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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1909
Page
4
Published daily except Sundays by Wm Glasmann in Ogden Utah subscription prices shown in advance for one month six months and twelve months including Sunday Morning Examiner free.
The Venice Standard publishes a rate card effective February 1 1908 detailing fret rate per inch changes by position including special rates for pages 5 6 7 8 tops of column and first page. It notes special contracts for weekly or unchanged ads and promotes its readership in Ogden Utah claiming superior subscriber numbers versus a competing paper.
A. PLAIN QUESTION A. W. Agee asks how many city administration members before the bond election knew of the secret transfer of the deed for the GI land. It suggests councilmen and possibly the Mayor were tangential to the transfer and that several believed the city had a clear title to 326 acres, with the issue of buying the Gill land for 4 3 4 10. The piece calls to identify who engineered the deal and motivations behind it.
The San Francisco Call quotes railroad president Ripley in gloom over national leadership. He blasts an alleged oligarchy under Roosevelt and questions Taft as a Roosevelt successor, urging a generous policy toward railways to spur broader business welfare.
The Call notes optimism and says the Santa Fe will pay its usual dividend this spring. It questions Mr Ripley on his reference to persecution and suggests he may be alluding to prohibition rebates. It points out the Santa Fe has faced fines and convictions for the issue, offering no other forms of persecution.
The writer argues that 3074.10 in school money escaped notice by public officers, showing loopholes in handling funds from territorial days to state era. They call for tracing state money from the treasury to expenditures and requiring vouchers for every dollar.
A seed man plans to purchase land in Ogden Valley and plant fifty acres of peas, citing favorable altitude and absence of pea pests unlike Salt Lake Valley. The breakthrough is linked to proposed railway or trolley lines to Bluntsville, forecasting Ogden Valley as a renowned beauty spot with summer visitors attracted by Wasatch views and pine air.
Saloon owners embrace stricter control as the Prohibition wave grows. The National Model License League plans a May San Francisco meeting to push model licenses that remove saloons from politics and automate enforcement, with penalties for infractions and rewards for compliance.
A speech argues liquor licenses should be valued like business assets, with strict penalties for offenses. It calls for license suspension for first violations and permanent revocation after repeat offenses, and suggests removal of licensees from licensing boards to prevent political interference.
The speaker lauds Roosevelt's view of vigor as a means not an end and notes his focus on character. He cites schoolboy expeditions, plans for boys, and Roosevelt's belief that most can achieve ordinary greatness through perseverance, while citing the economist data on exports and cotton values in 1908 1909.
The Bureau of Statistics reports January 1908 exports at 150,882,210 dollars and exports for seven months ending January at 1,002,719,044 dollars, both well below the previous year’s totals, with declines near fifty million for the month and across the period.
Heirs of Benjamin L. H. Trask seek city consent to destroy the old mansion at 147th Street and Southern Boulevard by fire. The derelict house, unoccupied for fifteen years and central in the block, is deemed too decayed to restore, with fire seen as the economical way to clear the site.
President Taft has sent Elmer W. Loring, his caddy who carried golfers’ slicks at Hot Springs last summer, to college. Loring left Washington today for Charlotteville to enroll at the University of Virginia, where he will take a course to fit him for work Taft has planned. The president will pay all expenses and allow him two dollars a day.
Gillette Wyoming March 10 Feward Smith city marshal of Moorcroft shot and killed Herman Holcomb a bartender in the post office building area after finding him with his wife Mrs Smith Smith had suspected improper relations and went to Gillette to investigate He was arrested and hurried to Sundance for safety amid public excitement
Washington reports Vladivostok in Siberia will become a closed port starting March 19, ending free port status. The move by the Russian government will impose tariff duties on imports at Vladivostok, aligning with other Runatie ports.
A baby boy estimated to be about 18 months old was found deserted in a doorway wrapped in a blue shawl and fine stationery notes indicated the name Little Devon and birth date December 21. The infant, with signs of care by well off parents, was taken to the asylum.
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