The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-23
The City in Brief.

The Duff opera company came up from
Salt Lake and went west yesterday.
The Utah Central train waited last night
for the Utah & Northern train, which was
late getting in to Ogden.
In the police court yesterday afternoon,
Charles Woodmanse was fined s. and costs
for disregardiag the sanitary ordinances.
Smoking in the waiting rooms at the pas
senger station is strictly prohibited, and
the depot police will hereafter enforce the
rule, as they ought to.
The California delegation to the St.
Louis silver convention on the Goth, went
through yesterday morning. Frank Pix
ley, of the ArDondtH, was with the crowd.
The city council did not appoint a com
mittee on pontoons, and probably will not
do so while it remains possible to wade
across the streets without getting drowned
in the mud.
Deputy Marshal Mcclellan brought up
from the pen last night man who as been
held to await the action Cf the grand jury,
on the charge of having turned switch on
the Central Pacific railroad at Matlin. Len
Harris, the detective, will be on hand to
testify.
y II isn't as easy matter to secure a Ii
cense to sell LIQUOR in Grand Junction,
Colo, a. tits in Ogden. In the former city
the consent of two-thirds of the people of
che,district must first be obtained. No new
saloons are being started in Grand juno
ton.
J. G. Armstrong, vice-presideut of the
Bear River and Lake Canal and 1rrigating
company. who went east with Mr.
Preshaw to investigate the different kinds
Of water pipes, returned home yesterday
morning. He left Mr.. Boutwell, in Chicago,
but expects that he will be here tomorrow
or Monday.
1t is hoped that the territorial legislature,
at its next session, will change the method
of assessing taxes. AS the law now is, no
man can tell what he Is taxed on. Taxes
should be assessed against the property. in
stead of individuals, as is done everywhere
else except in Utah. Here, the rule is to
assess the tax against the individual who
owns the property at the time the assess
>, nent is made.
An exciting runaway occurred last even
ing about 5 O'Clock. A team which was
standing in John Dees stable started off
through the alley and on to Washington
avenue, and taking off south ran rapidly
along the avenue Driving along the street
in front of Sidney Stevens was boy with
a grocery delivery wagon. When the run
away team reached the wagon they spread
out, one horse on each side. The pole
struck the seat on which the boy was sit
ting overturned it and threw him violently
20 the ground. The boy was not much in
iured, but had very narrow escape. The
wagon was not much injured.
Forward the railroad brigade. W W
Corey, the railroad contractor, is in the
city, having come up from the scene of op-
erations on the line being built between
Rife creek and Grand Junction, upon
which Corey Brothers Il Co. have Il sixty
three mile contract, which they are push
ing with over one thousand men and two
hundred teams. The contract will be fin
shed hv the first of next April. There is
one tunnel of $50 feet on the line. The new
road is UeIng quilt by the Denver 81 Rio
Grande Junction Railroad company, viii
be broad gauge, and constructed in first
class manner. 1t will be used jointly by
the Denver & Rio Grande and Colorado
Midland railway companies, and connect
ing at Grand Junction with the Rio Gr4nde
Western. will form direct through line
between Denver and Ogden.