Show The City in Brief C L Thompson tho architect was in the city yesterday Real estate sales are increasing and prices are advancing Mrs J W Guthrie of Corinne is visiting visit-ing with her daughter Mrs A R Hay wood Hughes tho slayer of Romsyne came up from Salt Lake City yesterday and will go cast this morning The wires for the fire alarm system arc being stretched and tho boxes will be put in pla < 5e next week Alfred T Jones native of Wales was admitted to citizenship yesterday in the I First district court y Deputy Marshal O undercook of Salt Lake was in the yesterday exchanging greetings with his oldtime friends I Tho Utah Central waited for the Utah Northern to come in last evening and departed I de-parted half an hour later than the schedule time The plans for the proposed new opera house must be submitted on or before the 15th inst It is understood that at least a dozen architects will submit plans Joseph Stephens employed in Moyes planing mill yesterday caught his hand inn in-n buzz saw and injured his right hand so badly that it became necessary amputate the thumb ana fore finger A special train of eight palace horse cars of the Arms horso car company contain 135 thoroughbreds from SenatorStanfords Palo Alto stock farm camo in at 930 a m yesterday and departed for the east at 10 J There was no business in the police court V yesterday but in tho afternoon the cops failed two drunks and took them to jaiL They will be prescribed for this morning The police also arrested a suspected sure thing man C W Hearst proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner is spending a few flays in the city and investigating its advantages ad-vantages for business and real estate investment in-vestment He is greatly pleased with the outlook for Ogden ana thinks it must soon become a large and very important city A preliminary meeting was held Thursday Thurs-day night to consider the organization of a business mens club Tho membership was started with twentyseven names and limited to one hundred the initiation fee fixed at C5O and the dues at 53 a month Another meeting will he held next Tuesday evening The news telegraphed from Washington that tho bill to increase Ogdens borrowing borrow-ing power is very likely to pass without I any opposition pleases the progressive citizen of this lively burg The passage of the bill will insure tho building of sewers sew-ers and the making of many needed improvements im-provements Reuben Eggleston an old time printer and well known throughout Utah died at his home in this city at 530 oclock Thursday Thurs-day night The funeral services will beheld be-held today at 3 oclock pm from tho family residence on Monroe avenue between be-tween Twentysixth and Twentyseventh streets to which friends arc invitep At the regular meeting of Union lodge No 01 00 F held Wednesday evening even-ing W H Turner and R B Smead past grands were elected representatives to the grand lodge which will meet in this city on Tuesday April 22 The lodge also organized or-ganized a 1 degree team at the same meeting The order Is flourishing in Ogden as never before Yesterdays sunshine brought the people out in crowds and the streets were thronged from morning until night The nil was chilly and storm clouds floated athwart the sky indicating an unsettled condition of the weather Mr Webbs forecasts have been so accurate in the past that many people have come to place great reliance in what he says It will probably snow today and rain tomorrow An interesting programme will be given at the Polysophical societys meeting this evening as follows Singing Let Us Treat Each Other Kindly by the choir k prayer by John Burton waltz song by n the choir lecture on Switzerland by Pro 1 fessor L F Mccnch male quartette by i Elders Richard Haag and Oscar Vance and I Mrssrs Garen Peterson and Squire Coop 6CC treading by Charlotte Bartlett deaden dead-en t Safe Mamie Thomas editress recitation rec-itation by Grant Geddes vocal solo by Jani West patriotic glee by tho choir prayer by Pearl Gay Last season was such a dry one that not half an average crop of hay was secured The winter has been a severe one with much snow on the ground so that the cattle could not rustle for feed and owners of stock have had to keep them up and feed hay The consequence is that the hay has been nearly all used up the feeding seisi3 will last six weeks longer and many stock owners who have no hay will have to sell their cattle or permit them to starve This condition of things makes x cattle cheap and yearling heifers can be W bought for from C5 to 9 per head Last fall the farmers and others who had hay barged 2 per month for boarding calves E A Street the wellknown miner who worked at developing the Florence mining claim in the mountains cast of this city last summer and fall is now at Unaweep canon in Mesa county Colo preparing to work some rich placer round which he discovered and located during the past winter Mr Street is enthusiastic over his prospects and writes to his associates in this city that as soon as the weather settles he will open up a surprise for many people Careful tests show that tho ground will average over 12 to the square yard It appears to be actually alive with gold II Mr Street is a rustler and all who know him will wish that his fondest anticipations may be realized Theres many a truth spoken in jest O W Powers and Arthur Brown two Salt Lake attorneys came to Ogden yesterday morning one to try and the other to defend 4 de-fend a case in the First district court The defendant represented by Powers was not ready to take up the case and argued for a continuance which the plaintiffs counsel opposed for several reasons among others that he and his client had been put to great expense in coming to Ogden etc Powers replied that many a man had made more money in a day in Ogden than he could havoinade in fees by remaining in his office In Salt Lake city which was a selfevident truth This will be more apparent to the reader when it is stated that a number of Salt Lakes legal lights have run up for a day bought some cheap real estate and sold out the next day at an advance which put more money in their pockets than the law business would have done if they had remained at home in their offices for year |