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Show i rn part of the city to the Weber river, completely, draining a once almost impassable district, a great number of boggy lots, and several As most of the nominees for office miasmatic sloaghs,raising the value of at the municipal election, next Mon- much private property, promoting day, have served in the City Council the public health and benefitting tie during the past two years, and many city perhaps more than any improveof them for the past ft ur years, we ment inaugurated therein. By the call attention to the improvements of the persons most in our city which have been effected bcneGtted, this splendid piece of while they have been in the public work cost the city less than 61,000 service. In addition to these, which are It is well known that Ogden was some of the public improvements formerly a mud hole. If any man effected, the Utah Northern railroad had owned it he would had a soft has been aided by investing over thiug. Its principal streets were no- 86,000 in its capital stock, with the ted for the freedom with which they view ol the benefits it would bring imparted of their substance, and the to our city. The Iron Works have tenacity with which they would cling been secured, right in our midst, by Now, alto the soles of pedestrians. bonus of 5,000, half of which has done be needs to more much though been paid. A great many paupers our public highways, we can point who have made their way here with with pride to our main business the prospect of settling upon the city end no of swallowed which up ftrect, as a perpetual drain upon it, have sund and gravel, but which is now a beew forwarded to various points by Fourth, Fifth rail with their good feelings, as the good, nolid highway. and Sixth streets, and the streets incheapest way to dispose of them. tersecting them, have also been won- The public peace has been preserved derfully improved, and are sow pass- and the rowdyism which onse threat able in the worst weather. The ened the city has been quelled, and them material amount of placed upon Ogden, at the junction of four four years is some- railroads, is as daring the past quiet and orderly a an expen thing asteunding, covering city as can be found of its size in laid out amount the diture, including the land. of north road on the Ogden bridge, The Mayor and members of the the chief and Council who have served the people, leveling approaches to the Bench, of over ave labored in regular deliberations, aqd on various commit $5,000. tees, to 'promote the public welfare, The space between the end of Fifth without putting up jobs or making street and the depot was a succession contracts for personal aggrandize of sloughs. The right of way has ment, and can safely challenge the world to show wherein they have not been purchased and a good road made worked conscientiously, faithfully where once (lush and sinkholes en and uprightly for the best good of substantial A traveler. the our citizens, according to their ability trapped levee has bsen erected on the banks and judgment. They are therefore of the Ogden, pretcnting the over deserving of public support, and not for oflice, are worthy flow of the river in the spring time, having sought of being sustained again at the elec and the bridge made passable fur tion on Monday next. ! , teams, at an expense of over 81,300. A IMl'OKTAXT YEItY The old "Seventies" buildiug, t MATTER. crumbling to decay, has been trans formed into an elegant and usefu One of the most important o City Hull, with neatly furnished Utah's interests is centred in the sub WHAT THE 31.1 YOR AND COl'XCIL HIVE DOSE FOR OGDEX CITY. to-da- y y semi-monthl- y iiiiii nl "t miu Pi i'i grounds enclosed with picket fence and ornamented with shade trees while a splendid liberty-pol- e points of token our a as aspira upward about whole $1 the costing tions; 700. To ail in the cause of education scats for the high school have been imported and used for the benefit o the pupils. For the preservation o the city from the ravages the good, sound water tanks have been placed on Maia and Fifth Streets, which furnish a large of water, and a handsome little imported, with hose cart and appurtcmnces. These tanks with the engine, each depeuding for usefulness upon the other, are emi nently adapted for the purpose cU Mgncd, and have caused a materia reduction in the rates of fire insur ance to those who have availed them fire-fien- d, self-suppl- y fire-engin- e selves of the argument they offer. The public squares of ttie city have been adorned with shade trees and a public pump and water tan for animals put mostly available up on the square to general traffic The cemetery, once open to cattl and roaming acimals, has been en closed with a handsome and substan tial fence at a cost of about $1,500 a much needed improvement. bridges tad street crossings have been put across the ditches, to th great convenience of teams and pc destrians. A large sewer has beeu constructed from Unioa Squar through the southwestern and west , 11 m a mi m mmm mi wool-growin- we have "" " " ' '"" " '"' """ WncKa 1 I j FiACE. petition to the is Council the rounds ngainst going City of a establishment tbc hospital, opposite the Jukction Office on