Show TIle City In Brief Sickness is still lowering the average at tendance of our schools both public and private It did not snow yesterday but the snow was there all the same and a few sleigh bells did a little jingling J Fred Corker F E Schoppe and Judge Theodore Burmester were in the city yesterday yes-terday as witnesses in a civil case brought before commissioner R W Cross John Richardson marshal and B L Doty attorney of Richmond Cache county were in town yesterday having come hereon here-on legal business before the First district court J This evening the Choral union had a fair gathering for the resumption of their re icarsalsof The Chimes of Normandy Icon to be brought before an admiring oublic J F Fred Little is down from Bellevue Bel-levue Idaho to spend a few days in Ogden which he cannot help finding the jest investment plate in this region of the ountry ASlaterville Welchman has ended the discussion about King Carnival by offering offer-ing to show that he was King Caerner ren and that Mardi Gras has been corrupted cor-rupted from Cardi Glas you seeThe see-The two Mormon school trustees and he Gentile Captain Ransford Smith ire getting along with one another in ex jcedingly pleasing harmony to the undeniable i undeni-able benefit of the educational development 1 If the community On Tuesday John A Stephens S Co I bought a tenacre lot between Twenty Tilnth and Thirtieth streets paying 12500 lor the property Yesterday they say they were offered 23000 for it but the want to hold it till they get at least JrIOUO i Yesterday Judge Preshi md over in Mie sum of 1000 one Martin a nember of the desperu who the light before held up nuu uulced down Tames Cashmore and a friend of his on Grant avenue Martin wont whistle suite as fluently before the next grand Jury The success of the Baptist Sunday school is evidenced by the fact that last Sunday a bad and blustery day there was an at tendance of 137 If we take into consideration consider-ation that only a half dozen years ago the number was the same minus the final 7 superintendent H A Lindley is to be con jratulated on his management Tuesday in broad daylight some burglar 4 licked the padlock on the dwelling room of Sdward Harris 242 Twentyfifth street ind stole a suit of clothes a leather writing rose papers eta Officer William Brown Is working on the case An attempt has also been made to break into the shop of W L Grundhand in the same vicinity Dr Powers is back from Morgan whither he went the other day summoned Vo the bedside of o Dave Littlefield a rotherinlaw of John Fry of this city Mr Littlefield is afflicted by diphtheria in i dangerous degree While riding from the lepofto the residence of his patient the ioctor had a tumbleover with a shakeup ut no bones broken Professor Klaus is about organizing a Liberal brass band There is certainly room enough for two or even three mu lical organizations in this city especially vben we consider the constantly growing iesirelor social entertainments at which rood music is an indispensable concomitant concomi-tant In fact there has been some sort of in organization consummated already Professor Klaus who by the way also is I a member of the corps of alguazils chosen leader and president Now let them toot heir horns The trains on all the roads were somewhat some-what demoralized yesterday and none of Ihein came in on schedule time The Union Pacific due at 11 am encountered deep snow at Devils Gate and did not reach here until 230 pm The Utah SC Northern local from Battle Creek due at 910 am reached here at 1220 pm Owing to heavy wind Tuesday night along the line of the Central Pacific road the 1f Southern Pacificcoinpanys trains due yes J terday morning did not get in until 030 ind S 30 last night 1 It is yet time for the Utah Sn Northern And the Southern Pacific companies to make extra water escapes on each side of their bridges across Ogden river for the reception of the fearful floods that are bound to come in May and June of this year As for the county bridge it is doomed sure and some of the neighbors would do well to read the parable of the man who built his house in an old river bed or on the sands Ogden will boom i but Ogden river will go boomerer while the Weber will boomerang The Cit y hospital located on Grant avenue ave-nue near Twentysixth is again filled up to its utmost capacity which again sug gests to a live newspaper man the necessity neces-sity of suggesting to the city council the urgent necessity of a firstclass hospital with a capacity of one hundred beds and corresponding accommodations Or let the county co operate with the city let them pool their issues and do the right thing to suffering humanity while taking good care that the wh ole country do not dump their paupers tramps and invalids into our midst for us to carry all t he burdens bur-dens For instance to start with make the railroad company responsible for every indigent or invalid they bring into Ogden as this city has too long been the common dumping ground of the intermountain region I The Wright family did not get their rights yesterday to all appearances And still numerous and influential as they are they suffer once in a while from the vicissitudes vicissi-tudes of life by their own and other peo pies carelessness First William H Wright the bar tender for Orson Riser in he Wagener saloon got hurt He was passing up on the east side of Washington avenue towards Woodrnansees butcher shop when James E Horrocks dog lumped onto him and bit him severely in the right hand inflicting a painful though not dangerous wound Still the attack at-tack by the canine was such as to justify the victim to make things right whenever when-ever he gets across the quadruped beast or Its biped owner Shortly after that Joseph Wright the brother of Will cut his left thumb severely while chopping some meat in the butcher shop but fortunately the knife slipped off the bone |