The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-25
The City In Brief.

Ogden's contributions for the relief of the dis
dressed Camas Prairie Idaho settlers amounted
10 $3.50.
There'n be an ice cream festival, the first o.
the season, this evening in the Methodist
church.
Everybody. almost, will wear diamonds dur
ing the carnival. The sale of the Schwartz
1ewelry aggregated 1893.
In the probate court yesterday, in the matter
OF the estate of E. Poulter, an incompetent per
Son; order confirming sale of real estate.
large and elegant map of this city has been
made by Architect d'Hemecourt and is hung VI
IN the ofiiee of the Ogden Power company.
Yesterday was genuine April day, cloudy
and sunshiny. Work was resumed outdoor
works and everything was hustle and actively
The city council will hold its regular weekly
session this evening. The hour of meeting is
1851 AS usual, business OF Importance Will
come upfor consideration.
Pot hunters Will do well to remember that the
game law is now IN force. You must not kill
game of any kind before the 18th of August nor
lake any trout from the streams before the 18th
Of June.
Captain e. T. Hualanisld, agent of the Union
Paclic railway company, is authority for the
statement that his company is not discrimin at
ing against Ogden and in favor of other points
further east.
Success will surely attend the efforts of those
VINO are working to have a number of the cen
tral business blocks cut in two. Sanitary rea-
sons alone should cause the scheme TO be car
rled out at the earliest possible moment.
Two covered platforms, each GOO feet in
length, one for California transfers and the
other for local business, and several miles of
switching tracks will be built by the Ogden
union depot company this summer, at a cost of
Sl5o000.
There is a little CLEAN of hope that this live
and growing city will soon have free postal de-
livery. The city engineer has forwarded to
PoStofhce Inspector Patterson at Denver a Ger
tlfcate that all the houses in the city have been
properly numbered
The gentleman with the scheme for fish
hatchery and propagating farm was in town
yesterday talking up the subject. which is
really an interesting one. The gentleman is a
plsciculturist of great experience, and it is to
be hoped that he will receive all the encourage
ment Which his scheme deserves.
The foundations of the first building of the
Methodist university of Utah are being put in
rs rapidly as material can be procured. There
Is scarcity of lime and building stone, but it
IS believed that everything will be in readiness
Tor laying the corner stone of the edifice during
mardi gras carnival season in July.
Reckless driving along the business streets
should be stopped all of sudden. There is no
reason why any one should go whirling around
the corners of our crowded thoroughfareS.
Pedestrians have rights which they will main
tam, as some of those fellows who drive at a
breakneck pace through she streets VIII find
out one of these days.
has been represented that party or par
ties have been canvassing Ogden for HERALD
subscriptions and Offering the daily at a dis
count from the regular rates. All such parties
are frauds and the public is warned against
them. Ii any one allows himself to be caught
in face of the very plain notice kept standing
al the head of this column it is his own fault.
The Commercial truly says that sour city
furnishes enough accommodation for any
growing town, but the increase is such that un-
usual measures have to be taken" Local
capitalists and real estate men should take the
Ito them unuSusl measures at once and build
houses for tie accommodation of the thousands
of people who are expected to visit Ogden dur
ing the summer.
It will please the public to learn that the i'll
advised scheme for using Lester park pavilion
for lodging eXcursionists and transient guests
OF the city has been abandoned. In this con-
nection it may not be out of place to say, for
the consolation of any one who may have felt
aggrieved at the course taken by THE HERALD
correspondent, that he did not believe nor in
tend that it should be understood that the par
ties asking for the use of the pavilion wanted.
1t for profit. THE HERALD voiced the senti-
ments of scores of enterprising and patriotic
people in oppos ing the use of the only public
recreation building in the city for such pur-
pose, and the opposition was founded upon
principle, not desire to obstruct any legitimate
scheme for the good OF Ogden.