Show LITERARY SOCIETIES the B 7 academy musicale rev wilks on central africa in county court yesterday the follow ina claims were allowed dispatch 8 25 J JG 0 mcclellan 54 00 evne mallen maiten 8 70 smoot drug co 35 55 co fifoot fr Spa spafford flord S leitho L litho co S SL L hard hardware ware co 1950 provo woolen mills milla ill 72 Pi s wellna co 2850 wm win lewis james boyden 9 34 martin ballot boxes 71 50 8 H allen alien solo A wilkin al 51 C newell 4 50 0 D glazier 1080 skelton co 23 2399 99 ank 00 f john A brown board of prisoners the claim of A F Bund Sund bers berR for coffin lor for mary beasley was presented Dresen ted and disallowed the claim of D 11 christenson of was examined and approved additional reports repona of road supervisors were presented and accepted the claims of the various road supervisors for services were allowed the fhe court appointed road supervisors as follows fol lowa provo G 0 haws Spring vile W K jobeson Job mapleton Ma platon E EM al snow spanish forte fork D A banks lake abhors W WH H banks payson pay ion thoa wilson salem D DT T curtis spring lake john moore jr San tamin T blewis B lewis goshen samuel stanfield Fair fairfield fieldi W V H carson cedar fort jamo james lehi J W bates american fork samuel dean highland hyrum healey pleasant grove J M U smith provo bench A J L meacham vineyard geo M smoot lake view james madsen Madae ii clinton J T moore tucker james jamea Eus eustagon Eu P V juner tion rhoa arrowsmith Arrow emith upon motion of jones A noe wm win gallup wilbis strong and ozias strong were cited to appear before the court or OB dec 25 to show cause why chev should not take care of certain members of their family sought to bo be made on utah county the sum aum of 1000 was appropriated to B bell ell jones to redeem a utah ty IY her and 1090 wat wa ap a p at to the deseret national mank bank of salt lake to redeem a now note of utah county in the same amount airo the clerk was waa authorized to draw and pay to the tha following persons interest interact in the following amounts isaac chilton Cb ilton 2500 00 belle jones 2500 J JD D jones deseret nat bank salary account of officers of the court were allowed A D gash V VL L halliday fan avan john abrown AU rown CO E EA A henriod win mitchell bell the following amounts were to the select mens moua account evans vans deal co court adjourned till december 28 ca 4 at 10 a in literary societies the musi musicals cala at the B Y academy last evening under the auspices of the Poly society was a most moat emphatic artistic success eucce aa it was one of those occasions which ars are long lone re cambered mamber ed with feelings of Dle pleasure asure and hope in the expectation of a re petition onby by those fortunate to bobs b among the audience each number on in the tb excellent pro gramme was ably rendered and ail were so good that flach deserve special mention which lim limited apace will not allow it might be ba stated however that those who made mada their first apDo arance last night gave promise of a bright future great credit la is duo due prof giles liaa ottilia maeser officers of the society and all who aided in in the excellent entertain mart CLUAN SOCIETY at the society in the methodist church last evening rey rev joseph wilks talked on the dark continent he ha illustrated hie bi s lecture lee ture with numerous articles of commerce and manufacture manul carried on by the natives he had even an ivory tusk as well as sample arti articles clea of all artirp arti ar Ip 0 of export from the province of aggola western africa where he spent soma years as a christian missionary speaking of christian work mr wilks made the somewhat startling assertion that africa would be better off today had it not come li ja cons con tact with the so called christian civilo civil iza tion christian coan trieR he declared had sent bent thy natives a shipload of 0 whisky and gun eun powder to every missionary sent sant there the character of the people he declared was of higher cultivation their calure bad nothing treacherous in it on eu h ac a found in the american kine rican indian the different tribes had bad a high principle of honor bonor actuating them and would transport goods transmitted to their charge hun deeds of miles into the interior and never appropriate a article ait icle but their petty thievery among themselves and in the stores and residences of traders know almost no DO bounds by tho the way all inland transportation is done by manual servi efi A man is is given ibn burden and packs it ithome conme timea ehtee or four hundred milya |