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Show s THB SALT LAKE TIMKA SATU1U)AYKVEMXGAY171890- ' . OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. A Complete List of the Territorial, County and City Officers. Standing Committees of the City Council. Officers and Committees of the Chamber of Commerce. TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. flovernor ...Arthur L. Thomas Secretary Elijah Sells Chief JuHtlce Charles 8. Zane I T. 3. Anderaon Associate Justices H. P. Henderson J. W. Blackburn United States Marshal E. H. Parsons United States Attorney C. S. Varlan Assistant IT. S. Attorney E. B. Critchlow Surveyor General E. Daggett Register of the Land Office F. D. Hobbs Receiver of Public Moneys. .Hoyt Sherman. Jr U. S. Deputy Revenue Collector. . .T. C. Bailey THE UTAH COMMISSION. G. L. Godfrey, Chair'n It. 8. Robertson, Alvin Saunders, J. A. McClernand, A. B. Williams. SALT LAKE COUNTY OFFICERS. Probate Judjie G. W, Uarteh. Belertmen Ellas A. Smith, O. P. Miller and Richard Howe. Clerk J. C. Cutler. AuMKHor Jesae W. Fox. Jr. Collector Leonard O. Hardy. Treasurer M. K. CummlnRa, Attorney .Tamea H. Moyle. Sheriff Andrew, I. Hurt. Coroner George J. Taylor. Recorder George M. Cannon, Surveyor J. D. H. McAllister. Superintendent of District Schools William M. Stewart. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. William Fuller' Second precinct W. C. Burton Third precinct Arthur Parsons Fourth precinct C. W. Stayner Fifth precinct. W. W. Gee And thirty-ou- e others throughout tha county. CITY OFFICIALS. Mayor Georce M. Scott Treasurer J. B. Waldon Recorder Louis Hyams Assessor and Collector .' E. K, Cluter Marnhal John M. Young Police Justice H. S. Laney Standing Committees of the Council. WAYS AND MEANS. L. C Larrlck, James Anderson, W. P. Lynn. STREETS. M. K. Parsons. Louis (John. L. E. Hall, A. J. Pendleton, W. F. James. WATER WORKS. James Anderson, W. H. H. Spafford, ' T. W. Armstrong, L. K.Hall, W. P. Noble. FINANCE. W. P. Lynn, James Anderson, L. C. Karrlclc. SEWERAGE. W. P. Noble. W. F. James, W. L. Pickard, M. K. Parsons, W. II. H. Spafford. PUBLIC WORKS. W. F. James, M. K. Parsons, Louis Cohn. IMPROVEMENTS. L. E. Hall, W. P. Lynn, James Anderson. CITY PRISON. W. L. Pickard, T. W. Armstrong, L. C. Karrlck. IRRIGATION. A. J. Pendleton, Frederick Heath. L. E. Hall, T. W. Armstrong, L. C. Karrlck. LICENSE. Louis Cohn, L. C. Karrack, W. L. Pickard. MARKETS. W. H. H. Spafford, W. P. Noble, A. J. Pendleton. ELECTIONS. Frederick Heath, Dan Wolstenholme, W. P. Lynn. REVISION. H. Pembroke, W. P. Lynn, A. J. Pendleton. POLICE. Dan Wolstenholme, James Anderson, A. J. Pendleton, M. K. Parsons, Frederick Heath. SANITARY REGULATIONS AND QUAR-ANTINE, r. W. Armstrong W. I. Pickard, L. E. Hall, Frederick Heath, W. F. James. JORDAN AND SALT LAKE CITY CANAL, L. C. Karrlck. A. J. Pendleton, Louis Cohn, W. F. James, W. H. H. Spifford, PUBLIC GROUNDS. M, K. Parsons, W. F. James. W. L. Pickard, Dan Wolstenholme, W. P. Noble. FIRE DEPARTMENT. James Anderson, M. K. Parsons, H. Pembroke. MUNICIPAL LAWS. W. P. Lynn. T. W. Armstrong Frederick Heath, W. H. H. Sp ifford, M. K. Parsons. CLAIMS. W. F. James, H. Pembroke, W. L. Pickard, CEMETERY. Louis Cohn, L. C. Karvicl:, W. L. Pickard. ENROLLMENT. H. Pembroke, W. P. Lynn, James Anderson. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Dan Wolstenholme. A. J. Pendleton, AV. H, H, Spafford, Salt l.akn l'limler of Coininerre. Caleb W. Went, President : Fred Simon. First L. E. Hull, Second Vice Presi-dent. Frank K. Gillespie, Secretary; M. 11 j Walker, Treasurer. DIRECTORS. Caleb W. West, L. C Karrick. Fred Simon, John D. Spenoer, L. E. Hall. II. L. A. Cnlmor, John W. Donnellun, Spencer Clnwson, J. M. ntcltetts, W. H. Sells, C. E. Wantland. STANDING COMMITTEES. Commerce Lowe, Pavey, Webber Kahn, Coftin. liTlfMtiou-Holllst- er, Sloan, Erli, Grosbeck, Bailey. Importation, cte. G. F. Calmer, Young, Morlf. Alt!. Adams. Public Improvements Dooly, Ritter, C. P. Mason. Conklln. Gillespie. Wool Growing Pickard, Kerr. FabUa, H. j Conu. J. H. White. Mines and Mining