The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-05
March 5, 1890
WEDNESDAY,
The City in Brief.


The First district court will be in session
to-day to hear motions.
THE HERALD correspondents under obi
sations to Major Silva for favors received.
A disagreeable rainstorm set in yester-
lay morning and soon converted the snow
INTO slush and water.
A large crowd of curiously inclined peo-
pie assembled in the county court room
yesterday to listen to the examination of
the witnesses in the Tod case,
Reed & Burgett made number of good
sales yesterday, embracing acreage in the
suburbs and one l60-acre farm. The aggre-
gate amount of the sales was Sl0,400.
Major Baxter has twenty three prisoners
lnder his charge in the city jail. They are
Rll able bodied men and will do good work
On the streets when the weather settles.
1t is said that the a. Fischer Brewing
company have bought out the Grand saloon
IN this city. They are now understood to
have control of twenty-five saloons in Salt
Lake city and Ogden.
In the probate court yesterday, in the
matter of the estate Of Thomas W. Leon
ard, deceased; petition of Catherine M. c..
Leonard TO be appointed administrators of
said estate heard and granted.
The question of the proposed boulevard,
which was introduced at the last meeting
Of the city council, was not mentioned in
the county court Monday. 1t will prob
ably come up for consideration next Tues
day.
The steam boilers and other heating and
power apparatus are being placed in posi-
lion in the basement of the new First
National bank building. This magnificent
building viii be ready for occupancy by the
LIST of April.
The Western Pythidn, a publication de-
voted N the interests nf tho of ha
knights Of Pythias, is to be started in this
city. 1t will doubtless be well sustained by
the fraternity Of this and surrounding
states and territories.
Two soiled doves were pulled by the po-
lice yesterday and stood up before his
honor, Judge Preshaw, to take their nedi-
cine. They pleaded guilty to the charges
of keeping houses of ill-fame and paid 500
into the city treasury.
If the bill to be introduced in Congress
providing for increasing the borrowing
power of this municipality shall carry,
Ogden will have as fine and perfect a sys
tenn OF sewerage as can be devised and
constructed for $500, 900.
Let US have a Mardi Gras festival.
though it be a month behind time. A
jubilee under the sweet and pleasant sway
of King Carnival will attract like a
magnet, and draw thousands of strangers
TO the great junction city.
The officers of the recently Incorporated
harness company were elected Monday
evening and are as follows: s. NJ. Pres
haw, president; q. w. Snively, vice-presi-
dent; Q. Z. Sawtelle, secretary z. NJ. Dill
bingham, treasurer and general manager
Ogden is not hog. She viii be satisfied
with a government building that will
afford ample room for the postoffice and
federal court. A quarter of million dol
la1ec will cr1ah h1i1Iino- md %Io+ i
the size of the appropriation that Congress
viii make for it.
Another pressed brick mandatory,
with a capacity of $4,000 bricks per day. is
to be added to those already in existence
here. The prospects now are that the sup
ply of brick and stone will be equal to the
demand, which will be much greater this
Beason than ever before.
The day Of insignificant two-story bust
ness houses in the central part of Ogden
has passed. The contracts now being let
are for three, five and seven stories, with
foundations strong enough to permit of
carrying the buildings to any desired
height. TIE coming season will witness
the erection OF number of business
blocks that will compare favorably with
similar structures anywhere.
On Saturday night the regular meeting
of the county teachers association viii be
held, the programme comprising lecture
by n. j. Harris on the 1.-The Cultivation of
Reason" an address by S. w. Baker on
"The Life Work of Robert Browning:''
and other topics which no doubt will be
handled more successfully than those
solemn and solid subjects which are rather
steep for amateurs, however ambitious.
The preliminary examination of Tod. the
alleged slayer of p. j. Desmond. com
menced in Justice Dee's court Yesterday
afternoon. A number Of witnesses were
examined and the prosecution rested. Then
the statement was made by an attorney
that the prisoner was without counsel to de-
fend him. Upon the statement made to the
court of the probability that Tod would
have counsel this morning, the examina-
ton was continued until to-day at o'clock.
The two fellows who were jailed Satnr-
day on suspicion of having had hand in
the burglary of Wilson's store. of which
crime 7. j. Merritt was found guilty ON
Monday, were examined before Alderman
Preshaw yesterday. Their guilt was not
conclusively proven, but there being no
doubt that they were buns, the Judge sent
them to jail for twenty days each for va
grancy. Another tough was convicted of
vagrancy and sent to the cooler for ten
days.