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Show : : SALT LAKE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. There is a possibility that Champ Clark of Missouri may speak at the out-Ing out-Ing of the Younjr- Men's Democratic club on "Parker day." Aug. 4. Chair- man George Blair of the amusement ; committee wired Mr. Clark asking him ,, to come here. ... S. A. Kemjer. the well known writer, reported to the police that he had his pockets picked on Saturday night while : standing near the Johnson-Pratt drug i store listening to Hold's band. His j pocket book, c ontaining $51, was taken, i Pretty large wad for a newspaper man to own. ! ! 4 ' F. R. McNamee of De Lamar is at " the Cullen from Lincoln county, Ne- ; vada. and reports a proposition to re move the county seat from Pioche to Moapa. which is immediately on the new railroad, and which will also be tapped by a branch from the Santa Fe road, which is being built from Chlo-, Chlo-, ride, Ariz. j There was a wholesale poisoning Monday night at Mendon, a small town about seven mile? west of Logan, as the result of eating impure ice cream. The people of Mendon celebrated Pioneer Pio-neer day and in the afternoon ice cream was served by the warl authorities, j the money to be derived from it to go to the band. Between 150 and 200 people j partook of the delicacy and about three j hours later all of them were taken ill. i The victims suffered agonizing pain i and there were not enough well people I to care for the sick. At lirst it was thought that many of those afflicted -would die. but the physicians now think that all of them will pud through all right. An unclean freezer was the cause of all the abdominal mischief. , Judge Ervin A. Wilson died suddenly Tuesday evening. of heart failure at his : resident e, 128 North State street. He returned home from his office in the McCornick building shortly after 6 ; o'clock and complained of a severe headache. As soon as he entered the Ii house he lay down on a couch in the dining room, while his youngest daughter, daugh-ter, Effie, bathed his head with cold water. A moment later he raised him-I him-I Hclf to a sitting position, but collapsed I and expired, falling on the floor at his daughter's feet. , ! Joe Enzensperger, delegate from ' 1 bulge S,".. B. P. O. E.. Salt Lake, has re- j i turned from the convention held at f Cincinnati during the past ten days, j , Mr. Enzensperger expressed himself as s . highly pleased with the trip and with I ? the work accomplished by the Elks in i , session. It was one of the largest na- ! tional gatherings ever held by the or- -I dor. . f- f For the purpose of raising funds with I t which to beautify the Jewish cemetery I j grounds, the Jewish Relief society, Mrs. J. E. Bamberger, president, gave an 1 excursion to Lagoon Tuesday night a that drew hundreds of people from the I heat of the city to the cool of the pretty park. On the committee of arrange- mcnts were Mrs. h Woolf, Mrs. I. I Walters and Mrs. M. H. Desky. I I , The employment agents report that I t here is less demand for railroad, min- ! .. " ing and other laborers than at this time ' last year. But they pay that hundreds I if men are wanted on the San Pedro, . 1 - Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, and That they are prepared to ship them I every day, but the men looking for I -work do not want to go to Las Vegas' I and Calientes, New,- because they fear j f .. they cannot stand the excessive heat j I they have been told prevails in that j I part of the country during the summer j I months. |