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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1880
Page
3
Ongoing election counting delays due to mismanagement with Citizens' ticket tally around 6900 votes. Workingmen may contest over ballot paper color. evidence unclear on color cause. Despite questions, public will seen as decisive, with formal challenges unlikely to overturn results. Jay Cooke & Co estate creditors hold slow stock sale with no bids.
The report covers Liberal and Conservative gains in British parliamentary contests with several named candidates in towns such as Hartington Horsham Leominster Eye Eye and Lincoln City. It also includes a lengthy telegraph note from Toronto and a speech by Secretary Sherman defending Republican policies and criticizing the Democratic party. It mentions restoring finances, civil rights, public schools, and a presidential contest with discussion of party principles and leadership.
An elderly miner recalls frontier life on the coast since 1847. He notes stubborn resilience, battle scars from beefsteaks and bullets, and mock bravado about surviving harsh wages and rough rosters. He laments home life and the fear of his wife's response to mischief.
Fragmentary report describes octimo flangergue strikes at great mills Othatiorn with committees reviewing past grievances. It notes Harmony mill owners prepare to eject striking workers from houses and highlights prejudiced views toward Aryan and Chinese workers, framing labor as a confrontation between American and immigrant labor forces.
In Leadville a quarrel erupts between Prentice and Dixon as Stile engages, with claims of insult and a disputed return home. The Denver Rio Grande Railway company mortgage secs a 200 year era extension plan for Leadville, set to unfold over seventy five days.
The Senate debates a deficiency bill and appropriations for marshals deputies and the star route service. Amendments touch distillery policy, printing office holidays, and executive excesses while conflicts with the House over appropriation rules unfold.
A garbled compilation cites Lord Rivers dead and Edmunda backing Grant, severe Alaskan winter, Berlin holidays, stringently tight New York money market, French Canadian emigration rising, Cleopatra’s needle aboard at Alexandria, Cohoes strike losses, wages restored to pre 1877 levels, German emigration to US rising, Morgan gift to Union Theological Seminary, Treasury buys bonds, Kentucky privacy on executions, Ingersoll blocked in Brookville, Connecticut delegation tallies for Chicago, Cossack Chinese skirmish on Kuldja, bonds offered at NY auctions, Jay Cooke sale bankrupt, Russian expedition escort, Chicagos managers, British Parliament redistricting, public debt and internal revenue shifts, distress in Africa and the Near East, Prince Moth er to Paris departure, Italian treaty execution debates, Louisville distillers settlement, and other scattered items.
Two days of meetings announced at Salt Lake Assembly Hall beginning April 4 1880 with the fiftieth anniversary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints observed April 6 1880 in the Tabernacle. John Taylor signs on behalf of the Twelve Apostles.
The article argues mining drives national prosperity as the United States and especially the Pacific region expand silver and gold output. It cites 1878 totals by state, noting California Nevada Utah Colorado Oregon Washington and Dakota contributions and that the U S produced about half the world’s gold and silver that year, with a long run total since 1859 of 394 990 915.
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