The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-30
WEDNESDAY.
The City in Brief.

Book beer is in season.
S. f. Spencer, of Salt Lake city, was a visitor
at the hub yesterday.
1t is understood that the free postal delivery
system will 90 into operation in this city to-
morrow.
The city hall lawn is a thing OF beauty now
Next fall some more trees should be set out IN
the center of it,
Allen ct al. VS.. Frank J. Cannon ct al. ten days
TO answer second amended complaint
The streets are again dusty. The only relief
lies in the frequent recurrence OF copious
showers. The sprinkling carts are n 6.
The appearance of the upper deep last
evening indicated that the forces of nature were
gathering for downpour of the aqueous.
The non delivery of THE HERALD yesterday &c
lis Ogden subscribers caused great deal OF
annoyance The same thing happened last
week. Who's to blame:.
Ogden river is booming. Yesterday the
water was UP TO within three feet OF the ftooI
and rushing through like mill race. A fine
rew iron bridge is needed.
The members OF Crescent Lodge, No. Is
I, Q. o, F., gave social and dance Monday
night. in observance of the establishment Of
American Odd Fellowship.
The Ogden Abstract company and the real es-
tate Office of Hamer Brothers s. HursSell are
now located in their elegant new quarters in
the First National bank building.
The police court mill ground out three sen
fences yesterday. j. S. White was fined and
and a. Nilsson So both for being drunk.
Strawberries are on the market and selling al
81 cents per single box, or three boxes for 81.
Newspaper and real estate men aye the only
fellows that afford to indulge at present
prices. =
All eXcept three of the chain gang crowd that
struck for more grub and eligible labor on Mon
day returned TO work yesterday after dinner.
A diet of hreat and water and twenty-four hours
in the sweat box brought them to terms
I the Union Pacific eXDectS To receive the
patronage of the travelling public, it will have
10 hustle itself when the Rio Grande Western
puts on its two additional trains between this
city and Salt Lake and runs them through in an
hours time.
Yesterday. in the First district court Michael
O'Cosker. a native of the Emerald Isle, fore
swore allegiance to all foreign princes, poten-
tateS and powers, took the prescribed oblga-
ton and became full-hcdged American clti.
zen.
- In the probate court, in the matter of the es.
tate and guardianship of Joseph Odell, a minor
return OF sale OF the following real estate The
northwest corner of lot +, block 3, plat B. 3Xs
lodS being on the southeast corner of Madison
avenue and Twenty-siXth street. d. d. Peery
IT., being the purchaser for the sum of S., $50
An alarm Of fire was turned in at 6 80 yeSter
day morning from the corner of Adams avenue
ana Twenty seventh street. The firemen got
out OF their house in fifteen seconds from the
time the alarm was given and in three minutes
we're playing stream on the fire through LOO
feet of hose. A barn and three tons of hay were
burned
Several carloads of red sandstone from the
Diamond Quarries al Thistle, on the Rio Grande
Western railway, came in yesterday and were
unloaded and taken TO the Reed hotel. The
railroad iron. which is to be laid on the founda-
ZION walls. also arrived and bricklaying will at
once be commenced on the first story.
Gentlemen from Provo and Harrisville have
discovered good placer ground in northwestern
Utah, and large number CT claims have been
staked of; Robert Fisher, of Huntsville, will
Tn-Fllx no ipyc 40
route is via Market Lake, Idaho. and the dis
lance from there is about one hundred miles
over rough road.
If the grandson of old Tippecanoe had any
idea when he vetoed the borrowing bill that he
could stop The march of progress in Ogden, lei
him be at once undeceived. sewers are needed
and will be had, and if all cannot be constructed
this year good start can be made and the work
continued as the necessary funds become avail
able. The council decided, at their meeting on
Monday night. that at least ten miles would be
built this season. The estimated cost is 81 sc
per lineal foot. two-thirds OF which will be borne
by abutting property owners and one-third by
the city.s
Ogden's merchants ought to retire at night
With reasonable feeling of security. The police
force is large and active, and besides, there are
TWO corps OF patrolmen, whose services are be
ginning 10 be appreciated. MessrS. Virgo &
Watts, the successors of Van Lunen, have a
SHlarge list OF customers and have put on another
man. They thoroughly understand their bust
ness and are entirely trustworthy These gen
tlemen as special officers work in harmony with
the regular police force, and between them the
city IS well protected against the dangerous
criminal class with which it is infested.
The county court met in regular session yes
terday and transacted the routine business
The fremont Water company asked for the
privilege of building canal on the county road
N Statewide. The petition was referred to
Selectmen Shurtlin and Peacock. a petition
was received from A. II. Nelson and fifty eight
others, asking that "a road be laid out. extend
ing from Ralph Hunts, in West Weber west to
the Little mountain. and that the same be de-
clared d county road Referred to Selectmen
Child and Peacock for investigation and con-