The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-03
The City in Brief.

Ex-Judge o. w. Powers, of Salt Lake
city, paid Ogden visit yesterday.
This is the kind of weather when the
thrifty milkman sets his cans out of doors
and leaves the covers off.
The amount of the fines collected from
business transacted in Alderman Preshaw's
court last quarter was 81 1880
A H. Garland, the contractor for the
great Bear river canal work, returned yes
terday from a brief visit to Kansas City.
The report of the condition of c. S.
King, wounded by pistol shot last Satur-
day, was, last evening, that he was resting
well and not suffering much pain.
The Union Pacific railway company has
secured from d. H. Perry, for hospital
purposes, lot 6, block 4, in South Ogden
survey. 1t is on Eighth street, between
Washington and Adams avenues.
The basement of the new Methodist
church on Twenty-fourth street is being
fitted up so that religious services can be
held therein during the winter. The
structure will not be erected until next
season.
The appointive position. under the city
government in Ogden belong by right to
citizens and taxpayers. Inportations for
the purpose of filling such positions are
only justifyable when the supply Of home
material has been exhausted.
Public opinion does not uphold any man
in taking the law into his own hands In
the matter of the shooting of King by
EXum, the opinion is freely expressed that
he should have used a club instead of
pistol, if he was determined to use either
weapon.
James Lewis, indicted for grand larceny
and who was unable to give bonds, and
Charles L. White and Sidney Kent,
sentenced to the penitentiary for unlawful
cohabitation, were taken to Salt Lake city
last evening by Deputy Marshals Hoge and
Butcher.
A child died of diphtheria and was bur
led on Sunday. The papers announced
that public funeral would be held from
The reeidence, to which friends were in
vited. If there is no ordinance to prevent
public funerals in cases where death has
been occasioned by a malignant contagious
disease, there ought to be one.
It rained heavily nearly all of Sunday
and yesterday. Tho air was warm and
very little snow fell in the mountains.
Such wet weather as has characterized the
fall season this year is unusual though
good for the country, yet it interferes
greatly with the building operations which
are being so extensively carried on in this
city.
1t is said King disclaims having anything
of the Incorporate and uncalled-for article
which appeared in the Union Saturday
evening in relation to the shooting of King
by Exum. No denial was necessary. The
style of composition was not Kings, but it
is old and familiar to hundreds of Ogden's
citizens.
If, as alleged, there is a gang of frebugs
in Ogden, the members of which are ply
ing their vocation, they certainly are dis
eliminating in their choice of buildings to
operate on, as in nearly every case the
building set fire to is rattletrap and an
eyesore, and usually conspicuous by reason
Of ~ fine structures surrounding it.
A fire about o'clock Sunday morning
partially destroyed an old building on
Washington avenue, owned by T. j.
Staynor. The principal loss falls upon the
owners of a stock of boots and shoes and
millinery goods which were kept in the
building One half of the building was
so badly injured by fire that it viii have
to be condemned. The location is a good
one for a fine brick and stone structure.
There appears to be a misunderstanding
in regard 20 Judge Preshaw's action after
the arrest of E. w. Exum. The facts are
that the Judge committed him into the Gus
todv of United States Deputy Marshal
Bowman. who swore out a warrant before
Commissioner Cross for EXum's arrest.
Then EXum waived an examination and
the commissioner bound him over, as he
had a perfect right to do, to await the ac-
ton of the grand jury.
There is a case of scarlet fever at the
military school, the victim being board
ing scholar. The patient has been quaran-
tined in the third story of the building.
Yesterday morning Professor Howard
made the announcement to the boys from
the city and said they must use their own
Judgment about remaining or returning
home. Quite a number returned to town.
OF course there is no danger of the di-
sease being impaired by the present case,
the thing to fear now is that others may
have contracted the disease, but thatit has
not yet developed.