The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-27
FRIDAY,
The City in Brief.

The Arab battalion will meet this evening at
$780,
The carnival palace roof win be raised this
morning, sure.
The municipal solons will meet in regular
session tonight.
The six anvils to be used in the carnival
chorus have arrived.
The members of the light guards were sworn
in yesterday as special policemen.
The New York Worlds train, with the car
nival queen on board, is en- route TO Ogden.
The city is rapidly filling up with strangers,
Keep your eyes and ears open and your powder
dry
THE SALT LAKE HERALD will be on Ogden
streets as early as any other paper during car
niVal week.
Claud Shea ten-year-old boy, was yesterday
committed to the reform school by order Of
Judge Henderson.
j. MARTIN MILLER, of the New York sun, has
arrived in the city and has come for the purpose
of reporting the carnival
Vice President Lane, of the Union Pacific,
came in from the west yesterday morning in
his special Car and went to Salt Lake city.
The streets are being cleanedup and the rub
bish and stones removed therefrom. Ogden will
present smiling face 10 her visitors next week.
Every carnival visitor and his uncles and his
cousins and his sisters and his aunts can have
THE SALT LAKE HERALD for nothing next
week
In the First district court yesterday, William
Elder county, Utah, was made citizen of the
United States.
The carnival press reception committee will
meet AT the Ogden State bank at 1870 pm.
to-day and the Ogden Press club are invited to
meet with them.
One hundred and thirty five tents have been
erected in Lester park between the rows OF
trees, and one or more tents have been set up
private residences.
The city council has accepted the bid (S14,00O)
of the Smith Bridge company. of Toledo, o., for
steel and iron bridge across the Ogden river
on Washington avenue. 0ne-fourth OF the cost
VIII be borne by the county
George Pidcock thirteen-year-old boy, yes
terday confessed TO having set fire to a wood
shed and barn. He was taken before Judge
Preshaw who sent him TO Judge Henderson as
lit subject for the reform school.
The committee on public grounds got their
work in on the old fence around Lester park
yesterday and took down considerable portion
OF II. 1t will add greatly to the good appearance
of the park when the fence shall have been en-
Slrely removed.
Six-inch iron pipe is being laid on Twenty
fourth street from Pierce avenue TO Washing
turned Into tins pipe from the Taylor canon
fiume This will help out the water supply
during the carnival.
General Manager Resseguie, General Train
Master Hllllard, and Superintendent Baxter OF
the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific,
came in yesterday on special train from the
east. Mr.. ReSSeguie went TO Salt Lake and the
other gentlemen remained here.
Prohibition does not prohibit vet Ogden
has prohibition club. At its meeting Wednes
day night the committee on enforcement of
laws was Instructed by the president to 20 to
work at once TO see that the Sunday law be en-
forced. II is to be hoped that the committee
Will be successful in this. although il cannot
prevent men from drinking when they feel like
dong so.
A rumor is flying around to the effect that
some people now in this city mot real Ogden
1teS) are bent upon practicing extortion upon
carnival visitors. In one line of business this is
known to be true, and if the parties who have
concocted the scheme TO put up prices, carry ii
out during the carnival season they may rest
assured that their trade will fall of materially
afterwards. Every case of eXtortion should be
reported to headquarters Of the carnival com
mittee.
There was an alarm of fire yesterday after.
noon at 80 o'clock caused by the burning of a
shed on Twenty-sixth street, between Madison
and Monroe avenues. The loss was trifing
The signal as given by the city hall bell did not
indicate the locality of the fire. The bell
struck thlrty-Seven times at the outset. When
the hose cart and steamer left their quarters
4 they came out with rush and started ur
Twenty fifth street hill. About half way UP the
hill tie horses slackened their pace and came
almost TO a standstil. This fact furnishes q
good reason why the engine house should be 10.
cated on the bench. Some day there will be g
fire up there, the roads will be muddy and the
engine will not be on hand until the fire is out