The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-03

The Fourth ward fair opens next Tues
day, and viii continue for three days.
\ The Utah National Guards expect to turn
out at least fifty uniformed men on Mem
Alnorial day.
The bricl1layers of Ogden will hold a
injecting tonight at their hall on Washing
ton avenue.
The grand and petit jurors for the May
term are expected to report on Monday
and Tuesday next.
The Utah Loan and Trust will invoke
the law to get rid OF the tenants now occu-
plying the Jennings block.
C. E. Mayne, president of the Ogden
Power company, is expected home from
San Francisco this morning.
Charles Dreamer, editor and proprietor
of the Ddilq Dcmokrdt, of Peoria, Ill, is
back in Ogden again and putting more
money into real estate.
VIII L. Young has resigned his position
as assistant passenger agent at the Ogden
Union depot. There's more money for him
IN some other business.
Several more lumber yards are needed in
this city. The present firms cannot I'LL or
ders as they receive them, and there is a
scarcity of nearly every kind of building
lumber.
The new iron sprinkling carts were
hauled through the streets yesterday for
the admiration of the citizens, and then
hauled into the center of Union square and
left there.
All the people viii do well to fasten the
doors and windows OF their houses when
they are absent from home. The city is
full of sneak thieves watching for oppor-
tunities to ply their vocation.
The Ogden Shooting club went down to
Beck's hot springs yesterday to try con-
clusions with the Salt Lake club. Your
boys will have to do some tall shooting if
they get away with the Ogdenites.
Specimens of very rich ore, said to be
\ from new discovery about three and a
half miles from the city, were being eXhi-
bited yesterday by H. Cary. Free gold was
plainly visible in one of the specimens.
The Washington avenue bridge over Og-
den river is still in place. but if the water
should continue to rise it will probably be
carried away. Between the city and the
county there ought to be erected a larger
and better bridge at this point.
Professor T b. Lewis is to lecture on
("Siberia and Her Exiles," in the county
court house at S o'clock this Saturday
evening The lecture will be under the
auspices Of the Ogden Literary and Debat-
ing society and the admission is to be free.
The parties who have the contract fo1
extending the yard and grading the rail
road grounds west, north and south of the
union passenger depot are getting ready tc
go ahead with the work. The expense OF
the changes and improvements to be made
will reach $3.50, 900.
President Harrison notifies the chamber
of commerce that his official duties will
prevent him from visiting this city during
the carnival. Since he vetoed the borrow,
ing bill (Which wasn't bad act on his
part, he has not risen in the estimation
OF the citizens generally, and. besides, nc
one expected that he would accept the in
vitation.
The Corey Brothers & Co., have the con.
tract for constructing all of the canal on
west side Of Bear river. The contract fol
the iron pipes in the city water system has
been given to Francis Smith 81 Co., of Sar
Francisco The contract for the iron wori
on the wooden pipe goes 10 Rhodes Bro
theirs and f. NJ. Davis of Denver The
redwood lumber will be furnished b.
: Hooper & Co., of San Francisco Thirty
, miles of iron pipe will be required for The
\ distributing system. AL pipe of less thar
: ten inches diameter will be of steel OF
kalomine steel and all other pipe of kalo
mine wrought iron.