Show LOCAL BRIEFS Miss Babcocks entertainment at the Fifth ward Institute last evening was well attended and was the source of much pleasure for all who were so fortunate as to be present Ward and James are billed for the Grand opera house on Feb 1 and 2 Francesco tie Rimini Is set down for the first night and many of the patrons of The house desire thait Henry VIII be given on the second evening A number of Ogden and Weber county citizens have organized a company known as the American Falls Canal tad Power company The object Is to build and operate op-erate a canal and power plant near American Falls Ida fr Five car loads of silk direct from Japan 7 passed through the city yesterday bound f east If the culture of silk is carried on with vigor here In Utah as tIle ladles i T hope It will be the importation of the iSp foreign article will be great reduced inc in-c few years W N Shilling of this city who was grand master of Masons and laid the corner stone of the new county and cIty building in Salt Lake city In 1892 yesterday yester-day received a gavel and silver trowel from the city and county officials of Salt Lake as a memento of the occasion A car load of provisions will be sent east to the Nebraska sufferers from this city next week Cache valley people have contributed 25000 pounds of flour and the people of Ogden and vicinity will furnish enough in the way of flour groceries and i clothing to make up a full car load of EOOOOi pounds An Insurance rate war Is on the tapis In this city Several large companies are doing business here whose general agents have not joined the new coast Insurance combine now being constructed on the ruins of the Pacific Coast Insurance union Already It Is hinted that rates from 23 to 50 per cent below the old combine com-bine rates have been quoted W H Rowe W S Knapp N C Flygar P M Henley John Watson H H Rolapp and J H Bennett have incorporated incor-porated the Bear River Valley Orchard company with a capital of 100000 and propose to go into the fruitgrowing business busi-ness extensively The company has se cur 1 a valuable tract of land which will be planted out to trees at once The two men arrested by Sheriff Mc Daniels of Pocatello in Salt Lake Thursday Thurs-day refused to go any further when the officers reached this city with them yesterday yes-terday morning As they hid agreed togo to-go without the usual requisition papers the officer thought he was safe in starting J start-ing with them They were turned over to the chief of police to await further action ac-tion The attorney for the prisoners came up and proposes to release the men on a Ife oeag1 eIii writ of habeas corpus Sheriff McDanlels r says he will secure the necessary papers I l and take his men north |