Show The City in Brief It is understood that a libel suit has been Instituted against the Commercial by lid Rosenbaum Two unfortunate drunks were cinched by Alderman Preshaw yesterday to the tune of ten days each On account of the nonarrival of Mr La France the trial of the new steam fire Engine which was to have taken place yesterday yes-terday afternoon had to be postponed At the meeting of the county court F JT Hendershot applied for and was granted a license as an abstractor He has already commenced work and has a large force of ompetent assistants I A part of the material to be used in printing print-ing Monday Morning has arrived and been let up and Mr McDaniel is energetically at work making ready for the first issue of the longpromised paper Parley L Williams of Salt Lake City was in the city yesterday He was counsel for defendant in the suit of E A Reed et aL vs The Pacific Express companywhich was tried in the First district court That was a horrible joke which the Tribune perpetrated yesterday by ringing In a battered likeness of Beast Butler and trymgto palm it off on the public as a representation rep-resentation of Prince Bismarcks phiz A L Banks the young man who has sn efficiently served the Commercial as one of its reporters has resigned his thankless position Mr Banks has in him the making mak-ing of a first class journalist a position which he aspires to All that the Pacific Short Line is waiting J for now so it is said is settled weather It cant settle any too soon to suit the peo pie of Ogden if that will cause the pro jected new trunk line managers to pet a move on themselves at this end of the line The storm which had been threatening for several days previous commenced in rood earnest yesterday morning The rain continued steadily throughout the entire flay putting a stop to all outdoor work The barometer talkis for a long spell of weather The real estate boom continues and the building boom will commence when the iveather will permit Now give us a manufacturing man-ufacturing and industrial boom andwe may be happy yet Real estate booms dont maintain general prosperity but manufac turing and production are the basis of wealth The female real estate speculator is quite numerous in Ogden Generally speaking Ji the lady operators are as shrewd as the A aiasculines who dabble in dirt and some Df them have made handsome cleanups All of them arc fired with enthusiasm and tome of them can talk a man blind Deputy Marshal Vandercook has taken charge of the United States marshals office In this city Marshal Pratt was a gentlemanly gentle-manly and efficient official and had the respect re-spect and esteem of a majority of the better bet-ter class of Ogdens citizens His straightforward straight-forward course made him enemies with a certain class of Ogdenites The claim is now set up that the killing of Pat Desmond was a coldblooded murder mur-der which was witnessed by five men whose names are given by the Pueblo Press The particulars of the tragedy as related by the parties who allege that they were witnesses to it vary materially from the testimony given on Tods preliminary Examination The street railway is being utilized for hauling building stone into town from the quarries east of the city The long flatcars flat-cars answer the purpose very well and wring several tons of coal at a load These cars could be so arranged as to render them useful for hauling gravel for use on the streets along which the track of the city railway is now laid or is to be laid It is a strong company financially that proposes to operate an electric street railway rail-way in this city provided the necessary franchise can be obtained of which there Is probably no doubt Competition in this method of getting around the city is greatly needed The cost of transportation over the existing line is reasonable enough but the trouble is that it accommodates only people who live on one street Hundreds of residents of the bench would patronize a street car line if they had an opportunity to do so and that opportunity will be afforded af-forded them just as soon as the electric railway commences operations |