The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08
SUNDAY,
The CITY in Brief.

Our weather is crawling up to give the
thermometer an altitudinous attitude.
The Reed hotel front is promising fine
and pompous appearance. The work is
progressing rapidly.
The Ogden baseballists are somewhat as
tonished at the reticence of the Salt Lake
press whenever the Capitalists get
beaten by the ''metropolitans.
Let everybody turn out to the Carnival
mass meeting in the palace on Twenty-tifth
street on Monday evening The band will
be out and everything will be made merry,
musical ard manlfestly instructive.
Real estate transactions have been some
what quIetndinoas the last few days, Civ
ing the ever active staff of County Re
corder Stanford much needed compare
tive surccase from their arduous labors.
The six free delivery clerks appointed by
Postmaster k,mban so into active service
by Monday next, thus giving a reasonable
share of relief to the old force and some
need of satisfaction to the impatient public
at large.
The military boys have come back hale
anu hearty. The scare that the Hunts
willie and Eden boys inflicted on them the
o:LGi day, or rather night, did not demora-
liz them. They are getting used to smell
Ing powder.
JAS. Il. Smurthwaite. of the Ogden
day to perfect arrangements with Messrs.
ID. T.. Adams ana Z. j. kiesel for grand
Boating race at the pleasant Syracuse
pleasure resort.
Work on the extension of the motor line
10 Hot Springs Is being pushed with all of
Colonel SWANS alacrity ana pushiveness,
so that by the middle or latter part of this
month regular trains viii run to that popu-
lar health and pleasure resort.
Ii &c ..,l I ~
enterprisng citizen who pat up one of the
handsomest three-story brick blocks on
Washington avenue, be made marshal on
carnival exhibition occasions. He dis
charged that duty with case, efficiency and
dignity on Decoration Day.
Last night the Business Mems club
opened up IN the finely equipped quarters
in the Broom hotel, Washington avenue
annex, under Major James Griffin'S efficient
and extremely sociable affair though
somewhat eXclusiye-in the line OF New
Nork's "fodr hundred
What with the bad cbirography of the
reporter. IL is not matter of wonderment
that the leader of the Ogden Light Guards
appears as Col. Russell, - while he answers
10 the no less euphonious though less fire.
quent patronymic of ''kissell.'' But he is
not mad. not he, although he is likely to get
mad if the city councils finance committee
does not grant tue $50 subsidy which the
guards nave asked for towards uniforming
and arming the fifty members.
The opinion Of our city council and other
Liberals in the councils that ben are
divided as TO whether the taxation on the
municipalities property should be four
mills on the dollar or be i've mills as ii
was last year. Mayor kiesel, strange to
say, is in favor of the retrenchment, argu-
ing that there are so many other drains
and drafts on the people any how; but
Alderman Preshaw, (by the way, Kiesers
rival tor the mayoralty nomination in the
caucuses Of eighteen or SO months ago,
as the representative of the church and
temperance element, against the whisky
element which MIR. Kicsel was mistakenly
represented 70 be the leader of has been
fighting violently for, At least the reten-
ton OF the old rate, if not an increase tc
six mills. This, of course, on a taxable
property valuation, as ty the approved list
of Assessor Casssn, would give nearly Sos,
coo revenue, whereas the four per cent
OF the 81, 462 PA would only yield S45. $40
Thirteen thousands dollars a year means
over 81, coo month-enouch to put down
few more blocks of sidewalks and hire
another policeman or two.