The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-08
OGDEN DEPARTMENT.
The City in Brief.


Mrs. c. r. Hank and son went to Salt
Lake city last evening for visit of few
day.
Hon. j. w. Guthrie, a prominent citizen
of 'the burg on the Bear,'' was visitor in
Ogden yesterday.
La grippe is gradually giving way to
spring fever. If the warm weather brings
nothing worse we shall be fortunate in
deed.
Uncle Joseph Hall, who has been suffer
ing with severe and prolonged attack of
La grippe, was out on the street yesterday
enjoying sun BATH
4 Ben Douglass, George Callahan and
1Charlie Nolan, hackmen, were arrested
yesterday by Marshal Metcalf on war
rant charging robbery. They were ad
miJted to bail in the sum of 500 each
Work on the prairie portion of the Bear
river canal will be resumed just as, soon as
the ground becomes dry enough to be
handled The rock work in the canon is
being carried on without interruption.
Grand Commander H. c. Wardleigh went
to Park City last evening, where he will
muster out Hancock post No. 4, G. A. R.
which has not a sufficient membership to
Justify it in maintaining its organization:
The Central Pacific trains yesterday
morning Were an hour late. The Utah &
Northern was an hour late last evening,
and the Utah Central waited for it. The
Central Pacific trains due this morning are
reported on time.
John w. Dolan, the Wen Known MINER
is down from the Garfield mine in Box
{ Elder county, where he has been at work
tsll winter He says the mine is looking
yell and gives promise of becoming a
Heavy ore producer at no distant day.
News has been received that the post
master general has ordered the free deliv-
cry system for Ogden, to go into effect
April l. The probilities are that this will
work an Improvement in our postal facili-
ties, of which there is ample opportunity.
In the case of B. Chadwick VS.. the Cen
trial Pacific Railroad company, tried in the
First District court Thursday, the jury
disagreed and were discharged This was
a suit for recovering the value of four hun
dred head of cattle killed by defendants
train in May, 1888.
Householders on the bench whose cellars
are full of water are having it pumped out
OF course the cellars will fill up again. as
the ground is thoroughly saturated with
water, but that which seeps in afterwards
will be trif1e purer than that which has
stood in the cellars for any length of time
The Ogden band excursion to Salt Lake
city tonight to witness the Peoples party
parade will be a big one. The cheap fare
and the fact that ticke-s are good until to-
morrow night, will entice many who would
not 60 if they were necessarily obliged to
come home Immediately after the close of
the parade.
" Gentlemen who were in the city from
Ogden valley yesterday report that the
snow there is from eight to ten inches in
depth, except in the roadways, where
there is none at all, and the sleighing has
gone for good. In the canon there is snow
in patches, and the road is not by any
means pleasant to travel over
Limitations have been sent out Tor grand
select valentine ball, to be given in the
Third ward meeting house on Friday even
ing, February IA. The admission will be
as cents. Music, the opera house band,
with William Thornburg as prompter. 1t
goes without saying that everything will
be conducted in decorous and becoming
manner and that all who attend will have
an enjoyable time.
Ogden river bridge, o.. Washington ave
nue., is not in an absolutely safe condition
Yesterday morning the motor train carry
ing the military school cadets did not cross
the bridge, and during tie day workmen
were engaged in Strengthening one of the
abutments which showed signs of weaker
ing. The water is not very high vet. but
there is every indication that it soon will
! be, and unless the bridge is made safe now
it is possible that a flood in the spring will
= Sol II.