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Show I OGDEN, UTAH. 1 Ogden hotels are now enjoying the fruits of the return travel from the Pacific coast and Portland and are crowded. ! ! Pat Healy, vice president of the ! Commercial National bank, who has been suffering at his home with a carbuncle car-buncle on the back of his neck, and j whose condition was regarded as serious, se-rious, is reported as being much im- proved . j - 4 The Tabernacle choir reached home j covered with dust and glory. They 1 were one and all much elated over the success of the trip and the consideration considera-tion with which they w-ere received. I Only one accident marred the pleasure of. the trip. Mrs. Otelia Parry was leaving her berth on the way to Portland Port-land to he!;" a woman who was ill. when the ladder slipped and she was thrown to the floor, crushing her foot. She will be unable to get about for some time yet. 4 At the Monday meeting of the city council the matter of a substitute franchise for the Ogden Waterworks company came up. The new- franchise provides a number of safeguards to the city that were not included in the original application ot the waterworks company. It also has a provision for reversion to the city of the entire piant, under certain conditions, and also that if at any time the city should condemn the property of the water company the franchise shall have no value. Another consideration is that the Ogden Waterworks company shall dismiss all the suits . now pending against the City of Ogden for unpaid water rentals, which now amount to about $34,000. It is generally understood under-stood and it has practically been announced an-nounced by the Ogden Waterworks company that it will not be accepted. 4 Barlow B. Wilson, Daniel S. Burch, L. H. Murdoek and William H. Parry, four Ogden men, who were supposed to be amongst the luckiest of the lttcky in the drawing for chances to locate lands in the Uintah reservation, are returning without waiting to file on lands. They give the most discouraging discourag-ing reports of the actual condition on the reservation that have yet reached this city. Burch' had No. 19, Wilson No. 78, and the others were well down in the third hundred. The party secured se-cured a fine outfit and left a week ago for the reservation, intending to inspect all the good lands and return to Ver nal for the first day's filing. Saturday the party reached Heber City on the return trip, and Wilson, called Sheriff Ba'ley over the long distance telephone. Bailey himself had a low number and it was for the purpose of warning fiis chief against going to the expense of making the trip to Vernal that the deputy telephoned.' He stated that the Iridians and the water companies have located everything there is of any practical value on the reservation. According Ac-cording to the explanation given over the telephone by Wilson, the Indians, In selecting their farms, have chosen them under the advice of water companies com-panies in such a way that others coming com-ing in, later are at the mercy of this combination, and if there happens to be any good land left it is in such fragmentary frag-mentary pieces .that it will be useless except to those who were in ahead of those who had to draw. Mr. Wilson asked that others of his friends who were contemplating "making the trip be told of the conditions and advised to stay 'awayj as there is nothing left unappropriated except bluffs and hills. 4 - I P. J.. Moran of Salt Lake, who re- j cen'tly secured the contract for the paving of Twenty-fourth street, was in Ogden Monday. City Engineer Park- j er submitted to the council that the work 'proceed at once, and this was confirmed. '- 4 The Western Pacific work has been let, and the Utah Construction company com-pany of Ogden has the larger part of the contract. Few details are at hand, but the informatibiV is that the Utah Construction comp'any gets the contract for the work from Salt Lake to the Nevada line, a distance of about 110 miles. More important still is the further fact that the work from Oro-ville Oro-ville in California east to the other Nevada Ne-vada state line goes to the same company. com-pany. This latter part includes all the Sierra Nevada mountain w'ork and is some of the heaviest that has ever been projected in the country. The contract is regarded as the- most important im-portant let in the past decade and has been the prize toward which several of the largest contracting firms iri the country have been striving for many months. ' - . |