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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1904
Page
5
Advertisers must submit changes for the Saturday Standard by Thursday noon. Evening paper changes for ATL are due the day before.
The Royal Neighbors announce a card party in the A O SAY hall Friday evening with January 1 as the date and a 25 cent admission. A good time is assured.
A mix of ads and notices includes prize soap promotion from J. S. Carver & Sons, improvements in Mrs. Peery, meat market promotions, funeral details for Charles P. Haskins, blizzard effects in Ogden and train wire outages, rental offering for a three room cottage, delivery job postings for the Ogden Morning Examiner, travel agent Treeling with an ankle sprain, Buckwheat availability, rent for typewriters, a residence sale to William Pugh, Pasteur Dairy milk delivery, and society page schedule changes. Separate items mention canned beef transit to the Coast, a Y M W and L M I A ball on January 20 1904, oyster and seafood promotions, an inquest into Mike Bunn’s death and suspected land deal, with coroner’s jury impaneled.
John Smuin, an old Ogden resident born in Radley England in 1820, was found dead in his bed at his home rear of 2247 Monroe avenue. Officials report death by apoplexy after years of illness. he leaves a wife and three children in Rexburg Idaho and Salt Lake City. Funeral arrangements to be announced once information is received.
Forecasters expect clearing skies and a sharp drop in temperatures tonight. A cold wave will grip the south and east portions, while Thursday brings fair weather across the region.
Berlin reports expect Emperor Wilhelm to attend the departure of the expedition to Southwest Africa tomorrow at Wilhelmshaven. Prince Henry of Prussia reviewed the battalion and urged soldiers to be faithful to flag and country. The Reichstag approved final reading of supplemental funds to suppress the uprising.
A false alarm at the temporary main post office on the lake front triggered a rapid drill. Nearly 100 tons of mail matter and twenty-two stamp cancelling machines were moved out in four minutes. Two hundred people were inside when the warning rang. Water streams were applied within three minutes as lines of hose were attached.
George Wells faced trial on robbery charges connected to the Zang saloon robbery in Ogden. The court denied a change of venue after defense motion, amended the information to Ed Bello alias George Bello, and jurors were being examined as the case proceeded.
The jury to serve during the February term of the District Court was drawn this morning. Names listed include Ambrose Shaw Thomas Feeney Ole Olson J B Dana A H Martin Charles A Halverson Walter Bingham J E Browning Claude Zinn BE E Stewart P H Cook George H Tribe John N Word T H Turner A W Meek Wm Moyes A V Curbey P T Sherwood Jerome Brown Henry H Butler Orden William J Belnap Hooper Joseph Wood West Weber Fred S Miller Harrisville Curtis C Stoddard Uintah A L Marriott Marriott.
A mass meeting of Salt Lake valley farmers and Utah lake water stockholders voted to back a government project using Utah lake as a large reservoir. They will form a mutual company to handle desert reclamation work, aiming to cultivate five hundred thousand acres in the Salt Lake valley.
A local resident, Erwin Emmett, offers a home and business package delivery and errand service. The Ogden Knitting Factory at 2274 Wash Ave promotes telephone orders to collect and deliver packages throughout the city at a lower cost than self carrying.
London reports A F Grierson formerly of Chicago and commander of Grierson's Horse in 1881 wed today to Mrs Fitzgerald Creagh widow of Major General Creagh. The ceremony links notable military lineages and ties to South Africa service.
The body of George Francis Train is removed from Mills hotel to a mortuary chapel in New York, where it will lie in state until the private funeral tomorrow. Thousands of children who admired him are expected to pay a farewell view, with interment at Greenwood cemetery. His fortune diminished to only the interest from 3,000 data once owned in Omaha amid protracted litigation, read by his daughter.
Mrs Kate Waller Barrett national superintendent of Florence Crittenton Homes arrives after touring 64 homes across the country. A reception is planned Saturday evening at the Crittenton Home with Barrett delivering addresses in Boise and again Sunday. Roosevelt letter and praise noted.
Indianapolis Jan 20 At the opening of the United Mine Workers convention delegates read resolutions. The scale committee for Indiana Ohio Illinois and western Pennsylvania elected Thomas Reynolds Illinois as chairman. A central demand likely a ten percent wage rise in central districts. A Leavenworth socialistic proposal was ridiculed and the credentials report delayed adjournment until tomorrow.
A Lambeth coroner's jury finds accidental death for a woman who fell down stairs. The jury orders the landlord to install hand rails, citing their absence as the cause. The landlord is identified as the Prince of Wales, owner of the Duchy of Cornwall house.
American billiardist Jacob Schaefer issues a Paris sourced letter challenging any titled pillard player to two matches on a five by ten table with two formats. One match at 18-inch balk line, 3,000 points total with 500 per night. the other at cushion car rows, 1,800 points total with 390 per night.
Joseph A. Stinson once linked to Chicago and the International Mercantile Agency was found guilty of attempted extortion. He allegedly used his Chicago position to seize valuable papers for restoration and demanded five thousand dollars. He awaits sentencing in New York.
Washington lawmakers clash over adding a Senate post office clerk and on Panama policy. Senator Morgan seeks Panama annexation with 10 million for compensation and 60 million for New Panama Canal Co. assets, while critics accuse Roosevelt of overreach and cite Spooner Act limits.
The House convened and resumed amendments to the Hepburn pure food bill. Section three was amended to strike the requirement that a secretary's certificate of analysis be admitted in all U.S. courts without further verification. Debate centered on penalties and inspection powers as critics warned of federal spying.
Washington January 20 the postal trial resumes with Kumler seeking to call affidavits alleging Mayer spoke with witnesses. Justice Pritchard warns against extraneous matters while the dispute over contempt rules unfolds. Henry Lockwood testifies about an order for six thousand Groff fasteners to the New York city delivery office.
In a courtroom exchange Justice Pritchard signaled openness to admitting evidence connected to advancing the indictment allegation. Mx Taggart described the objective as proving Machen’s energetic distribution of fasteners, while deliberations on admissibility continued as the hearing progressed.
Investigators add three more arrests in the Denver fraud probe tied to December charter delegate elections. Ella J. Caldwell, Herman Kastner, and William Barber, all election workers, were released pending trial after being charged with willful malicious corrupt negligent violations of the election laws. Eleven defendants face charges as hearings set for Saturday.
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