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Show I - -- THE LATEST FROM OGDEN, j Tilt, Dally I nlon Tuck Wnt Tliflr l'ajr ! Kt. Sum Small luvltail. ; Sperlul Cor. t The Times. Olihn, April 20. The Produce exchange ex-change did considerable business today. Potatoes and wheat remain linn. Green vegetables are steadily increasing in quantities bnt command good prices. New California potatoes wero offered at e.J cents per pound. At the last city council meeting a petition pe-tition signed by several prominent I business men, asking for a salaried J secretary of a bureau of exhibits was j presented. A letter setting forth the I many advantages of such an olliee ac-i ac-i couipanied the petition. Tho matter I was referred to the committee on lin-! lin-! ance and will probably be discussed at the next council meeting. The Standard continues to furnish its readers with tariff pictures from the New York press. Comparing protection protec-tion and free trade is one of the lead- ing questions of the day in Weber county. Both parties are struggling ir the majority. It seems that republicanism repub-licanism is in the lead and will probably proba-bly remain so. - -:- -t- In the summary of fires in Utah the Coast Review gives the following figures: fig-ures: In January Ogden had seven tires, loss $1 l.s'.iii; Salt Lake City, two tires, losss $-i:t,i'i!i7. For February it reports Ogden one lire. loss $105; Salt Lake City one tire, loss Jill. In March Ogden had two tires loss $0-10; Salt Luke City two fires, loss $,"),!;;. Weber county one fire, loss $iiu0. -e- Lester Park paviSlion is being gaily decorated for the grand May festival next Friday. Kent's Military band concert is an assured success, and the other programme will be rendered iu good style. The band boys know hovv to conduct an enjoyable entertainment. II. P. Younger of Salt Lake City gives an exhibition in fancy dancing at the I opera ..house oh Friday night. Some of I (igden's j out lis are looking forward to ' the event with i.nusual interest. I --:---j Electa Skepn. wile oi Lyman Skeen, a prominent farmer and horseman of Plain City, died suddenly yesterday. Mr. Skeeii lost a bright little girl last week, and this additional sorrow is the harder to bear. A large family mourn the loss of au affectionate mother. S- -t- -T- The typos of the Daily Union refused to work yesterday afternoon because their pay for last week was not forthcoming." forth-coming." Matters will be nettled today, ami the boys w ill probably return to their cases. The Union was printed last evening by the foreman, C. J. Potter. i- i i- A grand benefit banquet is to be tendered ten-dered Waido Whipple, the comedian, at the Novelty theater tonight. Mr. Whipple has been with Manager Monroe Mon-roe for eight months. He leaves tomorrow tomor-row for Denver and from there he goes to Philadelphia to tako charge of a traveling trav-eling company. j H- -t- Rev. Sam Small, president of tho Methodist university, has beeh requested request-ed by the board to attend a meeting to lie held iu Salt Lake City, and render a full account of his receipts and expenditures. |