The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-09
THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
kLlhe Carpenters Say Nine Hours
Is a Day.
EX-MAYOR HERRICK'S ILLNESS.
J. S. Houtz Injured-The Hotel Project-Shurt-
life's Saloon Burglarized-The Com
mercial Youth Off Again.
Ex-MAYoR RERRICK'S ILLNESS.
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
No. 1868 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDEN, August 9, 1889.

julien, AuSuSG-J, 1901
Fruit trees are drying up.
Cucumbers are doing their share in in
creasing DOCTORS salaries.
Unless the atmospheric barometers lie
here will be a rain storm very soon.
Hay Second crop of lucern) is selling at
$50 per ton. The second will be the last
Prop this year.
A heavy rain at present would do much
damage in the country. We could stand it
An town though.
AsPhil Grill, the Twenty fifth street meat
Market man, has just recovered from an
attack of quinsy.
Mrs. M. r. Strong, who has been visit
ing in Rochester, n. Y, was expected to
return to her home this morning.
Why not let more water run down all
over Lester park! And at the same time,
what's the matter with Liberty square!
A morning newspaper says, "the hotel
project is sull pending" Just so; and 1t
has been pending more or less ever since
last May.
The boards Of equalization will adjourn
sine die next Tuesday. After all the
fuster, the boards have had very little
work TO do.
The Commercial says, ''the steam gravel
train is in running order again" And it
might have added that the train itself is
not running again.
The following deed was recorded yester-
day: DIR. p. f. F. Lord to j. Warner and
w. M. Davis, part of lot 5, block 10, plat
A, 40x75 feet; 5000.
And still the gravel tramway is not in
operation. The Standard asks, why not"
Let the city council answer by a courageous
resumption of the work
It will probably take damage suit
against the city to stir up the city author
tiles so that they will compel the putting
down of good sidewalks.
Very few sales of real estate are being
asade nowadays. It's just as well. After
manufacturing boom. Let her boom.
Freeman's dry process gold separators
for which Z. A. Littlefield is the general
agent, are being given thorough trial at
South Pass city, Wyoming. They are a
success,
George Mckay, a prominent citizen of
Miners Delight, the rich mining camp of
Wyoming, has been spending several days
in Salt Lake and Ogden and leaves for
home this morning.
Elk Mayor Herrick suffered a relapse
yesterday. His health has been vacillating
for some time past, but still he keeps up
among the living, in whose realms he did
much good in times gone by.
The skies have been overcast for
several days, but the needed moisture has
not yet descended from the storm laden
clouds, This failure brings to mind the old
saying that ''all signs fail in a dry time"
About 30 pm. yesterday drop of rain
was seen to fall by THE HERALD reporter,
AS ne was on his way to the county court
house 1t hit him on the nose. Several
other drops followed in rapid succession.
A day or two ago, as J. S. Houtz was
krying TO step over the counter in his
Store, he hurt his back severely, so that he
"a still hObbling around with a pretty
laIhed dorsal spine. John will pull through
al right.
Last evenings Union contained com
munication from 81. H. on What l
Think" 1t was mugwump article, no
doubt; but having been boldly announced
as such it deserved the hearing of all who
chose to listen.
The city council meets this evening. The
question is whether they had not better
order resumption on those public works,
the continuation of which was so sadly in
terrupted by the slaclfness of funds just
before the last municipal election.
Eastern capitalists, manufacturers and
other investors are steadily looking into
the grand opportunities of Ogden. The
latest that has been learned of is that the
firm of Mcdonald & Co, Chicago, are feel |
ing the pulse of the Russell & Co. hide, |
fur and wool combination with a view to |
Legitimate succession.
Hank Shurtliff7s saloon on Twenty |
fourth street was burglariously entered |
Wednesday night or early Thursday morn |
ing. An attempt TO crack q small safe was |
unsuccessful They stole an old pistol and |
helped themselves to liquid refreshments |
and cigars. and skipped out. 1t is rumored |
that the city detectives are on their trail, |
The mining interest is attracting con
siderable attention at present. A number |
on fair prospects are being developed sys |
DRAMATICALLY, and if there is anything in the |
Jnountains east Of town that will pay for |
tHEing out and reducing, the probabilities |
are that before long re will be nsome |
good mines where now are only good pros
poets.
A committee of the Carpenters union |
published card refuting the Standards |
statement that the union has ordered its |
members to quit working for any other |
than nine-hour contractors. The substance |
of the Carpenters union resolution is sub |
stantially as follows: 'That we will not |
work for any ten-hour contractors, nine |
hours constituting days work"
A little boy who, since the advent in |
Ogden of those nurseries of crime, the So
called variety shows, had become enam- |
ored of them, recently ran away |
from his home and was absent |
tneretrOm IOr several days. he slept IN |
farms and lived on short ratiOns until cap
tured by some boys and returned to his |
anxious parents and brothers and sisters.
" The blooming youth of the Commercial |
had no more sense than to announce at the /
top of his local squibs that "diphtheria is |
prevalent" Suppose it were. What a /
'sfriend of Ogden to scatter such scare |
But there is no such prevalent evil; the /
only malady prevalent being the cankered |
brain of the acrostic gull. There is only /
one and that is mild case, of diphtheria |
in Ogden at the present time. This is |
stated by authority.