The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
The City in Brief.

The real estate transfers this week
amounted to $423, 955.50
"Lo! the poor Indian,'' was quite num-
erous in this city yesterday.
The city of Jerusalem exhibition closed
for good in this city last night.
Judge Henderson took a rest yesterday
and consequently there was nothing doing
IN the First district court.
The members of the hose company of the
Old volunteer fire department will hold a
special meeting tomorrow night.
The city hospital has been removed from
Its former quarters on Grant avenue to the
old tithing Office on Twenty fifth street.
1t will cost less to divide the large bust
ness blocks now. than year hence. The
plan will have to be adopted eventually.
F. B. Hays was on yesterday afternoon,
IN the municipal court, bound over to the
grand jury on the charge of stealing two
sets of harness.
There is too much snow in the mountains
now to permit of much prospecting, but in
month from now the hills will be alive
with men in search of metal bearing lodes.
The funeral of the late Dr. T. w. Hurd,
OF Harrisvilie, took place yesterday. The
remains were inferred in Mountain View
cemetery, in the southern part of this city.
mont Water company were filed late Fri
day evening. The officers are: Ransfor
Smith, president; L. McCarty, vice resi-
dent; A. H. Nelson, secretary; V. Rapp,
treasurer.
The long threatened storm got started
yesterday about noon and snow com
menced to fall, but lightly. The sun shone
at intervals, but when the shades of even
ing descended the indications were favor
able for storm of considerable severity.
The weather having been all that could
be desired, favorable progress has been
made with the work of the Ogden Power
company in the canon and at its mouth. 1t
is thought that everything will be in readi-
ness by the time specified in the contract.
Ogden peak, on which there is now from
twenty to forty feet of snow, has been 10
Gated as placer claim. The whole of sec
ton 81 has been taken up under the placer
act, but the object which the locators had
In view is not known to any one except
themselves.
w. H. Harvey, the leading spirit in the
Mardi Gras movement, is ON his way home
from New Orleans, where everything has
been fixed to his entire satisfaction. New
Orleans and many other southern and east
ern cities will be largely represented dur
ing the July carnival in Ogden.
The Mardi Gras carnival palace will be a
huge structure of lumber and canvas,
which can be removed from the ground at
the close of the festivities. 1t will be $50
feet long and 100 feet wide; will have
seating capacity for 10000 people and
dancing floor that will accommodate 1000
couples.
The elegant quarters of the Ogden Alb
stract company and Hamer Bros & Hurr
sell, on the same floor to be occupied by
the First National bank in it's new build
ing, were opened last evening and visited
by many friends of the firms interested,
who will be ready to receive the public to-
morrow evening.
The articles of incorporation of the
Ogden Natural Gas and Oil company were
filed with County Clerk Dan Hamer YES
terday. The officers of the company are:
Thomas A Harris, president; S. Nj. Pre-
shaw, vice president; G. r. Hank, treas
urer The object and pursuit of the COM
pany is to bore for and develop gas and oil.
Thomas b. Helm was arrested yesterday
by Deputy Marshals Vandercook and Nc
Lellan on the charge of unlawful cohabita-
ton. Commissioner Cross bound Helm
over in the sum of $1,000 and his alleged
plural wife in the sum Of 500. Fred
Ellis was also arrested on the same
charge and furnished the same bond, as did
his plural wife.
One of the very best of our suburban ad
ditions, and almost the first one that was
laid out, is Mob Hill. Several houses are
now being erected up there, and doubtless
many more will be added during the pres
ent season, provided the Ogden street rail.
way shall be extended up TWepty-fifth
street. The east bench will be most de-
sirable place for residence of men who do
business down town, whenever facilities
are afforded them for rapid and comforta-
bic transportation to and from their homes
1t is understood that the street railway
lines will soon be extended so as to cover
the bench, and that they will also be oper-
ated.