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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
2
Advertising rates published for the Evening and Bam Teey, detailing daily and weekly charges, preferred positions, and local reader insertions. Rates include daily, weekly, and multiple insertions with varying charges per line per insertion and special pricing for frequent ads.
The Commercial Club of Salt Lake City files with the Interstate Commerce Commission a formal complaint against Utah rail freight and passenger charges. It claims unjust and discriminatory rates between Chicago and Utah points versus California routes, with attached tables showing commodity rates in cents per 10 pounds and proposed changes. The petition requests higher rates for agricultural implements to Utah compared with San Francisco and other destinations, highlighting large disparities in freight charges.
A fragmentary list shows shipments from Chicago to San Francisco with rates per ton and varying surcharges. It references Ogden and Denver routes, stops at certain cities, and mentions freight charges rising if trains are halted. It also includes commentary on press ethics around the Gould case and sensational reporting.
The Salt Lake Tribune faces a broad attack framing the paper as biased while defending fair freight and passenger rates. It argues that state rail valuations should reflect all property including railroads and reduces tolls to prevent derailment of public services.
Text fragment describes a forced relocation between Balt Lake and Ogden, mentioning a council or organization seeking to convert present rates into fares and to influence a broader outcome. The readable portions are fragmentary and adjacent proper nouns are uncertain.
Strange reports say gamblers were driven from Salt Lake City but are believed to return in greater force. The city remains unsettled as authorities face a public misbelief that wartime gambling restrictions were merely a pretense. Salt Lake City holds its uneasy balance amid the ongoing turmoil.
In a stormy Utah Fall association session a vote to end the track’s fall race meet was approved amid accusations of mismanagement and unscrupulous conduct. Patrons protested high racing prices, illicit rating, and flawed oversight, signaling decline at Salt Lake racing grounds and prompting closures.
A Massachusetts commission bulletin warns that newborn eye infections like ophthalmia neonatorum cause blindness but are highly preventable with prompt medical care. It urges doctors, schools, and parents to ensure infant eye exams, distribute care literature, and support preventive treatment to save vision and reduce lifelong disability.
A garbled excerpt references Utah, Salt Lake, and various odd terms. The legible portions imply a protest or statement about Utah not participating in an unspecified conflict and rejecting external influence, but the fragmentary OCR yields no clear events, dates, or named individuals.
A noisy public debate calls for Utah counties to resist funding distant cities like Ogden and Salt Lake in school budgets. Citizens of Vernal urge adherence to constitutional tax provisions, arguing regional education needs and local accountability, while criticizing metropolitan emphasis and costly regional amenities.
Ogden resident J HL Whorlow shares four year battle with kidney pain. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster-Malter Co Buffalo for relief after purchasing at Hadroo's Pharmacy. The ad touts kidney secretion screening and warns of dropsy diabetes and Bright's disease.
A large boat carrying five Americans and four British tourists and eight boatmen capsized in a gale on lower Killarney lake near Ireland. All tourists and two boatmen perished, including Mrs A A Hilton of Tapota Washington and Mrs Longhead of Tha ton, with others from Massachusetts and Jer don. Rescue efforts continue as weather hampers searches for remaining victims.
Report notes a Blue tour party member drowned near Killarney with Mrs Hiatry WW Coburn of this city identified among the travelers. Several companions left Naples to Ireland during the tragedy. Mrs Codern was about sixty years old. Advertisement touts Manrag as a near instant remedy for piles with a small attached nozzle for convenient use. Geo F Cave and Depot Dray Blare listed as distributors.
A partial list of jurors for the July term includes numerous attendees such as Opien and Hoggan, J Putte, Andrew Thasnam, C A Feklund, Samuel W Purdy, John H Greenwell, W G Kind, J Carter, F Pins wonre, Wor B Fife, Wim Mayes, J Kelliber, Fred L Keller, W T Tet ford, Je T De Morris, MP Inter, and others from multiple locales including Mintone and West Weber. The fragmentary roster shows many names and towns in a preliminary juror selection.
A wreck on the Woirande Wratern near Provo this morning halted traffic for hours. Six freight cars loaded with coke derailed and damaged the track. A tramp reportedly died, with two others missing as crew injuries were spared. Restoration of the line was to begin this afternoon.
In Richfield district court Jatos Edwards versus Joseph Peterson was dismissed with costs awarded to the plaintiff. In a separate matter George Morrell was found guilty of stealing a cow and, by jury recommendation, sent to the penitentiary for three years with no mercy or reprieve.
An 1908 bank statement from Pingree Rational Bank of Ogden Utah records assets and liabilities including loans, securities, cash, reserves, and deposits. The cashier James Pingree signs and swears the document true before a county official, dated June 2, 1908.
The editor alleges due process violations and seizure of personal papers in a move tied to plantation labor disputes. The case centers on claims of government overreach amid strike actions by workers and tensions with plantation owners. Strong entities include the editor of Nippu Jibei and sugar company stakeholders, with court presiding judge Jube.
Provo police report A J Martom a Salt Lake printer and Mrs Elizabeth Moore also of Salt Lake were arrested last night at 11 o clock in a room at the Lamar home where they had registered The man had met the woman yesterday and arrived on a later train Mrs Moore and the man are connected to a Salt Lake business and the case links to a broader crackdown involving local labor and suspected illicit activity plus an upcoming excursion notice highlights Utah and Idaho travel options with July dates and cheap rates by Agrote
Secretary Irel Shepard assumed charge at the National Educational Association meeting in Denver. He arrived at once and, with the local committee, completed the contention program which will be announced tomorrow.
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