The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-19
The City in Brief.

An extra force of stonecutters were put
to work on the Reed hotel yesterday.
E. A. Reed, the w;de-awake real estate
man and hotel builder, visited the city by
the saline sea yesterday.
It is understood here in Ogden that con-
siderable work will be done this winter on
the Utah 81 Northern cutoff between here
and Oxford.
Deputy Mcclellan went to Harrisville
Saturday and arrested one Charles b. Han
cock, charged with an alleged murder in
Payson in 1858.
Duff's Opera company came in from the
east at :35 p. m. and went to Salt Lake on
the Utah Central. They had two and a
half cars of baggage.
H c. Wardleigh has been confined to bis
bed for the past week with an attack of
fever Yesterday he was some better and
is in far way to recover his health.
A. c. Cleveland, prominent citizen of
Nevada, residing in White Pine county,
where he owns fine stock ranch, spent a
few hours in Ogden yesterday and went
west last evening.
The fast mail train that left for the west
Monday morning at 1875, had two mail
cars, one baggage car, one sleeper, one
smoking car aud one special car of the Chi
cago & Northwestern road.
General Nathan Kimball is reported to be
suffering from the effects of the changeable
weather, and has been confined to his home
for q few days. His many friends hope
that his indispSsition is not serious.
The deep snow in the mountains has
caused the deer and other large game to
come down to the lower levels, where they
fall an easy prey to the hunters. The
markets of the city are well supplied with
venison.
C;1,a,, CtavaDS rvos aSoOrtinp the new
resident agent of the great Rock Island
route around town yesterday, making him
acquainted with the business men. The
Rock Island has many friends and patrons
in this city and is bound to have more.
The Silver Bell mine, just east of the city,
owned by the Hamer brothers and assOcl-
ates, is showing up well There is now in
sight a foot of solid argentiferous galena,
which assays well. The ledge is well de-
fined. The ore carries considerable gold.
Work has been commenced on the new
roundhouse of the consolidated railway
companies, southeast of the union passen-
ger station. This is the largest building of
its kind west of the Missouri river. 1t will
have stalls for fifty-siX 10 comOtives, twenty
of which will be completed as soon as a
large force of men will do the work.
Sarah Winnemucca. the Piute princess,
so-called, is III the city and a guest of the
Cottage lOUe1. uuSO dllu, ldJc Il llSulCA-
ant in the United States army, recently
died, and his widow is draped in deep
mourning. The princess carries her years
well, Notwithstanding the vicissitudes
which she has encountered in her ife's
journey.
The corpse of Chinaman, ticketed
through from Baltimore to San Francisco,
arrived here Sunday via the Union Pacific,
and was landed on the platform. The dead
celestial's fare was paid through, as shown
by the first class ticket held by the NAH
who came through with it. The Baltimore
4 Ohio road issued the ticket and received
S175 for it; yet the Central Pacific refused
to honor the ticket and demanded a further
charge of S75 to take the corpse TO San
Francisco, which was refused, and it was
buried in the Ogden cemetery yesterday
afternoon.
Mr.. Sidney Stevens, one of Ogden's most
enterprising merchants and most prominent
dealer in agricultural machinery, has for a
long time been urging the traffic manager
of the Rock Island IL Pacific railway to
locate a general agent at this place. Last
Saturday evening he received a telegram
from Traffic Manager Sage, of Chicago,
that his request had been complied with,
and naming Mr.. G. Z. Golding as the APP
pointee. with headquarters at Ogden. The
gentleman has arrived here and established
his Office at ,, $40 Washington avenue.