Show J CITY NEIGHBORHOOD Yesterdays bank clearings amounted to 5SS37C as compared with 30j 5 for the samo day last year i a S I A special meeting of tho City Council I will be held tonight to transact ordinary S business which was not finished at tlio I meeting on Tuesday evening iI I Tho Oregon Short Lino Railroad company 4 com-pany filed a protest against Its assessment t assess-ment with the State Board of JSmmliza tlou yesterday The figures on rai roads telegraph and telephone companies in 1 J thq State will probably bo made public r Monday or Tuesday iI m A telegram conveying the sad 1ntoII1 i genre of the sudden death of T a Steb F hlns In Denver AVcdncsdiy evening wns received In this city Col i Stcbblns was I ivcJl Known in Salt Lake where ho lived for some years and was at one time manager 4 man-ager of the Mammoth mine Ho was InS In-S early days ono of the bwiiers and locators S of the famousColonel Sellers mine at 1 j Lcadvllle and was veil known through I bout tho West Ho leaves a wife who Is of this city J a sister of Mrs Dr Maclean h k c Postal Inspector Connor has been In the i I city for a few days educating the people 4 In tho advantage of registering letter nnd particularly in the convenience of sending registered mall by the delivery carriers It saves a trip to the postoflicc S J and the carriers receipt Is Just a3 good as the one given at the registry window J I Printed circulars explaining the system have been left at the residences by the c carriers and the Inspector says thcro has I already been a noticeable Increase of I business from this sourceS source-S Emma penco Ellcrbcck of Long Beach 1 1 Cal has transferred by warranty deed to Fred and I P Christensen for con I nideratlon of S13SOO part of lot 7 block ji 75 plat A C9xlS5 feet of ground on the west side of State street between Brigham I Brig-ham and First South streets This is i 1k the old Ellerbcck house and lot The Jf house Is to be torn down and the Chris jensen Bros company will erect on the lot their Academy of Fine Arts as heretofore here-tofore detailed Architects arc now preparing I pre-paring preliminary designs e S The Womans Missionary board of the Ii I Central Christian church has been engaged Jh en-gaged In an Interesting contest Some 1 two months ago the membership was divided 4 1 1 di-vided equally and a plan adopted whereby i where-by the losing side should banquet time I winning side In a contest for obtaining new members Miss Nannie Clayton was I I LI I named as one captain Mrs Mllllron the other Miss clayton and her aids were the victors paining twentyseven new I I r mpmbcrs against their opponents sevenS seven-S and next week the banquet is to be s i 41 given |