The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-09

The Utah & Northern train was an hour late
last night. The Utah Central awaited its ar
rival.
The Ogden Power company have fitted up an
Office in the Broom hotel block on Washington
avenue.
Officers are on the track of the murderer of
Hyrum Gleason, and it is hardly probable that
he will escape.
The rain and warm south wind contributed
to the partial drying up Of the mud in our
| streets yesterday.
Isn't it about time for the managers of the al
legged Pacific Short Line to be getting a move
on themselves at this end of the line.
| The First district court will be in session to-
morrow. The trial jurors who were excused
until March 10 are expected to be on hand when
court conveneS at 10 am.
Thomas Fitzgerald, roadmaster of the Cen
trail Pacific at this place. is preparing to put up
tine business block on Twenty fifth street, adj
joining Carlson s. Studer's saloon.
| a large force of men and teams in Ogden
canon give that royal mountain gorge an ami
mated appearance. Their presence there means
| that work on the Ogden Power company's dam
will be rushed ahead as fast as the weather will
permit.
The cut rates are already making themselves
| felt in the increased number of people who are
| coming from the east. Every train on all the
roads is loaded with passengers, many of whom
| stop off here and some of whom viii remain and
| become citizens.
Yesterday Deputy Marshal Mcclellan ar
! rested Robert Mumfort on a charge of being &C
| cessory to the murder of Hyrum Gleason at Col
| tension several days ago He vas examined
before Commissioner Perrin and admitted to
pail IN the sum of 81 GOO.
John Sparks, of the well known firm of Sparks
q Tinnin, whose herds range from the Pacific
coast to the Gulf of Mexico, is blowing in lots of
cash for Ogden real estate He buys for invest
ment and not for speculation, and considers
prices here as very reasonable.
The directors of the chamber of commerce
nave concluded to bring suit to test the right of
tne city to dispose of any part of Union square,
ADIe lawyers nave been engaged to represent
both sides OF the case, that it will not be long
until the question is finally settled for good.
In all well ordered cities the Dagos, Chinese,
and other objectionable classes are not permit
TED TO maintain their dives and deadfallS in any
respectable quarter of the city. There is no
reason why they should be permitted to do so in
Ogden. The city council has authority to abate
nu1Sances and it is its duty 10 do so.
One of the transparencies carried in the
Liberal Jolhhcatlon procession Il little over a
year ago read as follows: Were short on mud
but long on sidewalks" Was it true then, or is
1t true now: The mud we have with US but
where are the sidewalks? There isn't decent
sidewalk around single block in the city.
Orson Riser. one of our most successful bust
ness men, has bought Of James Gale the lot and
Dulldlng on Washington avenue where ne (RiSer)
has for many years carried on the resort known
as WagenerS saloon. Mr.. Riser paid $40 OQO for
this valuable property, and it is the general
opinion that at the ruling prices Of real estate on
this avenue the purchase was u bargain.
The San Francisco Examiner of the 5th inst
publishes a copy of an address, of which Ogden
was the theme delivered by G. E. Mayne, pres
dent OF the San Francisco Syndicate and Trust
company and the Ogden Power company at a
meeting of capitalists held in San Francisco on
the evening of March 4. Mr. Mayne eloquently
portrayed Ogden's wonderful resources and the
great development now taking place here.
Utah needs farmers. There is no doubt of it,
1t seems almost incredible that it is found ne
cessary to go to Nebraska for hay and grain vet
that is just what our livery stable men are com
PEELED to do because they cannot procure what
they require at home. Two carloads OF chopped
corn and baled hay were received from
Nebraska yesterday by John Dee, who says that
he pays more money TO the railroad company
for freight than the feed itself costs This
ought not to be, especially in view of the fact
that Utah is better adapted to the production
OF grasses, oats and grains of all kinds except
corn, than any territory or state in the union.
Copies of the Commercial containing the fol
lowing should be sent to the leading papers of
the United States, and to the Italian consul at
Washington. The Commercial declares that
The dives on the lower part of Twenty fifth
street near the depot ought to be closed The
Dagoes ought to be fred 1.-THE other evening
young gentleman and lady were on their way
to the depot and when in front of one of the
Dago DIVES drunken Italian and boon COM
panlon rudely blocked the road and when the
couple attempted to pass the Dago took hold of
the lady and made some insulting remarks. This
is not the first occurrence of the kind that is
known to the reporter"