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Show j : SALT LAKE 3 CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. Senator Kearns has requested Presi-; Presi-; dent Kingsbury of the state university, . . State Superintendent of Instruction Kelson and Superintendent of City Schools D. H. Christensen to act as a . board of examiners in the matter of the candidacy of worthy young men of this state for a cadetship in the United States naval academy at Annapolis. The board held a meeting Thursday evening. The striking telephone linemen report re-port having sent away seven union men who had come to town and were looking for work. General Manager Murray was asked Monday if he would j consider artibration by three business 1 men, but replied that he could not 6tate until the proposition was made. City Editor Edward Clark of the Butte Miner was serenaded Monday night over the telephone wire from this city. He said he could hear the horn in Salt Lake 435 miles distant, as plainly plain-ly as though the instrument wos out on the street opposite the Miner of-' of-' fice. "Eddie" is very well satisfied with bis Job. j ; Colonel Park expressed himself as ' delighted with the experiences of Camp ' Funston, as it convinced him that . with only a little more experience, the members of the national guard could easily be made into soldiers as good as regulars. It is the colonel's f intention to recruit another company ; of the First infantry in this city, where there is- now but one company command: also a company in Ogden, with possibly yet another company at 1 one of the southern centers. So the 1 regiment will be brought up to a high standard in both numbers and proficiency. profi-ciency. Colonel Park is very proul of his command. The people of Richfield have invited Secretary Beatty of the state board of I health and State Engineer Doremus to attend a local mass meeting Sept. 30 next, and address the citizens on the advantages of a new local water supply. sup-ply. An attempt will be made to bond the town the next day for the inauguration inaug-uration of a water system. The famous Davis triplets, the beautiful beau-tiful girl babies of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davis, formerly of this city, who at-j at-j t tracted so much attention in several western states, are dead. Word has reached friends of the parents in this city that the babies died in Anaheim, Cal., last month. The children, all three of whom were girls, were considered con-sidered among the most beautiful babies ba-bies in the west, and the news of their i death, which occurred within the space of two days from the dread disease, whooping cough, will be received with ' sorrow by the many friends of the parents, who were popular young. peo-ple peo-ple in this city. . Senator Kearns and family returned from their European trip. The senator has been absent about three months, during which time he visited England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France. Switzerland. Austria, Germany and Belgium. He is glad to be home and hopes to remain here until such time 1 as his senatorial duties call him to Washington. Charles Crizier, chief of the Honolulu Hono-lulu fire department and hrother-in-law of J. G. Anderson of 898 Brigham street, is visiting in the city. He came j to this country a few days ago to pur- I chase an aerial extension ladder for I bis department. While in San Francisco Fran-cisco the chief there exhibited that department for the edification of the visitor, and Chief Devine did the same. Mr. Crozior said yesterday that the insurance rates on the island range from $60 to $80 per $1 .000. as compared ; with $5 in this city. That is due to the Inflammable material of whih all buildings there are constructed, and the constant use of fireworks by the natives and Chinese in frequent celebrations. cele-brations. Just before he left Honolulu he was called upon to fight a fire which burned over several Acres of ground, destroying hundreds of buildings. build-ings. 5 When Mrs. Estelle E. McChrjrtaI of Eureka registered at the Cullen note! last May, it was not known la the hotel, or elsewhere for that matter, that she was a prospective bride. Only one other person was posted the groom, Fred T. McGurrin, the well known attorney of this city. The coule then hied quietly to Colorado Springs, where Rev. Godfrey Raber made the twain one. As the groom gav kis residence as Michigan, and the bride her residence at New Orleans, notice of the marriage failed to reach this city "in due time." Mrs. McGurrin shortly left for Europe where she spent the summer, while the groom returned re-turned to Salt Lake to his profession. He is now in Arizona. Mrs. McGurrin McGur-rin will rejoin her "worse half" in Salt Lake a little later. |