The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-10
The City in Brief.

The halls of justice in the police court were
deserted yesterday by all save Major Baxter.
Not even solitary drunk was presented to be
prescribed for.
A small army of men are now at work on the
Reed hotel and the big business blocks on
Twenty-fourth street, giving the respective
iocalltles very animated appearance.
The money lost by the fire on Twenty-ft
street, Tuesday forenoon was about S, 500. The
gam to the street by the destruction of the old
shaci1s has not been computed, but it will be an
snconSlderable amount.
There is a general complaint among the deal
ers of dullness in the real estate market. The
transfers are numerous, but the sales are
snostly made by the owners of the property
without the intervention Of agents or land
brokers.
There is snow in the mountains and water in
the Ogden river is running to waste, yet there is
p scarcity OF water in the city mains on the
bench. Tuesday and Wednesday, at times dur
ing the day, there was not force enough to make
the water run at all. Why is this thus?
A hundred or more houses, some of which
were started last season, are now in course of
erection in various parts of The city. There are
no surplus worknen, and during the daytime
the down town streets give very little evidence
of the business activity that really prevails in
Ogden.
The Anderson Brothers, who brought large
prick making plant to Ogden and come near
having TO ship it elsewhere, owing to the fact
that it seemed almost impossible TO get suit
eble tract of land at a reasonable price, have
superior quality of pressed brick for which they
will have good market
A large glass manufacturer desires to locate
in Ogden. If he has 1.-The sand' to invest his
money here, he can find plenty of sand, soda
pnd every other article necessary to be used in
the business II costs more to ship the glass
separately than it does when placed in the sash
Ehis being true, it will pay to make the glass
yere and put it in home manufactured sash
Then it viii not be profitable for the railroads
TO bring sash from the east and thus cripple g
iS hat how dim ro1
present.
The trouble between the Commercial and the
union printers who were locked out mas but Just
commenced. The STANDARD publishes an inter
view with the managers Of the Commercial il
which he is said by the locked out printers tc
have made gross misstatements. It is alleged
that the said manager has heretofore exhibited
disposition to bear down on the men and in
ferfere with their prerogativeS, and that he is
really an enemy to organized labor; but be thai
rs it may, his action in this particular instance
will meet with the condemnation of the labor
Unions of the country. II he can stand up undel
that well and good. The Union of last evening
publishes the printers side of the question
which places the matter in an entirely different
light from that given in the Standards inter
view.
The sudden death, on Saturday last, of Belle
Mlchaels, thirteen-year-old girl, and the sub
Sequent action of a coroner's jury which wa.
sworn TO investigate the cause of death, have
cauSed considerable comment among the PEG
pie. DR.. Powers testified that he believed tht
child died from the effects of poisoning, but thu
poroner's jury thought that as ''only the synlp
toms of poisoning were present. an autops,
was not necessary on account of the expense
That's a most outrageous conclusion to come
TO, al the circumstances surrounding the dealt
of the child being considered. The intimatioI
that the child, during her absence from home
might have been drugged and outraged SHOULD
be sufficient to cause a searching inquiry to b.
made. 1t is as well known any fully estab
1Shed fact can be known. that there is a clas
of beings in this city who are none 100 good Il
commit crime in the r1landar and { no
possible that the unfortunate little girl wa
made the victim of one of these God forsake1
wretcnes in human form? This can only be as
certained after investigation.