Show I ORATORICAL CONTEST Mark Brown of the Seventeenth Ward Wins An oratorical contest with a well filled house for an audience In which representatives from the Sixteenth Seventeenth and Nineteenth wards took part was held lust nIght In the Twenty second ward meetinghouse Eugene 130 Lewis of the Nineteenth ward sp oko tI first on The Saints In Missouri Mark I Brpwn of tIme Seventeenth ward folIoed fol-Ioed his subject being Joseph Smith His Mission and His Persecutions and Albert Elggren of the Slxtcinlh ward considered The Expulsion of the Mormon Mor-mon People Mr Brown was declared tho victor by the judges whose markings were 150 outthought out-thought and composition and 10L on delivery de-livery a lotril of 251 Mr Lewis was second sec-ond receiving on thought and composition composi-tion 148 and on delivery 102 total 2iO Mrv Elggrenx standing was thought and eomposliion 1G2 delivery 75 total 237 rIte Judges were Pro 11 II Ly nun and Prof 11 L MrGhio of the Unl verslly and Prof Joseph NT lson of time Salt Lake business ohlogo mi thought and composition and IT S Tanner Scott Wells and Prof R PL Bradford of the University on delivery Speakers had also boon chosen from the Twenty second and Twentythird wards but they failed to respond A final contest for a gold cup will beheld be-held at tIns Tabernacle Juuo 10th at which contestants from five districts oft the of-t oily will compote when Mr Bro n who won last night will be one of she I speakers |