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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1903
Page
4
Subscription terms listed by editor WM. Glasmann show in advance daily rates and city carrier delivery with monthly and yearly options. Outside Ogden by mail prices are not clearly stated.
The paper notes a 200 word limit for communications and insists that the author's full name be published. Writers are reminded to include complete names to ensure proper attribution and to avoid publication delays.
The Standard directs all advertisers to deal directly with the Ogden Utah office or through reputable agencies and notes there are no special agents outside Utah.
The standard publishing company in Ogden Utah requests all communications be addressed to its Ogden office as noted in the notice.
Ogden residents are urged to inform the reception committee how many rooms they can spare for visiting Irrigation Congress delegates next month. With hotels full, private homes are asked to accommodate prominent guests including senators governors and government experts. Communications will be kept confidential to ensure a pleasant stay for all delegates.
A Paris subway catastrophe killed about 100 people as two trains carried passengers through an underground passage. A third train crashed into burning cars causing frantic panics and deadly bottlenecks at stairs and curves.
A new book by James Howard Iridge, once Carnegie’s secretary, claims bitter rifts between Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. It details the Homestead era feuds, discloses supposed trade secrets, and sparks Wall Street debate over Carnegie’s legacy.
The article traces US ancestry beyond Anglo Saxon roots, detailing German Irish and English immigration shares across decades from 1621 to 1900. It cites Bureau of Statistics data on arrivals, notes rising German and Chinese inflows, and provides decennial totals, with emphasis on Europe and Ireland, Germany, England, France, Scotland, and Russia among top origins.
A detailed historical account lays bare the quarrel between Carnegie and Frick and Phipps, with Schwab figures and cost contrasts. It covers production costs, profit divisions, and the Homestead strike’s influence on the steel empire, including stock moves and coke price disputes.
The State Board of Equalization reports about ten million added to Utah’s total property assessment, with final real and personal property totals expected above 128 million after corrections. The 1902 figure stood at 118,087,216, and taxes raise roughly 50 thousand for general purposes and about 30 thousand for the school fund. Railroads, car firms, and telecoms plus mine net proceeds show an increased assessment totaling 3,391,573.
Quotations list for copper and major railroads with closing prices. Stocks cited include Atchison, Baltimore & Ohio, Brooklyn Metropolitan Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Great Western Erie Illinois Central Manhattan New York Central Missouri Pacific and more. Prices shown in fractions reflect the era's market reporting.
A compact list of historical stock figures includes Southern Pacific 4212-9 and Southern Railway 197% with St. Paul 136 lt Sugar 1411-2 Texas 221-2 Tennessee Coal & Tron 351-2 Union Pacific 703-8 Steel Common 213-4 Steel Preferred 891-2 Western Union 11-3 Wabash 321-4.
Cattle receipts 11900 with strong to shade lower prices. Native steers 3.00 to 5.25, cows and heifers 3.60 to 4.25, stockers and feeders 2.73 to 4.00, bulls 2.25 to 3.00, calves 2.00 to 6.50, western steers 2.00 to 4.85, western cows 2.00 to 3.10. Hogs receipts 7000 with gains. most sales 5.30 to 5.45, heavy 5.20 to 5.50, packers 5.30 to 5.45, medium 5.40 to 5.92, light 5.30 to 5.55, yorkers 5.43 to 5.55, pigs 5.30 to 5.60. Sheep receipts 3000 with strong tone. lambs 3.00 to 5.75, range wethers 2.85 to 4.75, ewes 2.80 to 4.75.
Cattle receipts 4 000 steady prices for steers range 5.00 to 5.45 with other classes noted. Hogs receipts 14 000 steady to higher with carcass and weight brackets from 5.25 to 5.85. Sheep receipts 24 000 with steady demand and price spread across wethers and lambs among regional grades.
Sugar and coffee prices in New York markets show refined sugar at 5.00 to 5.60 per unit for various forms, molasses and granulated sugars listed with several tests and yields. Coffee steady with No 7 Rio at 73-16.
Omaha cattle hog and sheep receipts show steady to lower trader activity with various classes priced. Cattle on hand include native steers 4.25 to 5.23, cows 3.00 to 4.00, western stock 3.50 to 4.50, canners 2.25 to 2.50, and bulls 2.00. hogs 9,000 head with prices around 5.15 to 6.20, pigs 5.25 to 5.30. sheep receipts 7,500 with yearlings 3.50 to 4.00, wethers 3.00 to 3.60, ewes 2.50 to 3.00, lambs 4.50 to 3.50.
General Charles A. Coolidge turns over command of the Presidio reservation to Lieut. Col. Thomas C. Woodbury of the Seventh Infantry. Coolidge has just been promoted to brigadier general and placed on the retired list, with orders to go to his home in Boston.
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