Show BOW NOW IT it baa has come to our knowledge that a considerable number of the leading citizens of ogden are of the opinion that thia this city should no longer play second fiddle to salt lake these leading citizens intimate that ogden ought to assume and ad gitein i tein a leading and independent general commercial and social status thero there is no reason why ogden should not do this she ie the natural IP with wk h her unequaled facilities facil itie ae as a railroad center with her ber surround gitig prolific farming country and neighboring tributary settlements ogilee sometime ago might have assumed 4 for fr greater importance and exercised a far more extensive con trel over the domestic commerce of this inter mountain mou etain region had it not been for the enterprise of some of our leading citizens z of wealth and influence it seems to be a well established fact thattie that the railroads railroad have shave in in some discriminated against ug og den debia in favor of salt lako lake oily city in the matter mitter of freight rates there have bave obtained from tho the railway corn com pea pariee m especially low tariff rates on large quantities of freight shipped fro frold the ae east so that these particular firms at least could afford to ship certain claws of merc merchandise handke in n wholesale quantities back to ogden aad and even further north and undersell the majority of ogden d dealers de alere it ia is understood however tbt that OBO one particular ogden wholesale hooft hae has cajoled and still enjoys enjoy very nearly the same special which aro are vouchsafed vouch sa to the nog favored salt lake importer ira ae this th ie particular hooft ie doing a baet bue inese in ita its use at a great advantage over all other othor local tradesmen this matter of in freight rates is and can bo be rectified we be lieve if the maws olour of our Iner merchants chants will oaly only go about it in tho the right way to accomplish this purpose the loraing ogden dealers delers should unite aed and be honorable bonor ablo with each other we are apprised that one os or two of our local merchants have made special aad and private with the rail railroad rod companies and are so belfied that aey they dont want their local corn com U t obtain equal addan W because the special freight naw ream which they obtain give them a ia in their line the wait is that the entire corn com of the city sti fers this sort of f a thing should and can be stopped akie of ogden in the way of trado trade is 19 well by tle the attainments of a lawing furniture estoll ashment bea the thear arfi which the ma bority of all our merchants are sub W 1 tahae toh shipped and ana continues to ship goode to retail dealers soth of salt lake city citi in successful with the imports el 1 of the capral thie this ammom may seem incredible bet but it k h bee been accomplished by well enterprise ogden ought to be able to corn com mak awl the wholesale who keele trade of logan abd d the entire endre section of the country north of ogden at least up to ue sadie saas river R ver ia in idaho about twety 41 miles boath th east of lo 10 va cwm has recently im ds dios entered wa an ikuto fissure vein of rich we ete which extends for miles th the country and MW bee has been located by Y miners for the distance die tance of far and omd one out half holf miles an all ammerm of is bout to be used bcd to developed dev elope ihie thle new mining field which the concurrent testimony of many individuate individual whom we have interviewed declares arcs will prove as rich a mining section as that of park city and during the past few days a number of miners who are fire about to developed dev elope thia this new fluid field passed through ogden OB on their way to salt lake city purchase to supplies and outfits which must be transported back through ogden again to the new mining 4 region this ia is discreditable to the enterprise of ogden fro arany point of view for jr over a year we have bave studied quietly but closely cosely the nature of the component elements of commercial society and enterprise in ogden in fornier former days we have enjo enjoyed the benefit of a considerable business experience and subsequent travel and itinerant newspaper work in various parts of the western world have afforded us improved tuni ties to observe the most successful and cosmopolitan methods of commercial expansion and enterprise judging from this experience and observation wo believe that ali the e leading business men of ogden aro are not quite what they might and should be without desiring to offend any one and sincerely regarding the best interests of ogden from a standpoint of true friendship wo we will venture to remind this business bt ainess community of what we conceive to become be some of its faults and failings among the business leaders of this city there is a certain lamentable want of what is commonly called public spirit this is indicated in many things among which we may mention the longfelt long felt want of a large public hall ball or opera house some of the chief local capitalists arc are painfully furious la in a way that ia is suicidal to great enterprise some of these gentlemen insist upon impoverishing the community by loaning money on approved security at 11 per cent per month instead of embarking in intelligent industrial and business I 1 enterprises which would build up the community and gather wealth from distant sources then too there la is prevalent hero here a narrow spirit of destructive self elfish jealousy which benefits no one retards but perhaps the most serious barrier against the P speedy highest possible attainments of the whole city in a business way ia is the contagion of rankling and festering partisan envy and hatred this infection is a it very ticklish topic to discuss without irritating somebody or everybody but it t has got to be eliminated from the arena of business before a hea healthful withful and vi vigorous orous commercial supremacy yan van raise ogden to the position which ebe she ought to occupy in this great intermountain inter mo mountain buntain co country there are certain lodges secret