Show j NEW WATERWORKS The Heralds Article on the Bench Canal Creates General Interest The prospect of a new system of waterworks for Ogden to be owned by the city is a very pleasing one to Ogden citizens Since the outline of the plan to utilize the old bench canal franchise as a basis for the new system sys-tem J which appeared in The Herald I Saturday the plan nas peen tne SUD ject of much discussion I is felt that I the present water rates are unnecessarily unneces-sarily high and justly or unjustly a good deal of feeling exists against the Bear River Irrigation Ogden Waterworks I Water-works company The Standard of yesterday morning came out with a big article reciting I the facts given In The Herald of the I previous day and written in a vein de I cldedly favorable to the scheme I At the meeting of the stockholders I of the Bench canal to be held in the Fourth ward amusement hall Feb 15 there will undoubtedly be a large attendance at-tendance I is found that many of the stockholders do not favor leasing the surplus water to the city nor to any other corporation Now < that the franchise has become of value they favor putting in an independent system I sys-tem and supplying water at a profit A peculiar question may be brought out hereafter question as to whether the water right can be sold irrespective of the land Most authorities assert that it can not be sold away from the land but remains with 1 the transfer of the land including always the transfer of the water right Who Is Casey Mr Ragan has identified Casey the man arrested by the police early yesterday yes-terday morning with a bloody knife in his possessionas the man who accosted him a night or two ago and threatened to cut him to pieces Casey says the blood came from a wound in his thumb but the police doubt this a the knife is smeared all over The suspect will doubtless be held a week or two on a charge of vagrancy Local Briefs IOn I-On Feb 22 the ladies of the Macca bees will have with them the chief lady commander of their order Mrs Holster of Port Huron Mich The knights and ladies will make the occasion oc-casion a gala one The appearance here tomorrow night of the Georgia University Graduate Minstrels will afford a unique entertainment enter-tainment and a firstclass one Genuine Genu-ine negro song dance and dialect piece and the like will be the programme The young ladies of the Third ward will give a Valentine ball Wednesday evening The Dazzler is the name of the roaring farce comedy coming to the Grand Friday Among other good things in the last number of the Switch is the column of sporting chat by Casey The cut of Walter Webb mounted on his wheel I which heads the column is a beauty The current number of the Deseret i I Eagle is at hand and contains the I i usual amount of interesting matter i i pertaining to the schools for the deaf I dumb and blind Ii |