The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-08
Briefs

ONE hears nothing but election news
nowadays. 1t is all the excitement.
G. A. SMURrHwAITE, of the firm OF
Smurthwaite Rich d Co., is COL fined 10
his house by illness.
PRoBAB Y there were less bets made
on election day in this city than in any
city of its size IN the United States.
On Tuesday there was buried in tt e
City Cemetery from the U. P Hospital
young man named Richard Grover.
THE Council meets again on Friday
evening, aud some steps should be
taken to identify the streets by putting
painted signs at every corner.
NOTWITHSTANDING the inclemency of
the weather and the trio of holidays So
to speak. shipments Of Utah products
has been up to the average so far this
week.
A SMALL photograph in the possession
of Alfred Lowe. at the depot, showing
Ogden's Main Street as it was in the
year 1868, is exhibited by him. He
considers it a great relic.
LOCAL business has SO far increased
in Ogden, at the Western Union Tele-
graph office, that it has become neces-
sary to employ additional messenger
force at the uptown office.
IT is to be hoped that the street
supervisor will see to it that the high
mounds over the gas mains are leveled
down somewhat before the ground
freezes. Otherwise damages will be
likely to occur at any time during the
winter.
The city authorities are making
many improvements IN the streets, and
they are really in q very fair condition.
But to tell the name of any street is
next to impossible, ss there is not a
slgnboard on single corner TO SO des-
ignate them.
AMID the cold and stormy weather
and the abundance of moisture in the
ground the excayators and stone-ma-
sons have disagreable time in putting
down the foundations of the various
buildings recently commenced in this
city.
AT the Opera House Tuesday even
ing the Standard and The
HERALD both got more or less mention
during the progress of the play of Our
Boarding House. But it is only lair
to state in this connection that the
Standard carried off the more" part of
said mention.
THE gas company have constructed
or laid their principal mains and are
nov resting on this department of their
work waiting for the pipes of smaller
caliber to complete the WORK. They
should have been here weeks age.
W hat pity they could not have been
made here. thereby saving to Ogden
the cost and carriage of so many tons Of
iron.
IT was alleged yesterday that a
mountain lion had been seen in the
vicinity of the Weber Bridge, and the
Browning Bros. closed their shop and
pushed for the scene of the "tiend ~"
Tracks were found in abundance, and
one man that lived in the vicinity is
reported to have shot at the beast, but
no blood tracks could be discovered.
One yellow dog nearly lost his life by
being taken for the game, and one man
got stalled on barb wire fence, other
wise the hunt" was void of incident or
disaster.
The photographer who occupies the
tent on lower Fifth Street met with a
loss by thieves Tuesday night or
Wednesday morning. His tent was
entered by the lighV-fiDgered gentry,
and his best camera taken, together
with other material and paIapherna-
liza incidental to the photographer
art. Suspicion pointed to two men who
had frequented. the place somewhat of
late and had avowed their intention of
taking the road shortly in similar
line. The sheriff, aided by one of the
city police, effected their capture yes
terday and they will have q hearing
this morning.
IT very frequently happens that a
stranger moving into the city and Sc
curing a house or a room or two leaves
his order at store for goods to be sent
to his new residence, and the store
keeper loads up his wagon and starts
out to find the place. Very often, how
ever, he is compelled to return with the
goods owing to the vagueness OF the
location as described by the pur-
chaser. If the streets were named and
the houses numbered, such vexations
and expensive delays in the delivery
would not occur. The city is old
enough and large enough TO have the
streets properly designated and the
houses numbered. It is to be hoped
that the Council will recognize the fact
at their next meeting.