The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-24
PIE NEWS IN OGDEN.
The DOingS of Day as Seen by
our Reporter.
AN INTERESTING LARCENY CASE.
Public ImprOvements-Stre Sprinkling
The District Court General.
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU, J
MAIN STREET,
OGDEN, March %, 1889.

OGDEN, 1909.
Andrew Madison, of Mantua, was sen
80 the !penitentiary, in default of bonds, OIL
the going charge, one day recently.
The preparation of the amusing comedy
BOX and Cox is occupying the attention
OF the troup, who will produce 1t IN the
opera house on the evening of April lst.
In the probate court, yer. erday, the peti
ton of Thomas Fitzgerald, to be appointed
guardian of his minor children, was heard
and granted. The usual bond was hleo
and approved.
Walking on Fifth street is very eXhiler
ating, and the people who live at the TOP en-
Joy tre exercise highly and good health III
consequence. TWenty-ffth street should
De graded, however, and that at once.
The cornice was put up on the SporgC
building on Twenty-jfth street yesterday,
and it shows off to good advantage. The
material is galvanized iron and the design
one of the most modern yet introduced in
this city.
Sheriff Belnap arrived in this city Friday
night with his prisoner, DR.. Rozsas, from
Denver. He had quite an exciting expert
ence in getting his man, but having the
necessary requisition papers succeeded in
getting through.
The tistic encounter at the opera house
-ast night was terminated without the
match being concluded, in the injury of
0OthH linen by falling through a window
opening from the stage. The fall was acct
dental ana both men were badly cut but not
dangerously.
When a lumber dealer protests against
using plank sidewalks he shows his good
citizenship in wishing the greatest good to
The greatest number. The city council
acted wisely at their last meeting in paus-
ing before they resolved to lay twenty odd
miles of such temporary make shift, until
the cost and durability Of other materials
could be ascertained.
A number of bids for the job of sprinkling
the streets were read by the recorder at
the city council meeting Friday evening,
and the matter of letting was referred to
the committee on streets, with power to act.
Yesterday, however, the streets were
lamentably dusty and not a sign of a
sprinkler in sigF C. But, then, it rains
sometimes, and the people are hopeful.
William West and William Marshall, the
two Young men who were indicted by the
grand Jury last fall, were brought up from
the penitentiary Thursday last for trial.
Their case is a peculiar one, in which some
horse trading with parties north of the city
figure conspicuously. The case is expected
20 be called tomorrow morning in the first
district court, and number of witnesses
have been subpGnaed. The outcome of the
trial will be watched with great interest by
the public in this vicinity.
The street committee and the city en-
gineer can get along first rate, and lay out
work that should be done at once. But
when the property of a city official is dam
aged somewhat the wheels of progress are
blocked and the public has to wait. Such
IS the condition of affairs on Fifth, or
rather Twenty-ffth street at the present
time. The hill is in a deplorable condition.
One or two springs have burst forth, and
renders passage by teams a hazardous mat
ter. 1t was stated in the council Friday
evening, that teams had been stalled coming
dOW& the hill, and after all this the PROPOSE
tonic reduce the grade and put the street
N passable condition for all time, was laid
over for one week.