Show The City in Brief More snow andmore mud Professor Hasfeli was around town yesterday terday delivering the second volume of hAs h-As Ycu Like It Articles of incorporation of the Ogden Savings bank were med in the count clerks office yesterday Professor Andre the wellknown and popular teacher of music and langUages was in the city yesterday attending to business bus-iness Charley Raymond and Pat Callahan were sent to jail yesterday by Judgo Preshaw for ten days each They were found guilty of drunkenness On account of the horrible condition of the roads the country people were goner ally unable to come to town yesterday so market day was not as lively as usual The Central Pacific express trains duo here at 7 30 and 6 30 a m yesterday were reported nine hours late the probable cause of the delay being heavy storms in the Sierra Nevadas J D Negus hoof the Pacific Short Line is back to Ogden from his trip to New York and Sioux city He says that every thing is altogether lovely and the Pacific Short Line is all right I Mark Kuhn the traveling salesman I of Kiesel Co has returned from a tour of the Pacific coast and Arizona At Phoenix ho met our old townsman Dr C B Adams who left here some time ago to spend the winter abroad V C Bierbovert formerly assistant United States district attorney for Utah and resident of Ogden is visiting the city after an absence of several years He declares de-clares that the nnpiovements noticed on overv hand are wonderful A large audience thronged the courtroom of tho First district court yesterday where the trial of Brainard and Robinson on the charge of forgery was going on The de ense introduced witnesses during the afternoon and the case was not finished at 5pm The petition of the city council to the postmaster general as learned bj the special dispatch to IIIE HEIULD has caused that official to detail an inspector to inquire into the matter It is to bo hoped that tho ground will freeze up before he arrives Ho could not come in a more un favorable time than the present A piercing scream caused people on Pwentj nf th street to halt and investigate A woman from the country got out of the wagon into the mud and as she did not strike bottom thought she was sinking Hence her cry of distress Bystanders tugged hard and finally extricated the voman from her disagreeable position minus her overshoes Tan HERALDs editorial yesterday morning morn-ing on the possibility of a flood next spring in Salt Lale CIty caused inqUiry to be made whether any such danger might bo apprehended in Ogden It Was learned that many years ago the whole northern part of the city was flooded There was no great rush of water no angry current but tlewater Just spread out over the low flat places Some of the outlying settlements settle-ments were nearly submerged and boatsI I and raits were empiojea to get about the bg i af country The water was about four feet deep on the tabernacle square All this happened the spring theprev lous winter I haying been very similar to the present A correspondent of the Standard calls attention to the bad condition of the sidewalk side-walk on the north side of Lester park on Twentj fourth street and says that pii ate citizens are made to repair and make good sidewalks in front of their property This is not absolutely true Out of the 300 or more blocks in the city there is not one that has a good sidewalk extending around its four sides There is not a block on the bench that has a good sidewalk extending along either side of it but this is not so much the fault of the property owners as owing to the city councils neglect to enforce en-force the sidewalk ordinance when the weather was favorable The Standaid says either enforce the ordinance or repeal it The time to urge the enforcement of the ordinance was months ago It cannot be enforced now on account of the condition condi-tion of the weather and the ground Excuses Ex-cuses for the city councils neglect in this matter are not now in order |