The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-01
SATURDAY,
March 1, 1890
The City in Brief.

~ Odu Oeulral Ufalu waited
Business of all kinds is quiet and who
ever says TO the contrary hurts the COM
munity worse than he could help it.
The weather, at the very threshold of
spring, is worse and more inclement than
1t has been for the last five months.
Probate Judge r. W. Cross, left home
yesterday morning for a visit of few DAYS
in the southern part of the territory.
Mayor Fred j. Kiesel is doing good work
for his city in Washington, and there is
little DOUBT that there, "allee'.he will get
same, Eli.
The New England grocers' special from
San Francisco, en- route east came in at 10
s'clocl1 last night and went down to Salt
Lake city.
The mardi gras, or carnival, is an assured
/, act. All the money required to make the
carnival a success has either been raised
Dr. provided for.
Lovers of local literature will be sorry
10 hear that Professor H9feli has lost his
right eye irretrievably over the work on
his 'tAs You Like It.''
Mark Lindsey is an old-timer in this
territory. For the past twenty five years
he has cut and stored ice each winter, he
lells your correspondent.
The new time table on the Utah Central
which takes effect to morrow will send
put the evening train for Salt Lake at ) 40,
Instead of $50 as at present.
On Saturday, March s, there will be held
the regular monthly meeting of the County
Teachers association, when several inter
esting addresses will be delivered.
If the present frigid weather continues
for few days more, this valley of the
Great Salt Lake will lose its reputation as
possessing semi tropical climate.
The snow along the line of the Union
Pacific railway between Ogden and Lara
ME is over two feet deep on the level
The weather for several days has been in
bensely cold.
In Miss Ludden's room at the Ogden
academy New West SCHOOL, the celebrated
Longfellow's anniversary Thursday after
noon with recitations from the immortal
poets works.
There was no chance to send anything
by mail from Odgen to Salt Lake city
Thursday evening, hence the failure of the
regular Odgen correspondence in Friday
mornings HERALD.
The Utah Central train due here at S 40
a. m. yesterday, arrived at 9:l0, an hour
and a half behind time. The fast mail due
at 1880 a. M, came in at 9:15. eight hours
and twenty five minutes late.
w. H. Watts, of the railroad contract
ing firm of Carey Brothers & Co., and c.
G. Stiffier, their paymaster, have gone to
Grand Junction with $1,000 to pay off the
men who are at work for them on their
contract.
In TWO months from now there will be
employment in and around Ogden for at
least two thousand men-skilled mechanics
artisans and common laborers. The enter
prlses now under way, or projected and as
Bured warrant the above statement.
William Furey, formerly an employee at
the Union Pacific freight Office in this city,
has been in town visiting with his brother
ln-law, w. p. p. ST. Clair. He has been
elected mortgage commissioner of Montana.
the dislikes to leave so prominent CITY
IS Ogden shows herself to be.
The First district court adjourned last
night until Monday, March 10. Judge
Henderson will go TO Salt Lake to sit as
Justice in the supreme court. The out-of-
town jurors were excused for ten days
and given an opportunity to visit their
homes.
1t is learned that a Kansas City syndi-
cate, with almost unlimited capital, have
decided to embark in business in Ogden.
They will build houses for sale or rent. and
expect to erect not less than three hundred
during the coming building season. They
will all be needed by the time they are
finished.
The sum of SIS, 900 has been subscribed
toward the establishment of clay and tile
works, which will manufacture sewer and
1rain pipes, paving brick, earthen ware
clay shingles, etc. 1t is said that large
ped of clay close by is peculiarly adapted
20 be used in the manufacture of these
articles.
In the police court yesterday, Dan Led
wick, William Brown and j. Dougharty,
FOR vagrancy, were Jailed for ten DAYS
I'd M1PrQu pnapnpd with ON, ott 70
commit larceny, was bound over in the
Ium Of $500, and failing TO get sureties was
committed to await the action of the grand
ury.
AT Cheyenne, last Sunday night, cold
wave rolled in from the east and sent the
mercury down to ten degrees below zero.
At Rawlins, a little further west, the Their
nometer indicated twenty four degrees
below zero Monday night Then, a day
alter, Evanston caught on and went sew
.ral degrees better, at thirty-five degrees
below. When the wave struck this valley
had almost spent its force, yet it was
sold enough to send the mercury down to
.iX degrees below zero during Wednesday
nd Thursday nights.
The old Staynor building adjoining
2eery'S annex on Washington avenue.
which partially burned some months ago.
vas Condemned by the building inspector
md ordered torn down. A few DAYS ago
he work OF demolishing it was begun and
everything was moving along smoothly.
when the parties who occupy the south half
If the building, which was uniniured.
Ierved an injunction on Staynor to restrain
lin from doing what the building inspector
commended him to do. 1t is Mr. Staynor,s
intention, if permitted by the court to pro
ICED with the work of demolition. to erect
! four-story building on the site of the old
me. and when the lease now held by the
earties 10 the south half of the old building
Ax-ires. to erect another four-story build
rtg on that part Of his lot.
The generous rivalry which exists be-
vcen Salt Lake and Ogden received a
lesh illustration few days ago. An
)gden man, while in Denver, met gentle
lian from Oregon who was looking around
or an opportunity TO make profitable in
restments of large sum of money. Nat
rally the conversation was turned into
channel which led to Ogden, aud the
0gdenite held up his city to the stranger
IS the place he was seeking for. WHY
said the Oregonian, II spent ten days in
Salt Lake While there ] was told that
Ogden was merely a little village without
resources, and would never amount 20 any
thing. SO l didn't think it worth while to
90 there" Then our townsman told the
stranger more ABOUT the junction city, its
s<Dast progress and futlre prospects, and
made him feel like kicking himself for be-
ing bamboozled by the Salt Lake real es-
late tiends. The gentleman went east on a
visit, but returned here yesterday morning
and has made up his mind that he will