The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-09
BRIGHAM CITY BITS.
A Newsy Grist From the City of
Homes.
THE PLACE RAPIDLY IMPROVING.
A Lively Little Fracas- Sawmills Reported
Burned-A Curfew Bell Needed-The
Box Elder Academy.
The county court met on Tuesday.

! RAOeAoSSAS
dinner Monday morning.
''When Old Sol gets down to pulling 'e1
up to 107, you know he's gettin' there witt
both feet, don't y'uF"
Every morning sees one or more vehicles
bound for the canon filed to the top will
merry laughing pleasure-seekers
. The farmers are all busy at East Portage
threshing. The crops are very slight thi:
season on account of grasshoppers anC
: scarcity of water.
] Deputies Milestone and Bowman have
been pretty numerous around town the
past week. Charles Kelly is said to have
been one Of their prey.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Savage, of Salt
Lake, came to town Saturday. They went
to the mountains Tuesday to enjoy them
selves for couple of weeks.
The Box Elder stake academy opened
Monday with very few scholars in attend
ance The number will rapidly increase as
the hot, dry weather fades away.
1t is reported that two saw mills in tt e
mountains east of here have been burned
to the ground and considerable lumber con-
sumed. Nothing positive can be learned.
What has become of all our B. B. B. IS!
We never see bicycle gliding along the
highways, frightening teams and breaking
the weak bones of the thoughtless youth
nowadays.
BIB. Tolman appeared before United
States Commissioner Darlington on Tues
day, charged with the trite crime OF cohabl-
tation He was discharged on account OF
| lack of evidence.
Who was that man around town Satur-
day afternoon with that round, red, plump,
beardless face, who had ''merriment'' crop
ping out all Overs stand it up in a show
| oaca. uO11l6Oit If lOnlS inst bnaUtifUl
The monotonous ''Ice cream, two for five
cents a package is now heard on the
streets Sundays peace and quiet should
not be disturbed by this means. Make
ZEN pull in their spider carts on the Sab
bath.
1t is said that the usual yearly yield of
grain on the fiat above COllinston amounts
to thirty or forty thousand bushels, but
this year it will reach fifty-fve or sixty
Thousand. The Plymouth people are in
luck
There is small boy loose on the streets
with an empty shot gun. He was fright
ening girls with the shot gun in the morn
ing and shooting sparrows in the afternoon
with rife Pull him in or he will be kill
ing some one.
Mrs. Darlington was granted divorce in
Ogden few days ago, on the ground of
desertion and cruelty. The doctor says she
intends to marry gentleman from the
south soon and that he is going down to
give her away.
There was pleasant gathering at o. n.
Stohl's residence last Friday evening. A
number of young people were there to bid
| Oleen good bye Next morning he started
on mission to Norway and will be gone
over two years.
ssWhat makes the suns face so red.''
''What makes your face so red.' was the
quiet reply.
''Why, I'm hot,
s'Well,'' came the prompt response, 1.-The
SUMS hot, too, amt it!'
For upwards of twenty long years our
tabernacle has been in course of construc-
ton. To-day it remains unfinished, the
grating OF the saw and the echo of the
hammer not having been heard in that
i locality for many twelve-months.
Some points we touch upon in our com
munication may seem out of place, to few,
lin THE HERALD, 1.-The bright and pushing
pile driver of journalism" AS we have nc
local paper yet, and THE HERALD having q
larger circulation than any other paper in
the city, we deem it the most practicable
medium through which to commune with
the people OF our city.
Nightwatchman Baird says that every
night regularly he has to hustle a crowd OF
DONS Oil W GLlelE uOulGS. do buCg DIT
found on the streets at improper hours OF
the night. AS good a thing as our city
fathers could frame would be curfew or
dinance, and do it at once, too. Nearly
every town in the territory as large as
Brigham has this among its city ordinances.
The election on Monday was very quiet.
There was nothing to mar the usual tran
guilty, except the occasional ring of the
bell of the town clock. There was consider
able scratching. The Liberals had two
tickets in the field, showing split in their
ranks. The highest vote polled for Peo-
ple's candidate was ia for G. f. Olsen,
kcouncilor, and on the other ticket
twenty three, for Lucius Snow, selectman.
Friday evening the ''Lye-barrels'' rolled
up the court house steps and blew off with
such becoming bOisterousness that at a
distance of half mile one was led to be-
1 lieve that there had been dynamite injec-
ton of the elixir of life somewhere be-
| tween the slaves. Pshaw We don't
want any more Logan importations coming
over here to swell up and ''pop hoops" for
US; our local spouts just "'beat 'em all to
| thunder"
Last week there was a lively little fracas
on Main street. The participants were a
doctor, deputy marshal and well pro
tected woman. The trees and shrubs in
the neighborhood shrank and the leaves
withered in shame as the charges of incon-
stancy poured from the mouth of the in
furiated female, who shook her fist under
the MD's nose in good, dramatic style. If
the woman can and does prove what she
! charged the man with in such glowing
terms on the street he is labelled for limbo
sure.
Now that Brigham is rapidly improving,
what a good thing it would be if the bust
ness houses would gradually draw nearer
together, and not be scattered all over the
town. 1t is right enough to construct
shells, or cheap buildings now, but when
substantial business house is to be erected
do not build it on back street. or for
Brigham of to-day, but locate it for Brig
| ham of ten years to come, when the bust
ness will be Inassed on Central, Main and
Forest streets.
Several friends of the sweet-tempered
peddler who shot his balky horse in Rich
county recently, disbelieved the whole
story They wrote the sheriff for particu-
lars and Sunday the very bullet that was
cut from the animal was received by our
sheriff The bullet retained its natural
shape, not having come in contact with
any bones. This is to be compared with
the mans pistol cartridges and the relic
loving sheriff from Rich county added:
''Send it back, (meaning the bullet) want
to keep it as trophy"
Last Friday night about II, there was
quite breeze of excitement in the neigh
borhood of Wilson's saloon. The sheriff,
marshal and nightwatchman happened to
pass that way together. They saw through
the window of the saloon the flash of a
match, which was Immediately ex-
tinguished The bartender had been seen
to close up and leave some time before, so
the first thought was burglars" The
place was surrounded in an instant, rush
made, the front door broken in, when 10
and behold, the assistant bartender was
diccovered prOninp ahout loolyinp fOr-ice