The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-14
BRIGHAM CITY BITS.
The New Bank Doing a Flour
iShing Business.
LAWLESSNESS AT COLLINSTON.
Rayages of Typhoid Fever-The Utah Loan
and Trust COmpany-The Telephone
Line-GeneraI.

Most of our boys have gone to work or
the canal.
A fine lot of poles for the telephone line
are being scattered through town.
Jacob Hendrickson and George w. Crag-
head have gone into partnership in the
meat market business.
Mr. G. Hansen, young merchant of
Ogden, expects to commence business OPP
posite the Presbyterian church.
The Third ward Y. M. NJ. I. a. was re
organized Wednesday evening, with David
=. Burt, president, and John >. Fasgren
and Orion w. Snow councillors.
The bank of Brigham city is already do
ing good business. The people of this
city and surrounding settlements are de
posting their surplus cash in the fire and
burglar proof safe.
Scenes on Main street, Saturday after
noon, proved that Brigham city is no longer
q small, country town. At one place the
street got entirely blockaded with teams,
so they could not pass each other.
James PETIT and others are at work on the
county jail, repairing the upper part, and
putting it in order, so as to be ready TO &C
commodate any canal bird or other parties
that our officers think need to be Gagged.
The Utah Loan and Trust company's
bank is pushed onward with full force.
The building is a substantial one, made of
brick 1t is nearly to the square now. and
they have about forty thousand bricks left,
which will be used for the vault
Typhoid fever appears to be doing the
town. Bishop A. A. Janson lost his oldest
son a short time ago, and the next son Is
very low John Johnson lost his daughter,
Ethel, Sunday morning. Johnson himself
is very i'll with the same dreaded disease.
He is not yet aware of the loss OF his
daughter.
A gentleman passing down Main street
a few evenings ago, when it was quite dark,
fell over the rocks and stones piled up on
the sidewalk in front of the bank building.
He said II came near breaking my neck, F."
and wanted to know who would be re-
quired to pay the damages if that accident
had happened. That question might be re
peated. Who is the responsible party
Whether it is the city authorities or the
bank company they had better look after
this before they find their hands full of
bills for damages.
When Frank Boutwell, met with some of
our leading citizens, short time ago, he
inquired what inducements they thought
would bring out the farmers, or as they
term them, ranchers, to work on the canal;
there were not more than sixteen teams
that had turned out The citizens thought
if the wages were changed from So to
ND.sDU "
third water scrip, that would be likely to
draw them out. MIR. Boutwell, was willing
TO make the change, and the effect Is that
instead of sixteen teams there are now
about two hundred teams, and more com
ing every day. The city fathers under
stood the minds of the people pretty well.
Mr. Boutwell, is well satisfied with the
ranchers, and very much prefers them to
a class of men at work near the head of the
canal
4 couple of gentlemen (.) from the up
per canal camps were brought to town the
other day, and placed in care of Turnkey |
Baird for the space of fifteen days. Their |
case appears TO be as follows: They |
wanted something to drive away the blues; |
they have given IL the name of snake juice |
in that part of the country, but the men in |
charge of the saloons refused to deliver the |
dri. K without the sight of the almighty |
dollar; this happened to be rathe: scarce |
with them at the time, but knowing that |
Mr.. Wilson kept a restaurant along with |
the saloon, they went to a farmers hen |
house and purloined six of his fowls, and |
returned to Mr.. Wilson'S, to swap the |
chicks for the drinks, thinking they were |
sure of it this time; but an officer of the |
law, hearing the racket made by the chick |
proceedings in the business and took the |
thirsty gentlemen before Justice Standing. |
The sentence was fifteen days in the county |
Jail. They were high priced chickens, and |
after all history is silent as to who really |
got them.
BRIGHAM CRY, Nov. II.