Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-23
THE
SEMI
WEEKLY
NEWS
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COUNTRY PAPER
OF THE WEST.
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and Contains All the Cream of the
Daily and Saturday News.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

George Graham, a paroled convict,
was returned 10 the prison last night
by Deputy Warden IRE for failing 10
report. Graham was serving four years
for larceny.
G. company Of the Twenty-ninth IN
fantry will entertain at Fort Douglas on
the evening OF the 2Sth inst. Refresh
ments viii be served and there VIII
be dancing.
A freight car grazed the end OF
street car last midnight at Sixth West
and First South street, through the
mistaSing OF signals by the crew of the
freight train No one was hurt.
A dispatch from Washington says
that the two light batteries OF artillery
now at Fort Douglas. the Twelfth and
Nineteenth, have been transferred to
Fort d. A. Russell near Cheyenne.
The Y. VI. C. A. meeting tomorrow
afternoon will be addressed by Rev. p.
A. Simpkins on 1.-THE Message of Christ
mas and william Blum VIII address
the boys meeting later on 1.-THE First
Christmas"
FIRST Sergeant Schmidt Of the Twelfth
light battery was notified Yesterday
by the chief of ordnance at Washing
his examination for the position of post
ordnance sergeant.
A. f. Pomeroy OF Los Angeles is the
purchaser OF the MC,rcrolitan hotel
property In this city lie has taken an
option on 66xTz3 feet south of the county
poor house, the consideration being Sls,-
900, and the time being one year.
Herbert Burdett, formerly New
York Herald reporter, and now secre-
tary of the Los Angeles realty board,
was married Thursday evening at Og-
den, 10 Miss Edith G. Tomlinson. and
they are now guests at the Kenyon.
The Salt Lake stockynrds are busy
shipping horses 10 Los Angeles for use
by the contractors on the new line or
waterworks to be built from the noun
tains TO the city. $50 miles. and which
will call for big outlay for men. teams
and construction material.
A musical curiosity In this city Is n
piano interior consisting of the steel
frame and full set OF strings set In an
upright case and connected with an
automatic mechanism that plays 1t with
orchestral percussion instruments, The
combination is knoYn as the concerto
piano.
Secretary OF state Tingey has mailed
notices to the las insurance companies
doing business In this state calling for
their annual reports which must he
filed by the close Of the insurance year
which Is Feb. 2S. OF the total number
of companies doing business here 145 are
foreign and three are home corpora
tons.
The First Methodist church Is now
n he. nile iS hIlilt
and the interior Is so far along as to
show that the congregation will have
excellent facilities for church and sun
day school work. The old First Pres
byterian church across the street Is be-
INK rapidly transformed into two
story business block.
Electrical toys are being pushed on
the market, and ind admirers among
not only children, but among grown
folks. A special feature In this field
seems TO be top that Is made TO spin
through the agency OF the electrical
current and galvanic battery that
makes the arms Jingle. Human In
genuity az displayed along this line as
quite noticeable.
The elevator at the city and county
building presents an attractive and APP
proprate appearance these days In view
OF the approaching season. The opera
tor. william Langenbacker, has taste
fully decorated the interior Of the car
with evergreens, holly and Christmas
bells and has placed placard In A
prominent place bearing the customary
greetings of the season.
An Italian named Vito Calorich at
tempted to cross the Los Angeles track
Thursday, on Fourth West street.
In front OF an approaching passenger
train. He was struck by the cowcatoher
and thrown to one isde, with his head
badly cut. The sufferer was sent TO ST.
Marks hospital where II was found nee
essary to sew up several gaping gashes.
The man had close escape from death.
John Larsen, an employe at the Y. c.
NJ. |. warehouse on the west side, had
his foot crushed yesterday, while on
Grating the elevator He suddenly
stepped backward, without noticing
where he was stepping, and before he
was aware OF II. the foot was caught
between the bottom Of the elevator
and the floor above and badly crushed
He was taken for treatment to the Il.
u. S, hospital,