The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-01
THE NEWS In OGDEN.
An Unfortunate Man Suicides
on a Stairway.
A R0USING POLITICAL RALLY.
The Pacific Short Line-The Tramps Camping
GrOund-A Grist of Miscellaneous
Natter-Politics
A R0USING POLITICAL RALLY.
THE SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
No. 1858 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDFN AuuuS ct

THE SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
No. 1868 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDEN, August l.
The contract for the construction Of the
military school building was let yesterday.
Boys, steer clear of the gambling dens,
and you'll have more money to enjoy life
with.
The gaily decorated public and private
houses and the floating flags, give Ogden a
holiday appearance.
S. A. (''Scip'O was expected in town
yesterday. 1t is alleged that he essayed to
get here, but failed.
o. w. Powers, of Salt Lake, and David
Evans, of Provo, will address u Liberal
meeting in this city tonight.
The day of July 3Oth will ever be remem-
bered in this community as the anniversary
of the opening of the new Union depot
Browning Brothers are engaged in evolv-
ing another ''cute" gun machine pattern.
They won't have to hunt for a purchaser.
The political soup in the pot keeps sim
mering In few days the scum will be
swept off the surface and only solid stuff
remain.
1t is said that the man who suicided Tues
day had blown in'' two thousand dollars
or so within a short time and that the Tin
hOrnsn got it.
ScOwcroft & Sons are much pleased with
the interior arrangements of their new
business block on Washington avenue, near
the Broom hotel.
The low wall which is to surround the
city hall grounds is being constructed. An
asphaltum sidewalk will be laid on three
sides of the block.
The members of the Western Press asso-
citation and the old '49-ers will be here to-
day or to morrow. There are over four
hundred in the party.
Frank J. Cannon is said to be in New
York city figuring to secure railroad con-
tract. Several contractors are waiting
here for the same thing.
1Architect Braun is busily engaged at F.
!. Kiesel & Co.'s new warehouse near the
depot. II will be the most useful structure
of the kind in the territory.
THE ''oldest inhabitant'' declares that he
cannot remember when the heated term
continued for such q length of time as dur
ing the present summer season.
The people of this city and county are
glad TO learn that E w. Tullidges new
volume of the history of Utah, comprising
our immediate surroundings, will shortly
DE issued. Q x4
The refreshing experience of a few
Thiffs of fresh winds were realized yes
terday afternoon, by which the hot
10 certain extent.
The Pacific Short Line surveyors have
about finished the correction and reloca-
ton of their line through Ogden canon, and
IL is expected that construction contracts
win soon be let for one hundred miles or
more.
The city council at its next session, on
Friday night will do well TO reconsider the
ill-advised and ill-inspired action on the
Grant avenue spring. The reckless cover
ing up of that fine, fresh flow cannot be
TOO loudly condemned.
A not inconsiderable number of strangers
here have been attracted hither by the
great attraction of the new Union depot
structure, descriptions of which nowadays
read like the records of the fulfllment of
dreams long since entertained.
The attention of the committee on public
grounds is called to the fact that tramps
are making a camping ground of Lester
park at night. 1t is not safe for ladies or
children TO pass through that park after
dark. Run in the trampS and give them
another place to sleep in.
at no time since the work of cutting
down the Twenty-fifth street hill was
begun has that thorOughfare been in such
miserable condition as at present. At the
present rate at which the work is progress
ing, the street viii not be in good shape for
a year or two to come.
A society young man of Ogden asserts
that the hustle is surely going out Of style.
He has been on the watch and says that al
ready the most fashionable of the fair sex
look as if they had lost something. The
.'transposition' is too abrupt-entirely too
abrupt. Especially is the contrast great
when our country cousins, who have not
heard of the change in fashion, come to
town with regular daisy clipper attached.