The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-25
THE NEWS In OGDEN.
The Terrible Result Of a Lamp
Explosion.
LIST OF REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Some of Ogden's New -Citizens-A RumOr
About the C. B. & Q. ROad-The Building
Boom in the Junction Town.
LIST OF REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU, !
No. 2421 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OcDpN Nav %. 1889.

1.-Two thousand people witnessed the base
ban game yesterday.
Many of the Colorado excursionists are
yet in town. Some Of them are stopping
at the hotels, but the majority are quar-
tered with private families at their resi-
dences on the bench.
Yesterdays baseball game between the
Salt Lake Famous and the Ogdens, re-
suited in victory for the latter by a score
&sA9S to the formers p 1T was a famous
victory numerously witnessed snd loudly
applauded
Mr. P. P. St. Clair, of Helena, Montana,
has purchased an established grocery bust
ness in Ogden, and viii return here with
his family to reside about the first of June.
He formerly lived here and will be heartily
welcomed back again.
Judge T. J. Black, the venerable father
in-law of City Recorder McNutt, is in a
precarious state Of health. In fact he has
beer ailing for some time. He is an old
Corinneite, as well as Ogdenite, and good
nan and true all through.
VIM. VanDyke, while working on the re
form school building yesterday forenoon,
fell through a ceiling and sustained a rup-
ture to which DR.. H. J. Powers attended
as soon as called upon. The unfortunate
man viii probably remain ruptured for life.
The foundation of the new freight depot
having Dee0 tOIplelel, NOIh upon VIC
suDerstructure will be commenced at once
It is tie intention to have the building
completed and ready for occupancy by July
l. The Office of the Union Pacific agent
and his clerks will be in the building.
At noon yesterday d workman on the
Fifth street nil grading job, named So
rensen, cut his right leg, above the knee,
while hewas whiting with iack-knife.
He cut deep down to the very bone, and
h,I > of Fa- no attendance
of a surgeon he would have bled to death.
As 1t is, he viii recover after few
HX5sks' lay-up.
Lester Orion, of Fort Collins, Colo, who
came here with the last excursion under
the auspices Of the Interstate Land and
Town Co., has rented the room in the
Howell addition to the Broom Hotel now
occupied by the Pacific Express, and this
morning left for home TO prepare to ship
large and fine stock of jewelry, etc. He
viii come here with his family and become
a prominent citizen OF Ogden.
It is learned that negotiations are under
way for the purchase Of a fine corner lot
on Twenty-fifth street. on the bench, upon
which to erect a large building for business
purposes. 1t will be located a short dis
lance east of the proposed new hotel. The
corner room vii be filed up for a drug
store. Besides this there will be 4 large
store room on the Twenty-tifth street
front and one on the west front Of the
building.
n snt eat deal of building is being done in
= Waiv, principally of houses for res
coulc vet there IS a great necessity for
mo. on of more structures for business
party Quite a number Of this class of
God, re in course of construction, all
the tV'.re bespoken. Those who come
crashel the intention Of engaging in
OF Whlqud IL impossible to secure
came / the business center, which al
reachC, confined within a limited area.
80 must and will oe extended.
IE4 well authenticated fact that the c..
B. * .. railway IS pushing westward TO
reach the coast. Only last week a contract
was ent cred into with the Southern Paci-
fic company for trackage over the Central
Pacific from Ogden to San Francisco. 1t
is stated by those VINO have means of find
ilg out and knowing what trey are talking
about, that there is an understanding be
tween the Pacific Short line, G. B. Il O.,
and D. s; K. @. W, whereby the two
former roads will go 10 Salt Lake City over
the tracks of the latter from this city.
The work Of grading for the tracks in the
railroad ward fronting the new passenger
station, is going forward with celebrity.
Twenty-fOui' tracks will cross Twenty
fourth street, which is now the main
thoroughfare to and from the neighboring
settlements west and south Of Ogden. The
building of a bridge over the river at
Thirtieth street viii become an absolute
necessity when freight, passenger and
transfer trains commence running over the
new tracks, otherwise accidents will be of
frequent occurrence, Notwithstanding any
pEsCautions that may be made to guard
against them.
Major S. +. Spencer, of Leadville, and
Glenwood, Colorado, came in a few days
before the excursion. He had made a
trade with the Interstate Land and Town
company for some thirty thousand dollars
worth of property 4 few months since,
w5vch he says introduced him to Ogden
The first two days after his arrival he in
vested 81, 800 in realty for himself, and
since the excursion arrived has been occu-
ped driving around with his friends show
ing them the beauties of Ogden. He is
probably as well known throughout Colo |
RADIO as any real estate man in that state, |
having first sold out nearly the entire town
of Glenwood Springs, and little over a
wear ago laid out the town Of Newcastle !
and built the first house. That town now
has / 900 inhabitants, and is the terminus |
of two railroads. He has decided to re- |
main here and has opened an Office on
Washington avenue, adjoining R. w. Cross |
S'CO.