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Show ' 8 ' THE SALT LAKE TIMES, MONDAY EVENING, APRP' 21.1890. SALT LAKE EVENING TIMES. The Times' Telephone number is 481. The office of TaB Tiama is located at No. 12 ftommeroial street. General Delivery? 80 .m. to 6:00 p.m. Carriers' window 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. buncUy and Holiday hours. . .12:00 m. to IKK) p.m. Jjooal mention in this oolnmn will be carried St 25 oente per line each insertion. MONDAY, APRIL 31, 1890. Pabst Brewing Co! (Formerly PHILIP BEST) ' Mnj-WATTKH- WIS, Export, Bohemian, Hoffbrau and Select Blue Ribb( Keg and Bottled Beers shipped immediately upon order. TIIE FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED FREE DELIVERY! ,;, ... TELEPHONE 35 B. K. BLOCH y Co., 15-1- 7 COMMERCIAL ST. W. II. McOLUKE & CO., REAL ESTATE SMALL HKOFITS AND SURE RETURNS, C6 West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. TOO L.iTE TO CLASSIFY PERSONAL MR. BIKL REQUEST 1 collector for the Trade and Publlshtug company, who called on t inornlns and collected . insteM a mistake, to call at Room 18. ScT,' s building, and return the extra Btel. T OST-Tw- enty dollars reward forto' XJ of anienvelope and papers l" Union Pacific depot and Main snet"c t'iil'. E GRAND OPERA Hi W. J. BURGESS, Mauagf A. Treat in Stor THE ALOSE IN LOW! --ON-Wednesday Matinee, Ap1 Will present for the lirst tin ' , ..- - stage a Charming 0 Home Life entiled ABOMESTICCfliI A LOVESTOBY! A HOl' A THKllLIXG STOBT! Well mounted and well acted byt Superb Compani-on S' Prices for this Matinee only - -- ' Novelty Manufacturing Co.', key g and lock repairing, 61 East third f,outh- - Knudson Bkos.u Choice maple syrup, the finest in the land, Hamond's choice hams new and bacon goods and choice fruits arrivim every day at C. B. Durst's, T3 and 74 E 2nd bouth St. Wanted. r,TiT.n-'.T;- ? sol;'iti?.rs fur-ii- work. office. . PARKER & c Contractors & BuK 2l"S. SECOND WEST STB Estimates Che&rMy Give Jobbing Prompt Orders by PoTwTAtteii" , WANTS. If yon want help, If yon want to rent a honse, If yon want, to sell a lot, If yon want a situation. If yon want anything, Advertise in The Tikes "Want Column." CITY CIHCULATION. Tub Times management is making ovory effort possible to have the paper delivered promptly , and rogularly in every part of the oily. Any com. plaint abont tho delivery i cent to thisoflico will bo attended to ct once. SUNDAY CLOSING. How the Thirsty Obtained Their Usual Drinks. Yesterday was supposed to bo a dry Sunday. Tito mayor ordered all sa-loons closed, sealed up, side doors and all. Most of the keepers obeyed the order and a few did not. Tho location had a great deal to do with the compli-ance of the order. If the side door was in the alley partially concealed, all was well. If there was no sido door, well, things were different. The hotels closed up. The proprietor of the bar in tho Walker house cafe pulled down tho screen which on pre-vious Sundays has shut out the drinkers from view, hung a curtain over the glasses and fixtures and put up a sign "Closed." Then in conjunction with several other people, he kicked because ho had to do so. The guests who wanted beer grumbled because they couldn't get it, and thus it was. The thirsty stranger in tho city murmured loudly at his luck, while tho initiated hunted up thu solid bartender and bought a bottle. Some patronized tho drug stores and obtained "spts frumenti" eight 01 or something else on prescrip-tions. Lots of people hied themselves to breweries and drank from the copper measure. Some of the boys had a bottlo at homo anil they were regarded as princes of good fellows by their com-panions. There were places that kept open and did a rushing business. i A beer hall on Second East had a rear door, and a constant string of people passed in and out from early morn until dewy eve. Littjo boys worked the growler for their parents at homo," and many' kegs were emptied." It was a Sunday closing only in name. The saloon keepers as a uuil protested and said they hail as much right to keep open as the clubs had to sell liquor to their members-an- d tho visitors. But they didn't, as a rule, while --tho club nourished merrily. Thus cmleth the lirst chapter. POLICE COUKT. His Honor Holds lain Usual Monday Session. "Owing to circumstances over which the court had no control", remarked his honor this morning, "this court is about four minutes behind in donning tho judicial ermine. But wo will now proceed to grease the wheels of justice with the oil of facilitation and for a time things will hum. "John Jackson you are charged with being drunk and disturbing the peace. It is claimed that you insisted on buttonholing people and trying to per-suade them that you were a candi-date for coustablo on the