The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-16
OGDEN FLASHES.

+. A. HAMMOND went south yesterday
evening.
ID. f. WALKER and wife, OF Salt Lake,
are registered at the Broom.
ADAMS Bios. have removed to their
new gallery in the Childs building.
IT is estimated that twenty ears Of
potatoes have been shipped from Ogden
in the past week.
JAS. A. MACKNIGHT will repeat his
lecture on Napoleon in the Tabernacle
on Monday evening.
MEssRs. KIHBALL and Shelby went
east in a special car attached to the
U. 2. yesterday morning.
THE late rains proved very disastrous
to the residents of Plain City. Many OF
the inhabitants of that town are en-
gagged IN gathering salt from the lake,
and the storms swept from 5000 TO TO-
600 tons of salt back into the water. The
estimated damage to Plain City *
$25, 600.
We have in Ogden a gentleman who
IS engaged IN an unparalleled COmbin u
ton of occupations. His place of bust
ness is a small and contracted room OF
three feet frontage on Main Street. II e
advertlses that lie IS an undertaken, 3
carpenter, n real estate agent and a
teacher of the French language.
ALDERMAN FAER announced in the
Police Court Yesterday morning that
Hank Wheeler, a rollicking cowboy, had
daznaged the city to the amount OF
SIS, by indulging in an enthusiastic
drunk. The festive Wheeler, not hay
ing the necessary collateral to pay the
fine, will labor for the city fifteen days
ALDERMAN FARR, on Tuesday after
noon, assessed Peter Kelly and Arthur
Jones $15 each for stealing ride in a G.
j. box car from ElkO to Ogden. They
informed the Judge that money was "a
commodity with which they were en-
tirely unacquainted, and consequently
they will enter the service of the city
for the next fortnight.
JNO. ISLE and Dora Parsey were ar
rested in 4 Semi-nude condition Mon
day night at the Globe Hotel. They
plead guilty and Alderman Farr fined
them $25 each. She was unable TIA
settle her account with the city, and
will languish in prison for twenty-five
days. He iquidated and departed for
his home in the Black Hills.
THE Marshal's books show that crime
has increased in Ogden with great "a
pidity in the last five years The re-
port of the captain of police for the
quarter ending March 31st, 1879, states
that eleven arrests were made during
that quarter. Marshal Flies report for
the same quarter in the present year
shows the total number of arrest 20 be
$50.
Mrs. JULIA FEEGUsON was brought up
in the Police Court, Tuesday afternoon,
charged with keeping a house of proSti-
tuition. She pleaded not guilty, but the
evidence of officers Brown and BALKAN
tyne was so conclusive that Alderman
Farr differed with her, and suspended
sentence until Wednesday morning,
when she was fined in Alderman Fairs
Court $50 and costs. As she could not
settle her fine she was committed to jail-
On the 9Th inst NJ Richter, of the
firm of Richter Il McCarty. was arrested
by Officer HarrOp upon the charge OF
selling liquor on Sunday. The case
properly should have come uD before
Alderman Miller, but upon request Of
the defendant 4 change OF venue was
taken to Alderman Fairs court, ana
the case set for hearing Wednesday
morning, at II O'Clock. The prOsecu-
ton have two witnesses, James Barton,
Jr, and G.. AmmOnden, who are willing
to testify, that they saw liquors sold over
Richter Il McCarty's bar on the Sab
bath, This morning the case was dis
missed, on account of the witnesses az
the last moment refusing to give in their
evidence.
''Bill' Bean, the confidence man, Was
set at liberty Monday night, on account
of the prosecuting witness having lett
the town, and no evidence could be OBJ
tanned to convict him, although he was
undoubtedly guilty OF passing spurious
checks. Almost Immediately upon his
release he came in contact with ] =
Johnson, a resident of Evanston, bus
who is at present sojOurning in Ogden
and has been on a prOtracted spree for
several days. Bean enticed Johnson
into the dark alley between Corey Bros
and Wright IL Sons stores, and there
garrOted him. He beat his victim IN
land took from his person
$S5 in cash and a gold watch and chain
Sheriff Belknap arrested Bean Tuesday
morning, on suspicion. He was takeis
before Johnson, who recognized him as
his assailant Justice Dee postponed
the hearing of his case until Wednes-
day morning Bean Is an old offender.
and has been arrested scores al
times. But he usually by some
fortunate circumstance manages to eS-
cape through the meshes of the law. He
had q hearing before Justice Dee this
A great many witnesses
we're examined, and'all the evidence
went to show that he was guilty Judge
Dee thinking that the testimony was
sufficient to convict him, bound him
over to await the action of the Grand
Jury, and placed his bonds at 1900
As he could not obtain securities for his
appearance he viii be taken to- Salt
Lake and placed in the penitentiary to
wait until the First District Court opens
VIVIAN
Ogden, October 18th, 1884.