Show TOWN TALK Yesterdays clearings were 223104 a compared with 169533 for the same day of last year Job T Smith of Washington county and Bismark Snyder of Summit county were yesterday commissioned notary publics Boise Statesman ExGovernor Thomas Bois Stteman of ttah Is spending a few days Pi his ranch at Lannans Spur on the Lower Boise The resolution authorizing Water Mas icr Wilcken to expend 2000 on the sur nlus canal was signed by Mayor Glen dinning yesterday Marriage licenses were Issued yesterday to Alexander Gibson and Elizabeth Brown Salt Lake James AyLward Eureka and Emma E Anderson Terre Haute Ind An entertainment will be given In the Fourteenth ward meeting house tomorrow of Fox and evening In honor George ad Byron West who leave shortly on mls Blons II I I Albion Times Judge Power of Salt Lake City came In on Tuesday The judge I Is associate counsel with Messrs Rogers Davis and Borali i the case of the state vs I Boise Statesman Rev W S awkes of Salt Lake superintendent of the Home Missionary society for the states of Utah Wright and Idaho 1 visiting with Rev R B i Mayor Glendlnnlng yesterday approved I the councils action In allowing Superin Supn tendent Wallace of the waterworks department de-partment five men at 5 per day to make tho water assessment Justice Sommers found time between the sessions of the Inquest yesterday t unite In marriage James Aylward the engineer of the Germany mine Eureka sail Miss Emma Anderson of Terre Haute Ind It was again rumored about town last night that 1Jr Hamilton had made a confession to Mayor Glendlnnlng His I honor was seen by The Herald at a late l iour and denied that Mrs Hamilton had math any confession whatever to him r Annie Besant the renowned Theosophist The-osophist accompanied by the Countess or Wachmunster will arrive here today and this evening Mrs Besant delivers her Initial lecture at the hal In the Wasatch In tmildinr on Theosophy and Its Ten The committee on cemetery has decided to reduce the price of caring for lots in the City cemetery and the following rates will hereafter b charged For care of lull lots J6 per season care of half lots S 5 per season for caro of single graves H per season pr son Archdeacon Crook will be In Payson 2Tlday April 2 He will also hold the services of the Protestant Episcopal L church In Provo Sunday morning 1 a m April 25 and go to Eureka In the evening t conduct cervices and preach in the Episcopal church there a soon a the EJo Grande train arrives arve Peter Brown who keeps a store at the corner of Second East and Fifth South had a encounter with a holdup 0 few nights ago In which the merchant came ort with flying colors Mr Brown was crossing the street are city and r Bounty building when the thug approached ap-proached him poked out a gun and gave the order for hands up Instead of obeying Mr Brown knocked the weapon aside und then knocked the holdup down and Pvc him a severe drubbing James McKeever alias James McLeod was arrested yesterday afternoon at the Instance of Mike Martinson who charges McKeever with the theft of two watches Martinson fell asleep in a saloon yesterday yester-day morning and when he awoke a silver watch valued at 23 and another worth watc ue about S3 were missing McKeever was seen about th > sleeper by other frequenters frequent-ers of the place and the police acting on this clue arrested McKeever later in the day at a saloon near the depot where lie was trying to sell the silver watch The man is remembered because of a remarkable re-markable story he told some time ago wherein le described himself as baflllnz some holdups who invaded a saloon on West Temple street Methodist Spring Conference will open this evening at Liberty Park church The spring rieeting of the Methodist ministers minis-ters occurs today und tomorrow This Thursday evening the meeting opens at Liberty Park church with a lecture bRo b-Ro N P Tedriek Ph D of Ogden on Tha Preacher and Modern Literature Thl prer Lieraturj Tomorrow morning Rev F C Lockwood Ph D of luff church conducts a symposium sym-posium on What Books Have Helped Me Most Rev N Bascom of Logan will discus the successful elements of a p tor Rev C McCoard of ureka Rev G P Miller of Mt Pleasant Re Joseph Wllks of Provo and others win present ik living subjects for aiscusslon Rev Dr Iliff will preside at U1 the meetings and on Friday evening Rev A la Henry of Fit church this city will deliver an address on Is a New Gospel Needed or Why Are the Masses so Apathetic The rolfiv ar examination of the conference undergraduates occurs this morning at je clock under the chairmanship of Rev J D Gillilan of the board of cxamina I ers I |