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Show LOCAL JOTS. The case of L. B. Mattiaon vs. William Wright was dismissed on motion of S. W. Darke, attorney for the plaintiff. In the case of Howard Sebree vs. E. P. Terry, a note was offered in evidence, and judgment was rendered as prayed. James Furrejr was arrested early this morning in a noisy and dranken condition and locked Tip in the cooler to await trial. j Mr. B. B. Young will hold his chorus practice for the next sacred concert to-night, at Calder's Music Palace, at 7:30 o'clock. A i full attendance is requested. You See Sison, the Mrs. Sisons and all the little Sisons, from Sandy, were before the Grand Jury to-day in company with two other cases of the prevalent U. C. troubles. To-morrow night the Criterion Club meets in the Tenth Ward schoolhouse. There will be a re-election of officers and interesting proceedings. The public are cordially invited. in-vited. Bishop Halsey, of the African Methodist Church, says that the want of a wife will give a man the dyspepsia. If the Bishop is right, says the San Francisco Post, digestion out in Utah ought to be mighty good. The technical meaning of unlawful cohabitation cohab-itation awaits the ruling of the United States Supreme Court afW hearing on the 16th inst. Angus 11. Cannon, now imprisoned, appealed the point in question, and now awaits the result with great expectations. Judge M. H. Owsley, of Kentucky, one of the candidates for the Utah Prosecuting At- torneyship, has acquaintances in Salt Lake who pronounce him a reputable man and a judge of large experience. He was a candidate candi-date before the last Gubernatorial convention conven-tion of Kentucky. Judge Hope's little boy has recovered from diphtheria and is playing soldier with the yellow flag. It would be well for the "com- Ipetent" quarantine physician to look after outstanding signal banners and save the city the unnecessary expense of buying any more of the useless things. The case of John Cunnington et. al. vs. John S. Soott et. al., involving a quantity of ore, was introduced in court this morning by Woods & Hoffman and A. G. Sutherland for plaintiffs, and Marshall & lioyal for defendants. defend-ants. The suit promises to create a lively fight and will last a few days. Last night's presentation of "The Mikado" was an improvement in many respects over that of Monday night, and the second act made up for many of the defects in the first. Miss Tbatoher and Miss Wells did some excellent ex-cellent singing. Mr. John Spencer created the usual merriment, and altogether it was an improvement on the initial performance. perform-ance. Mr. W. A. Burke is busv adjusting something some-thing new in the way of pooled freight. He is in receipt of a car load of carrots, beets and turnips, consigned to him as a gift from a philanthropic friend at Price station. Not being able to play even on the "white elephant," ele-phant," all poor widows and hungry orphans are invited to share Mc's gift from Thistle Valley. I The four silver cups exhibited in Swaner's display window are to be given to the successful suc-cessful contestants in the Friday night exhibition ex-hibition at the Pavilion. Two of the cups go to the best heavy and light-weight spar- rers. Ihe third cup goes to the man raising a 58-pound dumbbell the most times, and the fourth prize is for the best Indian-club swinger. Two weeks ago a young man by the n ame of Frank Brady came down to the Sisters' Hospital rrom lilackfoot, Idaho, with a badly decomposed foot, caused by being severely frozen last winter. The amputation of the foot at the ankle joint became necessary, neces-sary, and yesterday afternoon Dr. Benedict performed the operation and the young man is now on the road to recovery. A German employe of the Beck Eureka Hill mine was brought to the. Deseret Hospital Hos-pital last night for an operation. While working in the mine the handle of a windlass wind-lass struck him on the head, breaking his jaw and tearing the flesh off one side of his face in a frightful manner. Dr. Anderson dressed the wounds and left the sufferer as comfortable as could be expected. The Mormon press of Utah, which is fond of girding at the Alt-a, should understand that we have no virulence against the people of that Territory. In fact, we love every bone in their bodies, but we do hate their tarnation ways; and, because it is better for their welfare, moral and material, that they should be in line with the spirit of the age rather than at angles with it, we wish them to be disciplined into knowledge. & F. Alta. Nov, 1. |