The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
SUNDAY.
The City in Brief.

c. w. Grover, editor of the Elko New
Independent, is in the city.
The proprietors of the leading hotels
and restaurants have agreed with
the carnival committee that during
the next week they will il no
instance charge or demand from people
who are guests Of their houses more than
their regular rates, or rates that would be
charged ut any other time. Those who
come 10 this city next week will do well to
steer clear of those places that Go not sign
this agreement.
The town is rapidly filling up with
strangers. AS before stated, tho good will
come as well as the bad, and every one
sht uld be on guard against being swindled
and robbed.
In the pro0ate court, in the matter of The
estate OF William Hensing, deceased; hear
INK OF application of +. II. Chase for an
oucr requiring administrator to render
accouhG taken under advisement
II. ii. Eoapp las returned from visit
III IN. cast. With him came his brother,
WHO laceALy arrived from Germany.
There are some very bright people in
thls buoming city. The iron boxes for the
reception Of nl:tI matter nave been placed
IN position oai the street corners, but there
+ are 30 locks on them and they Will not be
ready for use Cuiii July /. when the free
,
people have already commenced to drop
their letters into the boxes, where they
may be readily taken out by anyone who IS
so disl osed.
The total cost of the new bridge on
Washington avenue will be about SIS ZOO.
The county will pay onefourth and the
Ogden Street Railway company three
eighths of the cost, and the city's share
Will be about 1000.
taurant In Lester park pavilion during all
of next week. This will be great accom-
mediation to the thousands of people who
Will occupy the tents in the park.
The carnival chorus and the orchestra
VIII have rehearsal to-day at , o'clock D.
m, in the carnival palace. Every member
should be present.
The real estate transfers filed for record
Friday amounted to SAB, 31S.65; yesterday
they amounted to s69,446. Total for two
day S, SIP, S9i.65
The travelling men, or commercial trav.
elers, held a meeting in the federal court
room last evening, to make arrangements
for taking part in the Fourth of July par
ade.
Twenty three BOYS and six girls are now
inmates Of the territorial reform school
Thirteen are from Weber county, ten from
Salt Lake county, one from Utah county
one from Tooele county, two from Cache
county, one from Juab county and one from
Garfield county
The credit of disposing of Ogden's sewer
bones at par belongs to City Recorder J.
W. McNutt. The finance committee oil
the council fooled away lots of time in un
successful attempts to sell the bonds. As
stated above, the bonds were sold at par
and the money and accrued interest fol-
them is now on deposit Il the city treasury
Ogden's credit is .. X.
Ogden looks lovely in her holiday attire
Some of the decorations are unique and al
are line. A thousand bolts of colored cloth:
will be used in decorating the city hall
Many private residences along the line o.
march of the royal pageant are tastefully
>draped with bunting, OF the colors of Re1
~ and Rex III, green, purple and gold, anC
}ted, white and blue.
4 Mayor Fred Kiesel, Captain Ransfort
and Kentucky Smith, Judge H 2. Hen
derson, eX-Mayor ID. II. Peery and many
others of equal prominence think that Or
denis census is not far out of the way
City Attorney Haywood, w. II. Wright
Deputy Recorder r. I. Hume and severa
other gentlemen think that at least two
thousand persons were not enumerated
tOthers believe that perhaps 1000 were
fssssed, while a few, Sidney Steven!
among the number, believe that Ogden has
q population of twenty to twenty five
thousand.
The reputable merchants of this city vii
close their places of business on July
from 10 a. m. to l2 M, in order that the,
and their employees may witness the en-
trance of Rex III into the city. They will
also close on Tuesday and Wednesday, july
and 3, at p. m. that their employees ma,
have time TO prepare for attending the
evening entertainments.
Quite a number OF newspaper men from
the cast and the west have arrived in thu
city. The carnival committee will extenC
courtesies TO all members of the pres
whose credentials are endorsed by thu
president or chairman of the executiv,
committee of the Ogden press club and Il
No others.
fs The new steel and iron bridge to b,
erected over Ogden river on Washington
avenue will he fourteen feet longer thai
the present one. 1t will be supported by
three iron trusses resting on stone abut-
ments. The space reserved for the motor
line will be twelve feet in the clear anC
the wagon way will be twenty-four fee
wide in the clear and six feet on each side
VIII be reserved as a foot walk. Worl
upon the bridge will be commenced right
away and it will be completed as soon as
possible.
All individuals and organized bodies tax
ing part in his maiesty's night pageant OF
the night Of the Fourth of July must b.
masked and in costume, military or fancy
dress, and the committee suggest that The
custom prevailing in New Orleans durins
Mardi Gras be followed here, that is, tina
all spectators on the streets wear masks.
T. S. Tod, the slayer of Desmond. vii
receive his sentence tomorrow.
The free postal delivery service will bs
put into operation in this city next Tues
day. July /. All citizens vino desire to hav,
their mail delivered al their residence
should hand their names to the postmaste
at the money order window in the post
office.
1t took the old Pioneer Electric Ligh
company long time to awaken to the fac
that they were behind the times. They
didn't realize it until franchise had beer
granted to another company, composed o
live, wideawake citizens of Ogden. TIL
old company is composed exclusively o.
Salt Lake men, who now say that the,
''arc about to expend large amount o
money in increasing and extending thei
own works this summer"
Probably no one will claim that tn
government census of Ogden is correct
The manner of taking IL precluded the pos
sibility of fair enumeration Of the popu
l&ion, yet that thousands of bona fid,
citizens were missed does not seem prob
able. At the council meeting Friday nigh
thirty four residents asked the council I,
authorize, officially, the census of the city
which is TO be undertaken by local news
paper. They stated in Interpretation that the,
they were satisfied that the names of severa
thousand bona fide residents Of the city ha,
been omitted from the national census
Their petition was not granted, but thu
matter was referred to a special COMMITTEE
consisting of Aldermen Shilling and Eel