Show PARK crrv Council Meeting Invalids Gettlng Better and Worse Snovr PARK CITY Jan 16Tile city council coun-cil met last evening all the members being present except Councilman Thompson Routine business was the order of the evening S L Raddon attended to the duties of Recorder Fred W Hoyt who is absent The council authorized the recorder to receive re-ceive bids for the contract of supplying supply-ing the city hall with coal mainter ance of prisoners and for the keep of the city team Dick Kearney the miner who has been on the point of death at the Salt Lake house for the past seven weeks at intervals suffering from typhoid pneumonia had another relapse re-lapse yesterday and Is now very low Mrs Martin Prisk jr the wife of the popular grocery clerk of that name with the M S Aschelm Mercantile company had an acute attack of bilious colic and is now improving somewhat Ed Boyle one of the camps old time miners and an employee of the Daly mine is at the Salt Lake house nursing nurs-ing a very bad cold which has settled in his back A cold southwest wind accompanied by snow has been blowing for the past twentyfour hours The snow has come most opportune JPayson Happenings PAYSON Utah Jan 16 Spring appears ap-pears to have come We are having warmer weather and the streets are running streams Sleighing is finished and everybody seems satisfied that we have had winter long enough this season sea-son Pleasant spring promises prosperity pros-perity We have hope for better times Our new city council is working peacefully and next meeting will make new appointments for the official positions posi-tions within their gift There are a few cases of measles in town nothing serious however and our health officers offi-cers are awake to the emergency The Spanish Fork Thespian company is billed here for Saturday in Fraud and Its Victims also the great Uncle Josh Sprucely has a date of January 21 The Payson Home company is preparing pre-paring Jim the Penman for next week Dances and balls are frequent and a masquerade ball is on the list to come off at an early date The silver band has been reorganized for the year and expects to move out this summer and surprise everybody Bishop Page is moving his store from the Hancock building to Irvines store which is centrally located All business has been quiet since the holidays hol-idays Charles C F Dixon who has been laid up with typhoid fever is now recovering re-covering and life seems to him again worth living Wimmer Co the coop store are busy stock taking Mrs L J Wightman has started again in business as merchant and music mu-sic dealer Ice is being stored away for summer use by a number of firms The unseating move is being closely watched by the Democrats of this place Judge W N Dusenberry was in Payson yesterday in the interest of the movement looking up evidence for the defense The Election Contest SANTAQUIN Jan 16I notice your report of yesterdays proceedings in the election contest cases in United States Commissioner Dudleys court at Provo does not mention the contest as far as Santaquin is concerned The Republicans charge that C R Grace is a nonresident and that John A Aplin voted at 510 p m after the polls were closed Nephi Nelson T J Kirkman both election judges C H Frank J H Ellsworth and O F Malmberg testified testi-fied that Aplin voted before 455 ani that the polls were not closed for two minutes after he cast his vote also that C A Mace had made Santaquin his home for from six to twelve months last past Fifteen more witnesses could be had from here who would testify that Ap lin voted before 5 oclock and everybody every-body here knows Mace was a bona fide resident I do not understand how the Republican Repub-lican judges could certify to the returns re-turns and then swear to the charges No one in Santaquin would have thought of making such charges had not that most contemptible man John C Graham worked the thing up in his own peculiar way The Republican challengers would not sit still and allow these two men to vote without a protest if they had not known that they were qualified and legal voters and as a matter of fact they in my presence asked Mace to vote the Republican ticket The general public of Santaquin will certainly cer-tainly repudiate such skullduggery as the Republicans are practicing in this matter The Scandinavians of this city gave a grand ball at Social hall yesterday The gaieties commenced at 2 oclock in the afternoon and lasted far into the night A most enjoyable time was had and the attendance was large as nearly half of the population of San taquin are of Swedish and Norwegian descent Yours very truly O F MALMBERG |