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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1880
Page
2
Ogden City Utah August 28 1880 post office notice prints Second Class Matter. Local postal entry indicates standard mailing status and city designation for Ogden Junction print edition.
The article lists appointed subscription agents authorized to receive money and issue receipts for the Semi-Weekly Junction. Names include Morgan City Jos Salmon, Franklin Edwin Smith, Richmond Cache Co, James England, and others across multiple counties and towns. The general collector is James England.
Noted Chicago detective Atta Pinkertox grants Scott Marble rights to dramatize his criminal stories Bucholtz and Tramps and Detectives. Marble plans stage adaptations and public readings based on the detective’s cases.
The article quotes Denis Kearney calling a 91 000 Chinese population in San Francisco a factor in a feared outcome, then notes agitators’ lax handling of figures. Eyewitnesses cast doubt on the numbers while acknowledging the heated local rhetoric.
A historical note lists losses in the U S treasury per $1000 under various administrations. Jackson shows 7 52, Van Buren 11 71, Morrison and Taylor 6 40, Polk 4 08, Fillomer 4 19, Pierce 3 56, Buchanan 3 81, Lincoln 0 76, Johnson 0 67, Grant 0 34. The figures are given for reference to the era’s fiscal records.
Farner Bouse, one of the librarians of the Vatican, works on an edition of Samaritan prayers and hymns from a manuscript in the Vatican library. The London Athearum notes this manuscript may be the oldest and most complete in any European library.
St Louis registered a blistering August day with a thermometer 106 feet up showing 106 degrees, the hottest since 1874. Readings ranged from 92 at 10 am to 101 by early afternoon, then fluctuated to 93, 100, and finally 90 at night, with street temperatures running 3 to 6 degrees higher.
Two biographies praised as genuine eulogies detail William Watt as a representative miner and Leland Stanford as a former California governor and CPRR president. Issued by Whoeas Steam Printing House at 605 Clay Street, with a focus on California’s development.
The article recalls Lewis Wirtz who murdered Josephs Melody in Independence Missouri and was acquitted by insanity. It notes Wirtz died recently from sunstroke on the same day hour and spot as the crime, seen as a striking token of divine retribution by The New Sun.
Candeopkis of Salem was accused weeks ago of stealing a shawl she said she carried to a window for examination. An acquittal and apology followed but the shame led her to commit suicide. The note says two husbands of women who buy shawls often kill themselves.
Back Pourroy welcomed General Granton on a Denver return visit. The Glenarm event on Monday drew Denver’s elite and public figures to see lavish displays and greet the grand old hero, the unselfish statesman.
The article advises farmers to push forward sheep pigs and cattle now as rapid as possible noting weight gain scales with size and that water is essential food. It warns that flesh cost today may affect future yield and stresses regular wholesome water provision.
The article compares 1879 trade balances, noting the United States exports far more than it imports while Britain shows a shrinking trade, with imports falling from 289 to 284 million pounds and exports declining to foreign markets. It cites European rivals and American growth as England’s declines continue.
The latest figures show Great Britain with 502,770 teachers and 5,079,160 scholars across England Wales Scotland and Ireland. In the United States there are 83,261 schools 856 395 teachers and 6 623 121 scholars. Worldwide totals reach 1 360 881 teachers and 12 310 316 scholars.
A brief item notes Pathys and Bile appearing at Wade's Drug Store, with no additional details or context provided in the readable text.
The article extols Utah fruiting season, noting abundant apricots peaches apples and pears, with families busy harvesting and preserving. It discusses fruit handling, packing for export, and the economic value of fruit raising as less laborious than grain, urging care to avoid bruising and to maximize market price.
The Chicago News condemns high charges by St Louis Cincinnati establishments during the Knights encampment. It cites tea and coffee at 20 25 cents, beer 14 20 cents, soda water 10 cents, and steak at 40 50 cents, illustrating the mistreatment of visitors.
A Canson woman began a forty day silence at nine am but by 10:30 am she was exhausted and near collapse. Doctors feared death before noon as her pulse and breathing weakened. At 11:00 am she calmed, then rushed from the house upon learning gossip about a neighbor and regained strength by six thirty PM after talking with a friend.
Local miners met at City Hall then Union Opera House to decide on by law changes and officer elections. Judge R K Williams named chairman. Mr Margary elected secretary 21 votes to 15. debate over voting rights and by law changes followed as the meeting adjourned for a week.
Telegraph details outline the presidential party led by President Hayes traveling from Washington via Pennsylvania road to Fremont then Canton Ohio for a reunion. They proceed to Chicago and Omaha, up the Union Pacific to Ogden and Salt Lake City, then San Francisco, Carson City, Portland, Puget Sound, and Tacoma before returning south to Tucson and Colorado, aiming to finish by October 1.
Rumors suggest Igden Iron Works may be purchased by a firm described as Het I Cor pany. If confirmed, operations could resume as renovations begin and the plant restarts.
Deseret News reports George Gerrard, about eighteen, fell 110 feet into the Oregon mine shaft near Alta on Sunday. He did not regain consciousness and died at dawn. his remains will be sent to Salt Lake City for burial.
Park Mining Record reports a street clash as Fred Lowe chased Jake Grn s nington with a butcher knife. Cunnington was cut near the eye but held the knife, crowd shouted, Lowe reportedly took strychnine and a small be a peck was seized by bystanders.
