The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-07
CITY AND NEIGHBORH0OD

Mrs. Charles Abner Taylor OF 2O3 Tenth
East street lost card case containing
1920 Friday afternoon which she thinks
she dropped in a street car. believing She
was putting the money in her handbag.
The police are working 10 recover the
money,
Walter G. Tuttle has filed suit in the
District court against the unknown heirs
and creditors OF Charlotte NJ. Clarke to
quiet title to lots "a. 46, ~ and IS OF
block IL, in the Arlington Heights sub
division.
G. j. Graft. a night operator. Il. \. An
. derson. a night watchman, and n. G.
Hayes tunnel watchman. probably viii
spend from one TO ten years In the pcni-
tentlary for burglarIzIng merchandise cars
of the Short Line at Altamont, Wyo,
Rhoda woodruff. aged three years, died
OF Intestinal trouble AZ the home of her
grandmother Mrs. Emma ;. Woodruff.
Thursday afternoon. after n twenty-tour
hours illness. She was daughter OF tho
late Apostle Abraham owen Woodruff.
| The funeral was held at the Waterloo
meetlnghouse a o'clock Friday after
noon.
George Powelson OF Provo has nled an
application in the office Of the State Sur
veyor- General for 20 second feet OF
water TO be diverted fro mthe Utah Lake
and Jordan river system, 10 be used for
electric Lighting and propelling machinery
at Provo City. The water. after having
passed through the wheels OF the power
plant will be returned TO the main chan
mel OF the Provo river.
Stamps to the amount of S1T1Ta1O were
sold at the local postofhce in March this
year. the postal card sales running $50
and the sale OF envelopes $5iIS.9O. For
March OF 1906 the sales were: Stamps,
S15 $3.50; cards. 500, envelopes. 32O9 o..
The Increase In the sales for March this
year over those of March last year was
more than IS per cent. For February this
year the increase over February Of last
year was above rs per cent.
The secretary OF the Manufacturers and
Merchants association has received n let
ter from the Preston, Ida, Commercial
Get Acquainted excursion through Pres
ton. The secretary Of the Preston Com
your State we feel that we are contribu-
tary 10 your interests and would very
much appreciate visit from you on the
date set for your visit to Logan" The
question will be taken up at once by the
directors of the association and their de-
cision VIII be announced in a few days.
According 10 adv!ces from Washington
City. Judge TheodosIus Botkln, who took
prominent part In the Republican cam
paign in this State IN 1904. and later was
reading clerk of the Sixth Legislature,
has been advanced from the Consuship al
Port Louis, Martus, 10 Consul at Camp
bellton, y, b, al in Increase to $4,000 in
salary, Walter ID. Shaughnessy OF this
city also has been changed from his place
as consular agent at Charleroi. Belgium,
to Puerto Cabello. Venezuela, at Il yearly
salary OF $4,000, the change being promo
tlOr. Judge Botkln was appointed Consul
a Port Louis in 1906.
Their arrest and subsequent pleas OF
guilty were the result OF a "trip Special
Agent Jones OF the Short Line force made
to Altamont few days ago. AT that
time IL was ascertained that merchandise
cars, which were placed on the side
tracks. awaiting The raising OF the freight
blockade In Nevada, were being broken
missed. The mems arrest followed three
days work by Special Agent Jones. and
the men pleaded guilty. They will bt
sentenced Thursday OF next week. The
sentence for burglary Is from one 10 ten
years.
c. NJ. Jackson. the versatile. having
severed his connection with the Utah
State Journal at Ogden, is preparing To
at the Junction city, Facts and Fan
cies' will be the name OF the new candI-
date for patronage and honors and it Will
be sixteen page weekly. after the man
ner and style of the Argonaut of San
Francisco In keeping with its cognomen
1t viii deal with facts and fancies. as its
editor feels inclined or his bent so directs
him. Mr., Jackson is assured OF substan-
tial financial backing in the enterprise
and that is half the battle.
George Wood, who has been in the en-
ploy OF Auerbach Bros. for the past eight
years. the last four years OF which time
he was travelling salesman. his territory
covering all of southern Utah. has sew
cred his connection with the firm. and
on Monday leaves for Lovelock. New,
where he will have charge OF a large mer-
eantile and forwarding establishment.
Southern Pacific railroad TO Seven
Troughs and Rosebud mining districts.
This means that Lovelock is destined TO
become one OF the most important bus-
ness points on the S. Z, line, Mr.. Wood
has an extensive acquaintance with the
miners OF the West. and his friends ex-
press little doubt but that he will be sue
cessful in his field OF effort.