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Show 'HHLfflSSIOlEI Appointment Approved hy Mayor May-or and Will Go to Council Moii day Xighf. Tir. II. B. Sprnguc. a well -known young physician of this city, was Wednesday appointed assistant health commissioner by Dr. S. G. Paul. Ihc new health com-miKsloner com-miKsloner of the city. The. appoint men I has already met with the approval of llie mayor and will be sent to the lty counell Monday night for connrmntlon. Dr. Sprague was born In Ttah nnd is 12 yrars of age. His grandfather, lr S. L Sprague. uas one of tlx fin t DE. H. B. SPRAGTJ3. ph sici'ius in the 1 a 1 . 1'r. Spragm-uas Spragm-uas employed in the drug sli-re ol fruebl iM-.inki-n for soni- llm- -md laWlv wen: to Philadelphia. wh r h was Graduated from tin- Philadelphia. School i.f Pharmacy. Phar-macy. He afterwards took his degree of'M. D. at ho Jefferson Medical college col-lege at .Philadelphia. When he left college he went to San J-'raiiclaeo. where he revved on one of I ho large steamships plying between that jiuln: mid the Orient and Sonth America. After the earthquake In San Francisco he returned 10 I "tali, where, he bns engaged en-gaged in his practice, ever since. it Is quite probable that there will be no police Mirgeon connected with the health department In Dr. Paul's administration, ad-ministration, ns It 1s Hi" intention that Dr Paul and his assistant shall perform nil the medical work necessary in the department |