Fifth Street. It tippers to us a very inappropriate locality. A hospital for the sick would be an excellent institution; but would it not be better in some place less thickly pupuluted? We think so, certainly. The facts in the case are that we the higher court of any of its jurisnave a good country for raising diction, but merely makes the jurisbut sheep, experience and skill are diction of the inferior courts concur necessary in caring for these useful rent with the superior to the extent wool producers, and the business of the amount named. hould be" carried on as a specialty. The demurrer to the complaint hat we can grow what wool we need was therefore overruled. or home consumption if we please, This decision is important and the and make the business understanding of it may save liti pay well if properly managed. That gants considerable trouble. A g magnificcne water-power- Umer the Weather. We under stand that Dr T. E. Brown is confined to his room with serious illness. We had not seen the Dr. for some time and learned that he was indisposed, but were uot aware that he was so much "under the weather." We hope as the winter begins to depart that his sickness will keep it company and that health will come with the plad spring time. s or running the necessary machinery or factories, and' plenty of material for the erection of the needful build- - LOCAL ITEfc13. From Thursdait Daily of Feb. 4. ngs. That we have among us plenty of skilled labor, accustomed to the nnnufacure of cloths, of various Wheat and Peaohe1 That we inds, in all its branches. The highest price in cash and mer iiave executive minds enough to di chandise paid far wheat, and driad Mr. Thomas Look Oct for Them Fifth Street, cer this labor, and put it where it peaches at J. STANFORD'S, s79 tf Un! conductor of the the Og Cahoon, dashing will do the most good. That UP. RR. is on his way back from we have a market right where we arg" THE AMERICAN SARDINE CO's BONE Omaha. We understand that he will LESS Fardine, are much better, aud less than cost of Sar.hues. half the manu-acturive for all the fabrics we can .imported appear among us in a duplex condition unless the saying "they twain shall be and that the demand will in- Take Notice. We herehy gife notice one flesh" be taken literally. We hope crease with the supply, because of Ii. F. Cummings, Jr., the news is true, and in anticipation exthe rapid growth of our population. to the public that to do By business for, tend our cordial congratulations to the has no That w6 are draining our Territory or in authority the name of the Ogden Publishing happy pair. Look out for them. circulacash limited constantly of 'ts Company in any shapeor form whatever, well we when as tion, keep and that he has not been in the employ might just Died. of the Company for upwards of two it at home for general distribution, At Hyrum, Cache County, of throat These being the Tacts in the case months past. disease, on Sunday, Slst ult., Lillian, Co. PUBLISHING OGDEN whut shall we do? It every owner daughter of James and Aliice Unsworth, C. W. PENROSE, Manager. aged ten months and sixteen days. of sheep tries to do a little amateur Salt Lake papers and Millenial Star wool growing, we may expect our Mr. Phil. Margetts, Jr., please copy. Wbdded mutton to be small, our fleeces scanMiss Henrietta and Richards, of Salt ty, and the poor little bloaters that Lake, htve embarked together on the ream our hill sides to be scabby, We wish them a harBea of matrimony. shabby and of little profit. We must py voyage through life. IRRIGATION COMPANY systematize, if we wish to succeed We have just learned of the forma Personal. Senator Stewart arrived VTOTICK IS IIEREDY GIVEN TO TIIH members of tbe above named company that tion of a company to effect the ob here on the C. P. train this morning and Mas Meeting will be held on Saturday hpial Washto the 27th nnt., at 10 o'clock a in., at the Hooper desired, and wish to call atten continued eastward on his way uli-l- y e, Hooper City l ject tion to the propositions which they ington, D. C. offer to sheep owners. Messrs. F. A. The new church of the Dedication Hammond, David McKay, Angus Goed Shepherd, in this city, will be McKay & Co.. of Ogden Valley, offer dedicated on Saturd y morning, the to receive sheep aceording to class Bifhop and all the clergy of the diocese and kind, for four years; guarantee being present, with i full choir. ing to deliver to the owners double Home Again. Mr.Samuel H. Higgin-bothathe number at the expiration of that returned from his visit to Old term, also two pounds of wool per Virginia and the sunny South, on Tueshead, annually. They will receive day night. Hf is welcome. Samuel, the sheep from the 15th to 20th of why did you not report T Call round, May,1875, and deliver in July ,'79, or you are truly welcome. ject of wool growing, and this al if desired will herd them during the Bio Elk. Sixteen Ek for Salt Lake turns on the method of raising sheep rcmaiudor of the summer season, on were deposited at the U C. fi eight wareThat this Territory is eminently such terms as may be mutually house last evening. They were "bagged" , has always agreed upon. adapted for up in the mountains, in the vicinity of been maintained by our leading