The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-11

Real estate sales amounting to S203.437
were filed for record during the past week.
Tomorrow the work of demolshing the
buildings on the old Jennings corner Will
begin.
II. M. Bond g. Co. will be in their new
store to- morrow. Read their lad" in this
department.
Carnival committees have been appointed
on livery rates, hotels, provisions, meat,
illumination and lodgings.
What, if anything, Is being done toward
providing Ogden with an adequate supply
OF water during the heated term.
The first Colorado Utah excursion of the
season is expected to arrive next Friday
Advices from Denver say that there will be
a large crowd.
The funeral of Mrs. Maria Holbert a
sister of Mayor Barker, of Denver, who
died last Friday of heart failure, will be
held from the Methodist church at II m.
to-day,
F. G. Slower, agent of the Gamewell fire
alarm system which has been adopted by
this city, is getting ready for test OF the
same, which will probably be made to-
morrow.
A daily excursion to the hot springs,
nine miles from here, over the Utah 81
Northern railway, is something that the
all for four bits.
1t has been definitely decided to open
a north and south street through the CEN
ire of block 25, plat A. The city coun
Gil is to be congratulated on the action
taken IN this matter.
A copy of the ordinance relating to the
licensing and regulation of hacks and other
vehicles engaged in carrying passengers,
should be kept conspicuously displayed on
the inside of every such hack and vehicle.
Ogden, through its mayor and city coun-
Gil has extended an invitation to the Trans
Missouri Passenger association to hold its
session, next month, here. They will be
granted the freedom of the city-if they
come.
Myrtle Wellington, the girl about which
so much trouble has been had in Salt Lake,
was captured at the hot springs north of
| this city early yesterday morning and re-
| turned to your city with her mother on a
forenoon train.
When the Rex organization, known as
| the Monte Cristos of the Rocky mountains,
secure about one hundred more members
their list will be full. The limit of mem
bership will be reached when 500 names ap
| pear upon the roll
The parties who are so very anxious to
have the boulevard built, have made no
move to secure the right of way. When
they have done this the city will see that
the grand driveway will be constructed.
There would be nothing to equal it in the
United States.
| Judge Henderson was out on the street
yesterday after having been confined to the
house for several days with bilious at
tack. Proper remedies promptly applied
brought the Judge out sooner than his
| friends expected. He will probably hold
court tomorrow.
Johnny Dee, the pioneer livery stable
keeper of Ogden, has sold out and retired
from business. Now, if the owner of the
ground on which the stables and carriage
house stand would tear them down and
erect a fine business structure, it would &C
far toward improving the east side OF
Washington avenue, between Twenty
fourth and Twenty streets.
The Commercial calls the drain running
back of the buildings on the north side OF
Twenty fifth street, between Washington
and Adams avenue, IA Useless Drain. y
The statement is not correct. 1t answers
admirably the purpose for which it was
constructed, namely, to carry off the sur
plus wvter and drain the cellars. Before
it was put in the cellar under Mr.. Spargo' s
building contained lake of water 76 fee
long, 40 feet wide and four feet deep. The
cellar has been drained dry. The CONNER
ctdl is off its base.
The south line of Thirtieth street, a:
staked out by the city engineer by direc
tlon of the City Council, will cause some
trouble and may involve the city in one OF
several lawsuits. Central Park addition
plat was accepted by the city, but it ap
peared afterwards that the north line Of
the addition was too far north. Before thu
error was discovered the company had SOLE
large number of lots fronting on Thir
tieth street, and the purchasers had erected
houses and fences thereon. Some of tn,
houses were put right in the line, and thu
new survey made by the city engineer runs
a line right through the center of them.