Chambers, Treweek, Jes-sen- , Daly, T. R. Jones. Mackintosh, Ferry, Holden, Terhnne, Cullens. Meteorology Annett, Arbogast, Dart, W. A. Nelden. Climate, Sanitary Goodwin, Hamilton, Jus. Sharp, Standart, Walden. Manufactures Auerbach, Kinney, M. H. Walker, Kelsey, Morris, -- Noble, S. P. Walker, Swan, W. I.. White, Glaiitleld. Arbitration Raybould, Raskin, Barrett, P. L. Williams, Sowles. Membership Whitney. Lawrence, Wester-Hel- Clawson. Jr., Davis. Agriculture Goodhue, Teasael, J. E. Hyde. A Sogers. Architecture Klettlng, W. H. Culmer, Carroll. W. E. Jones. Kallroarts Remington, Glendenntng, S. K. Ilmmax. Parker. Bennett. rti:un.e-- J. R. Walker, Lawreuce, H. J. :r.int, McC'omlck, Bacon. i concluded to spend the remainder of the uifflit then;. Mora v ino was pur-chased. The voting man's fund soon became exhausted, lie had a W0 dntlt which his lather had sent him, and he asked the old man if lie would let him have $.'0 nutil morning, ami offered to five him the draft as Hi'tiiriiy. In the morning both would go to buakfast to-gether and then, the draft would bo taken to a bank and cashed. The o d man was in such a mood that ho would have given liim three times the amount asked for but he had only a liver in --change and the rest of the roll was lai-R- bills. The liver wa handed over tind soon spent. Another loan had to bo asked for, and the old man was willing to give him a 4100 bill. Then it occurred to'the former that bis companion was a reckless spendthrift, and it would bo a good idea to get the draft away from him so that it would not be blown in. He gavo the youth the $100 and displayed the roll. Alter getting the bill in his hands tho 'eon' man said, Why, there's a couple of tens in there lot mo have thorn to use tonight, ami perhaps I will not have to break tho hundred.' As ho said this he drew a couple of $100 bills from the roll and put them down. The old man was pretty drunk, but his newly made acquaintance, though prottv much the same way, was not loo full to know his busi-ness. Both agreed to remain in tho house tho balance of the night, but when tho l'rovo man awoke at 8 o'clock this morning ho discovered that his young friend .had skipped. Counting his money ho also discovered that lie was !)()() short, besides the money expended for tho day's sport. He said nothing about it, biit after kicking himself came around and asked me to work up tho case. 1 have tho draft, but hardly think it will ever be cashed. "The garb of n newspaper reporter worked well with that chappie. He is the lirst fellow I over heard of working such a game, but ho will be taken in some liuo day." A MD NEWSPAPER MAN (Bow an Ingenious Confidence Man Ap-pears in the Hole of An Interviewer. AN OLD GAME IN A NEW GAKB. He Swells the Self-Estee-m and Depletes the Purse of the Guileles Gran- - ger A Bad Swindler. is an old confidence being worked in a by smooth fellows around lobbies of THERE hotels," remarked a detective yesterday to u TiMKS reporter. "deteek" was standing desk of tho Walker house, where a lino appearing gentle-man was looking over tho register. Noticing him and feeing a reporter come, up is what suggested the remark. "How is tho game worked, did you nay? Well, just by such individuals as tho fellow you now boo glancing over tho pages of that register. When this sort of 'con' man sees a name and cou-plers ils bearer to be a 'geiser' from some of tho interior towns, he looks at tho number of the room occu-pied bv the supposed victim, hands Ids caril to the clerk and asks if Mr. llayseed is in Ins apartment. Ho wants 1o interview him. He is a newspaper reporter ami thinks Mr. Hayseed a very prominent individual. The clerk does not suspect auything, for almost every lav there is a new reporter around tho hotels. Tho card is sent up and tho leoiitideneo man admitted to the room occupied, bv the ruralist. He introduces himself as a newspaper-is- t and informs Ins victim that the managing editor of one of tho leading dailies had heard lie was in Iho city and wanted his opinion on home absorbing political topic, lu nine cases out of ten tho