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Show BREVITIES. Mud today. .. . 'Tis still cloudy. Tho total realty sales yesterday footed up $83,001, Tho crosswalks are swamping many an unfortunate. The city council holds its regular weekly cession tonight. At Provo yesterday Rose Sidefarthan was found guilty of adultery with one Lull. The Drowning class met at Dr. Foster's last evening and finished the reading of the poem "Christmas Eve." The Western Union holds messages for John Ashley, Elmer Walker, Weboer Clark, Powell & Cussing and L. P. Wagner. The county court yesterday approved the foil, wing befnds for liquor licences: Tucker te Wullace, Alta; George It. Liuby & Co., Bingham. The Mnldoon Mining company will elect directors this week, and after the officers ire elected, they will place the stock on the market. County Phvsician Maclean reports the number of county patients iu the hospittiis as follows: rjt. Mary's. 1; St. Murk's 10; W r" Deseret, 4. Total, 15. Mrs. Belle Gilbert arrived from New York yesterday morning and conducted the rehearsal re-hearsal of Hie Bom Dramatic club in "Esmeralda'' "Es-meralda'' last night. The governor has received a petition from ten Ogdsn doctors usking him to appoint Dr. Samnol L. Brick of that city on the board of territorial medical examiners. The grand canyon of the Yellowstone, is the subject of a maguiticeut picture by Artist Eisele, which Is being which is being exhibited in jhe windows of the Oxford. On Thursday afternoon next, at her home, Walker Terrace, Mrs O. W. Powers will give a luncheon to twelve of her lady friends after which high live will occupy the time until 5 p. in. In tho first district court at Provo Mr. Pearson of Ephraim was yesterday seuteuced to pay a fine of tlOO and to undergo two months' imp-isonmeut for selling liquor to minors. A very pleasant surprise party lodged itself it-self at he residence of Orson Arnold at 108 Third street lost evening, in honor of Miss Maggie Reed. The evening was pleasantly spent iu card playing, etc., and after an excellent luncheon the party broke up at 18 o'clock. General Russell A. Alger, who Is on his way homo from the Pacific coast, will Le in Salt Luke today. The; Union club will tender bin a reception from I'i o'ch ck to 1:30. General Alger will leave for the east at ti o'clock tomorrow night. Yesterday in the early morning hours, Ed L. Gale, n'ht bartender at the Club saloon at Ogden left suddeuly taking with him some of his roommate's clothing and about $300 of his employer's sp.ro change from the sale and drawer. Rldgely tedjre No. 9, I. O. O. P., will give a grand ball Wednesday evening, the 30th Inst., at their tcrnplo on Market street. The committee having the hall in charge are Ed. W. Lodge, H. Ewing, M. I).; A. Webb, A. Pendleton and A. ,1. Mclntyre. F. P. Swindler, United States doputy surveyor, sur-veyor, who has just returned from a trip to the Deep creek country where he has been making surveys of claims that are iu litigu-tiou, litigu-tiou, reports that the country is rich in ore, and has a glorious future before it, that all it needs is a railroad to make it one of the best paying mining districts In the country. There is great probability that the Union Pacific will be extended this vuumcr from Mllford to Pioche. The sub. Jeclis now under consideration iu New York by the Union Pucillc officials and a decision will be reached before the middle of April. It Is said as an inducement to the company to build that the Pioche Consolidated Mining company will iruaiautee for one year a shipment ship-ment of ltiO tons of ore per day. Sixty uniforms for the uniform rank of the Knights of Pythias, organized two months ago, were received by the lodge of that order yesterduy. The uniforms are of black broadcloth, made very showy by their trimmings of gold braid. The fuligue cap Is of black, having a blue top, and the dress parade headgear is a white helmet wi)h an overhanging crown of red feathers. The new lodge of this degree will be instituted insti-tuted next Saturday night. |