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Show t SALT LAKE J 4- 4- 4- CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. "There will . be no increase in the price of coal nor of coke to the people of this city and state unless some unforeseen un-foreseen contingency arises," said E. L. Carpenter of the Utah Fuel com-. com-. pany Monday. "Certainly no such rate on account of the strike in the anthracite regions of' the east. We are too remote from the scene of the tie-up to be in the least affected by it." "Labor was never more plentiful and laborers so scarce in the history of Utah as today," said an employment i agent last week. "I have orders from railroad and mining companies for more than 1,000 men, but it is impossi- i He to fill, or even partially fill, the or ders." The stockholders of the Z. C. M. I. are probably the first residents of Salt Lake to receive a Christmas present. At a meeting of the directors of the Z. C. M. I. held this week, a special dividend divi-dend of 2 per cent was declared in addition ad-dition to the regular ' quarterly dividend. divi-dend. This dividend is usually declared de-clared at Christmas time to take the place of a Christmas present. The directors di-rectors decided that it was best to let the stockholders have their Christmas present a little early this year. Contracts for the new University club building will be let next week, and the week following excavation is to begin on South Temple street, east of thf Alta rlnlt Viiiilrl in"1 TVia plnhmpn propose to have one of the most comfortable com-fortable and home-like buildings in the country. All of the cities in the Union " of any pretensions have now university universi-ty clubs, and these associations of college col-lege men are found very pleasant. 'j A. Fred Wey of the Windsor Eu: Topean hotel left this week for the furniture fur-niture centers of the east to purchase the furniture for his new European hotel, the Wilson, which is being erected erect-ed on the site of the old Harmon block on East Second South street. . The house will contain about 175 rooms. Mr. ' Wey will go to Chicago, remaining there about two weeks, when he will go to Grand Rapids, Mich. He expects to be away about thirty days, and hopes to have the house ready for the public by the first of January. I Local lumber dealers say that Salt Lake is threatened with a lumber famine. They attribute the present tihortage of supply to the forest fires which have been raging all summer in the northwest, and to an unprecedented demand from the eastern states and from the Philippines. They also say that the railroads haven't sufficient freight cars or engines to transport the lumber from the mills to majrket. What the man in the moon would term a total eclipse of the sun from his on the night of TBtfrsJay, Oct. 16, and will be known to us terrestrial inhabitants inhab-itants as a total eclipse of the moon. I On that night, unless the lunar citizens -. Jiave a better power plant to furnish their electric lights than Salt Lake has, , they will very probably take the pre caution to put on a special detail of police, order the chief to close all so-loons so-loons and take divers other means of protecting life and property, for they are scheduled, so far as v.e know, to pass several hours in the densest darkness. dark-ness. In this instance the moon would be heaven to local hold-ups. Scientists Scien-tists predict that the coming eclipse wiii be the greatest astronomical event i cf many years. It will be total for an hour and a haif, as against a minute and a haif of the last eclipse, when astronomers as-tronomers only had an opportunity of . teeing it. This time all may see it throughout the country, providing they care to remain awake long enough. The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Oregon Short Line was held in the board room at the headquarters of the railroad company here Wednesday Wednes-day noon. There were 273,414 shares represented, which for the most part were voted by proxy by Vice Pre.si- retary Millar, who were present. The meeting was of the usual stereo-; stereo-; typed order, and save for the substitu- ! tion of the name of W. S. McOornick lor that of Thomas li. Jones there j were no changes in the directorate. When it is stated that the name of W. S. McCornick will in all probability t be voted upon for the resident direc- torship of the Union Pacific at the meeting here next week, and when the fact is taken into consideration that Mr. McCornick is identified with the San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake as a director, the selection is decidedly a significant one and shows which way the wind is blowing. That there has been some understanding under-standing between the San Pedro pro-1 moters and the Oregon Short Line regarding re-garding the extension to southern California has long been rumored. In this connection it can be authoritatively authori-tatively stated that the negotiations wil Iterminate within the near future to the extent that there will be only one line through to California via Foutherh Utah, and that the San Pedro will do no construction at this end of the line, but will connect with the Oregon Short Line. Negotiations are now under way looking toward the purchase pur-chase by Senator Clark and his associates asso-ciates of the Oregon Short Line south of Salt Lake, including the Tintic branch. If there should be a hitch over the price an understanding has been reached whereby the San Pedro will lease this portion of the Oregon Short Line. |