Show THE NEWS IN OGDEN i Does the Junction City Want Jw > Asphaltum THE HERALDS HEADQUARTERS The Scarcity of Water In lester Park More Investors III Ozden Soil The Towns Mossbacks THE SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU No 3303 WASHINGTON AVENUE > OLDEN August S J The county board of equalization was ins in-s ilsion until oclock p m yesterday Water is scarce for those who want it now There are not so many now as what wanted it last Monday John A Boyle has been the recipient of congratulations on his gallant fight although al-though it ended in defeat Owing to the lack of water or watering I the trees bushes and grass on and around Lester park appear to bo suffering Many of the shade trees all over town are shedding their foliasro prematurely ow r ng to the unusually dry and sultry weather A private letter to THE HEKAID bureau from Wasatch county states that the fires n the mountains there are continuing with unabated fierceness Jack Clark is still limping on that right foot of his the ankle of which he hurt about two weeks ago by falling into a welt Crutches are still needed for his supportS support-S H Giesy is attending strictly to his jew duties as a deputy United States marshal mar-shal Sam is a good boy a good man a good business man and a good American It is alleged that Mr Eddy and Mr Bar att did not hitch quite contemporaneously contempor-aneously on the Sunday Aiguis hence a change of location as well as programme may be looked for The printers are busy on Prof Hicfelis As You Like It a strictly literary work of about one hundred and twenty pages to je published in a few weeks It will be an original literary treat THE HERALDS headquarters in Ogden at deed Snyders office corner of Washing ou avenue and Twentyfifth street is the laco to come to have your names entered n the subscription books or leave ads or enter complaints etc Word received by the family of F A Hrown now a missionary of the Mormon church in Holland is to the effect that he s enjoying his evangelical calling although j4 he climate along the Dutch dykes is damp and the gnats are oppressive The steam gravel tramway motor or gravel tramway steam motor or tramway i r in l l ravel motor steam is not running nowadays nowa-days presumably because it is too hot for the councilman and blacksmith to repair he engine in time for the next election Professor John Fowler wits all the im umncnt of his eyes is still going about giving his musical lessons for the efficiency owhich he is enjoying a good reputution well earned by hard services in years when rusic appeared to be one of the lost arts in Ogden The near advent of the autumnal school session is causing the parents and guardi tns of the young and rising generation to look about them for the best educational acilities where both mental and moral training will be most advantageously attended ended to Coming up Fifth street yesterday the porter saw a little boy being bitten by a icious looking dog The last named took the philosophy imparted by a welldirected stonethrust the boy crawled through the jearest gap in the fence and the quilldriver Iassed on whistling Professor L F Moanch and Hon Joseph 1 Stanford have announced a programme for a tour of lectures on educational subjects i throughout the various county settlements There is no doubt that they will be met with all the enthusiasm their interesting SCusions deserve W H Brisbane state treasurer of Colorado Colo-rado is in town having come here several lays ago for the purpose of looking over his field with a view to investing some money in real estate He has already made some purchases and will remain a while i ongerto still further investigate I There are half dozen genuine mossbacks moss-backs in Ogdenmen who have lived here or twenty years and become rich through Leer studhorse luck Any oldtimer who reads this item will have no difficulty n recognizing the pictures of these old irawbacks and discouragements to enterprise enter-prise In the matter of the estate of E H Orth the petition of Mrs E Orth for tters of administration was granted An order was also made by Probate Judge Cross denying the petition of John Keck for etters of administration upon said estate Orders were also made appointing appraisers ap-praisers and for the publication of a notice t5 creditors It is learned that several Sacramento capitalists impressed with the growth and prospects of Ugden have concluded to upply a long felt want by erecting a f 1 urge hotel and are now looking around for > suitable site for it If they expect any aId from local capitalists they will probably q b1 dUaponted for our local capitalists are not built that way In Commissioner Cross court on the evening of the 6th the case of Peter Anderson An-derson for adultery which had been continued con-tinued from Saturday came up for exam nation It wa3 prosecuted by Ogden files Peterson was finally held for un awful cohabitation and gave a bond of 2000 His alleged plural wife Mollie Xeilson gave a 5300 bond for her appearance appear-ance as a witness Three gentlemen from the empire state have come to Ogden having been attracted hither by the advertising of our resources The object of their visit is to investigate for themselves and ascertain whether Ogden is really a good place for the investment invest-ment of capital in real estate and the erection erec-tion of tenement houses If they are thorough In their investigations they will surely place their capital in this thriving city and great railroad center A party of six men boarded the Rio Grande Western train Monday night at some point on the line east of Green River station They traveled along comfortably until the train had nearly reached Green fiver when they passed through the cars IUd relieved the passengers of cash amounting in all to 2CG besides watches and jewelry This much was learned from a gentleman who was on the train and reached Ogden yesterday morning The city of Omaha refuses to pay for the asphaltum sidewalks which have been laid Jown there It is said that the stuff is not worth a tinkers dam for the use it has been put to The Ogden city council ought to investigate and while awaiting the arrival ar-rival of asphaltum find out whether they A have not made a mistake in specifying the iJJ kind of material of which the sidewalks in this city should be constructed Denver is also fighting against putting down sidewalks side-walks of asphilum in that iy It is to be hoped that the snows of winter will not see Twentyfifth street hill in an unfinished condition Good sidewalks ought to be put down from Washington avenue to the top of the hill If the sidewalk side-walk ordinance can be enforced it ought to be especially in cases where the property owners persist in maintaining old rookeries on the principal business streets alleging as a reason therefor that they can make j Jst as much money as they could in a fine vl 3 nrick or stone business block Heal Estate Transfers The following deeds was filed for record with the county recorder on tho 7th Harriet S Emerson to D H Peery Jr a part of lot 7 block 29 plat A 0x20 ro sand s-and richt of way 12 feet by 20 rods 15500 |