Show t TOWN TALK r l r i Parlev P Pratt lectures this week at Prt o Union Sandy and other places south oft of-t s city Samuel R Pendray and Eliza Jane Smith of Butte Mon were yesterday Miner married by Justice of the Supreme Court At 6 a m yesterday the thermometer registered 46 at noon 45 and at C p m 34 the maximum temperature being 5 and the minimum 2 The Salt Lake sports were greatly interested in-terested in the prize f h between Denver Den-ver Ed Smith and Joe Goddard in South Africa owing to Smiths large acquaintance acquaint-ance In this city and were mucn sur prsed at his defeat Esc lante precnct in Garfield county has been heard from I gave Joseph Houston Dem for representative US and Andrew J Han en Rep 73 This gives Houston a majority of 31 with two Republican precincts to hear from The two missing precincts are supposed to I have cast about 0 votes this year and they may pull Hansen throuh Sarah H Taylor wife of W Taylor a son of the president of the Mormon church John Taylor had a hearing before be-fore Judge Ritchie yesterday a to her sanity She was adjudged insane and committed to the asylum The unfortunate unfortun-ate woman Is 41 years of ag3 and has been similarly afflicted before and was In the cured asylum for a time and discharged a W A Kinney formerly law partner of Hon J R Letcher and for some years a resident of Honolulu left this city fter a threedays visit for ban Francisco yesterday Mr KInney wus accompanied by hs mother who will remain re-main with Mrs W A Kinney in San Francisco it being the intention of Mr KInney to sail for HonolulU in a few days The electric light companies were S caused much trouble last nIght from the sleet and snu V5 Wires were crossed and burned out with the result there were no lights on Second South street and It being considered too dangerous to send out men to repair the damage late pedestrians alone a portion of that thoroughfao had to make their way home in the darkness County Surveyor Joseph says he is in receipt of a great many letters from the east since McKinleys election enquiring en-quiring about silver mining property This leaxs Mr Joseph to believe that 1 A Republican party iill do something fo silver The surveyor in company with 0 party of excursionists went down to the Tintic district last Sunday andS and-S visited the lower Mammoth mine which he reports in a very promising condItion condi-tion The election canvassing board composed I com-posed of the county commissioners the I clerk and the treasurer began the work of cnvasng the election returns yesterday yes-terday atternoon Seven precincts in the First municipal vnard were finished yesterday No found I terday discrepancies were except ex-cept in one or two cases where the footings were wrong in one Instance showing something like SO votes too I many in favor of L E Hal for commissioner I com-missioner The work will consume three I 5 or four days and the board will resume I its session at 10 oclock this morning I |