The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-05
The City in Brief.

The great event of the present week will
be the grand reception and ball to be given
by the directors of the Ogden military
academy Everybody is talking about if. ),
and there is not the least doubt that they
will have one of the most ENJOYABLE occa-
sions of the season. The grand affair takes
place next Friday night. the 7th instant
L. Kelly, the railroad man, who was ar
rested at the instance of ID. w. Ellis, on a
charge of using vulgar and blasphemous
language, was fined $25 by Alderman Fell.
An appeal was taken.
]. j. Hunter, who went to Canada with
The remains of his brother, who died in
ogden several weeks ago, has returned
home and is attending to business as usual
Yesterday forenoon fellow too drunk to
navigate was loaded into an express wagon
and carried to the city jail He was sober
enough to stand trial last evening and was
cinched in the usual manner and for the
usual amount. Ten days.
Some of the asphaltum walks laid down
last season are dilapidated Where the
water has stood on them they have become
rotten. AsphalJum is not a blooming sue
cess for sidewalks in Ogden.
On Thursday Ito morrow, all trains of
the Union Pacific main line, the Utah q
Northern and the Utah Central, will re-
sumo and run on their regular time card.
The Central Pacific trains are attempting
TO run as usual, but No 3, due here yester-
day morning, will not arrive until this fore
noon.
A party of men were over on the sand
ridge last evening, shooting that wonder
~ gun invented by Browning Brothers
oftais city. 1t fires sixteen shots per sec
ond
The snow on the foot hills has gone off
so gradually that the cutters have been
able to carry the water into Weber river.
There is no frost in the ground, and flood
has been prevented.
The Ogden brass bands excursion to
Salt Lake city will be a large one. Every
body wants to see the parades of the politi-
cal parties.
The arrival of P. E. Mayne from San
Francisco is an assurance that the power
dam scheme will be carried out: at least.
that is what Mr.. Mayne says. The advan-
tages that Will accrue to Ogden from the
building of this dam and the works in con-
nection with it are not generally under
stood, yet they are almost incalculable.
4 Rev. Sam Small, partner of Sam Jones.
4threatens to inf1ict his presence upon the
peaceful people of this city. The circus
will come along about June.
The condition of the Twenty-fifth street
hill is worse now than it has ever been.
Hasn't the city council any authority to
enforce its ordinances, particularly the
sidewalk ordinances ~ezs@. j -
John Wyman and j. j. Fitzgerald. two
DRINKS, was before the police Judge yes
terday and got the usual dose. Tom Oar
rah and John Williams were up for 'svag,n
Williams got ten days, but Darrah, having
postage stamp, was allowed to go free
Holdups are of nightly occurrence in our
goodly city, which is filled with a class of
men who, like the son of man, have not
where to lay their heads. Our police ser
vice is good, and evil disposed persons
run great risks when they commit unlaw-
full acts.
The brace games are carried on very
quietly and the sure thing men are not so
bold as they were a few months ago.
The new building of the Utah Loan and
Trust company will be one of the finest in
the territory. II will cost upwards of two
hundred thousand dollars, will be seven
stories in hight, and faced with stone.
Browning Brothers will erect a fine. six
story building on Washington avenue, Just
south of the Reed hotel. Healy 4 Patter-
son will also erect siX-story building
where the old stable Of John Dee now
stands The chamber of commerce and
opera house building will be erected, and
the three large buildings on Twenty
Fourth street will go up as soon as the
weather will permit. These are some OF
Ehe buildings that are already assured for
Vie coming season.