demo-cratic ticket. I suppose all this is a result of drinking Sunday closing whiskey from a bottlo in an alley. I am free to admit that tho average liquor would make a man go home and steal his own pantaloons, but the law recognizes no such extenu-ating circumstauees. However, I will be as easy as possible with you and will give you your choice of punishment. Ten dollars or ten days." "May Smedleyyou are hero to an-swer to the charge of vagrancy. Peo-ple assert that you do nothing but bor-row nickels, work the can and after tilling yourself with beer mako tho night hideous by singing Annie Laurie.' You set up as a plea that you only drank three glasses of beer. If what they term a schooner is strictly speaking a glass, you swallowed two or three Cunard vessels and a ship. You will peel potatoes in the city prison, and at night do bat-tle with tho insects for ten days." "John Doe, this makes 1,500,000 times you have been before this court or some other charged with disorderly conduct and being in-toxicated. I will give you a fortnight to repent." "Before adjourning for its meal this court desires to say that in future busi-ness must bejtransactedon a more rapid plan. Complaints must be made earlier in the day. This jail is no permanent boarding house for men awaiting trial. Attorneys will please take notice." COMING EVENTS OF THE WKUK. ' MONDAY". Mass meeting In tho federal court room to tal;e action regarding public Improvements, "Alone In London" at I he Urand Opera house. The Ladles' Musical society holds Its thirtieth recital this cvenlug in Calder'e Music hall. ' TUESDAY. Keal Estate Exchange raceting. . "Alone in London" at the Grand. Worklngmon's mass meeting In the federal court room. WEDNESDAY. "Alone in London" at the Grand. THURSDAY. Bunion's "Fantasma" at the Grand. FRIDAY. "Fantasma" at the Grand. Hyde's Specialty company at the Salt Lake ' theater. SATURDAY. "Fantasma" at the Grand. , Hyde's Specialty company at the Salt Lake theater. Some Breezy Gossip in Eelation to One of the Main House Com-mittee. A COURT THAT SETS IS JUDGMENT. The, Men Who Begulate the Commerce Manufactures and the Labor of the Country. Washingto, April 21. Tho ways and means committee of tho houso has just linished its task of preparing a new tariff bill. What is this ways and means coin- - metal, glass ana earthenware, sugar sirups in little bottles, and many J of such things. Clerk Carson is Tll building up a ways and means rani, composed entirely of these sample tides, and rangiog in variety from, from Sheffield to the hide of a S American steer. ' After the hearings are conclur' real work of making a tariff hill bp This is done with closed doors, and!! tho ma jority of the committee pate. When the Republicans areiapr, the chairman and his party friendi tire to some private room to dotl work in secret. Meanwhile the Dei crats stand by and complain of this "4 lantern" method. When the Demo:' are in power they get off in some pi by themselves, and then the Republic raise the cry of dark lantern metho Such, it will be observed, is politics America. It is a serious job which these mm; dertaue wnen they sit down in prm A tariff bill is a formidable. don Tradition has it. that IU average n bill contains 4.000 items. A recent w dent of the United States used that m ber in his message to congress to il trate the importance of the neat. But the number gives no adequate of the scope of a tariff bill. It is a thi which cannot be expressed in numbe Leaving out the few hundred items e tioned in the full list, everything known to the people, everything it they wear, drink, snioko or use in it homes, on their persons, in their! offices, factories and fields, bearsai of duty. And here sit the eight potentate commerce, of trade, of manufacne twisting the industries of the cos: about thoir Angers by the simple puts on of fractions and per cents, or b;i taking away of the same. Prosperity adversity to hundreds of important dustries follows each letter which clerk puts down on paper at the tion of these eight men. Is it anyw, der the ways and means is con! the greatest of committees? Is iti wonder that it usually absorbs the brain and largest experience of congr? When the majority have finished ti bill they report it to the full commie The minority then for the first time see it. No matter whether they life or not it is the bill, and thus p the bouse, and, accidents barred, to statute books. Now the minority begins to from bill of its own. It, too, needs a cob tee room. For half a century them and means has bad but one apartus Now it has two. A few days agoSf er Reed took possession of the ladies ception room, closed up an entraas the Capitol and mada of it a waysi means meeting place. It is a F! esque apartment, all marble in wall ceiling, a huge