Show RICHARD ballantyne in the death of richard ballantyne the city of ogden lost a respected progressive and an enterprising citizen while the state of utah has lost one 0 of its pure minded patriotic people As a worker in the sunday school system he was indefatigable and untiring and as a member of the church he was waa in all respects equal to his calling in all the walks of life he was upright and just ut and no inducement could cause the veteran to swerve from what he considered the path of propriety and honor bonor during a life of eighty one long years he be never was known to be untrue to friend or foe floe never to be forgetful of the one or resentfully mindful of the other although possessed of means and living in comparatively ively comfortable circumstances his faculty of money getting was not great and toy by reason of having to be industrious careful and strict some people made the mistake of supposing him to be parsimonious but this belief wa as not shared in by those who knew zim him and his circumstances best in 1878 mr balantyne purchased the ogden junction newspaper and conducted it for about a year as a daily and semiweekly semi weekly publication alk was during the russo turkish war and d his sympathies went out strongly to the moslems not because of regard regarding log them as free from reproach altogether but because of russia being the aggressor and turkey as he looked at it being more sinned against than sinning besides she was the weaker power and he be h e instinctively felt compassion for the under dog in the fight this and many other humane were distinguishing traits with him he has served out ont a good long term and gone to the reward he has fully earned |