The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-05

F. \. Reed went to Salt Lake city yes
terday.
The grass is growing nicely on the city
hall grounds and gives promise of making
fine lawn.
Bob whites, from Kansas, are on sale il
our markets. These delicious birds fetch
twenty-five cents apiece here.
The Commercial has new managing ed
itor, Mr.. Painter, recently from Kansas
Mr.. johnson is still on the editorial staff.
The Colorado schoolmarms will excurt tc
Ogden this month. The train will leave
Denver on the 2lst and reach here on the
23d.
No new cases of scarlet fever have de-
: Jped at the military school. The only
case there is getting along all right anC
there is no danger from 1t.
AS predicted by the weather bureau, the
weather yesterday was eXecrable. A cold
drizzling rain fell throughout the entire
d"y, but snow piled up in the mountains.
The funeral of the late E. P. Brown
brother-ih law of Don, John and Michael
Mcguire, took place from the Catholic
church on Twenty-ffth street yesterday
forenoon. .a.
A great many families in Ogden are rent
ing rooms and taking their meals at res
taurants or boarding in private families,
who would go to housekeeping if houses
could &c had.
West Ogden is a new addition just laid
out by Short & Hank on the west side OF
the Weber river. 1t is only three blocks
from the Union depot, on high ground and
pleasantly located.
c. s. King, editor of the Union, who has
been indicted by the grand jury for libel,
was yesterday notified by Deputy Marshal
Pratt. to come up town and give bonds as
soon as he was able to do so.
After listening to the excuses of a burg
lar whom he was about to sentence, Judge
Henderson sententiously remarked that it
was strange that the wrong man was al
ways arrested and convicted.
The foul odors that have been noticed on
the lower floors of certain buildings are be-
lieved to emanate from the covered ditch
which runs along Washington avenue and
down Twenty-fourth street This ditch is
full of openings il its walls, through which
the filth that it carries filters into the
ground, poisoning the same. The need OF
tight sewers is apparent.
The lack of sewers probably has con
siderable to do with breeding diseases such
as are becoming prevalent in this city 1t
will be several months before a sewerage
system can even be started, and in the
meantime individuals should see that their
own premises are kept clean. CLEANLINESS
of person and premises will do much TO
ward off attacks Of malignant contagious
diseases.
Ties are being being piled up on Twenty
fifth street, between Jefferson and Madi.
son avenues, and force Of men were at
work yesterday blowing and preparing
the ground for the street railway, which
viii probably extended down Twenty-fifth
street and along Jefferson avenue to
Twenty second street and thence to Wash
ington avenue, there connecting with the
one already in operation.
There appears to be conflict between
the Utah Northern railway and the Bear
river canal people over the right Of way
over certain portions of the route surveyed
for the canal 1t is understood that the
canal company has the first right and will
not allow any other parties to interfere
with the carrying out of their plans or
their work on the grade already estab
lished.