The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-09
The City in Brief.

The City in Brief
The Rio Grande Western train was re-
ported five hours late last night.
Henry Peery telegraphs his father that
he will reach home in about ten days.
A fruit car that had been east came back
yesterday full OF mail for San Francisco.
John A Boyle and wife yesterday sold to
Edward w. MichauX lot in South Ogden
for the sum of 500.
The streets were almost deserted yes
terday afternoon, but the county court
room was comfortably filled with specta-
tors.
The case of malignant diphtheria at the
house of John Greenwell, reported in The
HERALD Friday morning, terminated IA
tally.
- w. n. Shilling. who has been on tour
of observation to Oregon and Washington
territory, has returned home and settled
down TO business.
The Kiralfy company, numbering thirty
six persons, came up on a Rio Grande
Western special train and went west yes
1erday afternoon.
The farmers are taking advantage of the
fine weather to market their hay in large
quantities. 1t is now selling for 50 per ton
and will likely go higher than that.
The new brick ice house now being built
Just north of the Union passenger station,
will be 125 feet in length by thirty in
width. Many thousand tons OF ice will be
stored in it.
Yesterday was a quiet day around police
hea lCuarters. Probably on account OF the
trials going on in the county courtroom be-
fore Commissioner Perrin, which drew a
large audience.
Charlotte Thompson aud her excellent
company will give entertainments in Union
opera house on the evenings of Thursday
aud Friday of next week. East Lynne
will be produced on one night.
The ground room of the new First Ma
tional bank building is 90X7S feet Includ-
ing the basement the building Will be SIX
stories in height Work is now in pro
gress on the third story above the base
ment.
Fails are being laid on the eastern end
of the Pacific Short Line, where l20 miles
of the grade has been completed. A con-
tract for grading forty-five miles more has
Pbeen let, and the money for doing the work
is on hand.
The laying down of asphaltum side
walks on lower Twenty fifth street is
steadily progressing. The asphaltum from
Ventura county, California, IS being used,
and Mr.. Potter, the proprietor, is superin-
tending the work.
The snow is melting of the mountains
except from the highest peaks and in the
deep gorges and ravines, where the rays of
the sun do not penetrate; but there is much
more snow on the mountains now than at
this time last year.
The probate judge yesterday heard the
petition of James Embling to be appointed
administrator of the estate of Thomas h.
Selman. deceased, and made the appoint
meut Mr.. EmbEng was also appointed ap-
praiser Of tho estate and required to tle a
bond for 8. $50.
J. d. Negus, secretary of the Salt Lake
Valley & Eastern Railway company, says
that General Manager McLain, of the Pa
ciic Short Line, Will certainly be in Ogden
very soon, and then it will be decided what
work will be done on this end of the line
during the winter.
\ nice little game of chance was going
On yesterday afternoon on Union square.
It drew well and the slick operator gathered
in plenty of ducats by selling Parker's Pa
ciGc pens and making the players at the
game presents Of envelopes containing cur
reucy-sOme of them--or worthless pieces
of paper.
Yesterday, Barnard White bought Of E.
" Exum, for 81, $50, part of lot :, block
-, plat a. 81 feet by s rods, and w. W.
Burton also sold to Mr.. White, IS feet by
3 rods Of the same lot for S15, 600. This
property is on Twenty-fourth street. be-
tween Washington and Grant avenue,
north side.
- There appears to be no foundation for the
rumor of an alliance between the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad company
and the proposed Pacific Short Line. The
Pacific Short Line will be an Independent
road. and its managers do not intend TO In
cur the hostility of any one company by
forming entangling alliances with any par
ticulgr system.
The sanitary inspector is doing good work
and deserves the thanks OF the community
in addition to his salary; but he should not
confiue his work to the surface of the
ground. The law empowers him to exam
inc cellars, drains, and premises generally,
aud if he searches diligently he will lind
many sinks of corruption and disease
breeding places that are covered up but are
none the less dangerous. Ferret them out
Mr. Inspector.
c. J. Corey, of the railroad contracting
firm of Corey Bros. s, Company, and also a
member of the Ogden city council, returned
THURSDAY night from the scene of theiI
work on the Grand river in Colorado. Mr.
Corey says that ihis firm now have ], 5Ot
men at work along the line of the railroad
and want to employ all they can get. II
order to carry out their contract they have
found it necessary TO import men from the
east. About fifty on sixty men per day are
being hired. One hundred and sixty Aus
rrians are on their way from Virginia anC
will be employed in tunnel work. Foul
hundred Swedes from Minneapolis nave
also been contracted for.