portiere at oneeii with two rows of columns, each te the Thomas Jefferson American a of maizo and tobacco. Here meet these representatiw Democracy men whose name knowp from one end of the count: the other Mills, Carlisle, Flower. In the outer room Chairman H; ley, the Little Napoleon of Protectw surrounded by Dingley, Gear.Lafe Bayne, Payne, McKenua and Burrc an array of brain and loyalty of the Republican party is proud. mittee, and now does it work f it is the most powerful committee of congress. It is a court which sits in judgment on the commerce, the manufactures, the labor of the people. No other thirteen men in the land have go much responsibility, so mucli power, as have they. All the governors of states, all the cabinet ministers, all the justices of the supreme court, are as pigmies compared to them. As parties go and legislation is carried on, a ways and means committee of the house of repre-sentatives possesses authority that is al-most monarchical, for it prepares the laws in which is exercised that greatest function of government, the taxing pow-er, and the political party which hail made the committee generally enacts the measures which it prepares and pro-poses. - ' ' The ways and means committee is the federal taxing board. It not only de-termines how much money shall flow into the coffers of the government, but whence it shall come. The taxing board of a county or city as a rule lias power only to fix the sum to be collected and to pro rate that among all property owners, so much tax to each hundred dollars of assessed value. No such restriction? bind the autocrats of the ways and means committee. It is within their province to let one man go scot free of taxes and to tax another to death; to say to one manufacturer, "You shall prosper and wax rich," and to his neighbor, "You shall be ruined;" to extinguish or kindle furnace fires; to open or close the doors of factories, and to stop or start tiie ereat emrin?s in mills and mines. This is a tyrant's power, but it is precisely the power wielded by the thirteen men on whom we are to look. The ways and means committee, of course, represents in a majority of its members the party in power in the house of representatives. It is appointed by the speaker, and in this creation of com-mittees lies that power of the speaker's office which makes it easily the second office of importance in the United States government. The chairman of the ways and means committee is by tradition and common consent the leader of the house. He is usually a man of long experience and great ability. Tradition says, also, that eight of tho members shall be in ac-cord with the majority of the house, while five shall be appointed to represent the minority. The chief duty of the committee is preparation of a taxing of tariff bill. As a preliminary to this a programme of Hearings' is arranged. On appointed days the representatives of various man-ufacturing, commercial and agricultural interests are invited to be present and offer arguments concerning the changes in the law which they desire. These in-terests are never backward. They come to the front always in large numbers. They come from all parts of the country and from every walk of life. Here mill-ionaire manufacturers like Carnegie aud Spreckels meet plain, blunt farmers like Mr, Brown, of York county, Pa., and Mr. Piollet, of Bradford county. Some-times great lawyers appear before the committee to make arguments for their clients, and members of the house, and senators also, for their constituents. These tariff hearings are held before the full committee, Democrats as well as Republicans. The doors are open, too, and whosoever will may come. Often large crowds assemble, and help to make up a scene of rare-interes- In the mid-dle of a room about thirty-fiv- e feet square is a long, wide table. It is cov-ered with books, papers and documents. Surrounding it are thirteen chairs, and the table just in front of each chair bears the name of one of the members. Here sits the committee, and crowding about are hundreds of spectators, only a few of whom can find seats. The house rules against smoking dj not obtain here, and every other man. has a cigar in his mouth. Of cau.no the air is very bad, and about once in ten minutes an old man who stands in the rear of the room with a long pole in his hand reaches up and pulls down a window. Seven or eight minutes later, when the men with bald heads begin to complain, the old man pushes the window up again. Thus, while we are learning something about we taxing power of our povernment. we also gain aa insight to the crude methods of ventilation practiced in the trovern-tnen- t s greatest building, into which a score been poured. of millions of the tax money hare ments wh,ocome to present argu- the