The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-19

CITY ANo NEIGHBoRHooD.


The wlld chicken season opened Tues
day and the dealers expect to hav
new game on the market the latte
part of the week. They expect thei
shipments to come from the Bear Rive
country and Idaho, where grouse ar
plentiful.
Local implement dealers report {
great sale of threshers and harvesting
machinery generally. The farmers arr
very busy.
The reduction in cost of street cal
Communication tickets went into effec
Tuesday These tickets viii be hon
ored on ell lines of the company, in
GLIDING the Murray and other lines eX-
tending beyond the city limits
Bunches Of fifty are sold for 81.
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Governor Cutler has received a letter
from Secretary NJ. T. Cunningham OF
the Utah Lewis and Clark commission
stating that the exhibitions given
daily by the class from the school for
the deaf. dumb and blind are attract
ing considerable attention and favor
able comment. The class is composed
of six pupils and the exercises are given
twice each day, at II o'clock in the
morning and at 2 o'clock in the after
noon. The papers of Portland have
given the children some very fiattering
notices. Secretary Cunningham also
states that the coming of the ogden
tabernacle choir is looked forward to
with interest and that Utah day and
week viii be a great success.
William Redmond, the noted Irish
leader of the British parliament. is eX-
pected to visit Salt Lake about Aug.
3d. Colonel Joseph Geoghegan is in
charge of arrangements for his recep-
ton, and will probably decide on d
programme that will include an adj
dess by the distinguished Irishman.
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The announcement that more than
1900 of the $1,000 necessary to the con-
struction of Wasatch drive has been
raised is good news. The Commercial
club committee having the matter in
charge has done excellent work. It is
no easy task to raise money for a
public enterprise during the dog days.
Street Developments are progressing
with all possible rapidity in Las Vegas,
New. Howard futile Of the contracting
firm is in charge of this work. Seven
miles Of streets are being graded.
rurbed, oiled and graveled The con-
tractors are eXpediting the work and
expect to be finished by October l.
when Las Vegas viii have regular
metropolitan airs.
Z. b. Wicks has purchased the prop
erty known as the Bishop Sharp farm.
on State street north of the Granite
stake tabernacle The price is given
as $l3,500. Mr.. Wicks expects to df-
vide the property into lots of one acre
for building purposes.
salt Lakers are suffering the evils
of wafer shortage, despite efforts of
the water supply department to relieve
the situation. The department is cop
ing with unequal odds in trying to sup
ply the city with sufficient water from
insufficient sources. IT is to remedy
this that the city administration ii
Fastening the construction of the Big
Cottonwood conduit, which viii insure
d plentiful supply Of water for 1e5t
summer and succeeding years. Bids
for the construction of the conduit viii
be opened Sept. 4.
salt Lake lost one Of its most u.,-fpl
citizens in the departure of the Rev. T.
w. Pinkerton of the First Christian
church. Dr.. Pinkerton could not be
classed as an old citizen Of Salt Lac
% ~ uuILIls me comparatively Few ye5rs
fr;lr5s ad tt mere ne mas MADE mere
ti,oI -, o,lr ar.s ,l =: d higneI STANDING
Tt,,i,o,..@-i ii.el III IlleliIlle. L)r-
- =. n, -, 80 70 heIlooo[ " Where
~, olleclIoil % inc coEgf7-
~ 0oiIie 10 SAT- LIZ
Seventy fve-cent fuel gas ana s1.25
Illuminating gas of the same et9ri3TJ
Of efficiency as that s11nnlied Ctiag,To
New York and PhiladeIpbia are rro@1-
Used the citizens of Salt T,al5a in tho
ordinance passed bv the CITY counriI
granting a fifty wears franchise ~
George A. Snow OF salt lake and VII