Show LOCAL JOTS Park City wants Patience Next Sunday will be Easter A young mens conference was held in I Provo yesterday Dragoon drill at the Theatre this evening even-ing commencing at oclock sharp 5 The Park City school has been closed on account of an insufficiency of funds to pay the teacher j There were five funerals in the city yesterday three today and there will be two tomorrow The bathing cars ire being repainfed a bright yellow They will be painted red i later in the season The Liberty Park drive is in an excellent S excel-lent condition now and was thronged I with vehicles yesterday afternoon S A boy slipped and fell at Wagoners S 1 brewery yesterday and broke his arm He was brought to the city and attended I by Dr Hamilton Messrs Farnsworth Murdock shipped S two car loads of cattle from Beaver and Milford to Salt Lake last week They arrived yesterday A number of carpenters were discharged dis-charged from the Utah Central shops dist S Saturday night and a further reduction in the force is expected Mr and Mrs H G Whitney were yesterday made more than happy by the arrival of a son of whom they are justly proud Mrs Whitney is doing nicely It is reported that nine gamblers left Park city in one day last week which is I regarded as an indication of hard times The tin horns exodusted from Salt Lake last fall The D R G carried fiftytwo eastbound east-bound passengers yesterday and sixty seven today No wonder the narrow guage turns up its nose at conference rates The Utah Central coal mines have been working on half time for the past month owing to the decreased demand for fuel l and it is rumored the force is to oe reduced The gentle breeze that came down from the north this morning was caused by the Mapleson Opera Company passing through Ogden en route to the Chicago opera festival An immense crowd from the city visited vis-ited Fort Douglas yesterday afternoon The conceit was hardly up to the usual high standard although the clarionet solo by Prof Kinne was excellently rendered Business was never known to be so dull as now One house reports thirtyfive cents cash in one day another no cash and four dollars credit sales Better times are coming and they are not faraway far-away Park Record The stopers at the Ontario have been laid off for a while owing to the bad condition con-dition of the road between the mill and mine The ore houses at the mill and mineare all full and no inconvenience will be experienced for some weeks The party of tourists who were expected ex-pected from the West arrived yesterday I morning and left for the East over the D 11 G this morning They registered at the Walker House from all parts of the United States England Scotland and Australia The new race track of Messrs Walker and Mullpy on the Wells farm south of the city is now nearly completed About the 1st of May it will be the scene of an interesting race between Mark McKim S mons team of quick steppers and Matt Cullins pacing ponies for 500 a side A new time card went into effect on the Utah Northern today The passenger pas-senger train will leave for the North at 940 a m as heretofore but will arr eat e-at 630 p m instead of 6 15 Appended to the time card are 180 rules and regulations regu-lations which every employe is required to be familiar with The triangular piece of ground just north of the D RT depot has been enclosed en-closed by an artistic fence and a number of trees have been set out It will be Heeded with grass gravel walks laid out and a handsome fountain will occupy the center It will make a beautiful little S park parkA A party of distinguished St Louis people peo-ple arrived from the west yesterday and registered at the Walker House It consists con-sists of Samuel Coupples the millionaire wooden ware man and wife Miss Low man John E Liggett of the Liggett Tobacco To-bacco Works and wife and Miss Ella Liggett They left for the East via tineD tine-D R G this morning A corporal and three privates of the Sixth Infantry who had been tried and convicted of desertion and were confined in the guard house awaiting sentence made a somewhat remarkable escape Saturday night They were all heavily ironed but succeeded in some inexplicable inexplic-able manner in getting their handCuffs i off and cutting a hole through the floor They have not been heard from |