committee bring hera great numbers of the b,g table is covered withecesTf Cloth, bunches o wgol..fraeme PUBLIC MEETING. All persons interested in the welfare and advancement of Salt Lake City are cordially invited to attend the public meeting to be held under the auspices of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce at the Federal Courtroom this even-ing at 8 o'clock sharp. Topics of local interest will be discussed thoroughly. Ev-erybody is invited. Fred Simon, Act. Pres. Frank K. Gillespie, Sec. jTI POST OFFICE BIDS. Inspector Patterson on the Situation in Salt Lake and How Postmaster Barratt Stands. T3KEE COMPETITORS IN THE FIELD. The Choice for Location Lies Between Eicketts, Holmes & Karrick and J. E. Dooley. W. W. Patterson, chief inspector of the tho general postofllco department for the Denver district, arrived in Salt Lake Saturday evening and has quar-ters at the Cullen houso. The special object of Mr. Patterson's visit to this city, at this lime, is to receive, open and decide upon tho bids mado for a suit-able location aud tho interior fittings for the Salt Lake postollice. Mr. terson was seen this morning by a Times representative and in the conver-sation that ensued, that gentleman ex-plained himself about as follows: "With regard to what I understand has appeared in tho columns of one of your papers lately, referring to a con-templated change in tho postmastership of Salt Lake. I had to come hero to get tho news. I know nothing about the matter further than what has been totd 1110 since I arrived. I understand that tho same dispatch intimated as a reason for the change that tho management of tho otlico by Postmaster Barrett had not given entire satisfaction. Such a story is absolutely unfounded, so far as the official reports of tho inspectors are con-cerned. These reports all pass through my hands and aro subject to my ap-proval, and they are sent by mo to tho department at Washington. In none of them has there appeared a word reflect-ing upon Mr. Barratt's conduct of the olfice;on the contrary, one of the fullest and best reports I ever saw,' made some time ago, about tho SaltLake office, gave Mr. Barratt's administration every credit for tho able manner in which ho managed the otlico under very adverse circumstances. The postmaster here has been handicapped all along by insufficient room, inadequate faoili-itie-ami lack of proper clerical help. All this will, I trust, be changed in a short lime, aud Salt Lake given a postollice with facilities worthy of the city. "The bids for these improvements aro now all in, they, having closed at 10 o'clock this morning; but while I can give you the names of the bidders aud tho location proposed, I do not feel at liberty to give the amount contained in each bid nor tho result of tho decision made. Of one thing, however, you may rest assured, the present location will not be the successful one, it is en-tirely loo cramped, and tho building itself does not meet tho requirements. You will have a postoffie heree fielly up to tho modern standard,' with plenty of room, a largo vault and all modern improvements, so that tho very largo mails passing through it may be handled with dispatch and ac-curacy. "Tho postmaster-general- , let me say, is your best friend, and you may depend upon it that Mr. Wanamakor is fully alive to tho situation hero and will do all that lies in his power to provide Salt Lake with a postollice, not only tem-porarily, but for tho future, when a government building shall bo erected. There need bo 110 apprehension that tho appropriation for this latter purpose will stop at $250,000. Even supposing that such an amount bo all that tho present bill covers, it does not necessar-ily follow that a government building wil be completed on that basis. It will take live or six years to finish such a building, and during that time other appropriations will bo made ; and you will iiud that tho architectural plans and specifications linally adopted will bo with a view to a building fully up to tho oinount of tho original appropria-tion of $.i00,000." There were but three bids submitted submitted for tho postofllco location and improvements, aud these were: Ricketts, Holmes & Carriek; west side of First East, between Second and Third South. The Groesbock company, present location. J. E. Dooley; West Temple aud Second South, near tho proposed Ontario hotel. No selection lias yet been mado for tho silo. KEAL ESTATEEXCHANGE Another Lively Meeting of the Organiza-tion is Held at the Exchange Booms This Morming. PR0PEBTY 0FPEEED FOB SALE. The List of Wants by the Members-N- ew Additions Saturday's List of Transfers, The real estato exchauge now num-bers seventy-fiv- e members: W. N. Mil-bur- n being the latest addition. Tho at-tendance this morning was good and matters are now assuming definite shape. Tho property offered this morn-ing was as follows: By E. II. Fohlin, 100 acres, being the west half of the west half of section 11, township 1 south, range 2 west, adjoin-ing Eldorado addition, at $45 per aero. By J. (). Campbell 7x7 corner Fifth South and Sixth East, $8000. G.9 rods, part of lot 3, block. 