The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-18
WEDNESDAY.
The Civ in Brief.


the probate conrt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Hall leave for San
Francisco on Thursday next.
Work was commenced yesterday on the
foundation for the new opera house
E. A. Reed and wife are in Cheyenne,
their old home. They are expected to re-
4tlIrn home tomorrow morning.
y Ground will be broken this morning for
the foundation of the grand five story
edifice to be erected by the Boyle Furnl-
ture company.
White-winged peace has folded her
pinions and gone into temporary retire
ment, the cause being that the scalpers are
warning with each other.
Ogden possesses a citizen who glories in
the statement that he never partakes of
strong drink except upon two occasions,
viz: when the circus is in town and when
1T isn't.
Before the next term of the Ogden mill
tary academy begins, about forty rooms
will be added to accommodate the in
creased number of boarding scholars who
will attend
The Bear River Canal company are ditch
ing on Twenty-fifth street, above Madison
avenue, for the water mains that are to be
laid down that street. The gravel tram
way is now in operation along that line,
and the street is being graded.
Reed g. Burgitt's iron building. in which
they have conducted their real estate bust
ness, has been removed from the lot of the
Boyle Furniture company to lot on
Twenty-tifth street above Wells brew
cry.
The cadets ball will take place to-mor-
yrow night. Friday the closing exercises
Twill be held. A majority of the boys will
at once leave for their homes, although
some OF them VIII remain as the guests of
their city friends until after the carnival.
Tomorrow evening the young ladies of
the Second ward will give lawn fete and
ice cream festival on the grounds of
Hon. Joseph A. West, Lincoln avenue,
between Twenty fourth and Twenty fifth
streets. Go, and fill up on strawberries
and cream.
The committee of the county court re-
ported that they had seen the engineer in
charge Of the Bear river canal company's
work in Ogden canon, who assured them
that he had done and would continue to do
all in his power to make the passage over
the road through the canon safe.
Ogden lodge, No 3 knights of Pythias,
and the local knights will honor the grand
lodge by banquet in their Castle hall to-
Stnight. Tomorrow the excursion to SYRIA
'cuse will take place. and to this general
Invitation is extended to the public.
The wind blew great guns yesterday,
morning and deferred hundreds of people
from going to Syracuse with the Ogden
brass band to formally open that popular
resort for the season. However, quite a
large crowd did go on the excursion and
they enjoyed themselves, as people always
DO who are the guests of Ogdeu's popular
band.
The carnival committee have arranged to
have one hundred or more Indians here
'FRONT.' Ross Fork and are now negotiating
no uprfO of no tar.p
at the Duck valley agency in Nevada for a
lot of redskins from that section. There
will be quite a camp of Indians in Ogden
during the carnival.
1t is understood that Mr.. McMurphy. an
experienced newspaper man of Omaha
will arrive in Ogden in few days anC
probably take editorial charge of the Union
If he should do so, therell be music in the
air. for Mac is a dyed-in- the-wool Republi
can and shoots his mouth off on the slight
est provocation.
A fire broke out in the establishment Of
the Cooperative Harness company OF
Washington avenue, little after 10 o'clocl
Aonday night. Your correspondent ar
Arranged TO have the particulars telegrapheC
TO THE HERALD, which it seems was no
done. Well, there's not much to tell
The loss was considerable, but was GOV
cred by the insurance. The loss to the
owner of the building was considerable.
The Ogden Democrat came out on time
An old-time Simon pure Democrat got holC
Of a copy of it and read it, but saws he
failed to discover any evidences of Demo
cracy. The editor, Mr.. McDaniels, was
f&Es long time editor Of the Tribune's
Ogden department and it is surmised that
he imbibed too much of that sheets Repub
licanism to fit him to become an able ex
ponent of Democratic principles Il the
Democrat expects to be recognized as De
cratic authority it will hsve to improve on
on its first and second issues.
It is said that the Democratic party in
Ogden is thoroughly organized and will in
Bist upon being recognized in the nominal
ing convention of the Liberal party. Two
years ago the Democrats couldn't master
hardly corporars guard in this city an(
the Republicans gobbled up the whole
bakery and run things to suit themselves
Now, the Democrats have an ''organ,
such as it is, and viii insist upon a fair di
vision of the Offices. They can PLAY
mumblepeg, but they don't propose to pull
the peg all the time.
YTom Wethered, who for many years wa.
rbal receiver for the great Richmond com
pany, at Eureka, New, has been in the city
for several days visiting his old frient
Fred Barnes, OF the Elkhorn meat market
MIR. Wethered is making tour of observa
ton with view of finding good location
for business. He left last night for Puge
Sound, but it is safe say that he will not
locate in Washington. He will surely re
turn TO Ogden and grow up with the coun
Try. He will be welcome.