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Show : 1 SALT LAKE CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. When President Diaz of Mexico visits vis-its the United States he will probably spend two days jn Salt Lake City. Salt Lakers drink water of unusual , Jiuiity, according to a report tiled with , Secretary M. It. Brothers of the board f health by State Chemist Herman Harms. The report contains the satis- fyiiiii int'fllig-pnee that there, are few impurities t any nature in either j Pcuice of tin- city's .water supply. Mr. Harms' findings are the result of tests. ana comparisons. ' f "Work on the V. M. C. A. liuildins; is 1'i-ogivssing rapidly, the walls having passed the second floor. Forty men are at work and ihc roof is to be in place and jhe concrete Hoots iaid in 1 weiiiy-niie d-i" after the completion of the walls. This. i.t is thought, will be early in September. Funds are still ominjr in for the building, and Mr. Cox sfes no reason why it should not ibe dedicated early in the coming- year. - Mi.s Sarah "Whalen, a te.uher in the ftate school for the blind, ha-; been flsked by Dr. Mill of the Ibal 1m- I jiTial school for the blind at YiPiina, to "i nc imi me niasazme puunsr.ea under un-der his editorship. Dr. Mell" was iin- pressed with Miss Whalen's methods fis exhibited at the fair in St. Louis and wishes her to become a regular contributor. con-tributor. An unaccustomed thirst, for root, beer was apparently developed by the large crowd at Coder's park Sunday. That is. Jt was unaccountable to Dputy Sberiff Stout until lie purehsod a bottle of the bcvei-ige and sampled it. Tlrj stuff looked to the otfiecr of the law suspiciously like plain, every-day lager beer, and when he tasted it his sus-I'icion sus-I'icion was confirmed. ! - I Ityron Croo, secretary of the state I lioard of land commissioners, has writ- I ten to State Engineer Doremus, asking I him to investigate the upper site of the j Buekhorn Flats reservoir proposition. . Should the state engineer find the pro- 1 .iect to a feasible one, then the land I .board will undertake the construction I of a reservoir for the reclamation of 1 thousands of acres of good soil in that f vicinity. I One of the most encouraging features I of the Jocal situation is the number of 1 T,fople Mho are moving into Salt Lake I from all sides and from a number I 'f adjoining states to make their per- I inanent homes here. The number of I Finall houses that have gone up and I the number more that are under con- I Ftruetion is a matter of surprise to all -visitors. I 15. B. Quinn is out for the Democratic J nomination for county assessor and i seems very likely to ?,et it. Barney filled the office once before very ac- j tejuably. I , Michael W". Earl, one of the bost- known members of the fire department, I was given a well-earned, promotion by Chief "William H. Bywater, which was I confirmed by the city council Monday I night. Captain Earl has been secre- I ' tury of the department for the last I , year, and was promoted to the cap- I taincy of the chemical at station 2. I Utah mines for the month of July made a splendid dividend record, they I paying to shareholders nearly $1,000,000. J . The Utah Consolidated heads the list with J450.O00. The United States com- i pany paid J200.OO0, and the Silver King JlftO.OOO. Other dividend-payers were as Jollows: Daly-West, $72.iKK; Gemini- I Keystone, $50,000; Grand Central. I 52,1,000: Mammoth. $20,000; Annie Lau- lie. $12,r)00, with several others for I smaller amounts. There is less said about Utah mines than of other states, , yet they may be depended upon to each I month pay splendid profits to the for- lunate owners. .... . . j i ' A warrant was drawn by the state j' auditor Monday for $586.73 as the i Mate's portion for grasshopper boun- " t's in Sanpete county. This warrant is issued for 83.010 pounds of hoppers I destroyed between June 20 and July 26 by J. N. Jacobson, who received as j bounty JO.P) from the auditor of I ' S.mpete county. The county, under i te law, pays one-third of the bounty. I t tastul.i Springs is ciosed for the j Jiresent season." Such was the an- I nouncemeiit made by John Q. Critch- J ov". trustee for the creditors on return- i iJ from u recent visit to the resort. I After a careful investigation Mr! Criuhlow decided thai it would not be good business to attempt to keep the 3 resort open longer this year in as much S ;s 110 excursions are booked for the remainder of the season. I " 1 Attorney C. C. Kimuy is engaged in J revising ins treat fan. on "Law of Irii- fi.iliou and Water Kights." The book, "which is recognized as the leading "i'k on irrigation law and the west- I rl theory of water lights, was pub- I lished by the author in 1SIC. Since J ,1)at t'fe caws involving the subjects j treated have been decided to the num- I ' b r .f about :;,000. Besides incorporat- ! '"S hits revised edition the rulings in I a)1 cases that have been tried since j 3S3 Mr. Kinney will also add eleven I inore chapters to the work and publish I 31 3,1 two octavo volumes. Since the j present volume was published the I quesnk.ns have arisen in relation to in- I ternational and interstate waters and I thetse will be fully treated in the re- ? vised edition. 