The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-23

The City in Brief.

ment hall to morrow night
The weather moderated considerably be-
fore evening yesterday, and there were in
dlcatlons OF coming storm.
The Grismer Davis combination, in ''The
World Against Her will hold the boards
at Union opera house Tuesday night.
Why ''The World Was Against Her." no
fellow can find out unless he attends the
entertainment in Union opera house Satur
day evening.
The Union depot waiting room is all too
small, especially at times when such
crowds Of passengers are delayed here. 1t
is to be enlarged.
The big screw snow plow for use on the
Central Pacific, which was en- route from
the east, was delayed an hour yesterday at
Uintah. It arrived at ) pm.
The directors of the Ogden Equitable Co
operative association have called upon the
shareholders topay into the treasury % per
cent. of the amount of their shares.
Only one victim in the police court yes
terday. He was tried for being drunk and
disorderly, and was given the usual dose
with the alternative. He got the alterna-
tive
Anewspaper that is everlastingly whin-
ing about lack of patronage, must not ex-
pect to stand very high in public esteem.
AS d rule, public support is given to
Ogden is soon to have a wholesale tea,
coffee, spice and tobacco house. a gentle
man from Lincoln, Neb., will be the pro
prietor. He is now in the city looking for
a place for his family to reside in.
The ice which is now being cut and
- stored is about foot in thickness and Of
good quality, being very firm and compact
There should be no scarcity CT this com
modify during the next heated term.
David Kay has bought back the brick
business building which he sold to q
Pueblo man year or more ago. He paid
$4,000 for the property, which is on Wash
ington avenue, opposite the Broom hotel.
Considerable lucerne hay is being hauled
in to market. 1t meets with ready sale at
Sl2 per ton. Farmers who held on instead
of selling last summer and early fall, are
receiving double what they could have sold
for then.
Representative James n. Kimpall came
up from the capital yesterday morning,
having been summoned by telegraph to the
bedside of his sick wife His daughter,
Miss Eccie, came home last evening on the
Utah Central.
The death of Conductor ]. E. Ryan,
which occurred at Cheyenne last Satur-
day, will cause feeling of sorrow to all
who had the pleasure of knowing him, and
the sympathy of all will go with his widow
and children.
In 1880 the population Of Ogden city was
between 5000 and 7,OOO;..in 1890 it is about
Is 600. In 1880 the population of Sioux
city was 1900; it 1890 it exceeds 1900
Before the close of 1890 Ogden will have a
population of $4,000.
Two trains arrived last night over the
Central Pacific They were stuck while at
Toano, but got through safely. The regu-
lar west-bound train, carrying a large load
of passengers and mail, went out on her
regular schedule time, 80 4. N. today.
Transactions in real estate cannot be
said to be slow, when bona fide sales
amounting to nearly two hundred thous-
and dollars are recorded in one day, as was
the case on the 2lst instant, when deeds of
sales aggregating 1892, So % were filed for
record.
A card on a baggage ear that came in
from the east yesterday over the Union
Pacific, said: ''Bronson 81 Towards great
play Shenandoah, direct from New York
to San Francisco, Baldwin theatre. The
company left for the west at 100 this
morning.
The little English sparrows have hard
time rustling for grub in back yards and
around residences, on account of the deep
snow. Therefore they flock in the streets
and on the sidewalks, especially in front of
grain and feed stores, the sweepings from
winch they deVour greedlly.
The following persons, heretofore con-
victed in the First district court, viii be
sentenced on the 30th: David Reese, city
marshal of Brigham City, for assault with
intent to do great bodily harm; James Han
sen, Lars G. Larson and Thomas Stirland,
for unlawful Capitalization; George w.
Silks, for gambling.
Since the census was taken, ten years
ago, Ogden's population has nearly trebled;
that of Sioux Ci5y has become six times
larger. Within i've years our city will
kave larger population than Sioux City
now has. Ogden City stands to-day on the
same vantage ground of progress as Kan
sas City, Omaha and Minneapolis did five
years ago.
The southeast corner of Twenty fourth
street and Adams avenue, formerly the
property of w. Il. Wright, was on Tuesday
purchased by James p. Sprunt. 1t is sup
posed that the price paid was about eleven
thousand dollars, the size of the lot beiug
l32xl65 feet 1t is the intention Of the
purchaser to cut The lot Up into small
building lots.
The real estate men of Ogden are doing {
good business, considering the time OF The
year. The best properties are owned or
controlled by leading dealers, who are vii
ling to exchange land at prices not too
high for men OF average means to reach. II
-
that the wild boom in real estate that Salt
Lake is experiencing may never reach here
No unnatural imitation is needed In Ogden.
L A large crowd assembled at the depot
last evening TO see the cyclone snow plow
Y, which came in about $50. The plow Itself
is really massive iron screw in front OF
and attached to a car IN which is the ma
chinery for operating ii. A notice on Its
side gave the information that it was man
ufactured by the Wells s. French Co., cal
and bridge builders, Chicago, Ill. 1t has
never been tested in such huge snow bank:
as are common to the Sierras.
United States Deputy Marshal Mcclellan
has gone to Promontory, the scene Of
trouble between sheepmeu and others. L
appears that certain parties there are tax
ing the law into their own hands, and i'm
pounding the sheep of other parties whom
they claim are trespassers. There arr
rumors that shOtguns and other nipple
ments of destruction have been brough
into requisition in some cases, but as ye
there has been 40 bloodshed. Mcclellan
ysvill make some arrests.
The failure of THE HERALD of Tuesda,
to get to Ogden until the middle of the af
ternoon, caused the Commercial to say
sympathy is extended TO the citizens o
Ogden who prefer foreign papers Tor hom
news.n If the Commercial would publish
more home news and not be quite so fresl
with its personal opinions about how rea
estate men and others should carry o.
their own business affairs, not SO man
people would be compelled to subscribe 10
outside papers to get legitimate nom
news.
Some of the live men of this city hav
male all their arrangements for slnk1n