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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1895
Page
1
The Utah Press Association held its annual meeting at the Knutsford with editors from Salt Lake City to Manti. Officers were elected for the coming year, committees named, and discussions covered libel law reform, advertising rates, and a proposed state historical society.
A local paper recounts a Port Chester post office episode where the assistant post master and a druggist conspired to drug oranges to teach thieves a lesson. Water was injected, the carriers fell ill, and a prescription of brandy relieved them. Several men overreacted, but the stock joke persisted.
In a Hastings court case a minor who refused to leave Huntington's saloon, despite a bartender order, was charged with trespass. The Justice fined the minor and remanded him to the marshal awaiting payment. Also noted is Cache Stake quarterly conference set for January 27 and 28, 1896, at Logan Stake Tabernacle with Orson Satitn presiding.
The notice states that Z. M. I. will close Thursday and Friday January 1st and February 1st for stock taking. Patrons are asked to govern themselves accordingly. Isaac Smith is the manager.
Brooklyn confronts fierce violence as thousands of new Brooklyn City Railway workers desert to join strikers. Militia and police clash with rioters along Ridgewood Avenue and Gates Street Junction, leaving multiple officers and soldiers injured.
The First Battalion Second Infantry U N G met in Logan on Saturday to elect battalion officers. E R Irwin of company C r was chosen major, Herman Pathe adjutant, McLaughlin sergeant-major, Griffin colonel-sergeant, and the Wrigham City band designated battalion band. Results were sent to Salt Lake for confirmation by the territorial staff. Captain Erwin hosted a dinner for commissioned officers at the Logan House Sunday evening.
The annual meeting of A. O. M. and LB Co. will be held at the Company's office on Main Street Logan on Monday February 4 1895 at 7 p m. to elect a Board of Directors adopt the Secretary and Treasurer's report and transact other business. Geo Cone Secretary and Treasurer.
The Logan Journal defends ballot-box studying and ridicules rivals for urging open elections. It cites alleged fraud and calls for investigating ballots not cast while noting counts by precinct officials and calls to lock boxes and prosecute those who tamper.
The New York Evening Post and Pioneer Press critique party conduct in governorship surrenders. They argue Democrats repeatedly tolerate or encourage violations of the people's will for short term gain. The Utah Commission's Democrats are cited as prophetic examples of moral obliquity and lost public trust.
London dispatch reports Kuchan in Khorasan destroyed by a quake, killing about 12,000 people and 50,000 cattle. Within twenty days there were 127 shocks, with Mashed nearby also shaken. Kuchan lies at Shah Jahan Kuh, 11,000 feet high, eight miles northwest of Mashed.
A stranger tried a minor scam on several merchants Thursday starting with San Douglas. He bought a small item for twenty cents, then offered a twenty dollar gold piece. Sam, serving, gave ten dollars in gold and the remaining change in silver. The stranger proposed exchanging ten dollars in silver for ten in gold, but Sam lacked gold and offered a one dollar bill. The stranger offered to take it all and keep the twenty dollar piece, but Sam recalled the ten dollars belonged to him and halted the spoof. He tried other stores but failed to dupe them as well.
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