The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-08
THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
An Inferior Grade of Fruits Being
Shipped East.
THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Railroad NOtes-A Scarcity of Housewife
Union Freight Depot Completed-TriaI
of the Fire Bugs in Progress
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU, ]
No. 2502 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDEN, Oct. Q, 1889.

THE HERALD can be found at all news stands
aud Is delivered TO any part Of the city at 25c.
a per week.
The trial of the alleged frebugs was
commenced before Justice of the Peace
!, Thomas d. Dee yesterday afternoon.
The new Union freight depot is com
I pleted and ready for occupancy, but will
not be occupied until the platforms are fin
ished around it.
J. S. Tibbetts, first assistant general
freight agent of the Union Pacific, who has
been north on a tour of inspection, went
east yesterday morning.
'Have you any vacant houses for rent!'
is an inquiry that is more often made of
real estate men than any other. And the
invariable reply is, mo"
Yesterday, F. j. Moody and wife sold to
Frank J. Campbell part of the northwest
quarter of section 3, township north,
range l west, for the sum of $1,000
Mrs. J. S. Corlew's many friends will be
rejoiced to learn that she is fast recovering
from the severe sickness which has con-
fined her to the bed for the past two
months.
Rumor has it that several young "sassie-
tyr bloods have recently taken passage on
a new underground line of railroad during
the last few days. Don't get frightened,
boys. at a little shower. If you're needed
you'll be called and-found.
Frank j. Cannon, editor of tn eStandard, is
low in New York, the purpose of his visit
to the metropolis being to ascertain, if pos
sible, whether the Pacific Short Line con
sists of anything except wind.
f. A Littlefield is again on deck as THE
HERALD's Ogden manager, and can be
found at his desk in Reed 81 Snyder's' real
estate office. east side of Washington ave
nue., next door south of BOYLE & Co.'s fur
niture store.
A prominent Union Pacific official in
formed the writer yesterday that it was a
settled thing that the Utah g. Northern
gauge would be changed next spring, and
that the broad gauge line from Ogden to
Butte would not leave Logan out in the
cold as had been contemplated.
There is not particle Of truth in the fol
lowing item, which was published in the
Ogden column of the Salt Lake Tribune:
The unreasonable course pursued by the
postoffice department in relation to the
postOtfice in this city results in great in
convenience to the public. This continued
refusal to provide sufficient help to handle
the mail may be economy for the govern
ment, but it is woeful waste for the people"
For the past five or six months the
sterotyped expression, General Manager
Donald McLain, of the Pacific Short Line,
will arrive here next week, when contracts
will Immediately be let for the construc-
ton of l2O miles of the road east of Ogden,n
has appeared regularly every week in the
local newspapers; vet nothing in the con-
struction line has been done, and so far as
can be learned nothing is likely to be don e
this year, if at all.
Billy Middleton, an old time and we'll
fznOwn prospector, who has been in nearly
every mining camp in the Pacific states
and territories, proposes to investigate the
mineral resources of the country surround
ing Ogden, with view to becoming a resi-
dent, should investigation convince him
that it would be to his advantage to do So
Mr. Middleton is practical assayer and
does his own work. He is i mineralogist
as well, is a good judge of rock and when
he gets hold of a piece is able to determine
what it is without taking any chances on
any other assayer.
And so the gambling houses of New Or
leans have been closed and the sports y
have suicided in consequence. This is Ger
tainly remarkable. Instances are not
wanting in which the victims of the
sports have been forced to commit sui
eide or be disgraced; but that the sports
should do such an unheard of thing is
really remarkable The authorities of New
Orleans ought to be ashamed of themselves
for curtailing the privileges of the knights
of the green cloth and forcing them to
or else commit suicide. Maybe they had
never heard of Ogden or they might have
adopted the alternative of moving to
neighboring town to save their lives.
There are fruit shippers and fruit ship
pers. The weekly price current shows
that Utah apples are selling for 80 cents
bnshel. Apples should be good ones to
bHhg that price, and probably only the
best ones sell for so much. The writer
saw a lot of Utah apples unlOaded at a rail
road station several hundred miles east of
Ogden, from whence they had been
shipped to go TO point one hundred miles
distant from the railroad. One of the
boxes burst open and the apples rolled to
the ground. A scurvier lot of apples the
writer never saw. If the seller charged
half the market price for them, he ought
10 be prosecuted for larceny. They were
a mixed lot, of all sizes and shapes, de-
cayed, and with an average of three worm
holes in each. Such shipments are calcu-
lated to give Utah bad name, and they
should be denounced as they deserve.