, completing the set.
They are such as are used IN New
York and Chicago on the boulevards.
and make fine appearance.
Tho first eastbound Raymond q
Whitcomb excursion party Of the sea-
son, arrived this morning, and regis
tered at the Knutsford hotel There
are 45 tourists under the conductorship
Of r. $, Coon Of Boston
Anna Conklin was granted a divorce
by Judge Armstrong this afternoon
from j., Conklin on the ground Of de-
sertion They were married IN this city
on Aug. is, 1900, and defendant desert
ed plaintiff on Nov. 10, 1908.
Contractor G, II. Nichols Is home for
day or two from Butte where he has
been installing machinery for Mr..
Heinze Part Of this machinery was
two LOO horse power engines, which
he characterises as whales"
Judge Armstrong today granted Mar
garet b. Despair a divorce from Frank
z. Despair on the ground OF non-sup-
port. They were married on Nov g.
1891 and have three children the GUS
tody OF whom was awarded 20 plain
tlff,
Local contractors say that owing to
the fine February weather the belief
prevails In building circles that there
is coming a good deal OF severe wea-
Their later I'm this month and so will
not branch out into building operations
for month yet
The street railway service has less
than half dozen OF the old John Ste
phenson cars with biiurlcated skirt
platforms, ana these Will be rugged up
ms snow plows. The last of the home
built cars Is now being put together IN
the barn shops on Second East street.
and VIII be Ike the Ninety class,
The Kawlch King Mining company Of
this city fled Its articles OF incOrpora-
ton IN the county clerks office today
It's capital stock Is 100000, divided
into shares OF the par value of 81 each.
w V, Rice is president James Far
rell, Vice president and treasurer; Il.
Nj. Lambkin, secretary.
The county commissioners at their
meeting today appointed the following
road supervisors for the county: Fred
A. Olsen, Crescent district. Thomas
McGhie, Big Cottonwood; Franklin
Webb Butleryille, Samuel Perry, San
dyi b. B. Judd, GRANTEE w. G. Reid,
Pleasant Green; Peter Gordon, Mil
Creek,
Thomas l., Blllups, aged 20. who for
the last year has been a clerk at the
Hotel Herald, died of typhoid fever
yesterday afternoon, and Will he buried
In Mt. Ollvet from Evans undertaking
parors Friday, at IL q, m. The de-
ceased came from Chicago, about
year ago, and found work In this city.
lie was single.
Yesterdays maximum thermometer
got up 10 56, and this morning fell no
lower than 80. The promised preclpl-
tatlon passed around salt Lake and
dropped 80 OF an inch NJ Modena, half
an inch at Phoenix and rs OF an inch
at Yuma. Il Is warming UP along the
Atlantic coast, 80 that oysters are be-
ginning TO move more freely The indl-
cations for this territory are cloudy
and unsettled weather.
The Liberty Park Methodist church
recently received nine new members,
the Central Christian church had six
accesslons to membership during the
month past and the Third Presbyter-
ian church had four accessons. Dur
ing the winter over $50 people united