The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13

states fortune tellers are classed as Migrants
and treated as such, and this is the case IN
England. In Ogden 1t is probable that
they could be taken up and convicted for
obtaining money under false pretenses. AT
any rate, when su.h a gang as the above is
found tramping around the country and
camping in public places in the city, they
will bear little watching by the police.
Daily, at all hours of the day and fire.
quently early in the evening, men and
women go tramping around in the residence
portion of the city, their ostensible object
being to get something 10 cat. The real
object, in the majority of cases, is to spy
ont the ground for the purposes of theft.
Ii stands the people in hand To watch out
Tor men who visit their houses upon any
pretext whatever.
There are altogether too many able
bodied idle men in this city at present.
There is not the least excuse for their be-
ing so. The Bear River Canal company,
now engaged in putting in our new water
system, are in need of help, both IL Ogden
canon and on the streets of Ogden; but
these street loafers don't believe in work.
Many of them are neither too proud to beg
nor too honest to steal, but are sharp enough
to prevent being hauled up and convicted
as Migrants. They deserve no sympathy
so long as they will make no efforts to help
themselves.
There are plenty of opportunities for the
exercise of vigilance by the mounted po-
lice. In the outskirts of the city, on the
bottoms in the brush and out of the-way
places there are numerous gangs OF .tramps
and loaferS who are menace to society,
inasmuch as they sally forth from their
hiding places at night and commit petty
depredations while honest people are
asleep. The mounted police can do much
to break up these nests of pilferers'
The strict sanitary measures which have
been enforced by the board under the di-
rection Of Inspector Lewis have made the
city comparatively clean. There are now
no contagious diseases known to exist in
| Ogden, scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc, hay
ing been wiped out. The few cases last
! spring were quarantined and prevented
from spreading, to which fact and the en-
ergetic action of the city physician and
sanitary inspector must be attributed the
present gratifying condition Of the city
-; from d sanitary point of view. Eternal
vigilance at this season of the year will
perhaps ward off threatened epidemic.
"Cleanliness is next to Goodness"
1t is reported that there is vertable
robbers roost in the Sand Mound in Weber
river. Their den is said 10 be located in an
almost inaccessible place, where they are
secure from observation and to which they
can retire i'll cuses of emergency and sue
cessfully elude pursuit and capture. They
are well organized, have shrewd leaders
and keep watchers on the lookout to pre-
vent being surprised. If reports are true
this we'll concealed place is a rendezvous
for as tough crew as ever cut throat OF
scuttled ship, and it should by all means
be broken up.
The location of the slaughter houses
anywhere within the city limits should no
be permitted. They are detrimental II
health, besides being ill-smelling, and
therefore obnoxious. 1t is said that one Of
these nuisances is now being put up at the
foot of Twenty-ninth street, near the vine
gar works, in a locality where people art
living and new houses are constantly beint
erected for residence. The health officers
should be sustained by the council in thei
efforts to abate every nuisance.
Services at the Methodist Episcopal
church to-day will be as follows: At /
a. m, preaching by Rev. j. w. Hill, sr., O
! Ohio; at II m, class meeting; at $3.50 ?. m.
Sunday school; at pm, Epworth League
general prayer meeting; at pm. preach
ing by the pastor, Rev: j. Wesley Hill
Faith" All are welcome. Good music
The members of our paid fire department
are to be dressed up. The uniform will b
} navy blue sack coat, vest and pants, an
J hat or cap. On the coat and vest, bras
buttons with the letters o. F. D. thereon
The hat or cap to be Of dark black felt o
cloth, with gold cord band, and wreath il
front within which will appear the nam
or number of the company of which tn
wearer is member. The members are re
quired to pay for their own uniforms.
The chamber of commerce will hold
meeting next Wednesday night, il enoug
/ members can be got together for that pur
} pose. If that body would be the means O
inducing some important manufactures I
? be started here the people would rise u
: and call them blessed. :