ruralist has never v won a reporter, and you can rest as-sure d that his head is somewhat swelled at Iho idea of a managing editor want-ing his views on a leading subject and neuding a reporter around to see him. He greets the visitor in a cordial way, and soon is pacing tho Hoor with his hands jammed down in his pockets and putting on the air of a statesman. This is just the attitude in which the putative news-gathere- r wants to get him. Mr. llayseed falls into the trap very easily, ana it's not long before tho pair are pretty good friends. Then come drinks, cigars, a drive, and thpn the borrow is made, or the chock cashed or something of this lind. You know it is an old chestnut by working check rackets, but as this is A new way for forming uu acquaint-ance, and when an old guy gets two or three bottles of wino under his bolt lie will do almost anything. "Quietly, I will tell you of a game worked hero one day last week. It didn't get into tho papers for tho vic-tim made no roar about it. Ho wunted it worked quietlv, and uome to 1110 to see if I could iret tho chappie. I have been looking for him for tho past four or live days, but I guess he is clever enough to reiuaiu out of town. Io robbed tho old man of $:i00, on a $."00 draft. The victim was a nice old man from Trove, and is quite wealthy, lie stopped at the Walker and registered about U:30 o'clock one morning. He was assigned a room and remained in it till the chappie came up and made friends with him. The fellow was not more than 23 years of ago and was dressed very neatly though not gaudily. He wore a plain tile, a diamond ring and a 'spark' in his shirt front. Most any one acciiaiuted with the make-u-of a reporter would have known this fellow had never seen the inside of a newspaper otlice. Ho walked tin to tho register, scanned the pages of tho pre-vious day, and then his eye fell ou the signature of tho man from Provo. He asked the clerk a few questions about him, and then sent up his card. On it was "B. J. Knglish, Reporter for Tun Timks." Tho clerk glanced at it and then rang for a bellboy. The card was taken to tho room. Tho bellboy was instructed to conduct the reporter to the room to which tho card had been sent. After being admitted B. Jay English introduced himself and the old man politely asked him to take a seat. Jay told him his mission and then asked the old man about his town, discussed small topics, and then drifted into politics His first interrog-atory was in reference to tho ('ullom disfranchisement bill. The old man suspected him and told him he had struck the M-on- party. Ho hnd heard of confidence mon, but ho had never been visited by a reporter, and for this reason he suspected his caller. His buspicious were confirmed, but he had to pay for his little experience. When ho plainly told the young fellow that ho was a 'con' man, the latter put on a pleasant smile, pulled from his pockets a package of cards just the identical cards which he introduced himself and a big note book. Ho assured the old man that if he were olhor than a reporlor he would not have uu entire package of cards. One would be sullicient, and that would havo been all that was ne-cessary for an introduction. He finally convinced the old man that ho was a news-gather- not an ordinary re-porter but did special work for the managing editor and all the heavy and descriptive writing for the paper. He made tho old man believe that the man-aging editor knew that he was going to be in the city that day, and wanted his Tiews on several subjects, as he was such a prominent individual, and so well informed and well known throughout the territory. ' This 'swollcd' the old man considerably and he 'coughed up,' to use ono of your ex-pressions. u fact, ho was greatly tickled, and wanted to know how tho editor of the paper knew him. He was told hat the paper even had his por-trait and a biography, which were soon to be in print. Alter talking over the disfranchisement bill, and what the net legislature should do, and when it was all jotted dow n on the note book, the old man rang for drinks