Show TOWN TALK Yesterdays clearings were 230125 as I cornered with 51Sl6i for the came day or last year Richard Grundy John Grundy Henry Thomas and W A Fradley were tried t in the palico court yesterday for fighting and discharged Hon A W McCuno Democratic national na-tional committeeman for Utah left yesterday yes-terday for Europe where the will join his family and remain until spring Maithanonl Thomas of the secretarys stair in the state land office ia taking a vacation in celebration of his marriage to Miss Amy A Smith The ihappy event occurred oc-curred yesterday Marriage lIcenses were issued yesterday to Charles A Mitchell aged 31 and Emma Johnson aged 23 and A N Abe son aged 21 and Margaret Brown aged 20 all of Salt lake City All the ladles who take port in the foil drill of Little Duke are requested to be present at the Tfoeosopical hall on West Temple Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 oclock sharp ThO street department has been making war on delinquent poll tax payers so successfully suc-cessfully that but very few remain to be proceeded against according to law with all < the attendant expense and annoyance The city treasurers staff has cord Bionced another crusade against delinquent delin-quent water users People lInd it cheaper io pay iChcir water motes for the year than to SQuare up matters after the water is cut off Martin Mock the farmer who was shot bv Benjamin Ecsintan during a controversy t con-troversy over their water aright near t Sandy was still alive last evening His V assailant Tviii be held in Ve county jail I until it develops whether or not Mock is fatally injured I The Y M C A night school opened last night With the organization of I classes In stenography bookkeeping grammar and arithmetic Thirty students were enrolled The classes in mechanical and free hand drawing elementary electricity I elec-tricity Spanish French and German will J begin tonight James Griffin was arrested last night on the charge of drunkenness Griffin Is an I Wd offender and wUs in a fighting humor last night When arrested he had a club i 5n his hand which he threatened to use i tigalnst the officer arre twig1 mm Besides tails offense he will have to answer to another an-other charge brought against him by Charles Benson This latter charge Is that I of destroying property I Judge J B Blair the new appointee to the office of United States surveyor general t gen-eral for Utaih yesterday received official of-ficial notice of hia appointment His oath I of office and bond in the sum of 30000 with A G Campbell George M Scott and A Hxnauer as sureties were promptly forwarded and ui > on their receipt re-ceipt his commission will be sent here Acting upon Instruction Surveyor General I Gen-eral Blair will be prepared to relieve George VV Snow the retiring official on j or about Oct 1 During these exciting times while < the city adminstration is seeking indioation from certain quarters City Engineer Kelsesr is among those who are to be congratulated upon his foresight with reference to matters connected with the asuhilt pavement on West cond South street In the vicinity of the postofflce It will be remembered that before the pavement pave-ment was laid the city engineer condemned con-demned the material proposed to < be used by Contractor Hobson because it was not up to the standard required by the speclicatons but the board of public works permitted the use of the condemned con-demned asphalt on condition that the sum of S23M additional be retained by the city Within the past teek the unusual un-usual spectacle of patching a new pave ir < n In over a dozen places has been observed The plans laid by State Fish and Game Warden Sharp and his colleagues for holding a convention in this city during conference week promises < to come to a successful maturity It Is proposed to have all the county wardens and all who arc interested in the better protection of Utahs fish and game interests attend the convention and form a state protective association Already numerous responses to the invitations nave been received and a large attendance and profitable results are anticipated State Warden Sharp will go to Fort Duchesne on Oct 1 in I company with Mr Swan Colorados state warden to hold a conference with the Indian agent on the reservation in the hope that the red men may become interested in-terested in the necessity of compelling abc a-bc tter observance of the laws of both states The Indians w ll be impressed with the truth that if the hunters of big game for hides and heads do not cease their wanton destruction there will soon be a time when deer elk and antelope wm be a rarity along the doradoUtah border Mr Sharp expects to return Jn time to participate In the Utah state convention con-vention |