10, plat A; $0700. This property has a brick house and artesian well, aud rents for $30 per month. 0x0 corner, Seventh South and Eighth East, with house; $5500. 5x10 corner Seventh South and Sixth East, houso rents for $15 per month; $6500. By J. II. Wlialon a first mortgage and notes to tho amount of $2522, due in nine months, on lot in block 27, plat A, containing now brick houso which rents for $40 per month, under tho head of wants, A. H. Par-sons called for $4,000 at 10 per cent on 57x82 feet a six room house on Main street between sixth and Seventh South. E. F. Fohlin asked for a large room for a printing oillce, rout not to exceed $50 per month. ; Dergo & ltobcrts want $1,500 on a $0,000 trust deed. The following are Saturday's real es-tato transfers: W H Shearman et al. to H R Fry, all of lots 6 and 6, block 81, plat C, about Third North and Ninth West 6,500 13 Petit and wife to W Jones, 4x10 rods, lot 5, block S3, plat A A W Smith and wife to O L Jensen and wife, southwest quarter of section ', township a south, range I west 400 C L Jensen and wife to W A Robertson, southwest quarter of section aft, town-ship 8 south, range I west 750 H J Dieter to J T Smith, part of section ait. township 1 north, range west. . . . 2,500 H.I Dieter to J Arklns et al., part of sec-tion MB. township 1 north, range I west 2,500 II J Dieter to O T Thedson. part of sec- - . tlon 20, township 1 north, range 1 west 2,500 H J Dieter to J C Helna, part of section 21). township 1 north, range 1 west. . . . 2,3M s A Woollev aud wife to Laura A Parry, part of lots 8 and 0, block 1, Hump-ton'- s subdivision 2975 L Htenhoiise aud wife to K H Pierce, part of lot 4. block 33'plat B, between 1 aud J and Second and Third streets. 11,000 H D folsom and wife V F Barton, all of lots 7 and 8. bloclt 16. plat J 1200 D Davidson to B H Pendleton, MixlO rods, lot 8, block 58, plat. H, corner of Ninth East and South Temple 5700 J Wilkinson etal to R lirogelman, 0x10 rods, lot I, block , plat B 2U00 J Wilkinson et al to II S Carter, 6x10 rods, lot 1. block 6, platiB 2900 G E Yeadon et al to F J Leonard, 6x8 rods, lot 2. block :M, plat C 2000 W C Dyer and wife to A R Dyer, 7!ix25 rods, lot 7, block 08. plat A : . . . . 1 D L Archer et al to T If Cbeslev, all of lots to 10, block 2, Arpher & Kuliak's HUbdlAlston .T 3000 S Merrlott and wife to W R Andrew, southwest quarter section 3, township 3 south, range I west. 1250 E Home and wife to O P Pratt, part lot 7, block 1, Jordan plat A 3000 L O Young et al. to Roxte T Fonton. all of lots 60 and 61, block 3, Park View addition 500 C A North and wife to R Jensen, part of lot 7, block 1, ten-acr- e plat A 600 J Whittaker et al. to A Trunin. 1 acres, lot 3, block 4, Jordan plat A ... . 1200 W L Price et al. to A Spears. 10x1 rods, lot 6. block 84, plat A. North Temple, between Second and Third West...... 9000 J B Edwards to A W Raybould, 2J,x5 rods, lot 8, block 23. plat A 600 Minnie Heron to J H Heron, part of lot 6. block 58. plat A 1 L B Coates et al. to Miss E V Ward, all of lot 12. block 3, South Gale addition 700 O (iroshell to A Field, lot 13, block 6, Muscatine Place subdivision 250 L P Kelsey et al. to H D Webster, lots 4 and 5, block 1, and other property in Kelsey & Gillespie's subdivision 2500 F O Fowler and wife to G Hirsh, lots 20 to t, block 5, Gray's sub 800 Harriet A Partridge to Clara C Larson, lots 12 aud 13, block 2, Ehrich's subdi-vision 2600 W H Christie to Rebecca Shelton, lots 14 and 15. block 10, Capital avenue ad-dition... 1000 P Rasmussen et al to C Jones, all lots 2 to 5, block 29. Draper townsite 160 Sarah Williams to (1 Bruce, 5x10 rods lot 2. block 8. plat O 1850 L B Coates et al to Harriet Foster, all lot 3. block 4. Coates &, Corum's sub-division South Dale addition 925 D N Clark to F T Sutherland, 10 acres, section 8, township ,1 north, range 1 west 3000 Nancy Salisbury to J B Rudy, 3x10 rods lot 6, block 42, plat A 4050 Jesse Harris et al to F C Avery three- - fifths of lots 16 aud 17, block 5, Plat A 18,000 R W Sloan etal to H G Balch, all lot 14, block 13, five-acr- e plat C 5000 G S Holmes to Amelia J McMannus, all lots 18 to 4H, bhx;k 14, and 7 to 12 in bloclt 7, Holmes addition 3000 Total 1108,663 CIVIL COUKT CASKS. ileal Estate Brokers Scrambling for on Hales They Made. Iii the district court this morning Judge Zaue's time was occupied in hear-ing civil cases. Ho decided tho case of J. E. Otterstater aud others against