Show The City in Brief j Burglaries and hold ups are of almost nightly occurrence Tho building permits issued last week amounted to iO000 About all the carnival visitors have left the city for their homes The carnival committee are disposing of the tents which they had left over The day has not been definitely set for the laying of the corner stone of the Utah university Kansas City parties propose to erect houses in Ogden and sell them on the installment in-stallment plan The new sewer system must be completed com-pleted by December 1 Thats the way the contract reads Mayor Kiesel is determined to enforce the Sunday closing law If he gives the proper orders the law will be enforced Those unsightly buildings inLester park which served a purpose while the carnival was on have been torn down and removed I I The gravel train is still running on Twentyfifth street east of Madison avenue ave-nue and that street will soon bo brought the established grade The chamber of commerce will meet tomorrow to-morrow evening There is an attempt to revive interest which is the only way to accomplish good results Judgo Henderson returned from Salt i Lake city last evening in company with his 1 successor and will hold a session of the First district court today t The interdenominational Sunday school excursion and picnic to Syracuse will take place to morrow The fare for the children is 15 cents and adults 25 cents i Real estate matters are pretty quiet these days The weathers too hot and theres I too much building going on to allow of I much time for dabbling in dirt The Syracuse bathing club will make its I first excursion of the season tonight the train for the lake leaving the depot at 630 and leaving the lake at 10 oclock Professor Fisher who drilled the carni nival chorus is to be given a benefit on the night of the 17th The entertainment will consist of a musical concert and a dance A gentleman who was around town on Sunday last says that a larger number of saloons than usual kept both front and backdoors back-doors closed tight during the entire day The train carrying the old folks to Salt Lake will leave the depot this morning at 615 It is thought that 250 people will go from here May they have a good time and return safely The boys handled Saturday nights fire in good shape showing that they have practiced hard and to advantage Our fire department is now well equpped and in good working order The death of General John C Fremont calls up in the mind of this writer reminiscences reminis-cences of the long agos when he the writer cast his lirst ballot for the pathfinder path-finder Those were stirring times Joseph Metzler has backed out of his promise to build a hotel if the citizens voul1 raise him a bonus of 12500 The bonus was raised and tendered to him but last evening declared that he would not build o Sundays > Syracuse > and Hot Springs trains captured more people than did all the churches Those who attended places of worship did so as a duty while the others took a little outing for pleasure and recreation J D Negus is still in New York and workhas not yet commencedon this end of the Pacific Short line Time flies and the working season for 1R90 is growing shorter Negus yield a point and let the work go on The Weber ounty Liberal committee have called a delegate convention tomeet in this city at 2 oclock pm on the 19th instant The primaries will be held on the ISth and voting for delegate will continue from 5 to 830 pm A fire at 13 oclock Saturday night partially par-tially destroyed an unfinished two story house on Monroe Avenue tween Twenty sixth and Twentyseventh stre3tsowned by James Iverson It is said that the insur aacc has just run out f Thelocal press have not yet made up their minds as to the character and purpose of the grading outfit now operating in Ogden caflon The Commercial reporter thinks they are cutting a path through the ivilds for Barnums elephants The school election yesterday occasioned no excitement in this city Both parties worked earnestly and steadily to elect their men each convinced that if the other was successful the school interests of the city would still be in safe hands The derrick to be used in prospecting for pas and oil near the university grounds is made of heavy timber is twenty feet square at the base live feet square at the top and sixtyfour feet high The well to be bored will be nine inches in diameter Printed lists of the lire alarm box locations i loca-tions and showing where the keys to the boxes laay be found as well as how to turn I in an alarm slould be in every house and business place This is the custom in all cities that have the electric fire alarm system I sys-tem in operation Ogden lodge No 2 Knights of Pythias last night installed their ofticersas follows JO Vnite chancellor commander Carl Ulest mark vicechancellor Joseph D Ferris prelate W A E Thornton masterat arms r Johnson inside guard J W Mackintosh outside guard Not much interest appears to be manifested mani-fested this season io regard to prospecting hereabouts Nothing has been heard of the promising prospects that were discovered discov-ered last summer yet some of them are being be-Ing worked and before the season clo es snme rih developments are likely to be made The speed with which the gravel tramway tram-way train is run through the streets is suggestive danger and death No one ever saw anything like it in any other city It goes whizzing along as though it had only one day in which to do a great amount of work Such reckless running should be stopped Ogden caflon which W85 formerly such a pleasant place for camping out is not any I I longer either safe or pleasant < This is owing I ow-ing to thefact that much work Is going on there such as ditching grading blasting etc and the dust is intolerable However there arc many camping parties in tho canon aiidmoro preparing to go The result of the school election here yesterday was as follows First ward I W W Funge Liberal 144 majority Second Sec-ond ward L H Adams both tickets 227 I majority Third ward Thomas D Dee People H2 majority Fourth ward Rat BmithLiberal 117 majority Fifth ward I W W Corey Liberal 113 majority I Yesterday was the quietest election day seen Ogden for many yens No persons i I congregated about the polling places ex rcpt the workers of both parties Voters marchini up deposited their ballots aud j then left to attend to their business Tun j Hi utAL1t representative met several men who didnt even know that an election was i I In progress A villainous looking tramp came fooling j 4 around the back door of an uptown resi I rlenee a day or two ago The head of the I I t house saw him through the window anent an-ent to the door earring in his hand a six shooter Opening a crack in tho door he Inquired what was wanted with the usual reply A Lic of something to cat The r beau of the bouse elevated jtho sixshooter i r 10 that thQ tramp could look down the muz 1 rlfi anu said So youre hungry are j I you No said the other UI dont want a mouthful It is said that the Bear river canal company com-pany who are now putting in Ogdens watsr system propose to Hume the water in Ogden canyon for a considerable distance dis-tance If this is true the probabilities are that the water works will freeze up next winter for it is a known fact that the entire en-tire Ogden river rapid as it is is often amass a-mass of mush ice which would choke up the mouth of even the large pipe and prevent pre-vent the water from entering it An attempt was made yesterday morning morn-ing about 10 oclock to burglarize the store of Foster S Horspool on Washington Washing-ton avenue Mr Foster was passing the storeand stopped a moment when someone inside fired a shot through the window which came uncomfortably close to his head He went for the officers who returned re-turned with him but the birds had flown Two holes had been drilled in the safe one man doing the drilling while the other stood guard at the door Everybody cannot follow Miltons advice ad-vice when he says that in these vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant it were an injury and sullenness sullen-ness against Nature not to go and see her TlfhoQ nnrl nnrfnlrA in lioi ivnmninrr wifh 1 0 b heaven and earth That would lead to the fastnesses of the grand old mountains where nature is at her best during the sweltering season and not everyone can stand the expense or spare the time However How-ever many people will go out and rusticate until the cool nights drive them back to the city rp r = 3 fcgSl As sewer construction is about to commence com-mence in this city it will be wisdom on the part of the authorities to examine closely the character of the material used The brick should be tested in every possible manner by experts and an expert in this line of business ought to have charge of the entire work in the interest of the city There must b3 no jobbery in this matter I and only tho very best of material must be used it we would have a perfect and durable dura-ble system of sewerage The city engineer is a square man and if appointed supervisor super-visor of construction the people need have no fear of auythitig going wrong he would see that only the very best of material mate-rial entered in the construction of the 1 sewers and taut the work world be properly prop-erly done I I |