The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-25
The City in Brief.

After the mask bail has taken place the
carnival palace win be taken down.
Hundreds Of tickets have been sold for
the mask bail in the carnival palace to-
night
A good number of people will witness
the trcttlI.g race at the Ogden hot springs
to-day.
The Prohibition club held ameeting last
night at which matters OF Importance were
discussed.
A new force CT stonecutters are now at
work on the Reed hotel and construction Is
going ahead vigorously.
Moroni Skeen, who should have been
nominated for sheriff or assessor, spent the
day with his friends in Ogden.
The bond of the city treasurer, as Gus
todlan of the school funds, has been hxea
at So, 600 by the city board of education.
Billy Burns, who escaped from the city
prison several weeks ago, was captured
night before last and returned to his old
quarters.
great many Ogdenites are unable to
fRthom the real underlying motive OF those
who are responsible for the retaking OF
the census OF this city.
Professor Hefeii and family are rusticat-
ing in the mountains for few days. Their
camp is on Beaver creek, a tributary of the
Ogden river above Huntsville.
The district which is to be severed this
year must be completed by the first of next
December. The district to be covered is
the one most in need of sewering.
r. C. Humiston, architect, has associated
himself with w. G. Child and James G..
Stoddard, and the firm is now known as
the Ogden Building and Lumber company.
John A. Boyle, vice president Of the Og
den State bank, returned yesterday from
the country where he has been for several
days attending to some important business.
r. C, Humiston will to-day commence
the erection of three story brick building
on Washington avenue between Twenty
fifth and Twenty-sixth streets for w. @.
Child.
The notices to taxpayers this year will
number about 4, 500 and they will be ready
for sending out in a day or two. Taxes be-
come due September, and delinquent Oct
tober 81
All the Odd Fellows in the CITY are in
the city reinvited to meet at Workmen's
hall at 9 O'Clock this morning. They will
march to the depot and take the train for
Syracuse.
DIR. Condor, chief census enumerator for
Utah, explodes the silly yarn that outlying
precincts were included in the enumeration
to swell the number of Salt Lake city's
population.
Nearly every body in the city who can
get away will go on an excursion some
where to-day. Syracuse viii catch the lar
gest number. Some will go to Logan
where Pioneer day will be celebrated il
fine style.
The farmers are busy at home, hundreds
of our citizens are out OF town, most of the
fakirs have departed and the s}reets pre-
seLt quiet appearance; but there's plenty
Of activity in tbs building line and the
etorekeepers are doing fair business.
The sign of the C. E. Mayne company
has been oblterated from the front win.
dows of the room in which was once the
efice of that company. And Mayne is in
San Francisco preparing to build rail
road to Ogden over which to bring in
California gold.
Ed Kind was tried and convicted of
drunkenness and vagrancy and adjudged
to sleep in the cooler aud work in the
gravel pit for ten days. T. Warwick and
John Miller, convicted of mendicancy,
were sent up for forty days. Police JUICE
Preshaw passed the above sentences.
This (Pioneer day. is a legal holiday in
Utah. It viii also be observed as a general
holiday. Stores and other places of bust
ness will be closed and work generally sus-
pended. This is as it should be. We have
altogether too few holidays.
Speaking of this years assessment. the
county collector says: Though assessed
ut 100 per cent this year, where it was
from 81 to SO per cent last year, the tax
this year is but 9 mills outside of local
school taxes; where last year it was ID
mills on the dollar'n
At the meeting of the city board of edu-
cation, held Tuesday night, Profs Lewis
and Newill were selected as two members
@l,-,l Iaf<.
TO examine applicants for teachers posi-
lions and report to the board of education
the grade of their proficiency and fitness.
The superintendent OF city schools is also a
member of the board of examination
The superintendent. of streets. or some
one having authority, should see TO IL that
the bitches which have been dug for the
water pipes are not left uncovered any
longer than is actually necessary. A gen
tleman started out the night before last to
get a doctor for his sick wife, AMI in the
darkness fell into the trench on Madison
avenue, which has been open for more than
week.
A train consisting of nineteen cars load
Sd with coal was wrecked near Emery sta
tion, on the Union Pacific road. Tuesday
night. The wreck was caused By the
spreading of the rails. The engine and one
Car went over safely, but the others were
thrown from the track ana totally wrecked.
The fast mail train, due at | a. n. yester-
day, did not reach Ogden until IL As q. III
No one was injured.
The Duly linton, following in the wake
Of the Democrat, has run uD the Liberal
ticket and IS apparently supporting it. The
Commercial sits az the table and feeds on
pubic pap, while the Democrat is content
20 play the part of Lazarus and from its
place under the table pick up the crumbs.
The Uhson licks Lazarus sores and doesn't
get even a erumb.
The Pacific Short Line has hee- 6n,sbed
between Sioux City and O'Nei:i, Eeb.. a
distance Of l2ejz miles. The traclSlavinee
force has been discharged aud no man
knoweth when, if ever, the line will be e.,
tended westward from its present terDi;-
nus. Tie scattering of trackiayers is not
good omen. Il indicates tilas they re-
ceived nc assurance OF the ircmeiiute ex
tension OF tie Pacific Short Line.
IL the purpose OF taking the census
81 the city IS 10 ascertain how many bona
Sd. citJ1ens Ogssea low has, the eIuinera-
tors cannot exercise 100 nueh care. Last
Monday ce'tses eGuuerator met a transit
ent visifor ans sought to put bis nains. on
the list but tife gentleman inforrueS him
that be was stopping in Oa.ien only tenn,
Rorar,ly and refused to give mis- name
The enumeration informed hiu, that his
being temporary resident didu't make
any difference. Now, either the census
enumeratcr exceeded his al shority OF else
~ IS rot .ee intention to have an honest
count Of the real citizens of Ogden
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