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Show ... I SALT LAKE , S CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. Peter Mortensen has asked the slate hoard of pardons to commute his death j er-ntMii-M tn Hint nf life imnrisonmeilt. Moiunstm has implicit faith in the be- !? liof that somehow he will he enabled to lake hi? case to the United States supreme court. lie places his earthly " hope ju that one direction. Long since 1 he has aban-luned hope in the district fc nd Mate courts, and now looks to the judges who sit in Washington. That resource, of course, depends absolutely upon his ability to raise about $.S(tft f "Within the next couple of weeks. He 1 rest? in a belief in his ability to secure J the necessary funds. j Dr. Mabel Hughes, superintendent of. , the KeoRh-W'njrhl hospital, has re- t Finned and is going east to takeapost- , graduate course. Her successor has , not yet been named, but it is under- 4 stood that she will be succeeded by a lady from the east. The nurses tendered ten-dered Dr. Hushes a reception Saturday niglu. - The State Kank of Hingham will be ready to throw open its doors some time next week. Some delay has hern caused by a lack of workmen in fitting up 'lie establishment. 4 The real estate men rf the city report a lather inactive market. They say that there is considerable inquiry, but thai as a general rule owners are holding hold-ing their properties too hifrh to permit of any considerable trading. They believe be-lieve that the business conditions of the city would be improve! if more properties were placed on the market at norma! rate?. John Held is engraving a suitable legend ,,n ihe $KiO loving cup offered annually by the Z. C. M. I. to the athletic ath-letic association within its corporate t limits that wins the annual August series. The lat cup was won by the factory team, under (Jeorire S. McAllister. Food Inspector .1. J. Meyers- has condemned con-demned ti. OIK) pounds of impure fond during the month of October. This work involved the inspection of CI 1 iMe.'f and lish stores, eighteen dairies. 157 restaurants, fifty-eight lish mar. kets. T2' grocery stores. V2 commission commis-sion houses and thirty-one bakeries. Vnusual into-est is being taken in the forthcoming production of the local society opera. "Cinderella, or a Dress J Rehearsal." which will be placed on N the boards of the Sait Lake theatre on Jsov. About fifty young Salt Lake women are to constitute the company, which is under the direction of Mrs. Martha Rovle King. f Oeorge Wood has resigned his position posi-tion with F. Auerbach & Bro.. after a four years' service, to accept the local agency of an eastern firm. His associates asso-ciates presented him Saturday evening with a line gold Woodmen of the World Watch charm emblem. 4 Mike Cantlon of Rutte, formerly a Salt Lake police sergeant, is in town from the north. He says the situation up north is anything but encouraging. He has closed up his grocery, and says merchants pretty generally will have to do the same. Everything seems to be In the air. and no one knows what is coming next. t - The brothers of Cornelius Harrington, Harring-ton, who was drowned at the Warm Sirings the other day. have arrived from the east and will tal-- ;he remains re-mains hack with them to Yv'.iyn. . :ieb., for burial. President Empey of the I'. A. & M. society expresses himself as r. .'tily in favor of the suggestion for a permanent perma-nent intcrmountain fair in this city, t'tah is the oldest of the intcrmountain plates, and most centrally loca 'd. and fine, large, permanent buildings in this rity for annual intcrmountain fair purposes pur-poses would be the means of bringing in exhibitors from all of the country between the great plains on the east Bad the Sierra Madres on the west: and it would bring together here as never before farmers, ranchmen, stockmen, miners and business men from all over this region from the liritish border to the Mexican line. The competitive and comparative exhibits and interchange j of iews and ideas would prove of im-mens-e advantage for all concerned. f The city diction on Tuesday resulted: result-ed: Richard P. Morris (Dem.l. mayor: John S. Criichlow (Dem.l, recorder: Fisher S. Harris (Dem.l. treasurer: C. C. Dey (Dem.l. cjty attorney: C. P.. , Felt (Dciu.). city audits. The coun- ! i cil will stand: Republicans, 9; Demo- I crats. C. Local merchants, especially those handling . groceries.- hardware and drugs, are sorting their stocks and pre-pari'ig pre-pari'ig for the winter and spring trade. a it is now "twixt hay and grass" j w-iih thciiK and there is opportunity for the work. As a general thing mer- chants report business in a very fair . condition. |
