The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-03
THURSDAY,
The City in Brief.

Inc Olbf III
There were no jury trials in the First
district court yesterday.
Box rents at the postof1ice for the quarter
commencing April j, are now due.
All the railroads running into Ogden
will give special rates during the Mardi
Gras carnival.
The San Francisco EUening Posts Ogden
edition was $4,000 copies. Another con-
signment came in yesterday.
Mayor Kiesel is of the opinion that
Ogden will get generous appropriation
from Congress for public building.
Every man now in this city who is able
and willing to work, can have employment.
There are very few tin horns and loafers
here at present.
At the regular meeting of the chamber of
commerce Tuesday night there was con-
siderable discussion, but no business Of any
particular Importance was transacted.
Although the building season has not yet
fully begun, there is scarcity of carpen-
tiers. Those who have taken contracts have
great difficulty in procuring men to do the
work.
Two peace-disturbers, E. Dolan and j
Kelly, were before his honor Alderman
Preshaw, yesterday. He kindly consented
TO let them board at the expense OF the city
for ten days.
A meeting of nline-owners and others
Interested in the development of our min
eral resources, will be held in the federal
court room this evening, commencing at s
o'clock sharp.
A carefully compiled and correct direc-
tory of this city is greatly needed. Moth
, Ing of the kind is now in existence, nor
4 has there been one since that published by
sCannon & Haefeli several years ago.
James. T. Kescel, Park City's OK
marshal, stopped over to look at Ogden
y, sterday, while on his way to Bingham
canon, where he has lately become in
terested in some valuable mining property.
The new Fifth ward amusement hall is
going up rapidly, and will soon be COM
pleted. When completed it will be an or
nament to Madison avenue and hit COM
panion for the elegant meeting house adj
Joining.
Captain Howard, recently from Howard,
Kansas, where he was for several years
retained as an attorney for the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, has formed law part
nership with our well known fellow towns.
man P. j Barratt.
Only the case of Matilda Hatrich vs. E
r. Chase occupied the attention of Judge
Henderson of the First district court yes
terday. Judgment was rendered for the
plaintiff, on consent for restitution Of
premises and costs of suit.
If Ogden does not come into prominence
through advertising the Mardi Gras carni
val, then nothing else will make it known
to the outside world. Every prominent
newspaper in the United States has been
engaged to advertise the carnival.
Now is good time to enforce the SAM
tary regulations. Warm weather is com
ing soon and all filth should be removed
from the surface of the ground before the
heat of the sun causes it to rot and tain
the atmosphere and breed disease.
There are 143 real estate firms in this city
at present and almost as many more pre-
pairing to go into the business. One of the
firms now here say that their cash bushes:
was greater last month than during am
previous thirty days since they came tt
Ogden.
The Ogden readers Of THE HERALD ar
notified that during conference the Utal
Central will run special trains between
Ogden and Salt Lake city. The train vii
leave Ogden daily at { 40 am and arriv'
at Salt Lake at 900. 1t will leave Sal
Lake at pm. and arrive in Ogden at Z &c
There is some talk of several secre
societies uniting and building fine struC
ture to be used for lodge meetings, etc
Should they do this, they would be able t
erect a building equal to any now in tn
". Z
prove a paying investment TO the stock
holders.
The sidewalk ordinance calls for plan
In all districts except No. 16, where as
phaltum must be used. 1t is the genera
understanding that in this case plank
construed to mean plank or anything BET
ter 1t is very probable that very few pee
pie will use plank, which is little. if any
better than gravel. Vitrifed brick an
coal TAR will be used instead of plank, an
in some cases granite or other stone wi
be put down.
j. H. Spargo, who owns valuable lot o
Washington avenue opposite the Broo1
hotel, intends to erect a handsome -four
story structure upon it this season. Tn
lot extends only forty feet back from tn
street, so that the building will have to b
confined to that depth, as it is not possibl
for Mr.. Spargo to purchase the land in tn
rear, even by paying double what it
worth. MIR. Spargo is authority for thi
statement The lower floor OF the me-
building will be used for store and tn
upper floors for offices.
Two inspectors have been in Ogden fo
two or three days, checking up and NAL
ing thorough and searching examinatio
of the postoffice. They have satisfied then
selves that the facilities for CARRYING o
business are entirely inadequate, and wi
so state in their report to the department
They find, among other things, that it
not possible to inaugurate the free deliver
system at present. and they say that
will rot be inaugurated here until Ii
street names are placed on all street col
ners and all houses are numbered. Til
calls attention to the fact that an ord
nance Of the city makes it the duty of th
city engineer to assign number to ever
house within the corporation limits, an
that after that is done it is obligatory upo
the house owner to place that number o
his house. The city council were notifie
through this department of THE HERAll
last season, that Ogden would not get
free postal delivery system until the house
were numbered. A correct city director
is almost indispensable for the use of ca
riers in cases where letters are not directe
to house number.
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