The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-10
August 10. 1890
SUNDAY,
The City in Brief.

paired.
The Methodist university will be opened
about November l.
Mt. Wheeler has lost her snowy cap and
presents a barren appearance.
The new X. of P. lodge starts off with
a membership of thirty two.
Work on the abutment of the new Ogden
river bridge will be begun the first OF the
week.
John n. Eccles, of Richfield, brother of
eX-Mayor Eccles, is moving back to Ogden
again.
The firemen do not like their eight-mile-
an hour schedule Neither do vast major
ity of private citizens.
Ogden's business men in all branches are
expecting heavy increase i'll trade this |
fall and are preparing for it.
Josiah Reed, who fell from the Rex arch |
the first of last week and was considered
fatally injured, is improving.
The cornice is on the Woodmansee block, |
and the building will be ready for occu-
pancy within thirty or sixty days.
The council considered the water question
at their meeting last night and appointed
the usual committee to look into matters.
Tax Collector Coolidge is making his pres
ence known. There are some who believe
he should be fired for pernicious activity.
The Liberal Band expects to make
enough by their excursion TO Syracuse on
the 18th to handsomely uniform themselves.
| Ogden river is dangerous bathing resort,
and several small boys have come near
drowning in it this summer. Keep away
| from it.
The saloon men are going to try to defeat
the ends of the closing ordinance. When
men oppose law and order they will get left
everytime.
The Third Ward and Mound Fort Ward
Sunday school will enjoy an excursion 10
Syracuse next Monday. Trains leave at
10 and o'clock.
Thomas D. Dee is excavating for a three
story building between the Commercial
National bank and Mayor Kiesers estab-
lishment. 1t will be 40x100 feet.
The council resolved to have the mid
night law enforced or repealed. The saloon
men at the same time were resolving over
Maden's-tne future will tell what
The huge piles of brick and stone in front
of the Loan and Trust building do not i'm
prove the appearance of Washington
avenue but they indicate business.
The Rex arch has at last been removed,
after many vigorous protests against its
longer blocking the street 1t has served
its purpose and can be spared.
The prohibitionists came out ahead on
their midnight closing yesterday, and MAIDEN
was fined s25 and costs. Judge Preshaw,
with menacing shake of his head, said not
to take this fine as a criterion in future
cases.
In canvassing the city relative to closing
business houses from 10 to II p. m. on
Labor Day, the labor committee have
found but one firm that refused to comply
with the request.
The tramp arrested Tuesday with 81 300
on his person, turned out to be one Holland,
of California. He is slightly demented and
left home because of some fancied difficulty
. with his son. His son arrived from Cali
fornia and took him home.
In naming the important buildings in
course of construction yesterday, the
Childs building-and the building opposite
the city hall on Washington avenue were
omitted They will be handsome struc
lures, requiring an outlay of four hundred
} thousand dollars.
5 The HERALD correspondent has been
breathing mild irlprecations upon the pos
3 tai service for failure to deliver the cor
respondence promptly, but when he dropped
an unstamped envelope into the mail car
Wednesday. he realized that all men are
;, human and liable to make mistakes.
: AS an evidence of Ogden's growth, it can
q be said that there are over four hundred
!, men here who have not been in the terri
= tory long enough to acquire residence
3 Another instance--but not an evidence
I is the difference between the government
e and city census, which was more than two
}. thousand.
IS Private McGillis, of the Nelson rifles
e was married last night TO Miss Rose
It Cheeny at the latter's residence. He wa:
married in full uniform, and the entire com
= pany turned out in honor of the event. A
4 supper was served by Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
- ellis to the rifles, who royalty toasted thi
health and happiness of the newly welded
8 couple
There is some talk in railroad circles O
e an electric railway running south from tn
l. depot to Thirty first street, up that stree
10 to the mountains and up Ogden canon
,e Most all tourists have from two to fou
a hours to wait here to make connections
= and road of this kind would unquestion
!, ably pay. Were it not for the fact that tn
- :, survey is extending beyond the canon i
u would lend credence to the building o
IS such a line in the near future.
8. Prospectors are securing the mountain
1t around Ogden in the hope of finding som
q of the precious metal. Some work ha
If been done in Ogden canon, but most of
y has been south of the Weber. Small mour
tain fires nightly give evidence of their &C
70 tivity. The advance in price of the whit
-. metal is stimulating the mining industry
W as the low grade ores will once more pay
er So far nothing has been found in this vi
N cinity.
ne A gentlemen, who does not wish his nam
is, mentioned in this connection, came nea
ut being held up in Ogden canon Thursday.
h, bold highwayman stepped out from benin
n. a sheltering rock and grabbed the gentle
90 mans horse by the bit, but the anima
i being spirited, broke away and ran owe
~ him. The narrator of this tale said he d
i not stop to learn how badly the man w;
hurt.
~ The mystery that usually accompan1
o ~ gigantic business enterprises still clinl
Eli around the objects of the survey of Ogdt
10 canon. For two months or more the surve
80 ors have been prosecuting their work Wi
n. the greatest diligence and care, but never
of word has escaped them regarding what u
DIV ultimatum of the survey would be. II
"a general opinion is that either the Burlin
81. ton 81 Missouri River or the Pacific Sho
OK Line will enter by that route. Yet
III. magnificent hotel and summer resort a
to vaguely limited at by some few. Tire CAM
he contains some of the finest scenery in til
" intermountain country, and it is know
that making summer resort Of il has l0
nj, been talked of; yet it is very improbat
that so large an outlay will be made un
Ogden becomes larger and more able
;, support it. However, the future will ha
the to bring its own explanation of the
mysterious actions.
eu The new rules for the government of t
laV fire department are creating much unfav,
Fas able comment One of them is that t
5he company, when called out to fire, sh
not run at d rate &c exceed eight miles
vas hour. This was probably brought about
b- few accidents that have occurred on
III count of the slowness and indifference