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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1909
Page
6
Furniture for sale at 2415 Jefferson and Woodcraft dance on February 22 at Royal Dancing Academy. Tracklaying resumed by Western Pacific four miles from Eiko with a force on site.
About 120 men are employed and it is expected they will average a mile a day if there are no unforeseen delays. The grade will be completed by March 15. If no delays occur, the tracklaying depends heavily on whether Southern Pacific will grant a rate on construction materials, while Western Pacific refuses to pay local charges.
The column describes forged checks involving a Chinese restaurant proprietor and a doctor, plus a grand Charity Ball by the Ogden Stake Relief Board at Weber Academy on February 22 1909. It also covers a robbery at Union Depot by a mulatto woman, railroad improvements on the Rio Grande, insurance policy inquiries, business trips of executives, and assorted railroad and coal trade notices.
Plans allocate millions to rebuild the Missouri Pacific line from Kansas City to Pueblo with connections to Denver Rio Grande. Rio Grande lines will be reballasted and ninety pound rails installed. Physical condition of Missouri Pacific in Kansas and Colorado is poor, necessitating near total rebuild west of Kansas City.
In Uintah John M. Rybes died at 12 40 a m Sunday funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 o clock at the Uintah meeting house Esther White of 908 Twenty eighth Street died Sunday at 2 30 p m wife of George W White Deceased born in England November 4 1446 resided in Ogden ten years survived by husband and several children Time and place of funeral to be announced later
Union Pacific freight wrecked two miles west of Echo Sunday at 11 15. A wheel on one of the engineer cars raised ten coal cars in west bound train No 274 under Conductor Schnell and Engineer Burke. Cars piled up and coal scattered across Morgan county. No injuries reported and trains resumed schedule after cleanup.
The 13 year old Louie Murdock and her twin Levi took a horse and Mrs. Martin's buggy, headed toward Salt Lake City after church. Sheriff Wade intercepted the runaways near Layton, with Louie noted for past escapades and both youths to be returned to Ogden for juvenile court review. Louie had recently been placed with Gus Ian on Canyon Road for better conduct and schooling prior to this incident.
Simon Bamberger, president of the Salt Lake & Ogden Railroad, outlined season plans in Ogden. He said work will start soon with about a hundred men, including pole setting, wiring, and copper rail connections. He projected $650,000 in year improvements plus $350,000 for future double tracking, new cars at $14,000 each, and at least twelve Pullman style cars seating 60. Every hour a car will run from each end. one in three cars will be an express stopping only at Lagoon.
The week includes Washington’s birth celebration and Roosevelt’s administration close, with Taft inaugurations and appearances. Taft speaks in Philadelphia and New York, attends a university event, alumni dinner, and a peace society dinner. National and professional meetings are set in Chicago, New Haven, Cheyenne, Pittsburg, and Buffalo with rowing and bowling events noted.
A powerful storm struck about 19 miles west of Eureka Kansas at 4 am causing multiple injuries. Wires are down hampering details and rescue efforts. Frank Sallyards home seven miles NW of Eureka was destroyed with Mrs Sallyards and daughter seriously injured. John Alexander's residence north of Eureka damaged with his wife hurt. Telephone lines down, so casualty count uncertain.
Judge Howell and County Commissioner Oscar Madson joined Ogden Mayor Brewer and city council members on a rail trip across the Ogden Lucin cut off in a private car. Harriman system officials hosted, with athletic games and a sprint among Brewer Madson and Hok. Seasick winds led to stimulants and champagne on the lake voyage. The party returned Sunday evening satisfied with the outing.
Mayor Brewer and six councilmen plus invited guests rode to Laccia by private car to view the manual passes and the great cut off built by noted railroad engineers. The trip was uneventful and described as a simple day outing with no underlying plot, the party returning home in the late afternoon.
A westbound Union Pacific coal train wrecked near Echo yesterday morning blocking all traffic both directions. Eastbound trains stalled in Ogden yards until late evening. westbound trains held at Echo and delayed until Ogden by 6 30. No lives or injuries reported though crews cleared wreckage all day. Ten coal cars were involved in the wreck, with a significant impact expected.
Terrible snowstorms prevail in Russia for two weeks blocking about two thousand miles of the Southwest railway tracks near Kiev. The harsh weather halted travel, disrupted shipments, and stranded passengers across the region as crews battled snow drifts and frozen lines.
San Francisco report shows John CourIngs, 24, bell boy at the Manx hotel, named in Colonel G. H. Warfield’s will for a $22,000 inheritance. Once a jockey for Warfield, he plans to travel Europe. Douglass, a Los Angeles attorney, is his father. The boy’s wife Helen Sutherland, an actress, died by suicide in a Los Angeles hotel last October.
Sien Feb 2 funeral services for Rear Admiral Charles Cotton USN retired drew both American and British officers. Attendees included Rear Admirals Drake Hows Devry Iselin and Major and Mrs Webster Iselin and many friends. The body wrapped in an American flag lay in state before cremation. Ashes to be sent to the United States aboard a battleship.
A reflective piece on marital strife and home unrest, arguing that constant quarrels drive husbands and sons away while suggesting women should seek peace at home. It mocks perpetual discord and laments the absence of family, with a tongue in cheek note about collectors arriving when loved ones stay distant.
Southern Pacific employes receive their pay as Washington’s birthday observances shut shops and keep engines ready. Cashier McGaw stacks gold around his office while nearly $100,000 is distributed to local Ogden workers, bolstering the railroad workforce as the annual pay cycle proceeds.
President elect Taft and Mrs Taft arrive in Philadelphia from Cincinnati and New York, greeted by crowds. They visit the Mitchell residence, call their daughter Helen in Bryn Mawr, and plan events with Frank H Hitchock and Frank B Kellogg. Taft weighs Alaska travel invitations and a future South and Southwest tour, with an Academy of Music speech in Philadelphia tomorrow.
A mother in Antwerp produced two sets of triplets in the same year, a January first set and a December second set. Six brothers, all born to the same mother, have appeared before military authorities to draw lots for compulsory service, a case described as perhaps the most remarkable on record.
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