The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-25
February 25, 1890
TUESDAY,
The City in Brief.

TUESDAY. February 25, 1890
The City in Brief.
A special train from San Francisco with
Patti and her company will arrive here this
morning.
The mumps are exerting their disagree
able influence in many families in town,
somewhat reducing the school attendance.
One of the heaviest snowstorms of the
winter set in yesterday morning, and 1.-The
beautiful fell fast and furious all day
long.
The blockade on the Central Pacific is
broken and trains are moving along all
right. The trains yesterday came in about
i On time.
G. w. Knapp, superintendent of the
= salt Lake division of the Central Pacific
railroad, and who went west to improve
his health, is now at Mojave, Kern county,
California.
Sunday was a cold day and yesterday
was by no means more caloric. The infiu-
ence of the wintry weather upon business
IN general is realized by all the merchants,
and not to their delight either
Four alleged gamblers-Silks, Wood,
Meidland and Christian-who were ar
rested last Friday and bound over will APP
pear before Commissioner Cross for exam
ination to-day, at O'Clock pm.
The prospects for securing an appropria-
ton from Congress to erect a fine govern
ment building in this city are said to be
hrSt-raUe, and that it will be made before
the close of the present session.
Now we will have a chance to be saved
surely. Rev. Sam Small IS announced for
the Methodist church for May 18th to 2Sth,
: the fortnight to be occupied by rousing
y revival 1t will undoubtedly be interesting
Reed & Burgitt yesterday closed s26, 600
deal, the Mercer property on Washington
avenue, which was purchased for Salt
Lake parties They also sold to Mrs. Eitel
OF Denver, one acre on the bench for 81 200.
A terrible snowstorm was raging on
Colinston hill and along the line of the
Utah q Northern yesterday, and no trains
came in or went out over the road from
here. The south bound train was held at
Logan.
The roads in the country region are SIM
ply horrid, the wheels of even light vehicles
sinking IN to the hub. Hence there are
few of our rural friends and customers
seen in town and the business men feel cor
respondingly blue.
After an illness of three weeks, William
NJ. Clark has returned to the prescription
case as the pharmaceutical genius presid-
ing in William Driver & Sons wholesale
and retail establishment. His Salt Lake
friends will be pleased to learn of this.
boards of the Union opera house this week
with the plays of Sire and Son. and sThe
Bonnie Fishwife." There is nothing against
them having good run of full house but
the lnclement weather and the bad streets
and sidewalks.
The Gilt boulevard question is discussed
on all sides with great interest and it is ex-
pected that with the chamber of commerce
taking an active initiative, and men of en-
terprise and capital sustaining their efforts
substantially, we will soon see work be-
gun on that great work.
Rehearsals of the Ogden Choral union
for 1.-THE Chimes of Normandy that
charming little opera, will be resumed on
Wednesday next, full attendance being
requested by the management so as to push
the preparation to successful consumma-
ion and public performance.
Yesterday the Sacred Heart academy
pupils had pleasant surprise in the shape
Of holiday. The same popular institution
Of education had a most enjoyable concert
On Friday last at which the scholars again
svlnced the pleasing results of the pains
taking training given them by the teach
erS.
On Saturday evening next the subject OF
discussion by the Ogden Literary and De
batting society, one of the most agreeable
social circles here, will be Evolution, }
the debate to be opened by Mr.. Johnson
!, These intellectual bouts are quite popular
and attract much attendance as well as at
tention.
G. L. Thompson, the architect of the Reed
hotel on the corner of Twenty-fifth street
and Washington avenue, came up from Sail
Lake city yesterday to see after affairs
Incidentally, he also presented set Of
plans for the proposed chamber of com
merce and opera house buildings which is
now a foregone conclusion.
ns,i+n ofl l.. l.
dams and houses OF the Ogden Power com
pany were submitted to Mr.. Mayne yester
day, but none of them were then accepted
and it may be that neither of them viii be
They will be carefully examined by tn,
architect, and if any are satisfactory they
will be accepted and work commenced
without delay.
The custom which has prevailed il
Ogden of backing wagons on to the side
=, walks in front of stores, for the purpose O
loading or unloading them, thus forcin.
pedestrians to take to the middle of tn,
street, is one which should not be followed
any longer. There is an ordinance agains
it, and the chairman of the street commit
tee of the city council says that it vii
hereafter be strictly enforced.
The First district court was engaged
yesterday with the case of Merservey VS.
the Denver & Rio Grande Western railwa,
company. This is the case in which tn
plaintiff claims damages for being run int
by a locomotive of the defendant Will
crossing its track with wagon at poin
about three miles south of Ogden, where
by he sustained serious bodily injuries
Thomas Maloney presented the case TO
Merservey and Bennett g. Marsh defended
The case occupied the entire day.
The numerous Weber county and othe
Utah friends of Postmaster w. Hurd, o.
Harrisville, viii be panied to learn that tn
4 gentleman is in very precarious condi
lion, in fact, his physician has as much a
y given him up. The doctor is suffering o
the same disease that carried off Genera
Grant and Notwithstanding all the medica
attendance and the most solicitous and Low
ing care by the companion of his life Their
s out little hope. Still, the doctor, a sturd
American of undaunted courage. bears nj
oravely under the overwhelmingly painfn
affection of cancer of the throat. Said h
TO visiting friends on Sunday: az don,
mind so much making room for younge
people, but il is tough to starve to death
when a fellow could eat so heartily
Liquid food is all he subsists on.
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