The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-22
The City in Brief.

There was nothing. done in the polio
court Yesterday The chain gang took {
lay off on account of the weather.
There will be no lack of water for irriga
ton next year. There are just ''slathers'
of snow in the mountains and more coming
Parties who came in from Ogden valley
and other country districts yesterday, re
ported the roads as in a fearful condition
FRANKLIN T. Underwood was yesterday
excused from service of the petit jury
drawn for the November term of the firsi
District court.
The storm has interfered with the
quarry men who are getting out stone fol-
foundations for buildings to be erected this
fall and winter.
The work upon buildings now in course
Of construction was suspended all day yes
terday The day was dark and gloomy
and most of the time the rain was falling.
1t is expected that the report of the com
mittee on the petition for the privilege Of
purchasing part of Union square will bt
made to the city council at the regular
meeting tonight.
In the probate court yesterday, in the
matter of the estate of David @. Nelson,
deceased, the petition of Mrs. Matte &
Nelson for letters OF administration fol-
herself and Wallace Foulger, was received
and filed.
Colonel Fred. Crocker, vice president Of
the southern Pacific company, came in from
the east last night and was met here by
his brother George with special car OF
the Central Pacific, and continued on his
journey home.
NJ H. Beardsley, the popular landlord al
the Green River eating house on the
Rio Grande Western, came up from
the capital yesterday and returned last
evening claiming that he could not find q
room to sleep in.
Yesterday Deputy Mcclellan went to
Hooper and arrested Charles L. White on
the charge of unlawful cohabitation. White
was brought to town, taken before the
grand jury and indicted. When taken into
court he pleaded guilty He will receive
sentence on Monday next.
The indictment of prominent real estate
firm of this city, Brainard & Robinson, on
the charge of altering and uttering forged
draft, struck this community by surprise
and the general opinion seems to be that
there must be some mistake which the al
legged guilty ones can explain when the case
comes on for trial.
Captain Smith returned yesterday from
professional visit TO Cassia county, Idaho
Up te the time he left there, there had
been very little rain and there was but lit
tie water in Raft river and other streams
II
ing at Kelton aud west of there, and prob
ably the storm extended nOrthward into
Idaho
The maps of California were well ex-
amined yesterday by real estate men and
others, to find the location of RedondO, the
point on the coast to which the Utah Cen
trail is to be extended. 1t is not laid down
Dor; neither have Wilmington or San
Pedro, and in fact there is no real good,
safe deep water harbor on the Pacific coast
between San Francisco and San Diego.
Although there has been an unprece-
denied number of buildings erected in Og-
den this year, the number is much less
than it would have been if there had been
some way of reaching the outside additions.
That is, if there had been street car service
up to the head of Twenty fourth and
Twenty-ffth streets, scores Of houses
would nave been built on Mob Hill and
other additions in the eastern part of tn
CITY Hundreds of lots were sold out there
upon the implied promise that the street
car line would be extended; but it was not
done. and the consequences that there are
barren lots where would now be good
houses if but the street cars had provided
means for reaching the suburbs speedily
and comfortably.
An examination of the new directory Of
Ogden city, recently issued by Mr.. Hobart
shows that IL IS not as ueIecUNe as Inc
Commercial has been endeayOriug to make
the public believe. 1t Is not perfect, but
perfection was impossible Of attainment,
under the circumstances. The publishers
labored under great difficulties, and are de
serving OF credit for doing the best that
could be done at the time when they were
gathering material for their book. No
doubt a more complete directory would
have been the result had the compilation
l., 1,r,4t T2f
with the city ana its people; but even as il
is. the book is valuable and will not be re-
iected by any number of citizens on account
Of its few defects.