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Show KEEP COOL AND AVOID HYSTERIA There have been holdups burglaries and shootings, but there iB no cause I for hysteria. Ogden Is not the rendezvous for thugs that Salt Lake Is and not one-tenth of the burglaries that occur in Salt Lake are enacted In thl6 city, and yet there is no undue un-due alarm In the capital. We know of men who have their homes in Salt Lake and occasionally stay over night in Ogden. who are evenly balanced and disclose no fear when in Zlon. but the moment they enter tho confines of thi6 clt thev grow apprehensive, begin to see I highwaymen lurking behind every tree, are stricken with nervous prostration pros-tration and go about seeking to be protected from their own halluclna liana. A greater scare than is now on was promoted by Frank J annon when he was editor of tho Journal Ther" had been a number of robberies, and seeing a political advantage to be gained by discrediting the city administration. ad-ministration. Frank opened up with thrilling stories of the "reign of terror" ter-ror" The only thing he accomplished accomplish-ed was the creating of a condition of alarm which resulted In a law abiding citizen of Ogden being fatally wounded by another equally good citizen In the meantime the police old their full duty and flnall; broke up- the desperate Fury gang, which had robbed and murdered all the way' from San Francisco to Ogden and had disturbed the peace of every town and city along the line of tho! Central Pacific. The Ogden officers, at that time, performed a great service for the entire coast and accomplished that which baffled even the well organized Southern Pacific detective force, assisted as-sisted as It was by the police of San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and Reno |