The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-21
THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
The Water Question Still Under
Consideration.
IN THE COMMISSIONERS COURT.
A Kick Against the Variety ShOws-The
Methodist University-0gde Taxation
The Jolliflcation.
TIE SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
No. 1868 WASHINGTON AVENUE,

TIE SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
No. 1858 WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDEN, July q. J.
A new and shorter road from the city to
Ogden canon is to be built at once.
Ogden's streets were lively yesterday, it
being the usual weekly market day.
Ogden city has been made one of the de
PENDANTS in the Plain city water suit.
A fine quality of slate is found near this
city. A quarry is now being opened and
the tagging from it will soon be put on the
market.
The Union Pacific checks for last months
salaries were being distributed yesterday
among tie employees of that company i'll
this city.
The Liberal party have secured the use
of Lester PARK ,qvilion for the night of
August 6. They will hold political meet
ing therein.
There will be services in Lester park pa
vilion to-day under the auspices of the Re
organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints.
Miss Emma Sheetz, who has been visit
ing the family of Rev. George e. Jayne in
Salt Lake city, has returned home to the
Junction city.
Work on the Methodist university is to
re commenced at once. This decision was
reached at meeting of the trustees on
Friday evening.
Mrs. William Van Dyke has returned
from Chicago, where she has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. p. +. Sch9fer whose
husband formerly kept drugstore in this
city.
The city hall clock will hereafter be
wound, repaired and kept on time by the
manager OF the Western Union Telegraph
office, for which service the city will pay
SlOO year.
Some of our horsemen are pushing the
project for making a new race track. The
location spoken of is about half mile from
Five Points. and is said to be well adapted
for the purpose.
OGDEN cailon will he alive with picnicers
to-day Some people prefer the cooling
bree2eS OF mat great mountain gorge TO u
seat in church when the mercury is away
up near the top of the thermometer.
Ben Z. Rich, one of the wideawakc men
of Ogden, owns a fine dairy ranch near
here and a stock farm in Idaho. Ben wants
Il partner with d capital of $4,000 to invest
in the raising of fine dairy stock and beef
cattle
The farmers of Ogden valley are holding
meetings to protest against the Bear river
canal scheme to deprive them of their irri-
eating water. For the lack of water the
crops in that valley are drying up and will
be very light this year.
An experienced railroad contractor of
this city says that the dam in Ogden river
proposed by Mr. Nelson, which he (Nelson)
estimates would cost $50, 900, could not be
built for less than $4,000. Another
gentleman says Sl5l.OOO.
A partial organization of a military com
Dany, to be known as Home Guards" has
been effected, and the captain has peti- /
toned the city council for the use of Lester |
park pavilion for drill room. The COM
pany expects TO get the sanction and permits !
sion Of the governor.
The reception committee appointed for |
the week o. iOllificatiOn which will begin |
with the arrival of the Colorado excursion ,
lists and end with the opening of the new !
Union passenger depot, are requested to |
meet the chairman, DR.. A. S. Condor, at |
his Office, al o'clock this morning.
Mrs. n. d. Link, mother Of Miss Clara
A. Link, clerk in the Union Pacific |
freight Office has just returned from Ohio, |
where she has been visiting with friends |
and relatives for several months past. She |
is surprised at the many improvements |
which have been made in Ogden during |
her absence.
The lIickers against what is enormously |
called the high rate of taxation in this city,
are of the class of poor men who own old |
business and residence houses on which |
they receive more rent each year than |
the buildings are actually worth. Some of |
these poor ~ men also own whole bolCkS
of land in Ogden.
The retaining wall on Twenty-fifth street
has been started. The work is to be paid
for by H. d. PeeTy, jr., and Ogden city,
At the city council meeting Friday night
the committee on streets recommended that
Mr. Grifin's petition to have retaining
wall built on Twenty-third street, half of
the expense to borne by him and half by
the city, be tabled, and such was the dispO-
sition made of it.
The policemen assert that the so-called
variety shows are responsible for the flock
ing to and aggregating in this city Of a
class Of people infinitely worse than the
tin horns who have camped here since the
election and who carry on their calling so +;
openly. The influx is in part composed of
dead beats and buns, prostitutes and
pimps. Many respectable people have also
settled here, and the police are not kept busy
watching them, as in the case of the
former class. i