Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Knapp Sustnins Fall Edward
Knapp. aged IS. fell from window In
the now Commercial club building
Monday, fracturing leg. He is IN ST
Marks hospital.
Ovcrfeld In Vcnice-Mayor John S
Bransford received a postal card
from c. p. Overfleld. who is taking q
trip abroad. He was In Venice on Dec.
and was enjoying good health.
Bureau Chief TO Attcnd-ChIef A. d.
Melvin OF the bureau OF animal indus
try at Washington will attend tho
woolgrowers convention at Ogden and
take an active part In It.
Dividend for Carmcn-tThe Street
Railway Mutual Aid association has
declared Its eighteenth annual dividend
IL months. Payments will be made
Wednesday at the street car barns.
Highlandcrs InItiated-The Order
OF Royal Highlanders met Monday
night In Labor hall, where six applics-
lions for membership were received aol
two candidates initiated. Public install
lation of new officers Will be held the
second Monday in January.
Contract for Balcony@The Pauly
jail Building company was awat1ei
the bid Monday for the installation of
@ steel balcony in the county clerks
office where tho filing cases and records
Will be placed Tho bid was s1,S45 and
was the only tender submitted.
Death of John OIdham-John Old
ham, aged 62, an old time mining man
of this city. died Monday at 104s
east Third South street. of acute gas
trftis, leaving a wife and child. The
funeral will be held Wednesday. at
10 a. m, from st. Mary's cathedral
San Juan Is Tardy-Thc San Juan
county authorities have not yet sent
In their assessment figures to the state
board of equalization. so that the clerk
has been forced to estimate the figures
for the tables he has to prepare at the
close of the year.
Good Time for ChiIdrcn-Thc Sal
walton Army proposes to give 600 chill
dren an interesting time on Christmas
night An immense tree has been NJ
ranged for and each child is to re-
ceive a present OF some kind. Tickets
are being distributed among the little
ones
Plans Higher Dam-Frank L. Ca
pening OF Provo has applied to the
state engineer for 5000 acre feet of
water. as he Is proposing to raise the
height of the Gunnison reservoir dam
~ lcttp 6tOiii6 lilc Sdt PluS diltl uIl-
appropriated waters of the Sanpese
river.
X. of p. Lodge for Tooele-The
knights of Pythias are to establish u
lodge at Tooele. the three Salt Lake
lodges participating A special train
will leave this city Wednesday evening,
returning when the installation is over
The new lodge viii start or with 10
charter members.
Death of Mrs. Shay-Mrs. Alice
Chester Shay of Los Angeles. former
ly a resident of this city. died Saturday,
after several months illness, at the age
of 81. The body was brought to this
city. Monday, for funeral at p. m..
from Third avenue and Canyon road.
Deceased was a native OF Buffalo ard
an accomplished woman
Drama Mt All Hallows-The All Hal
lows college students Will present
little drama this evening. in the local
assembly hall. called Vacation" The
cast Includes Robert Boyle, Joseph Nc
Kay, Ray Sullivan. A. McChrys.al,
William Gleason. Charles Harris, Lloyd
Crouch. Ed Shea, and George Schmidt.
The college orchestra, under Prof. Pc
derSen, Will furnish music.
Governors Party Delayed-Govern-
or Spry wired Monday to John r.
Hardy, his private secretary. that the
party en- route to the launching of the
United States battleship Utah. had ar
rived in Omaha Is hours late. The
heavy snowstorms had delayed the
party but they will be able to reach
Philadelphia In time to be present when
the battleship glides down the ways.
More Lights for Highways-The
county commissioners improved the
lighting system In the county Monday
afternoon at their meeting when it was
decided to light West Temple street
from Eleventh South to Twelfth South
streets; Fourteenth South from Third
East to Ninth East streets, and place
additional lights in East Mill Creek.
Part OF the plans for the lighting sys-
tenn were made two OF three years ago,
but the necessity for them had not
arisen until recently.
Sidney Bambcrgcr's Condition
Herman Bamberger has received a tele-
gram from Simon Bamberger, father
of Sidney Bamberger, from Baltimore
to the effect that the opeation by which
d tunor was removed from Sidneys
nead WAS entirely successful. and that
his son had so far recovered that he is
considered out OF danger. Mr.. Bam-
berger will leave Baltimore as soon as
no Is able to travel. going perhaps to
Florida where he will spend the winter
recuperating. returning to Salt Lake
next spring. Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Bam-
berger will return to Salt Lake as soon
as their son Is able to travel alone.