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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1917
Page
9
Miscellaneous items appear from Ogden and Weber areas including coaching changes at East Bide High School and Ogden High School, a Bohemian night in Weber, nurses outing at Des Hospital, stock sales by L. J. Leirehman Co, rental listings, attorney filings for Utah Power & Light, and theater listings at Lyceum with The American Girl.
At 535 Twenty third Street Alfred and his wife quarrelled with Dave Allen threatening his wife then himself. Allen attacked with pens and scraps, later police state the incident stemmed from misunderstandings. Allen’s wife arrested on vagrancy charge. sergeant notes marital tensions misread.
Officer W. W. Richardson confronted Curly Linker at a rooming house near Watkins Grocery. Linker wrested the officer’s pistol, forced him to the floor, then fired at close range. Linker grabbed the weapon, shot himself in the right foot while trying to flee, and was later arrested after a chase through a drug store. Linker, a known troublemaker, faced potential serious charges.
Police report another arrest in the Ben Rogers murder case. DS Miranda, believed connected, was jailed in Salt Lake City and may reveal more about the crime. Coroner’s inquest confirmed Rogers as the dead man. Rogers’ family described him as a steady provider. Baca’s confession and Miranda’s arrest shift focus to motive and accomplices.
Superintendent Frank Driggs of the School for the Deaf and Blind has returned to Ogden from Hartford after attending the National Convention of Instructors of the Blind. He notes strong eastern and midwestern support for increased food production and reports acres once weeded are now cultivated, forecasting record crops due to patriotic effort backing the president.
James McClagge was arrested on Inner Twenty fifth street by Officer Hearn and arraigned in police court on a tax drunk charge. He chose a $18 alternative. Four men, Matt Lawrence Pat Halley Jon Mang and J W Bellmore, were each fined $6 or five days' imprisonment for disorderly intoxication. Judge Sarkay showed no sympathy.
Marthe Alice Getchel, 19, a mildly de mented girl from the State Industrial School, left at dark and is believed lost east of Ogden. She is 6 feet 4 inches, 115 pounds with dark hair and a worried expression. A $10 reward for her return. reports should go to Superintendent Hinckley at phone 148.
D A Smyth of the National hotel is plaintiff in an action against Phorals Construction Company now before Judge A W Agee's district court department. Smyth seeks 490. Anderson an employee of the Phoenix Construction Company earned 20 monthly. He was paid by check. In Baltimore he lost a 90 check. The company stopped payment. A finder returned the check and via Anderson induced Smyth to cash it. The bank refused payment. Smyth seeks to compel the company to honor the check.
Ogden City faces a damages claim from A A Brandon over a board fence along Canyon Road at Glenwood Park. Brandon, who runs a refreshment stand opposite the park, alleges the fence is a spite fence erected on orders of Commissioner Miles L. Jones to ruin his business. Jones calls it a safety fence designed to keep automobiles from entering the park and endangering children. Judge John D. Murphy represents Brandon.
In the case of the Twenty eighth street property owners against the city of Ogden and P Moran the taking of testimony continues with Judge A E Pratt expected to rule whether the city acted within rights in proceeding with paying work. Attorneys detailed recorder books and deeds to show property abutting streets for paying improvements while the district’s representative expressed satisfaction with progress and potential further surprises loom in the case.
Peterson of 442 Eighteenth Street plans to sue after being knocked from his bicycle yesterday at Washington Ave and Twenty Fourth Street by a Volker Lumber truck driven by Chauffeur Cooler. He alleges negligent driving and aims to recover from the truck owner. Peterson injured his back and is under two physicians care. The driver claims the crash was unavoidable due to defective steering gear.
A Salt Lake golf team is to visit the Ogden Golf and Country Club this Sunday. The report notes the event as part of a broader movement involving battery members and a fund drive to hire attorneys for a release effort.
July 13 Salt Lake City sergeants Glen Allen and Noy Roshard of First Utah fight field artillery were jailed after warrants to pave a camp road between Jarden Nar and Wall Street were executed. They faced twenty day sentences for leaving camp and the project cost 3514.69 dollars. The J. P. ONeill Construction Company did the work under city engineer supervision.
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