and cigars. The pair got to chatting mere nothings, and the old man found his now acquaintance a quite genial and companionable fellow. ' Shortly before noon he asked Mr. Eng-lish, as he then called him, if he would not go to the bar with him. Of course the invitatiou was not refused, and its acceptance convinced the old man that the fellow was a newspaper scribe. They got very intimate. They didn't Set away from the bar until evening. this time they were imbibing wiue end almost everything else dispensed over a bar. The alleged reporter jrave his friend a drive over tho citv and then took him out to a thcaier. "After the programme the Walker bar n as a?aiu mad the couple were there until die salooa closed. Both had a good jag on when thrj-- called a hack to go to a fashionable, house ou , Ifeel Second South street. They hud When You Can Buy 4 Lots in-- Davis, Sharp A Stringer: Addition.? CORNER OF SECOND WEST AD TENTH SOUTH, On small Cash Payment, and within 30 clays after Electric Car Line, already commenced, on Second West, is completed, sell 3 Lots for Profit sufficient to build nn remaining Lot. If you prefer to move into your own home today, we have Six New Modern Style Houses just com- - pletcd, six Large Rooms, Fine Closets, Three . Verandas, City Water, Elegrant Location, close in, splendid view, near electric car line, ONLY $3800 ' EACH and FlvE Ykars t0 Pay out: at only 6 per cent interest. . Don't Fail to see Watkins' Addition A.&join.iia.g' XJ-Toert- r Paife on til Solatia- - DAVIS & STRINGER, Ttne cX Kt1 23 West Second South. ! CCXA.31. g " 'I he Frank Foote Coal Co. are prepared to Q ) furnish coal on short notice for family use. Try v their coal and you will have no other. Main Office 153 South Main. O. L, BROWN, Manage, S01M LAI Mill Now On the Market LOCATION: Cor. Tenth South and Ninth East. ON THE CITY LIMITS, TWO MILES FROM P. 0. , LOTS FROM $400 TO $600. THE SITUATION IS GRAND. Overlooking the Valley. Call Early and Get Choice of Lots CHOICE RESIDENCE. BUSINESS AND ACREAGE PROPERTY. BURTON. GlESBECK & CO., Sole Agents, 269 S. Main St. AV. H. McOLURE & CO., REAL, ESTATE, SMALT. PROFITS AND SQIE IETUKNS, 6 West Second South street. Salt Lake City. Geo. M. Scott, Jas.' Gi.bnuensimg, H. S. IU'Mfieu President. (secretary. GEO. M. SCOTT & CO, INCORPORATED.) --DEALERS IN-- Hardware and Meta Stoves, Tinware, Mill Findings, Etc. j AGENTS FOR the Dodge Wood Pulley, Koebling's Steele Wirt Vacuum Cylinder and Engine Oils, Hercules Powder, Atlas Engines and i ers, Mack Injectors, Buffalo Scales, Jefferson Horse Whim, Vbla n Miners' and Blacksmiths' Tools, Etc. 168 MAIN STREET, Salt Lake City, - - Ufa. AVE HANDLE Business, Besiieice mi Country ftojartj, Improved and. Unimproved. VaJiT011' sce ,,s- - uiotto: "Small Correspondence Solicited. W.L BARRET & CO., 207 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah. A liue line of men's business suits worth $12.50, in gray and black kerseys and worsteds, go at special sale at $r.2. at The World Clothing and Shoo house. 70 East First South street. Child suits worth $3 go at $1.35; boy's 3 puice suits worth H go at $3. !!.", at Tho temporary quarters, of Ihe World clothing and shoe house, TO K. First South street. . Ladies' shoes in light Hnd tan colors or black at fearfully' low prices at the World shoe and clothing house. TO K. First South street. Notice. Leave orders for the Salt Lake City Brewing Co's. lager beer at tho follow-ing places: Wilson & Busby's. o bar, Nos. 55 and 57 E Second South street. P. T. Nystroms, corner Commercial and First South streets, and Fountain Beer Hall, Main street. Jacob Moiutz. Ladies, go to 44 Wasatch block for English tiding habits.