Personal Mr. Banks an auditor for the U P and P roadz arrived from the east in a special car and proceeded west yesterday evening. General Crook Col Stanton Lieut Roberts and party traveled from the north after a quick visit to Yellowstone geysers. The Piercy Deception Company, eighteen men, arrived from the west and went to Salt Lake to perform there this evening.
On Sunday morning between 11 and 12 o clock an alarm of fire rang out at Marshal Shaughnessy’s residence north of the theatre. A curtain caught fire and burned sash and blind before discovery. Inmates and then the brigade extinguished it. damage was slight.
Scientific note reports that wooden posts placed upside down rot slower than those installed upright. Capillary action is suggested as a factor that opposes moisture rise when the wood is inverted, delaying decay.
The wife of Mr. N B Sebree of this city has presented her liege lord with a fine girl. Readers are wished joy as the child grows to bring banjoy to the family and light to their days.
Home missionaries are notified that Sunday August 29 appointments were published in error in the semi weekly Jexeroy and should not be filled until further notice.
Reports say a Park City log may impress Dr. Tanner on the fasting business while nearby work advances include a new drinking fountain on Covop corners and a Main street pipe lay. Other items note a special bathing train for railroad hands, a drowned miner Kuss discussed, and a gossip filled verse about a hidden kiss.
A Utah newspaper clarifies that President Grant visited Ogden twice and Salt Lake City once in October 1875 while still president. He also passed through Ogden en route home after his world trip last year but did not visit Salt Lake City then. Salt Lake had seen a chief magistrate once before Hayes’s proposed visit.
The body of George T. Gerrard reached Salt Lake from the Oregon mine in Big Cottonwood Canyon. The attending physician reports a skull fracture and concussion from a shaft fall. death occurred eleven and a half hours after the accident. Funeral services were held yesterday at the Ninth Ward school house.
Eleven car loads of excursionists from Salt Lake City, under the Tenth Ward Brass Band, started for a three day trip to Logan Cache County. Seventeen cars pulled out from Ogden with attendees including John Reeve and the Driver and Van Dyke families. A future Salt Lake Fire department event with the same band is planned for the Sth of next month, expecting even more participants.
Salt Lake City councils appoint committees for reception arrangement and resolutions to honor Prestages arrival. The reception panel includes Mayor Little and Geo. Q. Cannon among others. Arrangement and Resolution committees list Aldermen Dinwoodey Calder and Recorder Caine with Whitney. They invite Governor and federal officers to join the welcome. Ogden urged to emulate this action.
A bar keeper posted an “Order of Exercises” listing delegate activities and times for a Chicago Republican convention. The list includes entries such as Double Leader, Lightning express, Social straight, Fancy, and Night COD with varied start times and notes on attendance and conduct.
Mr. Woodland of Willard reported several valuable horses missing after telegraphing to Salt Lake and others. Sheriff Brown alerted Echo, and this morning the horses were found, but the thief or thieves remain at large.
Core's circus in Reno on Saturday draws crowds while Tue depot shows a lively morning. Salt Lake chain gang thinning, Deception praised, and Piercy company to perform again tonight in Forget-Me-Not. Telegraph poles upsets shade trees. Ogden girl delays acceptance to marriage offer. Bars Mar Bowarrya receives Sacred Heart Academy gold medal Ist in Vocal Music. In Verdi Nevada a mother wakes the night visitor to announce breakfast as tradition. the reply is I tumble.
Story from the Provo Enquirer describes Blume, 38, and Charlie Waldron traveling from Salt Lake toward Arizona selling goods. After a dispute at Rock Springs mail depot near Prescott, they were reportedly taken toward Prescott by U. S. Marshal Duke party. later authorities say Blume and Waldron were murdered. Bailiffs and Gov. Arizona officials urged pursuit as evidence files.
A large Second Ward audience heard Prof Talmage of Provo condemn custom as a tyrant over Americans, especially the young. He warned against conformity in reading and dress, urged moral responsibility, and urged readers to seek improvement while guarding hospitality. A vote of thanks closed the lecture with a reeling, stained by the crowd’s energy.
A barefooted woman, claiming Salt Lake origins, sought city hall aid after an alleged journey from a saloon on First South Street to Ogden. She says a unknown wagon owner charged two dollars and left belongings in the wagon, and she reached Kaysville tired and hungry, with authorities to investigate.
The Reno Gazette reports a Justice of the Peace in Halleck impaneled a five member jury to try a man for killing an Indian by throat cutting. The prisoner testified and the jury acquitted Wo. Weathery of Star Valley, Nevada, on August 1, 1880, and was discharged from custody.
Special to the Jeseras from Milford Utah states Joseph Glassford constable of Frisco was shot and killed this morning by Fisher a mill watchman of Milford. The long standing feud between the parties is given as the cause. Fisher is under arrest.
A circuit conference of the Oxden set ties will be held on Sunday August 8 inviting all young people. Wells Cowley and others from Salt Lake will be present.
Sumner on Saturday at p m to Mr Sod Sebree of this city a baby girl weighing about 12 pounds born to a mother and father who are doing well and improving.
Obituary notices from North Ogden and Jensen feature death reports for Jsdl4 Jane Brown aged 2 years 23 days and Barbara Eile Brown aged 9 months 11 days both from measles at North Ogden. Des, News copy requests and details on Mrs Hennefer from Summit County Utah with ties to London born 1823 and church baptism 1845. Mrs Hennefer mother of twelve with thirteen grandchildren.
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