The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-09


The city was rather quiet yesterday in
the business Ene but the work OF improve
ment goes steadily on.
The Hot Springs bathing train left for
that health and pleasure resort well filed
with passengers yesterday afternoon.
For wonder, all trains were on time
yesterday morning. The Utah q Northern,
due at 80 p. M, came in about two hours
late.
%The contracts for getting out and hauling
the foundation stone for Reeds new i've
story hotel have been let and the work on
them begun.
Work on the new First National bank
block is progressing slowly. 1t Will be a
substantial and imposing editce and
credit to the city.
French. the alleged firebug, who had his
examination before Justice Dee, was on
Yesterday morning bound over to await the
action of the grand jury.
Over a million of brick will be used in the
three four-story buildings to be erected on
Twenty fourth street by Messrs. Wood
mansee, Marsh, and Smuin 81 Thomas.
The child prematurely born in the rail
road wreck near Weber, SUNDAY evening"
was brought TO Ogden and buried yester-
day from S. M Preshaws undertaking es-
tablishment.
The work of tearing down and removing
the old passenger depot goes merrlly on,
and soon that old landmark and eyesore
will be thing of the past Good rlddance
to bad rubbish.
MIR. Thompson, the architect of the new
hotel, was IN the city yesterday looking
into the matter of letting contracts for put
ting in the foundation walls. he returned
TO Salt Lake city IN the afternoon.
Surveying for a mammoth ice house was
going on yesterday on the railroad grounds
north of the new passenger station. Enough
ice will be stored for the use of all the com
panies whose trains run into Ogden.
George c. Schramm, assistant baggage
agent of the Union Pacific in this city, Will
leave this morning for a visit to his old
home in Ohio. During his absence Frank
Miles will act as assistant ''smaSher' under
the direction of Captain Hollingsworth.
The people of Ogden hope that the
alleged Pacific Short Line people will be
able to raise some money with which to
construct their proposed line OF railroad
The outlook at present is more dismal than
at any time in the past.
A gentleman VINO claims to be posted
says there is an organized gang OF crooks
who are engaged in plying their vocation
in Salt Lake and Ogden. They travel on
the trains between the two places and are
said to be slick operators.
Officer VIM. Brown, who is one Of the
shrewdest detectives in the country, says
he feels certain that in French, the man
held on the charge of setting lre to the
Novelty theatre, he has the guilty one, and
that he viii be indicted, tried, found guilty
and.punished.
1t is rumored that the Pacific Short Line,
socalled, viii not come TO Ogden through
the Ogden Canon, if at all. 1t would be
more gratifying to learn for fact that
work on the projected line had been started
anywhere. knowing that it must eventually
come to this city.
Professor Haefeli is meeting with such
gratifying success in the disposal OF the
first volume of his LAS You Like 1t, that
he has already put his hand to the pIoW and
has caused the printers to prosecute work
on volume two, which will be even more
interesting than the trst was.
If the contracting stone masons of Ogden,
OF whom there are but few, combine Tor
the purpose Of securing an eXorbltant or
unreasonable price for putting IN the toun-
dations of the new Reed hotel, they Will be
sure to come to grief. 1t is hoped that they
will be sensible and reasonable.
Potatoes are potatoes this year. Last
fail at this time the farmers were peddnng
potatoes on the streets and thought them
selves fortunate if they could sell them for
% cents a bushel. They get three times
that amount now and believe they will get
more before the advent of cold weather.
Golden. one of the suspected fire bugs
who was brought before Justice Dee Tor
examination Monday and discharged on
motion of the prosecuting attorney, ana
was Immediately arrested by Snerln Bel
nap on charge OF highway ROBBERY, nag
an examination yesterday and was bound
over in the sum Of $1,000. he viii IangulSh
in the cooler for while.
In The HERALD yesterday, in the article
on the Ogden postotice, the writer SAID that
the paw of second, third and fourth class
postmasters was entirely inadequate. rms
sentence is misleading. The salary OF the
postmaster is ample. The Ogden post
master gets s., 500 per year. What in
tended to say was that salary and allow
ance together were generally too small.
There are complaints of irregularities
and moor mail service on the Ogden and
Salt Lake postal route. 1t is doubtful
whether there is any foundation for these
complaints; that is to say, the postal clerks
land particularly Colonel d. Z. Tarpey,
who runs on the Utah Central), are not to
blame They are all experienced and faith
full men and strictly attend to their duties
The fault for Irregularities must rest some
where else.
J. c. Murphy and another man were vic
timized by a cheeky sneak thief at hotel
in this city Monday evening. Murphy
came up from Salt Like city, went TO the
hotel and placed his satchel, containing
rubber stamps, etc, in the baggage room
and then went to supper. Soon after
man stepped up to the office, threw down
dollar and asked for four bits in change,
and walked out Of the hotel with Murphy's
satchel in his hand and another mans over
coat on his arm. He has not been seen III
Ogden since.
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