The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-10
THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
What is Going On in the Busy
Junction City.
TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME ETC.
A Sermon on the Present Dry SeasOn-The
Nine Hour Carpenters COntest-0ther
News Notes.
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU, J
No. 2421, WASHINGTON AVENUE, 7
OGDEN. Aug. 10, 1889.

SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
No. 2421, WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDEN, Aug. 10, 1889.
At the time of mailing this letter
shower appeared to be brewing.
If YOU want the news of Ogden as 1t is,
subscribe for and read THE HERALD.
With the advent of cooler weather the
demand for milk shakes and kindred drinks
has fallen off.
Diphtheria is only sporadically known in
Ogden. The report that it is prevalent IS
a bold faced falsehood.
The Commercial says that ''the people
seemed to be satisfied with the purportlon-
ment of their taxes" Which!
Professor ]. H Wiegand is in the city,
making arrangements for the great concert
to be given at Lake Park on the 18th IN
slant
The published statement that the robbers
who held up the Rio Grande Western train
were seen at Corey Brothers camp is not
true.
That popular and well patroniZed educa-
tional institution, the Sacred Heart
academy, will commence its fall session
September l.
Father Cushnahan's new house on the
brow of Twenty-fourth street hill Will be
a fine edifice. Work upon it is being prose
cuted with vigor.
There's lots of mining talk, and some
good ore is being shown in town. 1t comes
from several of the promising prospects IN
the mountains east of the city.
Twenty-Five hundred and two Washing
ton avenue, Reed 81 Snyder's real estate
office. is where TUE HERALD branch office
in Ogden in comfortably located.
AlmaD. Chambers, at one time foreman
of the Junction, as well as the Herald, IN
this city, is being restored to health at the
sanitarium of Dr.. Burke, at Napa, Cal.
In Alderman Preshaw's court there were
several cases of direliction. Three OF them
were for gambling, and four for drunken
ness. Penalties were inflicted in each case.
Persons having business with THE HER
AID will find Z. a. Littlefeld, manager OF
the Ogden branch, or ]. G. Boyle, circu-
lator. at the office in Reed IL Snyder's real
estate OIL ,e.
THE HERALD, under its present manage
ment, is doing the square thing by Ogden
and her people,I and being "a live news
paper, is meeting with merlted success
among all classes.
The case of John Scowcroft VS.. Rams
ford Smith was to have been heard yester-
day by Judge Henderson. 1t was post
poned until evening. when the judge would
hear a motion for continuance.
TITS to be hoped that the Boutwell, com
many will be able to fulfill their contract
with Ogden city, without being annoyed
and put TO trouble and expense by the
authorities of Idaho or the general govern
ment
Vest rday afternoon Policemen Brown
and Baxter were occupied in examining
vast lot of clothing and other paraphernala,
supposed to have been stolen and the ship
ming to California arranged for by Earl and
Bradburn, two alleged crooks.
CT Corey and E. O. Watts, of the rail
road contracting firm OF Corey Bros. q
company, leave Ogden to-day for their
camp at Cisco, on the Rio Grande Western
road The firm has forty mile contract
for grading and widening the road bed.
Miss I.ottie Hill, the youngest daughter
of Richard Hill, the old-time milkman, IS
with Mrs S. w. Knapp, the wife OF the
suDerintendent of the Southern Pacific,
who is enjoying pleasant soiourn IN the
semi-tropical wales and dales OF California.
The Commercial sagely remarks: Home
capital had better watch out or 1t Will lose
profitable investment by procrastlnaulon
in taking hold of the (hoteD scheme"
Home capitalists will never build hotel
while there is hope of being able to ring in
outside capital.
The CITY council has been petitioned by
nevVsuaper proprietOrs and representatives
of newspapers, to appoint special ponce
man for the detection of newspaper thieves.
1t is alleged that there are some OF that
class in Ogden, and if so they should be
punished to the full extent of the law.
Yesterday the police made rich haul of
goods of various description, and arrested
two alleged thieves by the name OF Earl
end Bradburn The two fellows have been
under surveillance for some time. They
appear to be hard cases, Acting City Mar
shall William Brown caused them to be
locked up.
Two children of Christian SchRni, a
recent immigrant from Switzerland, have
died of diphtheria at Midway. The cause
of the infection is attributed to the water,
and in order to avoid the infiltratiOn of the
filth germs, the people have devised means
to obtain their supply of drinking water
from distant springs.
f. r. Reed, the rustler and improver, will
have a fine stone sidewalk laid down In
front of his Twenty-ffth street property
east of Washington avenue. 1t Will extend
from the corner to the east side OF his hne
brick block It is pity that more of the
valuable land on the principal streets OF
Ogden are not controlled by men Of Mr..
Reeds enterprise and progresslveness, IN
stead of the fossils and mossbacks.
The two morning newspapers in this city
take no sides in the controversy between
BNAASNAo
Union and the contractors. Discretion is
good thing sometimes, but it may go so far
in one direction as to present an appearance
of cowardice. The two morning journals
will always be found hedging when poor
laboring men are on one side and powerful
contractors on the other side of any ques
ton. 'sThe laborer is worthy of his hire"
It seems to be very generally enter
tanned opinion that the city tax rate was
placed too low and property under valued
by the city assessor. This is certainly
true in the cases of those silurians who per
sist in refusing to put good houses on their
eood land. II these fossils will neither
build nor sell out to live men who would
irnurove their properties, they deserve to
he made to pay reasonable tax. None of
them do it, however.
In view of the fact that the present is
the dryest season ever known on the
Pacific coast; that it is dry even in Oregon,
the land of the webfeet it is the height of
foolisbness to give out as a cold fact that
the Salt Lake valley is more highly favored
than other fertile sections in the arid
region. Every one in Utah knows that
there is a scarcity of water for irrigation;
every tourist or visitor, unless an idiot,
knows the same thing. Then why should
anv ne,vspaper seek to create an impression
that the hot and dry weather experienced
during the mast two months has not affected
the grain and fruit crops 1t is bad policy.
"Tell the truth and shame the devil
When this correspondent says that the
heat and absence of water cause the leaves
of the trees to fall prematurely, That Is Just
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