Jo-seph Baumgarten and others in favor of the plaintiffs, who sued to recover $156.25, claimed to be due on real es-tate commissions. An appeal case of A. L. Pollock and others against George Carter and others is now on trial. Pollock & Wilson are real estate brokers, and claim that the defendants owo them $209.50, due on account of services as agents. The case was tried somo time ago o a United States Commissioner who gave judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendants took an appeal. C. B. Weeks, an attorney recently from Kansas, was admitted to practice law in the local courts. In the case of Jane Livingston against Elizabeth Livingston and others, Judge Anderson this morning appointed S. W. Darke guardian ad litem of the minors of the family. ., A Commercial Man, Talks. . "I am a traveling man aud property owner here," writes a well-know- com-mercial tourist to Thk Times, "but be-cause I am not a member of a club, and am not acquainted with the drug clerk at your corner gro-cery, I therefore cannot gel a drink on Sunday.. Now I'm not in favor of mu-lling a saloon open on Sunday, but here in Salt Lake there's a great amount of partiality shown. A member of a club can drink to his heait's-conte- nt for which the club pays no license. On tho oilier hand a saloon keeper pays $100 per month for the same privilege, with the excep-tion of gambling, and is forced to close on Sunday, while the drug store, res-taurant and hotels dispense liquor to any thirsty mortal who asks for it. This is not what an intelligent commu-nity would call justice. Yet tho order is issued by the same council who grants tho license for which the saloon man pays. Why should so much par-tiality be shown and such a distinction uiador" Note Tho traveler is mistaken in somo of his statements, as hotels, res-taurants, and drug stores are included In tho Sunday order, and it is believed that most of them obeyed tho law yes-terday. Of courso thero is no law but can and will bo evaded by somebody, but as a rule the Sunday closing order was pretty generally observed. LOCAL BREVITIES. A carload of standard bred mares, one or two stallions and a trotter or two, reached this city Saturday. Tho animals ore stabled at tho driving park. T' e workln? men will hold a mass meeting in t.ui federal courtroom .. evening. HI utters of import-ttuo- o to the interests of labor will be dis cussed. The open meeting of tho chamber of commerce will be held this evening in the Federal courtroom, when matters of great importance to tho city will be dis-cussed. A territorial Sunday school conven-tion will bo held in this city May 14 and 15, when President William Rey-nolds of the International association will bo in attendance Tho track at the driving park was heavy yesterday, aud prevented one or I wo races that were booked for the morn-ing from coming oft'. The stakes ranged in value from a box of cigars to $100. Tho chief of police is notifying the owners of houses rented to disreputable women that tho owners will be prose-cuted unless thero is an early change of tenantry. The ordinance provides for a fine or imprisonment or both, within the discretion of tho court. Cuniining & Critchlow is the name of the latest law firm, composed of (. M. Gumming, late assistant general manager of the Union Pacific railway, mid Assistant United Stales Attorney Critchlow. Their offices aro in the Daft building, 120 Main street. ' The rapid transit people have ascer-tained from Mr. Spraguo that lines can cross each other without dilllculty by a 'suitable- system of insulation at iho points of contact, so that the current is broken to the trolly only for about two inches on each sido of 'the cross. Tho company is distributing ties along Sev-enth South street. At the Garfield Beach Boat club meet-ing Saturday night, the old board of officers resigned and the following were then elected: President, Win, Ulan-naiin- ; E. 0. Matthews; Secretary1, Fred McGurrin; Treasurer, C.H. McCoy; Captain. H. N. Mayo; Commander.' W. W. Bailey; Directors. Dr. Hughes, Oscar Zepf, J, ,J. Farrell, G, N. Nickerson. BATHING PIER AT SALT AIR. A New One to he Erected by Mathew White, which Will Excel All Others. Plans aro being made for a bathing pier at Saltaii" beaeh, which will be erected by Mathew White in the near future. Tho pier will be the finest on the lake, so 'tis said, aud will be pat-terned after the Coney Island pier. It will be half a mile long, fifty feet wide, and have an observation tower 125 feet high. The first floor will bo used for promenading aud dancing, tho second floor for a restaurant, while tho third will be for observation purposes, where a lino view can be had of tho lake. Thero will bo an elevator to the observ-atory and a cable on either side of tho platform. One of