1 l John Kelly, one of the early pioneers I nf Utah died suddenly last week at his I . home in Fillmore at the age of eighty--1 years. Mr. Kelly came out with I i,n"- nf the hand cart companies in the I oarly lifties. He has made his home in Itah ever since and was well known I over the Ptate as "Honest John" Kelly. Deceased was father of E. N. Kelly of 1 the h'-ni of Howe & Kelly, this city. I Frank Cochran, a sheepman, brought I lo tne city last week a Goo-pound cin- I namon bear, which he killed in East I canyon, at the head of City Creek can- I with the aid of. Matt Cochran's 1 . Missouri foxhounds. The Cochrans ! : . have a drove ofsheep on sumrher pas- ture in the Hardserabble and Ea3t ranyon wilderness, and they report . bears quite plentiful there, both of the 1 f cinnamon and black varieties. The dis trict is only seventeen to twenty miles ! fmin the city, but it is one of the wild- i st regions to be found in the state, it I temg impossible to traverse large por tions of it even on horseback. It is only with well-trained rogs that the Lear can be hunted successfully. Judge Edward F. Colburn of this 'ty has rendered valuable service to the people of Utah in the compilation ; of a little book just published for free j distribution by the pas-senser depart- . ment of . the . Union Pacific . Railroad company. The, book is entitled "Utah, its People. Resources, Attractions and ; , Institutions." Hctween its covers is condensed Un amount of information that could not be found elsewhere ' r without an endless amount of work and the expenditure of much time. To ordinary people the hot days of August and July are simply the dog days, partly because of the dog-etar is in the ascendant, partly because some say It is almost too hot for a dog to stand. But to the undertakers August is known as the -"baby month," so-called so-called because the greater number of i corpses buried are those of infants. In the hot days, the cholera infantum, dreaded by mothers, holds its strongest sway and .carries off many little victims. vic-tims. During the month of August iast year there was a rotat oi - aeams, and of this number 22 were under the age of 2 years. For the riret nine days of August this year there have been 21 deaths reported and of these 10 were below the 2-ycar limit. Mrs. Jane It. Hocking, a pioneer of 1S52. died at the advanced age of SI. Until recently she has been in the best of health, but some three weeks ago her nervous system received a severe shock from a fall into the cellar. Immediately Im-mediately afterwards her health began be-gan to wane and each day left her worse than it found her before, both as regards health of body and strength of mind. I f- At the age of PI years John Bhoades died at the county infirmary Monday afternoon. Known throughout Salt Lak-e'aud its suburbs for the kind nesses ne nad pnov. n 10 oinersj, hu closed his long life a public charge.. Years ago he had money and property of his own. He could not refuse a friend in distress. And so, when he grew feeble, he had to seek charity. Death found him blind and destitute. The lack of facilities possessed by the county for maintaining lha aged and indigent were emphasized by the fact that, before his body was cold, a new inmate was admitted to take the place made vacant by death. 4 The indications for fall trade continue con-tinue good. Harvesting is well under way on the dry farms and wheat is showing up well. The harvest promises prom-ises to be a good one both as to acre age and yield per acre. The good reports re-ports coming from the ranches and the heavy crop of fruit add to this factor. But the most potent factor continues contin-ues to be the heavy output of the mines. The assurance of new ra i 1 -loads and the energetic "work on the San Pedro are also playing important j parts in adding buoyancy to the local trade. The work of the Real Estate association and the movement in favor of the packing house are having an influence. Senator W. A. Clark sends information informa-tion from Butte to the effect that while in Salt Lake he formed a realty company, com-pany, with Hon. R. C, Kearns of St. Louis. Senator Thomas Kearns and David Keith of Salt Lake as associate partners. The company proposes to take over immediately a large strip of Main street property south of the Progress Pro-gress building and erect thereon a modern four-story building. This is its main obiect at nresent. but it ip as serted that they intend to invest heavily heav-ily in Salt Lake real estate. The ground floor and the second floor of the new building w ill be the home of the Herald and the remaining two floors will be Ui-ied for office purposes. About $10,-000 $10,-000 will be invested in the building. f- Fifty years ago Monday at Zanes-ville, Zanes-ville, O., Miss Bessie Van Buren. a belle of southern Ohio, became the bride of Edmund Wilke?. Both are now living, among the old and prominent promi-nent residents of this city, and friends by the hundreds in all 'parts of the country are showering upon them congratulations con-gratulations and good wishes. The golden wedding was celebrated at Logan Lo-gan on Sunday, Logan being the home of Major and Mrs. Wilkes' daughter, Mrs. H. D. Styer. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilkes of this city. Captain Styer of Logan and the four granchildren of Major and Mrs. Wilkes helped to celebrate cele-brate the event. The widows of two of the sons of Major and Mrs. Wilkes. Edmund Wilkes. Jr., and Gilbert Wilkes, with' their children, were unable un-able to attend the anniversary, much to the regret of the family. f Michael Killeen, whose childhood days were spent with his parents in Buffalo. N.- Y., twenty years ago, took the notion to see the world, finally drifting to this western country. No word was heard from the wandering son and brother all these long years. A few months ago James Killeen, a brother, bookkeeper for George G. Doyle, the State street plumber, advertised ad-vertised in the Intermountain Catholic, in the hope of discovering the lost one. In some way the paper fell into the hands of persons who located Michael at Mackay. Ida., in the hospital hos-pital there, suffering with Brlght's disease dis-ease in an advanced stare. James Killeen, upon receiving the information, informa-tion, left immediately for Idaho and brought the afflicted brother to Salt Lake, reaching here. Tuesday night. Michael was placed in Holy Cross hospital, but no hope of recovery is entertained. en-tertained. P. S. Michael Killeen died Thursday Thurs-day afternoon. |