The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-01
Briefs.

THE west bound travel is inprovi
som what.
THE postal clerks in this vicinity got
their pay yesterday.
ALEXANDER BADLAM, of San Fran
cisco, was in the city yesterday.
THE Union Pacific was one hour late
last evening. causing the Utah Central
to be late leaving.
A FEW teams are still employed filling
up the corners of the city lot, corner of
Main and Fifth Streets.
A LARGE party of merry-makers ives
in at enhance ct the masquerade held
in Social Hall Wednesday evening.
Col. Seymour, of the Rush House,
San FRANCISCO, WAS west-bound las
seuger in the vestibule yesterday from
this city.
C. A. SMITH, of Norwich. Conn.,, and
q large property owner in Kansas, was
q south-bound passenger via Utah Ce1-
trail last evening.
THE board of directors of the Cham
Der of Commerce met last evening in
the Chambers delightful rooms. 1t
was thought that the committee for the
ensuing year would then be announced.
The Golden Gate special went west
Yesterday, with thirty passengers.
Owing to hot box the train was thirty
minutes late at this point, but had
made up the lost time when Promontory
was reached.
CLAUS SPREoKLEs, the great sll ar
merchant and retiner of the Pacific
Coast, was one of the west-bound pat
sengers on the Golden Gate special,
yesterday. He left Philadelphia on the
evening of the 28th, and will be in an
Francisco at o'clock this evening.
CIVIL ENGINEER D. w. Ellis has just
completed a new curve or ninety Ieet
redius for the street railway company
to be ussd at the corner of Maine and
Fifth Streets. The curve laid out some
weeks ago was too close to the curb
stone at the corner to make;'t entirely
safe, and the street committee OF the
City Council requested change.
AS near as can be estimated, there are
500 challenges to be heard on the voting
list. The deputy registrar will not al
low an inspection of the challenges, but
it is estimated that fully 300 of them
are from the Liberal element. There
are but five days in which to bear them,
and the registrar has not the ability to
hear half of them in the time. The
hearing commences this evening, and
unless a great many challenges are
Withdrawn, 1t is hard to predict what
will follow.
The City Council hold the last regu-
lar meeting OF their term in the new
City Hall this afternoon at O'Clock.
Considerable speculation is rife whether
or not they will amend the ordinance
providing for the election OF five alder
men and ten councillors Some think
the number is entirely too many, others
say the more the merrier. Challenges
on the ground of non residence are
coming to the front thick and fast.
Many of the so-called Liberals whose
names are to be found on the registra-
ton list have come here within the last
five or six months and are not entitled
to vote at this election. The lew is very
explicit on the point.
THE Peoples County Central Com
rnittee have at last decided that Ogden
City should hold convention to nom
mate officers to be elected February
18th. Accordingly the primaries will
be held in the various wards on Monday
evening ar o'clock, and the conven
ton which will consist of fifty-three
delegates will meet at the County Court
room, Tuesday morning at IL O'Clock.
Vothing is said in the call as to what
Office is to be filed, butt is presumed
that the call for an election issued by
Registrar Corey will be the basis of &C
ton on the matter, and the same num-
Der Of persons will receive nominations
as has been nominated by the opposi
ton.
CAPTAIN J. R. MIDDLEMAs, who has
figured quite conspicuously in court
circles the past week or two, is said to
have received through the mail an
anonymous correspondence of doubt
stamp of the Ogden postoffice, dated
January Both, and the inscription is
wi b pencil and a good stimulation of a
lady's handwriting. The subject mat
ter of the epistle is as follows
!OGDEN CITY, January 30, D. 1889.
John r. Middlemas, and then follows
a fair representation of a skull and
crossbones, also in pencil, and these
words and marks:
"(One) (Two) { J"
The writing is very different from
that used on the envelope and re-
sembles that of 14-year-eld school
boy. Then following, and in large
characters evidently by still another
hand, or well disguised, appears what
is intended for a signature, Jack the
Ripper" The captain said to the re-
porter to whom he showed the letter"
that if anyone sought to scare him in
that way they were left" He was not,
going to loose any sleep over il. hsaa
would give 500 to find out W.
party or parties were that wrgse aeas||
sent it.
PERHAPS no local disease has paEzIed
and baffied the medical profession more
than nasal cRtarrh. While not imme- |