The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-20
The City in Brief.

The City in Brief
The petit Jurors for the November term
are expected to be on hand at 10 o'clock
this morning.
Yesterday was another of those mixed,
disagreeable days of which there have been
so many this fall.
Yesterday William G. Warren and wife
sold to David Henry Peery part of lot ;,
in block II, plat A, 32}5x20 feet, for $1,000.
THE CHRISTMAS HERALD will be the larg-
est, most interesting, useful and instruc-
tive newspaper ever issued in the inter
mountG Al -0untry.
The county court held its regular weekly
meeting yesterday, at which nothing of
particular Importance was done. Claims
amounting to SS73.22 were presented, eX-
aIpined and allowed.
III the leeting of the county court yes
teSday a protest, signed by upwards of
sixty citizens, was receiy ed, against reduc
ing the width of the county road from
North Ogden to the Hot springs.
The conductors who run on the fast mail
train will have no easy time Of IT, The
distance between Ogden and Cheyenne is
SIG miles, and each conductor makes the
run every other day. No man can stand
the strain for any great length Of time.
Great interest was manifested in the car
nival which waf held last night, and not
weather. large crowd was in attendance
to witness the novel entertainment. The
affair will be repeated tonight and will
doubtless attract a larger crowd than it aid
last night.
A morning contemporary claims that
there are too many additions to Ogden.
Perhaps so, yet if the land when plated Is
worth more for purposes Of taxation, prob
ably there will be no serious objection to
extending the additions indefinitely, if only
the street car line could be extended to
reach some Of them.
AS showing how verdant some travellers
are, il is said that instead of setting their
watches by the clock in the Union depot
tower, which indicates the correct time,
they set them by time indicated on the
dials on the platform which tell when GER
tain trains viii leave. There are half a
dozen or more of these dials, and each
shows different time.
Several months ago some citizens asked
for a franchise for a street car line over
ceEfain streets of Ogden city. Street car
service is greatly needed in this city, and
company who would secure a franchise
baud Any responsible company can do so)
arid build and operate their road over the
streets and throughout the most popUlous
parts of the city, would make it pay well.
As the present street car line is operated,
only a comparatively small number of
people are accommodated.
A civil engineer who has returned from
camp on the Pacific Short Line, where he
spent six months on the survey, is alleged
to have said that the building of the road
VIII be more expensive than was that of
the Union Pacific road. This is probably
not true. There are but few difficult and
expensive places on the entire line, while
for several hundreds of miles the grade
will not average per cent. a mile. Chief
g ,,sI ,f+s,
taking a trip over the line from Ogden TO
Sioux City, that the road could be built for
$4,000 per mile.
The bench, or residence part of the city,
was enveloped in darkness Monday night.
The night was cloudy, windy and stormy,
and as on many similar occasions, the
electric lights shOne not. The quality of
the light furnished by the Ogden Electric
Light company has not improved since the
Introduction of gas, because the too con-
Germs are controlled by the old company.
The public will probably have to put up
with what they can get until such time
as other companies may be formed and |
create competition in the business. AS has |
often been remarked, the electric light
fails when it is most needed, and shines
brightest when the moon is al its full.
Judge Henderson, in charging the grand
jury calls attention to the open and noto-
rious violations of the law forbldding the |
rupSing of saloons on Sunday. Also gam |
iuS|and houses of i'll fame, which are al |
fgged to be carried on in violation of the |
territorial laws. The Judge says that these |
are proper subjects for investigation by the |
grand jury. If this is true, and it is not |
doubted, then territorial and United States !
officers. as well as officers of the NUM- |
cipality have the same rights and duties in |
making arrests. In other words, the |
United States marshals have equal powers |
with the city police, and there is 70 chance |
for a conflict in regard to Jurisdiction over |
the class of offenses to which the Judge |
calls the attention of the grand jury.
Not very long ago the people of Grand |
Junction, Colo, anticipating a boom in that |
city in consequence of the great amount of |
railroad building to be done whereabouts, |
whereby large number of all classes Of |
people would be attracted thither, petit
toned their city council to increase the cost |
of the license to sell Intoxicating liquors |
This the council did. 1t placed the license |
so high as TO have the effect of shutting out |
all of the lowest class Of grOggeries. 1t may |
sound strange, yet it is a fact, that the most |
reputable men who were engaged in the !
business were foremost in urging the high !
license upon the council. Prohibition is |
certainly impracticable 1t has been tried |
and 1t has proved a failure. High license
is what viii furnish a remedy for the many
evils resulting from the drinking habit. In |
the language Of the resolutions adopted by
the great Catholic mass meeting at Baltimore
over which Cardinal Gibbons presided:
"High licence is the only feasible and
peaceful means of determining the deluge
of vices and crimes of which drunkenness
is the fruitful source. Tie license should
be put so high as to make it practically pro-
hibf6Pry as regards the multitude of low
saloons" The temperance cranks wont
agree with this view of the case, but it is
nevertheless the correct one.