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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1909
Page
4
Public notice from Ogden Utah indicates printing as second class matter under Act of Congress. Publication details show daily except Sundays by Wm. Glaemann with subscription rates for one month six months and twelve months in advance.
The Evening Standard in Ogden publishes its 1908 rate card with flat rates per inch for advertisements across all sections. Special positions add per inch surcharges, and first page space costs fifty cents per inch daily on the lower page half. Special contracts offered for weekly or monthly runs.
A city waterworks committee meeting eyed changes to a water commission bill drafted by James McCracken. They removed a $5 daily city engineer salary and a $100 yearly city attorney fee, aiming to win legislative approval. The article hints deliberate misstatements and cites James McCracken as introducer of House Bill 156.
The passage argues officials rushed to Salt Lake to inform Mr McCracken the water project was a mistake and denies intent to take 100 a month from Mr DeVine and 54 a day for the city engineer. It condemns the push to fasten waste charges and notes public indignation at the quiet passage of the measure.
The piece describes a Greek man fatally wounding an officer during an arrest, followed by a violent mob attack on Greek quarters. It argues against anti foreigner sentiment, urges equal rights and protection for Greek families, and calls for ending mob violence. It also discusses local option and prohibition debates with quotes from lawmakers.
The Utah Republican delegation emphatically denies any deal with liquor interests. Senator Smoot asserts a strong temperance stance, pledging to close every saloon under existing laws and citing Utah towns with bans. He notes prohibition was not an issue at Republican hearings or in campaigns and alleges Democrats defeated prohibition resolutions.
The piece argues that probing graft and prosecuting corruption strengthens the nation and public service, despite critics who claim investigations hurt business. It notes the complaint often comes from those fearing exposure of their own wrongdoing.
Washington correspondent William Wolff Smith known as Poker Bill discovers a constitutional restriction that bars anyone who voted for cabinet pay raises from accepting a cabinet post. He sells the story for about seven dollars, beating major papers to the scoop and catching President Taft unaware.
The house rescinded the order raising Mr. Knox’s salary allowing him to accept the secretary of state portfolio after the removal of the pay increase.
Consul Norton from Chemnitz notes long-running German studies on electric motive power for trains. He cites 1903 Prussian tests proving a suitable alternating current motor, then outlines Pforr's costed plan for a nationwide electric system including transformers, conductors, and generating plants totaling about 234 million dollars, while also detailing local political corruption cases and a trial date set for Councilman Shepard.
Stockton report says illegal gambling pool halls and opium dens run unchecked in town. It accuses Chief of Police Frank Briare Captain Craig Detective Donahue and several officers of receiving money from offenders.
A Michigan woman testifies to Hyomel curing catarrh asthma hay fever and croup. She praises the inhaled antiseptic remedy as a quick relief for head nose and eye symptoms and endorses its use. The full outfit with inhaler costs one dollar from S W Budcon.
New York reports Mrs. Margaret Teal wife of producer Ben Teal along with Mrs. Julia Fleming and Harry Mousley charged with attempting to procure perjured testimony in the divorce case Helen Kelly Gould versus Frank J Gould. Mabel McCauslan testified Teal offered money or a trip and an actress post to testify to a suspicion in Teal's apartments, which she refused, while Fleming urged her to swear to it.
New York Feb 25 Former Governor Myron T Herrick of Ohio will not be secretary of the treasury in the Taft cabinet A Taft statement says Herrick declined due to business engagements and misinterpretation of his candidacy Taft will consider Franklin McVeagh of Chicago for the post and nothing final is announced Taft arrived in New York to stay with his brother Henry W Taft before departing for Washington.
San Francisco February 23 Louis Schulze poet journalist and "Gaspipe" thug convicted of a violent assault on Sig Hurtig a jeweler whom he robbed was sentenced by Superior Judge Cabania to thirty years in the state penitentiary at Folsom. Two prior convictions helped lengthen the term.
Plobe Nevada February 23 Thomas W Ford brother in law to Superintendent Gaskill of Nevada Consolidated was instantly killed in the cay mine by a fall from the 700 to 900 foot level. Ford about twenty years old worked for the Ely Mines company and was well known.
United States Assistant District Attorney McNamara is sworn as special assistant to the attorney general to help prosecute the Press Publishing Company and the New York World editors in a Panama canal libel case. He will go to New York to confer with U S District Attorney Stimson on removing Pulitzer and others for trial, then to Chicago and Indianapolis for related proceedings.
In San Francisco on February 23 William Haas an engineer at Ralston Iron Works killed his landlady Mrs F Woods and lodger William Ludford after a jealous rage. He shot Ludford then Mrs Woods and ended his life after obtaining a new pistol. A bystander Mrs Woolf witnessed the aftermath.
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