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Show SALT LAKE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. New ton Dougherty, against whom j ninety-seven indictments for forgery j and embezzlement have been returned j fit I'eoria. III., owns Salt Lake real e.s- I tnte of an estimated value of tlO.U'jO. Work on Salt Lake's new Oregon J Short Line-Salt Lake Route union n'js-senger n'js-senger station will begin as son as Hans are decided on. It wiil then be flushed to completion. Settlement on the plans is expected inside of six weeks. More than SfiUO.OuO wi!i be sp'-nt on the depot structure and the pas-senper pas-senper terminals. Thomas Morgan and Susan A.. Wil- bur of Idaho Falls wore ihe most interesting: in-teresting: of th thirty .-ounlrs who last week 1'ioke all m-oi-ds for the marriage license department. of the county i iei k's office. It was not hard to learn from the appearance of the couple that they were older than the average ap plicants for marriage licenses, but the Herk was somewhat startled When Mr. Morgan pave his age as S9 years. The bride confessed to H?,. Despite his age Mr. Morgan displayed great gallantry. The Collegiate Institute and All Hallows Hal-lows teams lined up against each other for a good hour's practice the other afternoon. Roth showed improvement ; over their previous meeting, in physie- a) condition and execution of their plays. The All Hallows have improved their line until it is difficult for any team of their weight to break it. The college boys go to Ogden today (Saturday) (Sat-urday) to meet the Ogden team, which ! will be their first game of the season, j Harney Quhm. left tackle for All I Hallows, has been selected to captain ! I the football team for this season, in I place of James Owens, resigned. Manager Charles A. Quigley of the j Studebaker company in this city gave I a fine banquet Saturday night "at the "ommercial club to the employes of! the company in the city and state and adjoining states. Some fifty persons were present, and the guests of honor i wore J. X. Studebaker. sr.. president j of the company; J. X. Studebaker. jr.. ' . secretary of the firm; "W. E. YVigeins. superintendent of the accounting de- ! I p-irtment. and W. G. Speed, in charge . of the harness department. j F. E. McGurrin gave considerable at- ' tention to the business situation while; in Denver recently. He says the people j there ore doing business on the Chi- eago plan, and are thoroughly united j in pushing Hie town, and a significant I fact is that they have exterminated j the knocker. Everybody i? pulling for: I Denver, and buildings are going up I iH over the town; in fact, nrosperitv I is apparent everywhere. The only trouble in Denver is the need of a j stole bank examiner. If there had been J. such an official the recent bank fail- , ures would in all likelihood never have I oc urred. The labor troubles have been I entirely forgotten. ' ' I rta.h has carried off the gold medal I fr the best educational exhibit at the Lewis and Clark centennial exposi- lion just about to close at Portland. I If the plans which A. H. Vogeler bas ! had under consideration for some time are adopted at a special meeting of the , S;,t Lake county millers, the milling I business of the county will be done tm-' tm-' dc-r the direction of an association nnd the millions of bushels of wheat raised annually in Utah will be converted into .; flour here instead of being shipped to ail parts of the country. Governor Cutler named the following d legates to the American Mining con- j i gress. which meets in El Paso. Tex.. I Nov. 14 to lfc: Senators Reed Smoot and : j George Sutherland. Congressman .To- seph Howell. J. R. Twelves of Provo, ; Alma Eldredge of Coalville. John C. ! Sullivan of Eureka. Frank Pierce. Wil- ! liam H. Tibbals. D. H. Peery. Caleb ; 1 Tanner. Gomer Thomas. David Keith. ' : H. S. Joseph. P. T. Farnsworth and ! Captain Benjamin Tibby of Salt Lake i City. , Upon completing a trip through the -northwest recently. Chief Engineer Uonnold of the Utah Light & Railway I ; company was more than ever eon- 1 viiiaed that the day of the interurban 1 I railway had arrived. Great activity ! everywhere was his report in a nut-"liell. nut-"liell. and he firmly believes that within with-in the next ten years thousands of miles of sueh lines will be built in this ;-nd adjoining states. He has studied r-veral of the great lines in the coun- I try traversed and intends using the i I knowledge so acquired in perfecting i ihe local system when changes or ex-, i tensions aie made. I I One carload of furniture for the post- j ("oiec has already been put in piace. : and two carloads will arrive within thf ; J , next few days. Clerks at the ,)0t;t., f- j I' -'ice are busy making ready for the' ! great moving iay. as everything wiil ii have to be transferred from one offiVe ! to the other in one night, and the bust- I tiei-s go on uninterruptedly. As fur as I I i possible holders of boxes will be given I I the old numbers in the n(.w- office. To I arrange this schedule, which b' now : being done, entails no little extrp la- ; f bor on the nart of the clerks, but it ! I will be h source of great satisfaction to I the p-oj.le if the scheme can be carried ! cm. J In a great many ways the jeav l:Hir lias been a record-breaker in the orim- i' inal line, as far as Salt Lake county' 1 concerned. Inquiries at the county j jail bring cut the information that at. to time since the 1st of January has there been less than forty boarders, j 1 " arid in many instances the jail has been j taied to its full canacitv. I |