The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-16


Regular meeting of Union Lodge No. j,
l. o. o. F., tonight
THE HERALD can be obtained at every
news stand in Ogden.
Rev. John NJ. Preshaw is reported very
low and his life is despaired OF.
J.V. Parker, division freight agent of the
Union Pacific at Salt Lake, was III our city
yesterday.
There IS a great deal of sickness in the
city at the present time,. mostly OF low
type of feyers.
Yesterday the sanitary inspector located
another case of diphtheria in a house Oh
Lincoln avenue, between Twenty fourth
and Twenty-tifth streets.
The city b2stile contains eighteen prison
ers ut this time. Four are serving SEN
fences for petty larceny, four for vagrancy
and eleven for being drunk.
On Sunday night Special Officer Phil
Ford arrested one f. 5. Rollins and took
him to the city jail. The charge booked
against him was an attempt to pass forged
check.
Mr. Thompson, the architect of the new
Reed hotel, come up from Salt Lake city
Yesterday to examine the bids for con
structirg the basement and first story Of
that building.
John Atkinson, of this city, has just re
turned from visit to northeastern Nevada,
where he has interests. He reports the
country as being very dry and little feed
on the ranges.
Preparations are being made to entertain
the Colorado eXcurSiOnistS, who are eX-
pected to arrive here on the oath. 1t
is said that they will number at least four
hundred people.
H. b. Hobart, of the Rocky Mountain
NeirS. is lying i'll in his room at the Broom
hotel He is engaged in getting out new
directory of Ogden city, which is about
ready TO 90 into the hands Of the printer.
What is pronounced as malignant diph-
iberia has claimed two victims in the fam
lily of one, Brazil, who lives on the canon
road east of Washington avenue. Other
members of the family are said to be sick
with the same terrible disease.
The contract was let this afternoon for
building the basement and first story of the
new Reed hotel 1t is understood that the
contract price is about eighteen thousand
dollars. Sixty working days are allowed
in.which to do the work.
If there is any authority for enforcing
the sidewalk ordinance in this city, it
ought to be exercised as soon as possible
before wet weather sets in. The little rain
that has fallen this fall is a reminder of the
condition that the sidewalks will be in by
q
The sanitary inspector desires to be IN
derstood as laying that hereafter, dating
from October l5 any physician who shall
conceal from the public any case of malig-
nant disease which he may have charge of,
will be prosecuted to the full extent of the
law The law in such case will be en-
forced without fear or favor.
The cOroner's inquest over the remains
of the unfortunate leila Wnitlock, who
suicided on Monday night, drew a large
crowd of morbid curiosity seekers. While
the testimony of Maria MeadOwcroft, d
room mate of the deceased, was being
riven, all persons were excluded from the
court room except the press reporters.
a cOroner's inquest was held to-day over
the remains of celia Whitlock, an alleged
frail female who committed suicide on Mon
day night. A post norton examination
was made by DR.. Perkins. Several wit
nesses were examined and the jury finally
brought IL a verdict, THAT deceased came
to her death by poison" The testimony
given during the trial did not inculpate
young Wardleigh, the alleged lover of the
deceased.
This morning James Wotherspoon, n
former well known business man of this
city, starts on a mission to Scotland, the
land of his nativity. Jim as he is famil-
iarly called, has .hosts of friends in Ogden
who wish him a pleasant journey,
u good time while absent and a
safe return home at the close of his labors.
F'unge. the hardware man, said to Jim this
morning: mo matter what country you
are in, old friend, if you need any coin /
will honor your draft for any amount"