the cables will be ar-ranged like a switchback, so as to pro-duce the effect of a rolling sea, while tho other side will bo level. T - i AGAINST SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS, The Ministers Want a Christian Sabbath "lliS I and Little Jesus." Sunday services, considering tho dis-agreeable clay, were fairly well attendod yesterday and last night. At the' First Baptist church, Rev. M. T. Lamb de-livered a discourse onMormouism. The drift of his lalk was the manner of con-verting Mormons to Christianity. The tendency of Mormonism was toward infidelity. A Mormon could not be con-verted to Christianity except through infidelity, his idea being that he knows all that a Gentilo knows and a great deal more. There aro more apostates, by an overwhelming majority, in the Mormon church than in any other. When first they become Mormons it is big Jesus aud little I; but it soon vice versa, big I aud little Jesus. At the closo of tho services a petition was circulated among tho voters of the congregation requesting tho mayor and city couiicilineu not to grant licenses for anv Sunday entertainment. "A Christian Sabbath" was tho sub-ject of discussion by Drs. Iliff aud Vin-cent and Rev. James B. Thrall at tho First Methodist church last night. They wanted everything closed, and the at-tention of tho audience, after the lec-tures, was called to tho following reso-lution which was unanimously adopted: Whereas. A quiet and orderly Sabbath is essential to the best welfare of tho city; and Whereas, Such a day of rest cannot be pre-served for all classeB. if any one class is given permission to use tho Rest Day for money-makin-purposes ; therefore, Resolved, That this union meeting of citizens does hereby earnestly petition the City Coun-cil to impartially withhold licenses from every class that wishes to uso Sunday for money-makin- g purposes. Mormon services in the afternoon were presided over by Counselor J. E. Taylor. Tho lirst speaker was Elder Charles Stayner, who has just returned from Washington. During his visit thero ho had never except once heard an unkind expression used against the Mormons, and that once was when the Idaho test oath case was being tried by the supremo court. In every caso tho feeling toward tho church was a kindly ono. The Iroublo was, however, that tho people seemed to caro more about the financial and worldly prosperity of tho territory thau to inquire into the fundamental principles of the faith that had broughi out so many people to form a commonwealth in tho midst of the mountains. Probate Court. Estate of Ann Brown, deceased; order made allowing final account and mak-ing distribution. Estate of Ann Horrocks, deceased; same order. ' Estato aud guardianship of John aud Julia Woodruff, minors; order mado fix-ing April 80 to hear petition for letters of guardianship. Estate of Robert Pringlo, deceased; order mado fixing April 30th at 10 a. m. lo hear returns of sale of real estate. Estate of John T. Miller et al., mi-nors; order mado appointing Rachel S. Miller guardian upon filing a bond in the sum of $4000 to each miuor. Estate of Johu F. Miller, deceased, order made appointing Elias A. Smith, Amos Howe and Francis Armstrong commissioners to partition estate. Estate of Johu Schwiu et al., minors-orde- r made appointing time and place to hear petition for letters of guardian-ship. Estate of Thomas Jewell, deceased; order made appointing appraisers. Estate of Thomas Brunker, deceased; order made fixing day to set apart the estate for the use of the widow. Estate of Edward Wheeler, deceased; samo order. Estate of Alexander Neubaur, de-ceased; order made appointing time and place for allowance of accounts of administratrix. THE SUNDAY QUESTION. What Mr. Charles Ellis Has to Say Upon the Subject. In tho Federal Court room last eveu-ing- , Mr. Charles Ellis preached a lay sermon on "Sunday, what it is, and what are the rights of American citi-zens in relation to it." The speaker was in a lay mood, and ho proceeded to lay out the idea that thero is auy differ-ence in tho seven days of the week, or that because Jehovah is said to have rested one day iu an eternity, therefore tho human 'raco must rest ono day in seven or be damned. Jesus, said he, set no day apart to bo observed in his name, aud he " broko" the genuine Sabbath. Theological Sunday obtained Slate backing under Constantino, and then, tho speaker maintained, oamo in-fringements upon the rights of the peo-ple, that kept on growing uutil the In-quisition appeared. Give tho theolog-ical Sunday state backing in this country, said he, and the same results will follow. Liberty had to be wou, and it may bo lost. This nation has pros-pered because priestcraft has been kept out of government, and it would be wise to leave well enough