The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
THE NEWS In OGDEN.
The Boutwell, Water Contract
Signed by the Mayor.
SERIOUS RUNAWAY ACCIDENT.
An Evil That Calls for Suppression ester-
days Recorded Real Estate Transfers
General News Notes.
SERIOUS RUNAWAY ACCIDENT.
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU, J
No. 1868 WAsHINGToN AVENUE, 7
OGDEN. JULY %. 1889.

1t is stated upon good authority, that the
Commercial is no longer the special organ
of the real estate boomers.
President Joseph Smith, of the Reorgan
ized church, will speak III Lester PARK
pavilion Sunday night at o'clock.
1t does not speak well for the enterprise
AID public spirit OF Ogden's moneyeu men,
shat this city is without u large modern
4 ST class hotel.
In the probate court yesterday, Judge
t Cross made an order appointing hudoiP9l
Fandyke guardian Of Charles H. a"u
Rudolph DiesOn, minors.
The vanguard of the army OF Colorado
..xcursionists have arrived, and the streets
present very animated appearance, hoU-
withstanding the sweltering heat.
The quartz vein in Ogden canon. on
which Geol &c w. Seegers is working, can
ne traced By its groupings for more than
3 600 feet. An extension has been taken on
II.
The water contract between John Il.
Boutwell, and Ogden city has been signed
by the mayor. Boutwell, now has to furnish
= $l50,000 bond to the city for the faithful
carrying out of the contract.
Even the Commercial claims that it favors
and ALWAYS did favor the Boutwell, PROPOSE
ton Well, it never made the TACT mani
test until after the city council had ac-
ceptcd the pr Oposition by an unanimous
vote.
The inauguration Of active work upon
the Bear river canal and the Pacific Short
Line. will furnish employment to all the
available labor in Utah, and it is thought
that worl.ingmen viii have to be brought
Nither.
The neyysDaper Offices business houses,
and many private residences are being
81 h.,t tho
inauguration, dedication and opening OF the
new union passenger depot on the 3lst
J instant.
The real estate men who do not belong TO
the biz company, are becoming very tired
Of going down i'll their pockets for means
to entertain the cOmpanE'S guests. They
say they derive no benefit, and that those
who do should pay for 1t.
Two children of Edward Davis, at North
Ogden, were poisoned by eating the
.,4arnels of apricOtS They were thrown
MO commissions. and their lives were only
saved by calling il a physician and al
raiuistering powerful medicine
WHAT'S become of the S300.00O hotel pro
iact1 There'u be a great many people from
Colorado in town to-day. and Its Il good
time to revive the talk about the hne hotel
and grand opera house that the money
sas already been secured to build as
stated by the Ogden newspapers, Whlle the
,,,<cursiouists were here last May.
= lady reader of the HERALD is sorry to
know that Ogdcn's curfew law IS so imper-
fectIy enforced. The lady would not have
the ordinance remain a dead letter hut
homes thai the guardians of the law Will 40
their duty little more faithfully and pick
~ an occasional ''llid" of the many Of both
sexes who nightly roam the streets long
! alter the curfew bell has tolled its warning
TO them to 90 home, where all good, little
lows and girls should be after O'Clock at
lNlgnL.
It was expected that after the final
settlement OF the water question a score
of better and cheaper plans would come to
the surface No arguments worthy the
name were advanced for or against the
Boutwell, proposition while it was pending,
either by the newspapers. members OF the
council Or any Of the citizens. The first
plan proposed, now that it is too late, is by
A. A. Bowman. whereby he could bring
the waters of Bear river to Ogden for one
Ealf the sum proposed b. the Boutwell,
company
s'There seems to be a lack Of the hearty,
whole souled enthusiasm with which Og-
den people are wont to celebrate an event
in which they are so much Interested"
saws the Standard, editOrially, speaking Of
the coming here of the Inter state Land
and Town COmpany's guests from Colo
RADIO. Maybe the real estate boomers or
yau will condescend to explain how and in
what manner the people Of Ogden gener-
ally are or should be interested in assisting
9peculators to work of their land upon
other spectators.