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Show LATE CITY NEWS. Weather tomorrow, fair and warmer. Today's clearings, $284,014; same day last year, 2o8,814. The city council will meet ia adjourned session tonight. McCornick today received lead and silver ores to the amount of $5700. The markets are filled with long-eared rabbits, fresh from California. The mayor's veto of the purchase of the proposed pump for the sewage sump is in the hands of the recorder. The dog' business pays. Galeazzi now sports a new hat and is building an addition to his residence on North Sixth West street. The gratifying statement is made by a labor la-bor leader that at the present time there are but few union worklngmen out of employment. employ-ment. Desk Sergeant McCurdy of the police de- Eartment, who has been seriously ill of emorrhage of the lungs, is now convalescent. convales-cent. The coal ordinance, which it is fondly hoped will put a stop to short weight, etc.. will probably be passed by the city council tonight. Edward O'Brien and John Nelson were arrested this afternoon on suspicion of having hav-ing stolen fifty grain racks from Grant Bros. livery stable last night Carpenters are busy at work on the Dooly I building lowering the wainscoting, which has shrunk almost an inch. The shrinkage was caused by the wainscotiae being put on whilo the plaster was green. The Carpenters' union is in a flourishing condition. At ita last meeting seven new members were admitted, and the hope is held out that in a short timo every competent handler of edged tools will be enrolled on its roster. The gravity sewage system will be discussed dis-cussed tonight by the members of the city council. The last time they wrestled with the subject they debated it p.ro and con for i one hour and twelve minutes and aceom-I aceom-I plished nothing. The new crematory is a splendid success. A trial run of 2000 gallons of night soil resulted re-sulted iu a residue of clear, odorless afhes ' which an ordinary wheelbarrow could hold. The aBhes make a fine fertilizer and are always al-ways in demand by progressive farmers. Miss Jennie Alexander and Een Steinman were married last evening at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Alexander, on Main street. The presents were profuse and costly, and the ceremony was witnessed by a select concourse of friends." ' Certain members of tho city council are very much afraid that ex-Deputy . Recorder Ellsworth will retaliate by making an attack on their official acts. Ho does not think, however, that the game is worth the candle and will leave the gentlemen to that peace which only a clear conscience can vouchsafe. vouch-safe. Work on the Doiie gas well is progressing rapidly. The well is down 610 feet and the drill Is in lime rock. A fair flow of gas is already manifest, and it is expected that by the time the drill penetrates the blue shale, which is about thirty-five feet deeper, that a sufficient flow of gas will beein. Mrs. E. D. Smeatl and four children, just arrived from Denver, ;called at the police station this morning in search of her husband, hus-band, a carpenter, who had not communicated communi-cated with her for some time past After a short search the police located him at the corner ot Eleventh. South, and .Third East streets, and she and her brood departed rejoicing. |