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Show Ex-Desk Serjeant of Police Returns H Brrill Johnson; former desk sergenat sH at the figden police station, is renew- H intances here after an ab- 1 ears Mr Johnson left ' ihc department for mining work in V the southern part of the state m 1915; W Foi i ! "i years he has been employed by tho Fnion Pacific In Den- 9fiB ver. Witli .Mr.?. Johnson he will re- FBH main hi Ogden for about a week. MH Mi Johnson won the high regards HSflffl of many unfortunates during tne fiRKM period of depression early In 1914 aft-or aft-or tin- outbreak of the world war. Wlv i eastern Industries shut dowo 14Tvr temporarily, hundreds of laid-off tffglali workers came west looking for posl- RnirCTBl Mons. When they got to the coast mHh they found conditions as bad there ffcPffifi and thousands started the re-turn trip SElH home as winter broke. At that trip HmwS as man: unfortunates obtained H lodging at night on the floor of trie city Jail rverlng dver tl ' . ' and with only newspapers underneath Is99 them They came In cold and nun- IGSmIJ gry and they departed hungry for fflWHtC no proision was made for feeding Iwls'Hag Johnson was night desk sergeant InaiSra then Lm "1 can't provide blankets for the Hi9j poor cusses." he used to tell new.-,- mB paper men. but i can keep the jail BHstIe warm ror th, m. " And he did. He K ' ' 1 1 there was i gooC head I steam on nil nl |