Show r LOCAL BRIEFS 1 l J JAT AT ILIFF M E CHURCH this evening Rev D M HelmIck will discuss the conditions in Salt Lake in I some remarks preliminary to his ser sermon serm sermon mon m THE VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA will willon willon willon on Monday start the collection of or funds for Christmas baskets to be distributed among among the poor Santa Claus chimneys will be b placed on the street corners in inthe Inthe inthe the business district HENRY B RONEY of Chicago will with his concert company composed of boys appear In Salt Lake Dec Dee 31 Three years ears ago Mr Roney with his company gave gaye a concert at the tabernacle The rhe Affiliated Boys club of the Y M lL C A Awill Awill will wm have haYe charge of or Mr Honeys Roneys s con concert concert concert cert Last Christmas Roneys boys gave a concert at the White house upon the Invitation of President Roosevelt WILLIAM W city recorder of Murray has reported that all aU the indebtedness has been liquidated and that a balance in the neighborhood of from 1000 to 2000 Is yn hand H E BOOTH United States district at attorney attorney attorney torney received a copy of habeas cor corpus corpus corpus pus proceedings recently instituted by byR byR byR R B Shepard before the Kansas courts The Thc writ asks that he be re released released released leased from the federal Ce eral prison on the ground that the order for his confine contine confinement confinement ment is illegal and unlawful The Unit United United United ed States district attorney at Topeka asks that Mr Booth come to Kansas to assist In the proceedings Mr Booth does not know at present whether or not he will be able to go Shepard Is la servIng serving ing Inga a a sentence of thirteen months in inthe Inthe inthe the federal prison for having haing used the mails malls for Jor Illegal purposes JUDGE JOHN A PL MARSHALL denied the motion of the Silver SlIver King Mining com company company company pany for the continuance of their case which Is now pending In the federal court against the tIle Silver King Coalition company The case will be taken up immediately following the termination of ol the smelter smoke suit of C J Shoup THE REGISTER AND RECEIVER of or orthe the United States land office here re received received notice yesterday of the with withdrawal withdrawal withdrawal of the Grand Valley project lands from Utah which had been allot allotted allotted allotted ted to the state by an act of ot congress oJune oft 01 June 17 Ii 1202 MRS IRS MARGARET M lL PARKER AnKER P aged 85 88 years ears died yesterday at her home East South Temple street of or old age Mrs Parker was a former resi rest resident resident dent of Wisconsin but had made her home here with her son Frank L Park Parker er for the past seven years Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 at the home Interment will wilI be In Mount Olivet cemetery RAY H POWELL Is made defendant in inan inan inan an action instituted bythe by the state yes when the county attorney filed fileda a complaint against him at the instigation Instigation instigation gation of his wife wile Vera Ver O 0 Powell charging him with failure to support their daughter Priscilla Powell aged 18 months JOHN the man who at tempted to mutilate himself In the coun ty Jail Friday was adjudged Insane yes He was wiS ordered sent to the thc mental hospital at Prows ProvO Thomas Lam bert was also found to be Insane JUDGE ARMSTRONG will hold court In Tooele county this week THE FUNERAL of Dr John M Shepherd of or the medical staff of Fort Douglas Dou lap who died ht will take place I this afternoon at 2 from the post chapel The burial will be in Mount Oil Oli Olivet vet v t cemetery Dr Shepherd leaves a wife having been married less than a year He was the surviving son of the late Colonel Shepherd who was the first colonel of the Fifteenth Infantry Infant The funeral f will be with military honors NEW N W CASES CAS S of smallpox reported yes yesterday yesterday es were Chris Nielson Pearl avenue E M 11 Colvin East Second South James James F 10 McKee East Fourth South May and Vera Cline 20 Blair avenue MISS FLORENCE ONEIL will sing an Ave Maria by Millard at St Marys cathedral today at the 11 mass T H lL DALEY a local railroad man was the victim of oC a painful accident early Friday morning when he fell feIl down the steps at the Clift Chit house When hen removed to the emergency hospital It was found fo that he had sustained a broken Jaw and he was ordered removed to St Marks Mark hospital JAMES BOGAN BOG i an aged cripple was taken into custody by the police sat Satur day da afternoon and is confined In the county Jail pending his Ills examination be fore tore a lunacy commission Bogans de mentia Is of a harmless nature his hal principally taking the form torm that he is a speaker of note Lamp posts and street poles furnish his main audi aud MISS S ALICE P TOMLINSON who has been ill III at her home for the thc last two weeks was removed to St Marks hospital last evening THE YOUNG LADIES of the Y M oL C A held a house warming n In their ther new horn home 5 South West Temple mple street Friday Frida evening A class the fv of eighteen of ot the Y lL 31 Lv C A A boys were Present and a de dp evening was spent v There were several Instrumental and vocal 1 Bete Eel members rendered during the evening by the THE YOUNG CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION will hold a vesper Be ser vIce in their ce rooms in Brooks A Arcade at 4 SO 0 p m In Mrs Van Haun win l lead All AIl are invited to come to the service and stay to tea |