Show I Genera Notes S Mr J S Lewis has gone north to visit I the great mining properties in the Wood V River country in which he is largely interested the best of them being the Idahoan which has already yielded rewards I re-wards for the enterprise and capital K therein invested p Orson Riser having leased the whole building in which the Wagener Beer Saloon is located is making important improvements A commodious stairway on the south side of the beer hal leads to the second story which is being converted con-verted into a billiard hall where four tables weeks will be in operation in t couple of I I 1 A tinner was fined 12 in Justice Dees I Court on Wednesday for disturbing the peace He rustled up the money The Star Baseball Club is geeting into ready trim for the seasons bouts A T Hestmark has proven an efficient and I judicious captain in the past and will fi again prove a fit leader in the national game The quarterly conference of the Weber I Stake of Zion will be held next Saturday and Sunday in the Ogden Tabernacle John Hamer is receiving the congratulations I congratu-lations of his friends for he is a benedict bene-dict having on Tuesday been united in the holy bonds of matrimony by Judge L W Shurtliff to Miss Nellie Jones the f amiable daughter of our popular townsman towns-man Thos W Jones The wedding was quiet strictly a family affair but none the less joyful THE DEMOCRAT extends I sincere wishes for undimmed happiness to the new couple I County Assessor Hyrum Belknap left Idaho this morning with stock for his ranch in City Assessor Z Ballantyne is going the rounds of town taking down the value of the peoples property in which pursuit he is manifesting a remarkable and laudable impartiality Said he in the case of an old widow given out a poor l I have to do my duty and assess Arbitrariness has been going on long enough Let the City Council remit the taxes I am to assess the property Several people in the Bench or Nob Hill part of town are complaining about a disease which is making sad ravages among the chickens The fowls attacked by the ailment will show a whitishyel low secretion of slimy substance in the throat drop the head and expire in a few hours Numbers of eggproducers have had to be killed the past few days for this reason Who knows a remedy Mr J J Reeve is still confined to his bed suffering from the aftereffects of the excision of a tumor from the lower part of his body which was performed last week by Dr G W Lawrence assisted as-sisted by Dr J R Richards of Salt Lake and our Dr John D Carnahan Still he is out of danger Dont forget the Pleasant Hour Clubs ball tomorrow night The boys will make everyone comfortable H What is the city council going to do 01 Friday with the Fourth Street closing business is the universal query And how about the moving of Veber bridge is still another poser Who lives long Mtough will find out While calcimining a ceiling in his biue is front lodging house on Fifth street the other day W S Lewis came near losing Ins right eye the only optic left him these last twenty and odd years Some T hot line fell upon his face from above and nearly blinded him As it is the upper lid is injured There are yet a few hours to join the Chamber of Commerce organizers who will elect the thirteen directors at to nights public meeting Lee all roll up their sleeves and roll up a long and r strong list of members Then the car of progress will r 1 up also e Th lights of Pythias are to give an oth > able on Friday night in their elc md spacious hal 10 Lt I Sunday Dr Brick assisted by Dr II J Powers relieved a 15yearold son I of i11 Mr Tracy of Marriotts settlement of eiirapion burningin of the eyelids The Ltd vould take no anaesthetics but stool the painful and delicate operation les like 2 courageous man Ho is about all well nov J 1 1 J Fry and wife have returned from i a pleasant trip to Salt Lake City the I rustic pleasure of which was not marred oven by l Saturday nights storm and ic t I squall i Joseph A West has leased the firstS first-S two stories of D H Perrys brick block 1 on Fourth street hill for the Ogden Herald Her-ald Publishing Company Knowing ones a see in this move a quite appropriate approach ap-proach to the county court house whether the Jovian thunderbolts of the church organ arc forged lill Said Joseph A West Alderman and engineer to fiE DEMOCRAT man yesterday yester-day being accosted by the latter on the 1 sidewalk Well sir we are doing nicely with the Board of Trade We will have at least seventyfive members at the meeting on Thursday night The reporter i re-porter expressing his satisfied and gratified grati-fied astonishment at the public spirited attitude of coreligionists of Mr West wjnsidering the cold wather douches by the Salt Lake Mormon press the gentleman gentle-man named spoke up You see our love of the country is greater than our hatred of the children of men This was uttered with a jocose smile of signifi cant good nature I is a positive signal sign-al sensible goaheadativo business men in Ogden first look out for the common progress and general prosperity of the Junction City H F Hapgood a stockman is at the Chapman House This reminds me of a story told by Zeb Jacobs of the Utah Central on a passenger last week Said passenger was sitting opposite a lady who was holding a lovely baby on her lap The gallant passenger would dandle and fondle the infant playfully pinching its chubby legs Came the conductor from the rear Tickets please Mr Passenger turning around with his ticket m one hand the lady quietly and slightly blushing remarked Sir but you are patting the wrong knee This is strictly S true There were 126 firstclass passenger 1 frstcass nd 41 emigrants on Wednesdays Central Cen-tral Pacific train from the West Among the former were eight members of Cooks vacation excursion party The increasing increas-ing passenger travel i attributed to the appearance of smallpox on the Pacific coast cases of the disease having broken I out at Oakland I will be in order to j Cl take quarantine precautions at the depot ere long y I Anent the long and shorthaul clause I of the InterState Commerce bill I learn of the following authenticated factwhich Dill illustrates grotesquely but all the more forcibly tho absurdity of tho oppressive 1Ip discrimination in freight rates A Cali fornia shipper of a carload of animals paid the freight and took his receipt When within 100 miles of San Francisco he was compelled to pay 36 more before he was allowed to unload a jackass from the car at that point This was just tLe amount he would have had to pay for the animals freight back from San Francisco t that place i he had gone through Thus he paid 36 for the privilege of not having the amimal hauled 100 miles and back again mies Late last evening the shocking news came from Weber Valley east of Ogden that Alma Keyes had been drowned in Weber Valley Particulars had not been learned early this forenoon but will be furnished in our next Mr Keves is well known in this city where he used to be prominent at the time of the Herrick regime up to 1883 being city marshal He leaves a wife and several children Messrs D M Stuart and Bushmiller married sisters of his Of late years the deceased had been sadly afflicted with rheumatic ailments which compelled him to use crutches most of the time He had a kind heart and genial nature |