alone. A TOUGH MAN. How Johu Wood Manages to Make Him-self Happy. Mrs. Elizabeth AVood is tho wife of John Wood, a laborer, and is iu deep trouble. The pair were married nine years ago in England and have been living in Zion for a time. Of late John has beconio too utterly too-to- to live with aud has amused himself by strik-ing the partner of his joys and sorrows, threatening to put salaratus in her tea, cut her throat and other like amuse-ments. This he has kept up until not only his wife, who is a very cstimablo woman, but the neigh-bors ' have decided that ho is too frisky a man to live publicly and ho will doubtless be arrested. One of the neighbors called at The Times office to-day and said that the man's conduct is scandalous. He gets beastly intoxicated and vents his spleen on tho woman who has tried to make a man of him, curses her and everybody in sight He doesn't confine himself to his do-mestic cirelo either, but on Saturday last proposed to extinguish tho lamp of life iu one of the neighbors' children whom he chased with a lommy-axe- . The father of the child will apply for a warrant for his arrest today. PKKSONAL. Inspector Patterson of the postollice department is at the Cullen. George King, tho representative of the Aniieuser-Busc- Browing company of St. Louis, is in the 'city. Mr.' Townseud, a prominent eit'r.ou of Montrose, Colorado, is iu the city on a visit. He will remain hero several weeks. Col. Cook, a prominent Omaha boot and shoo man, is in the cit v, on his way home from California, llo is at the Walker. General Alger, commaiulcrin chief of tho Grand Army of the Republic, ac-companied by Mrs. Logau, passed through Ogdeu yesterday on route to Sau Francisco. At every station where the train stopped they wero given an enthusiastic reception. Dr. Ed. Isaacson, editor of the Ameri-can Fork Independent, is in the city on business connected with his paper, which is iu a very flourishing condi-tion. The issue of last Friday consists six pages, and iu order lo accommo-date tho increasing demand for adver-tising space the Independent is to be permanently made an eight page pa-per. It is ably edited, and is full of lo-cal ' news of an interesting character. Dr. Isaacson 6ays that American Fork is booming and that the outlook of the thriving town is very encouraging. T. B. Townseud and wife, of Mon-trose, Colorado, arrived in the city last evening.' Mr. Townseud is president of the First National bank of Montrose, and is also proprietor of the most ex-tensive hardware establishment in the city. He is also the owner of a num-ber of valuable ranches in Montrose county, besides being largely interested iu mining property and real estate iu Ouray, San Miguel and Dolores coun-ties, Colorado. Mr. Townseud will spend several days looking over Salt Lake, and may be iuduced to locate here. Mr. Townseud will remain in the city a few weeks. Wafrncr's Uiove. The only Family and Pleasure Resort, Emigration Canon. Trains leave Utah and Nevada depot Sundays at 1:00 p.m. Aud 3:40 p.m. A Home Building Association. The Pioneer Loan and Homestead as-sociation of this city has been organized aud is now prepared for business- - Its object is lo furnish aid for those owning lots to build homes for themselves. The shares are $100 each, payable in inouthly installments of fifty cents; and it is contemplated that loans will run for ten years. Money will be sold monthly and dividends declared semi-annually and added to the principal. The officers of tho association are: C. H. Parsons, president; J. P. Bache, L. Roy Mansfield, secre-tary; Arthur L. Clarke, treasurer; aud A. li. Sawyer, attorney, none of whom receives compensation except tho secre-tary. A New Mining Couipanv. The Arrowpan Mining and Milling compauy was incorporated Saturday with a capital stock of $500,000. The company has secured some mining properties which show up well in silver aud lead ores, but the directorate is not inclined to divulge the secret. Some of them are in the Bingham district, and the others are scattered throughout the territory. Tho. board of directors is made up of B. R. Towndrow. James M. Ricketts, J. M. Rutherford, J. O. Camp-bell and H. G. Sayles, and at a meeting B. R. Towndrow was elected president; James M. Ricketts and J. M. Rutherford secretary and treas-urer. Sunday School Convention. PresideutWilliam Reynolds of tho In-ternational Sunday School association, will be iu Salt Lake from the 10th to the 18th of May, and a grand convention of the Sunday school workers of Utah will be held May 13th and 14th iu one of the city churches not yet designated, C. H. Parsons, secretary of the Utah asso-ciation, has notified each school in the territory and invited representation. Further notice will appear in The Times as arrangeineuls progress. |