Show J THE NEWS IN OGDEN What i Going On in the Busy > Junction City TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME ETC A Sermon on the PreEent Dry SeasonThe Nine Hour Carpenters Contest Other News Notes SALT LAt HEKALD BUREAU 1 No 2421 WASHINGTON AVENUE > j OGDEN Au 101SS9 I At the time of mailing this letter a shower appeared t bo brewing s I you want tho news of Ogden a it is subscribe for and read THE HERALD With the advent of cooler weather the demand for milk shakes and kindred drinks has fallen off Diphtheria is only sporadically known in Ogden Tho report that it is prevalent is a boldfaced falsehood i The Commercial says that the people seemed to be satisfied with the purportion meat of thpir taxes Which Professor J H Wiegand is in the city making arrangements for the great concert t be given at Lake Park on tho 15th instant in-stant The published statement that the robbers who publshe up Rio Grande Western train were seen at Corey Brothers camp is not true That popular and wet patronized educational tional institution the Sacred Heart academy will commence its fall session September 1 Father Cushnahans new house on the brow of Twentyfourth street hill will be a fine edifice Work upon it is being prosecuted prose-cuted with vigor Theres lots of mining talk and some good ore is being shown in town I comes from several of the promising prospects in the mountains east of the city Twentyfive hundred and two Washington Twcntyfve ton avenue Heed Snyders real estate office is where TiE HERALD branch office located in Ogden in comfortably locatd p AlmaD Chambers at one time f orenian of the Junction as well as the Herald in this city is being restored to health at the sanitarium of Dr Burke at Napa CalC Cal-C In Alderman Preshws court therowere several cases of direliction Three of them were for gambling and four for drunkenness drunken-ness Penalties were inflicted in each case Persons having business with THE HERALD HER-ALD Perons will E A Littlefield manager of ALI wi fnd the Ogden branch or J C Bole circulator circu-lator at the office in Reed k Snyders real estateoffie THE HERALD under its present manage meat is doing the square thing by Ogden and her people and being a live newspaper news-paper is meeting with merited success among all clases The case of John Scowcroft vs Rans ford Smith was t have been heard yesterday yester-day by Judge Henderson I was postponed post-poned until evening when the judge would hear a motion for continuance It is to bo hoped that the Bothwell company com-pany I will be able t fulfill their contract with Ogden city without being annoyed and put to trouble and expense by the authorities of Idaho or the general government govern-ment Yest jrday afternoon Policemen Brown and Baxter were occupied in examining a Eatr wer 1 vast lot of clothing and other parphernala supposed to have been stolen and the shipping ship-ping t California arranged for by Earl and Bradburn two alleged crooks C J Corey and E O Wattis of the railroad rail-road contracting firm of Corey Bros company leave Ogden today for their camp at Cisco on the Rio Grande Western road The firm ha a forty mile contract for grading and widening the road bed Miss Lottie Hill the youngest daughter of Richard Hill the oldtime milkman is with Mrs S W Knapp the wife of the superintendent of the Southern Pacific suprintendent sojourn in tho who is enjoying a pleasant sojour semitropical vales and dales of California The Commercfol sagely remarks Home capital had better watch out or it will lose a profitable investment by procrastination in taking hold of the hotel scheme Home capitalists will never build a hotel while there is hope of being able to ring in outside capital I I The city council has been petitioned by newspaper proprietors and representatives of newspapers to appoint a special policeman police-man for the detection of newspaper thieves It is alleged that there are some of that class in Ogden and i so they should be punished t the full extent of the law Yesterday the police made a rich haul oi goods of various description and arrested two alleged thieves by the name of Earl and Bradburn The two fellows have been I under surveillance for some time They 4 appear to be hard cases Acting City Marshal Mar-shal William Brown caused them to be i locked up Two children of Christian Schrcni a recent immigrant from Switzerland have died of diphtheria at Midway The cause of the infection is attributed t the water and in order to avoid the infiltration of the filth germs the people have devised means to obtain their supply of drinking water from distant springs E R Reed the rustler and improver will E a fine stone sidewalk laid down in front of his Twentyfifth street property east of Washington avenue I will extend from the corner to the east side of his fine that more of the brick block I is a pity brck valuable land on the principal streets of Ogden are not controlled by men of Mr Heeds enterprise and progressiveness instead in-stead of the fossils and mossbacks The two morning newspapers in this city take no sides in the controversy between tlm organization known a the Carpenters Union and the contractors Discretion is a good thing sometimes but it may go so farm far-m one direction as t present an appearance of cowardice The two morning journals will always bo found hedging when poor laboring men are on one side and powerful laborng contractors on the other side of any ques contrctrs laborer is worthy of his hire ton I seems t be a very generally entertained enter-tained opinion that the city tax rate was placed too low and property under valued plced to V by the city assessor This is certainly true in the cases of those Silurians who persist per-sist in refusing t put good houses on their good land I these fossils will neither build nor sell out t live men who would improve their properties they deserve to be made t pay a reasonable tax None of them do it however In view of the fact that the prdsent is the dryest season ever known on the Pacific coast that it is dry even in Oregon the land of the webfcet it IS the height of foolishness t give out as a cold fat that the Salt Lake valley is more highly favor than other fertile sections in the arid region Every one in Utah knows that gon of water for irrigation there is a scarcity Irgton every tourist or visitor unless an idiot knows the same thing Then why should seek to create an impression any newspaper t crct imprssion that the hot and dry weather experienced during the past two months has not affected durg It is bad policy the grain and fruit crops eiS il 1 Tell the truth and shame the devil When this correspondent says that the heat and absence of water cause the leaves of the trees to fall prematurely that is just what is meant to be expressed and wont prevent the sale of a single foot of land in the city or county |