The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-16
The City in Brief.

The baseball season has commenced. The
weather is cold enough TO render active out
door exercise very pleasant.
There appears to be nothing tangible in the
rumor that cottage hotel is to be built on the
corner of Twenty-fifth street and Jefferson ave-
nue..
Work on the big Twenty-fourth street block
has not been SUSPENDED for lack of brick, as
stated by q local paper, but is being prosecuted
vigorously,
The cold nights and chilly days are keeping
vegetation back. Fruit trees were never known
to be so backward in coming forward" as
they are this year
A sprinkling cart was running on the bench
yesterday as far back as Jefferson avenue. Two
new sprinlzling carts of the most approved pat
tern have been ordered by the committee.
John a. Dix post, No. 8, G. A. R., will fittingly
celebrate Memorial day this year. All the civic
societies have been invited TO participate. and
the parade will no doubt be an imposing one.
The snow is OF the ground in Ogden valley,
but that is about the only indication that II Is
no longer winter up there. The ground freezes
every night and thaws but little during the
day.
w. N. Cleveland, a native Of Canada, has for
sworn allegiance to all foreign princes poten-
tates and powers. taken the oath of allegiance
TO the United States and been admitted to citi'
Zenship.
B. E. Wurtell, who for a long time was divis-
ion superintendent of the Union Pacific rail-
way, with headquarters at Evanston, has re-
turned TO Ogden from visit of several months
in California.
The Bear Lake and River Waterworl1s and
Irrigation company, who have their franchise
for putting in a complete system for furnishing
this city with water Tor domestic and other pur-
poses, have let the contract for pipes and mains
10 the National Tube works, of Chicago.
T. S. Williams, proprietor of the Pioneer
livery stable at Soda Springs Idaho, has re-
turned home from a visit to Ogden. He
dropped little cash while here, believing that
he could not do better with it than to invest il
Ogden realty which is conclusive that he has q
level head.
There have been more charges in the clerical
force Of the postoffice here, but no improvement
III the service and no prospect of anV. The ap-
preparation for clerk hire is now far greater
than ever before, but there has never been g
time in the history Of the Office when the service
was so inefficient
The Grand lodge of the knights of Pythia;
will meet in Ogden next June. The jurisdiction
embraces Utah and Idaho. Ogden lodge No. 9
are having their fine hall and other rooms or
the third floor of Peery's building on Twenty
fourth street elegantly fitted up for the occasion
OF the Grand lodge meeting.
The attention of parties who are building
dams in the streams of Utah is called to thu
law requiring them TO put in fish dams. or lad
ders, so that the trout and other fish can run VI
stream to deposit their spawn. Failure TO com
ply with the law in this regard Will subject tn
dam builderS-to severe penalties
Mr.. o. Winningstad, one of the best civil en-
gineers in the country, has made up his mind t.
locate in this city. Last season he spent fou
months on the survey of the Pacific Snort Lin
east OF here, and has since been employed o.
the Bear River canal. This writer knew Nj
Winningstad in southern and lower Californi a
where he had charge of the surveys of some
very important canals and stood high in hi
profession.
The promise is made by N K. Bannister as
sistant chief engineer of the Pacific Shor
Line, who has just returned from Sioux City
that some time during next month work will b.
commenced on this end of the line. Should sue
prove 10 be the case, it will go far towar,
settling the doubts and fears that possess tn,
minds of the people as to the intentions of tha
company which has talked so much and per
formed so little.
A letter, sent from here ten days ago, to
man supposed TO be at Milford Utah, was IT
turned Monday endorsed KILLED" The ma
was member OF Ogden Lodge, No. q Knight
of Pythias and also of the Brotherhood of Raj
road Trainmen, but had taken q withdrawal car
from the latter organization. He went to Mi
ford with the intention of opening d saloo
there. When q Brotherhood of Railroa
Trainmen goes into the liquor business b
either has TO withdraw from the order or
promptly suspended