Show r CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD A i baby girl was born last evening to 31r and Mrs John F S Riddle Yestordoyo clearings amounted to 3M 6 ns compared with 3I7OSO for the same day lost year o Mayor Thompson yesterday signed tho payrolls for tho various departments for tho month of December S S Tho omcero of the Salt Lake County FruitGrowers association will hold a mooting In tho ofllco of tho Court Commissioners Com-missioners tomorrow at 2 oclock S 0 5 Commissioner John Sharp has received for he Stale fish hatchery WC O eggs trom Iowa and 10000 landlocked ealmon eggs aro coming with half a million mice touts tout-s from Michigan and half a million I trout eggs from Massachusetts S S I Mrs Mary Laldlaw Bell died at her homo in this city Wednesday ot old age sho being In her S2nd year Mrs alt was the widow of William Boll and had nnl 1pcn a resident or Utah for fortysix years She was a native of Scotland S S S I Several passengers who had intended I slopping hero yesterday changed their plans owing lo the existence of smallpox In tho city and continued on their travels trav-els after giving Instructions to hotel run rers nt tho depot to havo their mal forwarded warded S S u While Dr Beatty was la Eureka ho was asked by a number of people If tho quar funr antine could not be postponed until after pstponer unti afer Tho proposed prizefight had conic off Tho Interest in that went was so marked that tim danger of a largo public gathering l at the time was lost Might of Dr Koatty was unable to comply with this earnest rcqucit 0 5 5 Tho January thaw of the last few days L does not look oDd to anybody but the nnbo lut dry farmers and the sheepmen There lies fher hrs been but a slight snowfall In tho moun tains so far aa compared with a year ago This is the report that comes tram nearly every canyon that has been visited Islcd so fa A year ago the reports were exactly ex-actly Iho reverse Unless heavy snow falls occur very soon the water Question will be tho one big theme which Clw 1 lon terest the new administration Jt seemed jMJvornl times yesterday that tho emct would lift and the atmospheric countenance counten-ance of nature clear up But at night the nlSht I fog gather as heavily as over and Salt Lake people arc wondering when they will see the sun again S 1 Tho elevator boys In tho Doolv block l S had some fun yesterday at the expense of tho six noble red men who are here as witnesses in the United Stales court from the reservation Tho Indians were taken up several floors above the ono where h the courtroom IB located and then the I cages were suddenly dropped several slorles Tho wild children of tho sage I brush and the tepee wero seized with a g suddenness at what ono of them called tho center of Ills slomjack which doubled them up like a carpenters Tule double Indian grabbed himself over tho diaphragm dia-phragm tho m as elevators stopped as though there was Imminent danger of that useful organs ullpptng poriiianpiitly out of rear and there was moro or Idss ngon for izpd their howling escape until the doors were opened |