Show DEATH axi AKI otner other MATTERS OF INTEREST 3 ogden CITY march 26 5 editor deseret news on wednesday wednesday night lat late eair eAlr mr wm il and hannah Pi pidcock deock of this city received a telegram from eagle rock informing them of A uin min TEARFUL a F rATA LITY inc aw I 1 rsm I 1 1 4 w 1 4 i I 1 0 w which ich had happened to the their thein irson inson son jo seph suph tuesday bar mo ile mannus conductor on the oregon short line found the borly body of the deceased young man lying by bi the side of the railroad track some three miles west of Mont montpelier montcell pell peli r ills his head the tile dispatch stated is nearly blown to pieces ab about dt thirty feet from the body a i gun was found hv by means of which it is supposed mr pidcock met his death by whose bands hands however the horrid deed was done is as yet involved in PROFOUND ilys MYSTERY TERY I 1 mr telegraphed to jede acde diah Pi pidcock deock brother of the youn young man at eagle rock and he at once bouc e started for montpelier to fetch home the body at a late hour tonight to night the remains had not arrived but they are anxiously looked for the friends and will probably be here friday it is needless to say the family are bf by the receipt of this terrible news plunged into the DEEPEST DISTRESS they have the full sympathy of the people of this community joseph pidcock was born and raised in ogden ile he was waa in the twenty third year of his age ile he was in the employ empio of the oregon short line Rail rall railroad toad company compans and for a few months past has been clerk in their store at montpelier the last intelligence received irom from him while alive was on the ad lust in two lettel letters which he wrote to two of his sisters in this place ile he was then in good health and cheerful spirits and his letters breathed a spirit of kindness and affect affection on and contained words of good 0 0 d counsel and hope of seeing his fr friends 1 ends again ere long but instead of which he has gone to his last long silent home the fol foi following lowin later communication from the same correspondent also reached ns us today to day OGDEN CITY stairl utan UTAH march isso SK I 1 one of the questions I 1 which has mostly agitated the junction city for some days past is the LIQUOR TRAFFIC the dealers in ardent spirits have felt and still feel 2 the pressure ot the business depression which has prevailed in ogden for some months past hence they presented a petition to the city council asking that body to give them a rebate in the rates for lequoi license forthe for ithe three months next ensuing commencing on april 1885 1883 the reduction asked was fifty per cent which would reduce the rum sellers license from per quarter to t per quarter it vill will be observed however that the favor was asked for three months only and at the expiration of that time the amount be ag again a in raised to what it now is s at the last regular session of the council the city attorney was instructed ted to FRAME AN ORDINANCE to enable ahe he city fathers to accede to the wishes of the petitioners petition ers ordinance was framed and presented last evening at a special meeting of council after the instrument read A remonstrance signed 0 by citizens of all shades P politics politics and religion rell gion was read the petitioners petition ers prot protested esteil against the reduction and asked the council to let license fees remain as they were or to raise raibe them to three hundred dollars per quarter this was a damper and somewhat cooled the ardor of the members who were favora favorable bleto to the tile reduction but they felt constrained to bow to the tile WILL OF THEIR constituents who placed them in the city government james N kimball esq appeared on behalf ot of the spirit merchants and madean made an elaborate speech in favor of the thie ordinance looking to their relief mr air S J carroll a total abstainer was invited to speak ile he addressed the council on the evils in general which result from rum ram selling and tippling and arp urged wed ged that body not to grant the reduction la a the licenses after one hours discussion and deliberation the vote was called and the City Fathers REJECTED THE ORDINANCE and the liquor dealers license remains in statu quo at dif fifteen teen minutes past 6 last evening wells fargo acos ecos cos express wagon arrived at the residence of of mr nir V H pidcock with the mangled remains of their son joseph whose body was found lying by the side of the U S L track oni ori thursday about seven dr mitchell arrived at the house the box contil containing nin niu the corpse was then opened and I 1 A HORRID SPECTACLE was presented to the view of the family and friends of the deceased ceased dd from the statement made by Jed jedediah edlah pidcock it appears that the contents of a double barrelled shotgun had passed through the young mans head the deadly missiles entered from the right side of the neck and ranged upward completely blowing off the top of the head causing instant death th there ere were no signs of any struggle near the vace place where the body was found the brains rains were ENTIRELY BLOWN OUT which together with largo large pieces ot of tile the skull were gathered up and placed ina lna in a se separate box to keep them thom toA 10 betherl thus far we have no reliable anfor mation matlon by whose hand band the young man met his death whether by his own or that of an assassin A dispatch has been sent to montpelier for information relative to th the c result of the coroners inquest if one has been held but up up to this time 9 a in no answer ha has s been received and nothing definite has been ascertained on ahe the subject from those who brought the remain remains to ouden osden much anxiety is hanif manifested ested by the friends of the young man as they are still in suspense in regard to the real character of the death he died the funeral will take 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