The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-06
THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
An Incident at the Polls
Yesterday.
A POT OF POLITICAL PORRIDGE.
Official City Survey Miscel-
laneOus Matters.
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU, !
No. 1868 WASHINGTON AVENUE, :
OGDEN, August 6, 1889.

OGDEN, August g, 1889.
Election is over.
Good humor for the most part prevailed
The hustlers of both parties were alert
and active all through the day
I Two arrests growing out Of alleged lille
gal voting were made yesterday.
The two tame deer at Syracuse are very
pretty animals, and afford treat for the
children.
City Marshal Metcalf was too Ill to be
out yesterday. He was represented by
Officer Brown.
The drinking fountains seemed to realize
that it was their busy day, and spouted
Justify all yesterday.
1t goes without saying that hotel keepers
are lording it over the1rest Of mankind in
this city most austerely.
The trip overland to the coast from Wells
to Reno is almost unbearable owing to
alliai dust and the high temperature.
According to public announcement grad
ers and track-layers are in good demand
and are given free transportation hence.
The old street car track is not suitable
for the motor cars and will be at once re
placed by regular rails of standard height.
My kingdom for house is the way it is
rendered by the weary new arrival in quest
Of home What's the matter with tent.
All the brick for the new First National
bank building will be made here Improved
facilities for pressing and firing are now in
use.
Some mistake in the printing of the Lib
cral ticket was discovered and rectitied
after half a dozen had gone in at about
noon.
A too rigorous Interpretation of the
hitching ordinance came near precipitating
. conflict between an officer and q granger
On Saturday last.
a vOA IUr naming letters if placed con
veniently on Washington avenue would be
boon to business men, providing it was
emptied regularly.
If there is any field where the small
capitalist can obtain quicker returns than
by building tenements for rent in this city,
the writer would like to hear of it.
OF all the fruits which remain least
affected by the lack of water, the plum
comes in for first place, and as it harboIs
no worms it deserves to be well cared for.
George w. Bell, formerly a foreman of
roadbuilders and graders, is back here after
an absence of some months. He will prob
ably take service under the city govern
ment again.
What few scraps occurred were merely
wOrdy battles over some technicality, and
in each instance ended as it began, no ones
individual opinion being changed by the
tOrrid argument.
There are very many sheep owners resi-
dent here and judging from the way they
have been acquiring land the business must
prove lucrative. Some of them lend money
and even shave notes. Regular bah-bahs.
He who would find fault with the day for
the purposes to which IL was dedicated
must be a hard one to suit. 1t was partly
cloudy all the afternoon, and although not
cold enough for an oyercoat, was far from
disagreeable.
The tin horn fraternity have increased
their numbers by 200 since last January.
While not desirable adjunct, their coming
always indicates the presence of money and
Of course the fools who sometimes are at
tached to the same.
It is not generally known that Superin-
tendent s. w Knapp has had additional
hOnors, with their attendant emOluments
and responsibilities, conferred upon him.
He &c NOW superintendent of the entire
union depot building.
A peLJlon Tor the release of Mark Hall,
now undergoing four years. sentence for
the killing of Bybee, will be circulated at
an early day, and there is little doubt but
that it will receive the hearty approval Of
all classes of society.
Hack Shurtliff, who has long since sew
cred his connection with the coffin nail
traffic, now wears sombrero and talks
knowingly of Langshans and Dorkins,
HOlsteins, Merinos and other high class
animalS. and in which line he shines re
splendent.
When the official city survey now in
progress is finally completed, it is likely to
cause many changes of fence and curb
lines, not to mention the moving of houses
from lots whereon they are unwittingly
trespassing. The early surveyors of this
TOWNSHIP must have been subject to opthal-
mic strabismus and other ills, or perhaps
endeavoring, like Con, the Shaughraun, to
look around the corner.
There are few barnacle encrusted deni-
zens who claim that an increased property
valuation is of no service to them, as they
don't want to sell. To such a one yester-
day the writer proposed to trade brass
time-piece for the fine old gold one carried
by the former, guaranteeing the time
keeping qualities to be equal, but of course
was refused. Then the great, big moral
got up and roared until he went home and
lE-hiDDpd his dog m GET even