- Pabst Brewing Co! (Formerly PHILIP BEST) wis. Export, Bohemian, Hoffbrau and Select Blue Rtf Keg and Bottled Beers shipped immediately upon order. TEE F.1M1LY TRciDE SOLICITED- - FREE DELIVERY! " TELEPHONE 3 B. K. BLOCH an Co.i ST. ' 'r A.ggtfj ' M ailii C. P. MASON. Manager. Headquarters for all Classes of Machinery. Rock Breakers, Wall s Rolls Ingersoll Air Compressors d Drill Lubri eating Oils, Mine, Mill and Smeller Supplies, Silver, Gold and Concentrat ltg Mills erected and delivered iu running order. ' Maine Office ana Warerooms 259 S. Mail Street, Salt Late D. S. AGENCY. BUTTE. MONTANA. j ' Shirts I Shirts! Shim. White laundried shirts worth $1.25 go at 00 cents. Uulaundried shirts worth 73 go ut 8 cent, at tho World clothiujr and shoe house, 71) Kat First South street. Car load wool and hair mattresses at S. K. Mark & Co-- MARK TWAIN IN A FIX. How the Humorist Filled a Date on Short Notice Without Ills Knowledge. Washington Post. When MarkTwuiii was in Washing-ton a week or two ago he told u num-ber of interesting incidents and anec-dotes. A gentleman well known in po-litical and newspaper circles, on being introduced to this well-know- author, said to him that he had once had the pleasure of listening to a lecture of his which was delivered twenty years ago. "Did you?" said Mark. In that inim-itable droll of his. "Well, now, I'll have to tell you something about that lecture. It was a I it t lu the hardest and roughest experience I ever underwent iu my whole career as a locturer. I came to Washington with no intention whatever of delivering a lecture. I simply came, don't you know, to meet my friends, see the city and keep a litllo track of what was going on in congress, as do ..hundreds of other people in the course of tho winter. This was twenty years ago, yon remember. "Now, I had not been in the city morn than a day or two before a friend of mine came to my room at tho hotel early one morning! awakening 1110 out of a sound sleep, and nearly stunned me by asking if I was aware of the fact that I was to deliver a lecture at Lincoln hall that evening. 1 told him no, and that lie must be crazy to get out of bed at such an unseemly hour simply to ask such a foolish question. Hut he soon assured 1110 that he whs perfectly sane by showing the papers, which all an-nounced that Mark Twain was to lec-ture that evening and that his subject would be islands.' To say that I was surprised would be draw-ing it mildly. 1 was mad, for 1 thought someone had put up a game on me. "Well, on careful inquiry, I learned that an old theatrical friend of mine thought he would do me a favor. So ho Blurted out by getting drunk. While in this condition ho maths all the neces-sary arrangements for mo to lecture, with tho exception ol the slight circum-stance that he neglected to inform me of his intentions. He rented Lincoln hall, billed tho town and sent tho news-papers advertisements and notices about the coming lecture, and tin! worst of it was that he had done his work thoroughly. After learning this I was iu a dilemma. 1 had never pre-pared any lecture on the Sandwich isl-ands. What was I to do. I could not back out by telling the people 1 was unpre-pared, and that my friend was intoxi-cated when ho inado these arrange-ments. No, that; was out of the ques-tion, because the public wouldn't be-lieve it anyway, Tho billing of the town had "been too well iono for that. So there was only 0110 thing left for mo to do, and that was to lock myself in my room and write that lecture between the breakfast hour and half-pas- t that evening. Well, 1 did it, and wax on hand .it the advertised hour, facing one of the biggest audiences I ever addressed."' "Yes, Mr. Clemens, you were there all right," said Mr. for I heard the lecture, and a very amusing one it was too; but if I remember correctly, you did not read from vour notes." "You are right. I did not see my manuscript." replied Mark Twain, "but in those eany days I always hail my lecture in writing and 1 kept it on a reading stand at oiie side of the place where I stood on tho platform. I was very good at memorizing and rarely had any trouble in speaking without notes, but the very fact that 1 had my manuscript near at hand where I coulil readily turn to it without having to un-dergo tho inortilicntion of pulling it from my pocket gavo me courage anil kept 1110 from junking awkward pauses. Hut the writing of that. Sandwich Island lecture in ono day was the toughest job ever put on nie." |