Show t- t ABOUT THIS THAT ANn ANEW By D J G I bad hAlt a vIsIt vidt lut last week w ek Ralph of ot the staff lf who formerly an Ogden newspaper per man min Argubright AWI bright Is 1 one ot of a few tew men flea I know that really has bas ha had thrilling experience by reason their newspaper work Most Moat persons perSons persona sons sona think a newspaper writer dashing In and out ot of almost dally AJ As a matter ot of tact act the newspaper man usually Is la ns 88 aa with adventure after alter the adventure has hu occurred when lie Jle arrives to report what Argubright's thriller occurred Sn in connection with the blackmail crimes ot of Ogden From some somo source In la the spring of ot 1912 1913 he bo learned that a demand lid had been I made upon the and Mrs Des for tor a bag bagot of gold cold and that the delivery was to be bo made by mean ot of a 8 buggy busey drawn by a a horse horae and person who was waa to had hAlt over the coin More than an hour before the time set Bet tor for the departure from the Bristol borne bome at Van Boren and fifth Twenty fifth street Argubright planted himself In the weeds near the tho place and and watched tho the famous white horse horae and buggy bugbY start from the Bristol home Argubright trot trot- trotted trotted ted tad along the sidewalk behind the vehicle keeping a 0 wise distance behind but keeping the tho white horse In sight Over the directed course courso ho he trotted down to Washington and then up Canyon road ArgubrIght wa wa-s about yards yarda behind the tho vehIcle when when Joseph Henry Mar Mar- 1 from the branches of a tree which overhung the road and commanded command command- commanded 1 ed the driver 0 of the vehicle to stop It was too dark darl to see sec but ArbU- ArbU Argubright bright bright overheard the tho resulted In Lamport's Lamperts ha 1 Ins hand 1 Ing over not over not the bag ban ot or washers but but the thousand dollars In coin ht Argubright Is entirely frank trank about what happened later Thor l D tho the flash lash of ot a off ott 1 shot shot- shotgun shotgun Eua chot-Eua gun and the tho Immediate report ot of the first of ot the tho several shots tired fired by both bandits and occupants occupant ot of the buggy He lie admits he lost no notime notime notime time In getting behind a pole pOlo and he admit admits further that he hugged that pole tightly until the firing had ceased ht Arg did not know just what the shooting was Wul all about but when he got the do- do details tall do-tall tails 0 of the whole affair from the police later be he was in a II tine fine post post- position tion Uon to give his paper The Salt Lake Lae Tribune a first class story ot of the he sensational crime and he lie do- do delivered de livered lAyered a cracking good yarn There are arc quite a 8 few automobile drivers I do not like Among Amone thorn them themis themis is the driver who speeds In Ogden can canYon on the tho driver who comes from behind a car and takes a n chance chanc although ho he sees ices you coming the driver who parks behind ou on the bh an anil traps iou ou in the berth next to the curb although you yuu may maybe maybe maybe be In a a 0 hurry the driver who Ig vig vigorously lg- lg and needlessly blows his raucous siren as he passes you and awakens the baby who has ha just been Induced to go to sleep the the tho driver who tho Insists on the tho right of at way hethe he Is entitled to It or not the tho driver who In the use of oC a muffler out cut-out the Increasingly large number of oC drivers drivers ers era who speed on the Salt Lu e eor or Brigham road with one arm around a 0 flapper th the tho driver of the truck truel who sticks to the extreme left hand band aide side of the street and refuses to move over the driver of the noisy motorcycle the tho driver or of orthe the wagon who doe does not display a alight light the arrogant driver 0 of the car who holds a 8 high place in iii the business and social word but reveals his Ill Ul breeding as aa soon I oon as QS he be gets sets on the highway The election of Magnus Johnson over Preus has haa caused a avast avast avast vast amount of comment and spec spec- speculation speculation The Tho sentiment which caus caus- caused caused caus- caus ed oil his bis election can an be bo found right here at home homo Talk lalk to a 0 few farm farm- farmers farm tra ers rs and you find this is what they think O production Over may be bethe bethe bethe the cause of the tho low prices we get for our products but we wo do not think it is We Wo think freight rates have much to do with the situa situation tion There are places crying out for our fruits potatoes etc But by the time we get our stuff to these people and pay the freIght there la Is nothing left for us and the price Is 1 so oo high where the stuff is 8 delivered that the sale 1 is limited to the to do ell to Whether freight rates can be re- re reduced re reduced and the roads do business and whether such ch reduction will be bo of ot much help to the farmers are questions very ery ery much In the public mind One group says the rates cart can be reduced and must be An- An An oth r group sass sais railroad prosper prosper- prosperIty prosperity prosperity ity will be imperilled by reduction One group s-iS s Ba Sl s tho the rates will be reduced it If tho the government lisa has to take over the tho road roads to do It It Thus It looks like an tu Interesting cam eam- campaign m ca perhaps ahead ahead perhaps tho mos most In- In In Interesting in American history |