The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
March Ia, 1896
FRIDAY,
The CITY in Brief.

The City in Brief
c. L. Thompson, the architect, was in
the city yesterday.
Real estate sales are increasing and
prices are advancing.
Mrs. J. w. Guthrie, Of Corinne, is visit
ing with her daughter, Mrs. A. r. Hay
wood.
Hughes, the slayer of Romayne, came up
from Salt Lake City yesterday and will go
east this morning.
The wires for the fire alarm system are
being stretched and the boxes will be put
in place next week.
Alfred T. Jones, native of Wales, was
admitted to citizenship yesterday IN the
First district court.
Deputy Marshal O. Vandercook, of Salt
Lake, was in the city yesterday exchanging
greetings with his old-time friends.
The Utah Central waited for the Utah
Northern to come in last evening and de-
parted half an hour later than the schedule
time.
The plans for the proposed new opera
house must be submitted on or before the
18th inst 1t is understood that at least
dozen architects will submit plans
Joseph Stephens, employed in Moves
planning mill, yesterday caught his hand in
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badly that 1t became necessary to amputate
the thumb and fore finger.
A special train of eight palace horse cars
of the Arms horse car company, contain
1875 thoroughbreds from Senator Stanford's
Palo Alto stock farm, came in at $3.50 a. m.
yesterday and departed for the east at 10.
There was no business in the police court
Yesterday, but in the afternoon the cops
hailed two drunks and took them to jail.
They will be prescribed for this morning.
The police also arrested suspected sure
thing man.
c. w. Hearst, proprietor of the San
Francisco Examiner, is spending a few
DAYS in the city and Investigating its ad-
yantages for business and real estate in
vestment. He is greatly pleased with the
outlook for Ogden and thinks it must soon
become large and very important city.
A preliminary meeting was held Thurs
ylay night to consider the organization of a
business mems club. The membership
was started with twenty-seven names aud
limited to one hundred, the initiation fee
fixed at $50 and the dues at s. a month
Another meeting will be held next Tuesday
evening.
The news telegraphed from Washington
that the bill to increase Ogden's borrow
ing power is very likely to pass without
any opposition, pleases the progressive
citizen of this lively burg. The passage
of the bill will insure the building of sew
ers and the making of many needed i'm
provements.
Reuben B. Eggleston, an old time printer
and well known throughout Utah, died at
his home in this city at 5 80 O'Clock Thurs
day night. The funeral services will be
held today at 3 o'clock pm, from the
family residence on Monroe avenue, be-
tween Twenty-siXth and Twenty seventh
streets, to which friends are inyitep.
At the regular meeting of Union lodge.
No 6, /. o. o. F., held Wednesday even
ing, w. II. Turner and Il. b. Smead, past
grands. were elected representatives to the
grand lodge, which will meet in this city
on Tuesday, April %. The lodge also or
ganized a degree team at the same meeting
The order is ilourishing in Ogden as never
before.
Yesterdays sunshine brought the people
out IN crowds, and the streets were
thronged from morning until night. The
air was chilly and storm clouds floateC
athwart the sky, indicating an unsettled
condition of the weather. Mr.. Webb's
forecasts have been so accurate in the past
that many people have come to place great
reliance in what he says 1t will probably
snow to-day and rain tomorrow.
An interesting programme will be givel
at the Philosophical society's meeting thi
evening, as follows: Singing, Let u
Treat Each Other Kindly,n by the choir
the choir; lecture on Switzerland, by Pro
fessor /. L. Munch; male quartette, b,
Elders Richard Haag and Oscar Vance AM
Messrs. Garen Peterson and Squire Coon
select reading by Charlotte Bartlett; Head
snic Rcuiclu, Mamie Thomas, editress: rec
itation, by Grant Geddes; vocal solo, b,
Jamie West; patriotic glee, by the choir
prayer, by Pearl Gay.
Last season was such dry one that no
half an average crop of hay was secured
The winter has been a severe one wit
much snow on the ground, so that tn
cattle could not rustic for feed, and owner
of stock have had to keep them up an
feed hay. The consequence is that the ha
has been nearly al used up, the feedin
season viii last six weeks longer, an
many stock owners who have no hay vii
have to sell their cattle or permit them t
starve. This condition of things make
cattle cheap, and yearling heifers can b
h bought for from s. to 50 per head. Las
v fall the farmers and others who had ha
charged 81 per month for boarding calves
Z. A. Street, the well-known miner, VIII
worked at developing the Florence mimi
claim, in the mountains east of this cit,
last summer and fall, is now at Unawee
canon, in Mesa county, Colo, preparing /
work some rich placer ground which h
discovered and located during the pa.
winter. Mr.. Street is enthusiastic owe
his prospects, and writes to his associate
in this city that ''as soon as the weathC
settles he will open up a surprise for man
people. Careful tests show that the groun
will average over Sl2 to the square var,
II appears to be actually alive with gold.
MIR. Street is a rustler, and all who knoI
him will wish that his fondest anticipation
may be realized.
There's many a truth spoken in jest. {
W. Powers and Arthur Brown, two Sa
Lake attorneys, came TO Ogden yesterds
Il morning, one 10 try and the other to d
fend a case in the First district court I'll
y defendant represented by Powers, was n,
ready to take up the case and argued for
continuance, which the plaintiffs couns
opposed for several reasons, among othel
that he and his client had been put TO gre.
expense in coming to Ogden, etc Power
replied that many a man had made MOI
money in day in Ogden than he cou
have made in fees by remaining in his off,
in Salt Lake city, which was a self-eyidel
truth. This viii be more apparent to Il
reader when it is stated that number
Salt Lakes legal lights have run up for
day, bought some cheap real estate. AZ
sold out the next day at an advance whit
put more money in their pockets than Il
law business would have done If they h,
remained at home in their offices for a Yea
Real Estate Transfers.
"a The following deeds were fled for reco
yesterday in the Office of the county I