Show TOWN TALK Miss Emily Roche has returned from a several months visit in Spokane and Is attending at-tending the university Yesterdays clearings amounted to J339U73 as compared with 193441 for the corresponding day of last year Mrs Tuckfield a resident of the Twen tyfirst ward was yesterday placed under yeteray restraint by Deputy Sheriff Levey pending pend-ing a hearing a to her sanity She Is said to have been out of her mind for some time tme The local shoe men are indulging In the biggest rubber war ever Inaugurated here Rubbers are selling all the way from 25 I cents to 5 cents a pair and an Immense I number of them have been disposed of in the past few days For about a week past the water works department has responded to nearly a score of calls daily to thaw oo frozen service pipes The stoppage usually occurs oc-curs near the curb below the irrigation ditches and is tlue to the prolonged cold spell smdng the frost to great death I The fire department was called to the Bee Hive house on the corner of State and South Temple street yesterday afternoon I after-noon Electric light wires in the house had set fire to lght woodwork near the I roof and the flames were making rapid headway Lon the arrival of the department de-partment the blaze asa soon extinguished I The damage Is thought to b about T I which is covered br insurance Th state board of examiners yesterday i considered c lot of routine business and In addition made final settlement with the Journal company of Lincoln Neb for printing and binding the revised statutes of Stat the contract having been fully and satisfactorily executed The publishers pub-lishers presented Governor Wells with a handsomely bound copy of the statutes The covers are of morocco the sides embellished i em-bellished embossed In gold and the lettering is gilt I The board of education committees held I their first meetings last evening The i j members spent much time in familiarizing themselves with the procedure of their I predeeibEors and enquiring from Superintendent Superin-tendent Millspaugh and Clerk Moreton 1lspaugh a to the operation of school matters presi nt conditions and approaching necessities I neces-sities Messrs Critchlow Nelden and Newman were absent The proceedings were of a harmonious nature but nothing of public interest was decided upon The I i committee on rules will report a few amendments chief among which is the I ono requiring six votes to elect the I change proposed making a majority of I j a quorum necessary to a choice However this new rule if adopted will not be ap piled Thursday vntil after evening the election of a teaser I The library trustees held a conference esterday with Mayor Clark and Council men Siddoway and Fernstrom of the committee com-mittee on control of the joint building The subject discussed was that of assigning as-signing quarters for the public library I and free reading room The committee on control consented to the occupancy of the recorders office two small rooms connecting and the large vault or an j equal number of rooms and space on the basement floor Since only President Webber Mr Pyper r Dart and Mrs I Mllltr of the library board were present the matter was taken under advisement I until this morning when the trustees will meet to decide upon which floor to use for the library The decision of the board I will actuate the committee In recommending 1 recommend-Ing to the city council this evening the 1 assignment of whichever quarters are j wen A week ago the committee recommended a chance to the basement I but action was deferred The prospect Is good for the settlement of the question this evening and the probabilities are i that the determination of the retired administration > tat deterinaton retre ministration to give the library a home i r eWle d on the second floor will govern modified only as to the two rooms occupied by the I board of health It is likely that Recorder Backman will be given the health department depart-ment section and the health officers be moved to other suitable quarters |