The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-30
SATURDAY. November 80 1885,
The City In Brief.

The old reliable Utah Central train due
ATS pm, was thirty minutes late int
Ogden last evening.
Over in Laramie they construct street
crossings of stone. In Ogden, mud is the
principal article used for that purpose.
Deputy Marshal S. H. Giesy rendered his
resignation yesterday, to take effect imme
diately. Press of private business is given
as the reason.
One blear-eyed specimen of humanity
was yanked into the august presence OF
Judge Preshaw yesterday His honor
gave him some fatherly advice, and invited
him to donate the sum of 50 to the city.
By letter received here yesterday, it is
learned that forty five carloads of steel
rails for the Pacific Short Line are await
ing transportation across the Missouri
Ayriver at Sioux city. Work on the temper
= airy bridge was commenced three or four
days ago.
The west-bound fast mail Of the Union
Pacific is not making schedule time. The
train has been late into Ogden several
times recently. Yesterday, being due at
1880 she did not arrive until S:45. The
fast mail for the west left here at 9:l5,
about eight hours behind time.
Two tired postal clerks who rest at
Laramie oversight themselves and missed
the fast mail train that they should have
boarded. The engineer of the special train
that took them to Cheyenne drove so fast
as to make the boys think they were drop
ping down a well.
Yesterday Deputy Marshal Pratt arrest
ed ElwoOd MAIDEN on the charge of permit
ting gambling to be carried on in the rooms
over his saloon on Washington avenue
MAIDEN was indicted by the grand jury and
gave a bond in the sum of $500 to appear
and plead. John Keck and George L.
Corey ir, became suretieS for Madens
appearance.
The elegantly cut and carved cap stones,
which are being used in the front of the
Cortez block, were prepared in Ogden by
local workmen. The work reflects great
credit upon those who did it, and serves to
Illustrate the fact that it is not necessary
to send abroad for ornamental work in the
stone-cutting line.
A most enjoyable banquet was given by
the Utah National guards last night in the
Union opera house. The tables were liter
ally loaded down with delicacies, every
Hthing having been contributed by friends
of the organization who desire TO see it
it flourish and grow. The committee Of ar
rangements performed wonders in the brief
time in which they had to prepare for the
banquet
Mr.. Krautz, owner of fine brick block
on Tventy-fifth street, is making arrange
rneuts to build an elegant residence for
himself and family in the rear of his store.
The building will face the new street
which is to be opened through the block,
between Grant and Lincoln avenues
Material for the house is now being taken
upon the ground.
The sanitary inspector yesterday ex
amined the premises around house where
there is a case of diphthera, and found
two old open and unused wells, the stencil
arising from which was almost unbearable.
The case of disease mentioned was traced
directly to this source. The inspector
ordered the filling up of the wells with
dirt and lime. Typhoid fever, diphtheria
and other kindred diseases Turk in such
places as old wells and unclean cellars,
The Commercial states well-known fact
when it saws: 1.-The postal clerks in Og-
den are surely incompetent, or they would
not fail to deliver so many letters each
week directed to men who are known in the
community The advertised letter list is
getting to be so voluminous that it will
soon require a supplement to q newspaper
tn publish it," In the size of its advertised
letter list, as in everything else, Ogden
gets away with Salt Lake every time.
Recalling the fact that of the taxes as
sessed in this city last year about twenty
1--WE thousand dollars are delinquent and
remain unpaid, your reporter met William
Driver yesterday, who informed him that
kthe assessed valuation Of property in Santa
SARA county, Cal, fonloo9, was S53, 1872 952,
every dollar of the amount of the tax upon
the same having been collected by the as
SCISSOR Lewis A. Splitter. who is brother
in law of Mrs. D. H. Peery, of this citys
He has held his position for many years
and under different political administra