prac They intend to grade up the sheep, Wheeler's Mill. There muct be more tical minds, and is conceded by every both fur wool and mutton, by the in where they cama from for they were all who has visit troduction of first-l- ass bucks, with big fellows. experienced stock-ma- n ed Utah and noted its facilities tor the view to make sheep-raisin- g & To Night This evening Mr. Joshua the business. But our 'effort in this profitable business to the owners and Williams will lecture in the First Disdirection up to the present period a benefit to the community. trict Schoolhouse on the subject of Agcannot claim the merit of great sue This we consider a splendid offer, riculture. Public invited. Admission cess. And for some time past the and rcjommend those who own Mr. Williams has a practical acfree iuterest onco considerably awakened in Weber County to confer quaintance with his subject, and is an sheep in regard to. the matter, has gradually with Messrs. Hammond and Co., be able public speaker. toned down, until a) a public measure lieving that great good to our manu it has almost reached to zero. Some facturiag interests will grow out of Sentkkced. We learn from the Herbe done to revive the thing ought tp such schemes us they offer for the ald that George Norton was yesterday aud anew the to iuterest convicted for shooting Dr. Predmeyer lay sheep consideration cf tho public. in the thigh, and sentenoed lo a fine ot foundation for that esseutial branch Also $50 and a year's imprisonment. of home industry, the manufacture o that John Ciimmitig was held by Juscloth. COXCUKI5EXT JURISDIC- tice Typer in bonds of $4,000 to answer Those who make the loudest pro for the seduction cf Rosina Davy, TION. fessions of desire for Utah's progress Chief Justice McKean has recently but who are in fact enemies to her HotD On. We understand that a welfare, throw all kinds of obstacles given a decision on the question of in the way of her manufacturing the concurrent civil jurisdiction of Deputy Marshal has made his appearance in Oglen, on the same business schemes and eaterpris s, pretending the Justices Courts and District which has ben attempted at Salt Lake that'as she cannot compete with the Courts of this Territory. In the case That is, to try and collect "stum page" old established manufactories ot the of White aud Allen vs. Scely, in of our lumber dealers. We advise all East, it is useless to attempt the man which plaintiff sued in the District those who are engaged in the lumber Court for 123, the defendant de- trade to keep cool and not to be intimiipulation, at home, of our raw mate murred to tho complaint, on the dated or cnjolcd into the payment of any rial, aud that wo had better ex that the District Court had sum whatever for the purpose demanded, port it all and buv what we ground until the legality of the proceeding is need for our use with the proceeds uo jurisdiction of the case, arguing tested. It is certain that the law under If the wise heads and hopeful hearts that it properly belonged to the Jus- which the "sturopage" men profess to of the first projectors of New Eng tice's Court, which, under the act was nevtr intended to apply to people is all in in our condition. bill, given jurisdiction land factories had been influenced by We make no onslaught upon the forest such arguments, and deterred by such cases where the sum claimed is less trees of the United States; but at great stumbling blocks as these, we should than three hundred dollars. His Honor rules that the District risk, hardship and cost, scale the high as a nation, be still importing all our mountains and cut down the scrub fabrics from the old world, and th Court has general original jurisdic-tion,m- timber on the hights for feul and buildthat the powers conferred on manufacturing interests of the United ing purposes. Don't pay a cent until it States would be a nullity. the Justices Courts do not deprive i is proved to be a lawful demand. l lecture room, Mayor's, Alderman's Recorder's and Marshal's offices Council room, lock-up- , etc, and the 1 ilouce, to Uke iuto consideration ortant business pertaining to fhe interest of City School iiii I th Con-pan- . lull iitiendance is requested. that the Truslum will (ell the water privilege aud pwBesiou to 400 acrs of first-claland, yet unclaimed, for labor on the canal during ih coining Spring. lu $1,00 per acre, which must be paid in cash or itn equivalent. itv drder ot the Uoard of Trutees. A Al-- o n Hooper City, Feb. 4th, 1S70. m dllS-lt8lO-- LOCAft BRANCH, c. zi OfTer to im:. i. the public a full and complete ass rttnent of STAPLE & FAftsCY sheep-raising- I'o-laa- d SIlERCHMiOISE ! Consisting of DRV GOODS, STOVES, NOTIONS, TINWARE, HATS & CAPS, GLASSWARE, ROOTS & SHOES, CROCKERYf PATENT MEDICINEJ GROCERIES, HARDWARE, ETC., ETC. Also a full line Gents' & Boys' Clothing Great reduclion in Price f CHAMPIONS EXCEESfOR WOOD'S & Mowers, Iteajiers And other Farming Implement. Whitewater and Stndebaker WAGONS, Detnwai Light Spring Wagon, AUo Winchester c- - AT COST DARXESS AXD I TfiHUIXCJ, LEATHER AND SIIOIS FINDINGS I All Kinds of Produce fortard-e- d to any point at thb Shortest Notice. All orders sent to M. Thatcher will receire prompt attention. d W. H. Hooper, si-t- f SCPT. |