The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-05
SATURDAY, April 5, 1890
The City in Brief.

Alderman Preshaw, of the police court,
took a rest yesterday.
Senator Leland Stanford passed through
yesterday morning enroute west.
BY the first os Jane the yards and man.
ufactories will be- Turning out 10000 brick
per day.
Alfred Hansen, native of Sweden, was
yesterday made a citizen of the United
States by the First district court.
The funeral of Mrs. A. ID. Shakespeare
will take place on Sunday at p. NJ, from
the Church of the Good Shepherd.
The steam fire engine was out on the
street yesterday and being used forsprink
ling the city hall lawn and the streets.
Judge Henderson set the cases on the
equity calendar last evening, but not In
time for publication in this column of The
HERALD.
Many an old landmark, built in the ''early
days. Of Ogden, is being dismantled and
carted away, to give place to a more i'm
posing structure. Verify, Ogden ''do
move''
A gentleman who the Commercial states
as lone of the leading capitalists of Albany,
n. w proposes to cool the ardor of Salt
Lakers by sending them water from Ogden
river during the summer months. The
scheme looks like chimerical one, to say
the least.
Edwin Sharp, gentleman formerly liv-
ing at Canton, S. D., where he was en-
gagged in the lumber business, is in this
city. He was here some weeks ago and
visited Washington, Oregon and California.
His faith in Ogden is unbounded.
The postal business transacted by the
Ogden postoffice during the fourth quarter
of 1878, amounted to Sl,372.S9; for the
year, 1874 Is; for the fourth quarter OF
1SSS, 81, 10000, and forthe year,
ST, sos. %. For the year 1889,
the receipt; were about SO, 600: from June
30, 1889 to March l, 1890, the receipts were
SIC, 413.03.
There will be another meeting of the
miners of Weber mining district on the
18th instant. The opinion stills prevails
that paying mines will yet be found near
this city. 1t Is safe to say, however, that
there are no gold placer mines in this vi
entity, although there is trace OF gold II
some of the quartz and carbonates thai
have been found in some localities.
Mrs. A. ID. Shakespeare died in this city
yesterday after an illness of severa
weeks, during which time she was great
sufferer The diseased was an old resident
of Ogden, and was always loved anC
respected by large circle of friends anC
acquaintances. She leaves a husband tt
mourn her death and he has the heartfelt
sympathy Of the entire community in hi:
Fad bereavement
The jury in the case of Mollala Pool, ad
minisatrix VS.. the Southern Pacific com
pany, which was tried in the First dlstric
court Thursday, yesterday brought in
verdict in favor of the plaintiff. Tn
amount sued for was $4,000 and the iur.
awarded damages in the sum of 10000
From the testimony given in the trial,
clear case of negligence on the part of tn
employees of the company was proven
Late Thursday evening a soiled dow
known as Oracle, living on Twenty-fift
street, took a dose of oil of tansy with sui
cidal intent. DR.. Condor was called t
her aid, and pumped the poison out. TIL
alleged cause of her rash act was despor
dency and despair, caused by the ingrat
tude and abuse of the pimp who is allege
to have lived off her earnings. There shout
be place for pimps in Ogden or anywher
else outside of hell.
C. E. Mayne, of Ogden, San Francisc
and Omaha, has returned from bushes
trip to the coast, where he has been activel
at work for this city. Mr.. Wayne is of tn
opinion that nothing can retard the OF
ward and upward movement now going o
by which Ogden is to become a gre;
manufacturing and commercial metropolis
He has induced many capitalists to inve.
here, and says his work in that line hs
hardly begun.