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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1909
Page
4
Notice records a second class matter entry at the Ogden Utah Post Office under an Act of Congress. The entry is dated with a non Sunday publication by Wm Glasmann as the carrier.
Subscription rates advertised: 75 cents for one month, 4.25 dollars for six months, and 8.00 dollars for twelve months. Prices include Sunday Morning Examiner free edition.
The Standard Publishing Co presents in force February 1 1908 a rate card for advertisements in The Evening Standard. It lists flat per inch rates and daily changes with special positions and contracts. It asserts high bona fide nocturnal subscribers and invites advertisers to compare with other papers in Ogden.
The Salt Lake Tribune endorses the local option feature before Utah's lower house. It notes Senator Badger corrected an inconsistency and supports treating local option as a fact, urging the House to act if the bill is deemed worthwhile.
Washington March 10 Reed Smoot issues a emphatic denial published to refute claims of meetings with Utah brewers or liquor interests. He states he never attended any such meeting nor entered into any agreement, direct or indirect, for any purpose. The piece notes the denial alongside critique of the liquor legislation and references Governor Spry.
A Salt Lake paper notes Samuel Newhouse’s humanitarian deed in Utah. He aided the rescue of Jerry and George Peterson from the St Patrick tunnel in Hughes canyon near Murray after fifty hours entombed.
The chief engineer M. M. Johnson and expert miner Phil Flynn were sent by Newhouse to supervise the rescue. The two brothers emerged cheerful after being in the mine, given hot milk and sleeping soundly. The incident shows Newhouse’s willingness to help beyond business.
The paper brags about confirming its Thanksgiving night deputy sheriff murder report of Seymour S. Clark at Uintah station. Salt Lake papers later published the same details, including a murderer photo, without betraying confidential sources.
An eastern paper argues moral progress outpaces retrograde habits as brains outgrow natures. It notes reduced slavery rhetoric, rogues gallery shifts, and public officials in private guise, while acknowledging faster social change. It praises kinder humanity and earnest study toward a lasting reform.
The piece endorses Governor Spry's plan to regulate liquor traffic in Utah. It argues saloon owners deserve fair treatment, warns prohibition could come soon, and supports strict regulation with local option as a compromise to avoid statewide prohibition and confiscation.
The article argues that abolishing saloons should be a state prerogative, but where towns resist ending a longtime privilege tied to liquor trade, local self government should allow communities to opt out. It supports Governor Spry and a law offering local option to Vish residents.
In Chicago O W Bryant of the U S Department of Agriculture notes dry land farming success in semi arid districts aided by moisture conservation. He cites Durum wheat as especially drought resistant and reports 1906 exports of 20 million bushels and a 45 million bushel US yield in 1907, grown mainly in the dry farming belt.
Diyton Ohio and Los Angeles figures Allen George Beatty a safe expert and Fonny Wilson were arrested here after a months long pursuit. Beatty faces a $25 700 robbery charge from the December 14 incident at the First National Bank of Los Angeles. Police found about $2000 in Beatty’s residence.
Chicago March 11 plans for a no lonapeace congress in Chicago May 3 5 launched by the Chicago Association of Conference. This conference will be known as the second national congress following the first held in New York in April 1907. Attendance at sessions was 40000 and similar numbers are expected here. Sentiment.
Delegates consider arbitration and universal peace to be urged at the third Hague conference in 1916, amid talk of the Panama Canal opening. Misa Jace Addams notes Chicago peace groups lagging while Boston’s society grows, and Rabbi E B Hirsch defends soft speech at peace meetings.
Oyster Bay March 11 Roosevelt expresses pleasure about his African trip and thanks Judge Anderson for Standard Oil ruling. He postpones discussing the case, and notes locals in Mombasa and British East Africa plan to welcome him while he travels as a private citizen with enthusiastic companions.
Washington reports government expenditures tied to President McKinleys illness and burial. An appropriation of 45000 funded physicians fees totaling 34400 plus other costs including undertakers, nurses, and miscellaneous items distributed among three firms and several individuals.
Off Eureka California a sailor on the oil steamer Asuncion fell from the rigging onto the dock suffering internal hemorrhages. Humboldt wireless station relayed the report to Dr Charles Falk who prescribed treatment by wireless communication. The ship waited ashore until the prescription arrived.
General Clement A. Evans, commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans and Georgia prison commissioner, urges death by chloroform for condemned inmates. He insists the death cell be airtight so the inmate inhales death, calling other methods barbarous and noting he opposes capital punishment except for assaults on women.
San Francisco reports a carpenter, 18, found dead in bed after a room filled with gas. Authorities say Mrs Aginte Hofman may have inadvertently caused death by closing a window and wind extinguishing the flame.
Paris March 11 Count Boni de Castellane asked the court for permission to view his children with the attending physician due to their influenza illness. Prince Helle de Sagan's attorney objected that the children were nearly recovered and could soon go to their father. The Count withdrew his request.
Honolulu reports the body of JL Ro Radermacher from Los Angeles found on Diamondhead mountain slopes near the city. Evidence on the body indicates death by self infliction.
The district court ruling in Willard Cragan vs Oregon Short Line holds that livestock damage suits under Utah fencing statutes must be filed within one year. It covers cattle killed by trains, fence maintenance duties, and related negligence claims including hay loss and a bull injury. The decision weighs statutory liability, contributory factors, and assigns specific damages across several causes of action.
Washington March 11 Poisoned wheat will be used to kill prairie dogs, the stockmen’s enemy in Arizona and New Mexico. Prairie dogs damage crops and grazing land, reducing range capacity by 60 to 75 percent. The forest service plans a larger campaign this spring, coating wheat with strychnine cyanide and molasses as the poison.
In Irvington on the Hudson New York Justice David Brewer presented the town with an oil painting of Cyrus W. Field the Atlantic cable pioneer native to Irvington. The portrait a Hunting copy hangs in the town hall beside images of Washington Irvine and General Philip Schuyler donated by Cyrus Field Judson Jr. the field descendant.
A Shanghai dispatch says the investigating Chinese commission and the acting Spanish consul at Amoy settled the Malcampo incident. They agreed to suppress defamatory circulars, release Malcampo's employees, deny reopening the theater without Chinese consent, punish officers involved in rounds, and dismiss Tanti Liu for other causes.
The home of Norman Mack chairman of the Democratic national committee was destroyed by fire last night in Buffalo New Jersey with the Mack family staying in Atlantic City.
Lincoln Nebraska March 11 report that a proposal providing for the initiative and referendum was defeated in the senate yesterday. The brief dispatch notes the measure's defeat in the state capital and cites no further details.
Ogden resident describes years of kidney pain and frequent urination. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co and Badoon’s Pharmacy with relief and urges others to use the product. Sold by all dealers for 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is sole U S agent.
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