orders and associations in thia this city manipulated chiefly by non business men who teem to think it of advant advantage ago to them to inflame their merchant associates into that chronic state of partisan bitterness which intrudes itself into the count iriz room and the sales room thie this may be profitable for the non business would rould be politicians but it is in unprofitable profitable and ruinous to the success of individual mereb merchants ants as well as disastrous to the attainment of commercial supremacy for 0 a den nobody irrespective of creed or party ought to patronize these misled merchants until they have bavo a higher regard for the best commercial interests of themselves and especially of the whole community one of the first requisites to the further commercial conquest of the country by ogden is a local newspaper equal in point of size and sews news to any any in the territory some of the leai leading ing business men of the city who are tire ostensibly or ought to be really the most desirous that ogden should no longer play second fiddle to salt lake city either refuse to patronize the local papers at all except as dead heads or eke out a very meager patronage to the press thia this is not public spirit nor even selfish wisdom nor does it indicate any solicitude for tha tho general growth and prosperity of the ci city ty leading bu business ainess men have been heard to willingness willin gnesa to sup port generously a good large newspaper and yet they fail to patron izo ize ae as they should the le leading siding paper of the town so that it can be made larger and better and able to compete with the moet moot pretentious papers of the territory some citizens oathie place seem to think that it good par ia is not good unless U only their individual nd gires especial special gratis nexie to toli their but this th ia is not the 9 notion of a good nee newspaper paper the v HEALD has enjoyed very liberal patronage at the bands hand of a very few merchants of this city but the majority of our business busil leea men have not it ae as they debould and it is their fault that this paper ia is not one of the largest best and most widely circulated in utah however with a local patronage eo so meager that it was positively disgraceful to the enterprise of the city and would not half sustain ue us we have bave pushed our circulation until in our present size and shape and with what advertising we have weare louri flourishing shing independent of non advertising and more or less non public spirited business men our paper bae has become popular to a degree that it scarcely merit merits ana has weathered the boat most ad versi versifies ties that it i ia 8 1 akely it ely to ever enco encounter in the meantime a some of our business men have taken stock tock in papers published in in a rival city thus supporting rival interests in opposition to ogden without contributing in in a corresponding degree to their honio home paper P a per some narrow minded not whole merchant shave refused us their patronage in W opposition 0 to the interests of the city through mere mero partisan whim with suicidal effect but the most strange of this matter ia is the fact that some of those business I 1 mea men who ought to support this I 1 paper with their advertising favors because it 13 is the representative of the masses of the people of this city and the surrounding country haye have failed to do so go thus outraging not only the city at large but their own interests and particularly the interests of that august P portion of this community and adjacent settlements which constitutes atit utes the grand majority of the local public which sustains the CODES HERALD this is not right and arid the people ought to think of it and confine their favors toeur and also their friends and patrons THIRTY FIVE years aeo ago three eisterer worked in a cotton factory in lancashire cash ca shire ire england they all married machinists and one went to australia one to new zealand and nd one to america tho the latter wa was mrs 11 im 1 attil f monday last when a let letter ter informed her that her sisters husband bad made half a million dollars and had died childless and that last december the sister bad had died leavin leaving each to her sisters in australia and america 4 EZRA STEPHENS firms of bryants Br yanta pond me lie is the proprietor of a small mu seum of natural curiosities among them was a tame bear the bear sickened and was about to die when ezra shot him and promptly presented bis his nose and ears to tho the town treasurer and dei demanded the 5 bounty which the state paye pays for every bear hilled killed in maine the town treasurer surer wrote to the state treas aurer asking if ezra was entitled to the bounty tile state treasurer turned tho the matter over to the actor ney general who haa has just decided for ezra YEARS ago howard R barnard a hartford high school boy I 1 took a notion that hie his friends doubted bla his dispo disposition sidon to work or bis his abil ability I 1 to succeed so 80 one afternoon without warning warn inc be he disappeared and anti his friends beard heard nothing more of him until a few days ago when be he returned borne home well and prosperous when he went away it was with the intention of staying until bo he bad had made a certain sum of money he ile went west and held to his purpose and now lias has proved bis ilia pluck industry and determination JENKINS JUNIOR quarrelled quarrel led with jankins jenkins Seni senior orin ia a crowded dining room in frankfort ky and the father threw a glass at bie ble sons eons head whereupon the son promptly drew his pistol and fired at his eire site no further harm barm was done buethe old man seemed to be rather proud of his boy he lle did right eaid said be to alfriend a friend hoe a jenkins you know spirited bigl strung the wa way y be he was raised if a man throws thrown a glass at t my head I 1 suppose id bavo have to kill him yee yes the boy did right THREE tanin YEARS ago J S M carroll of merville ga was bitten on the finger b by y a cotten mouth snake the wound healed but sore sores broke oat on the band hand and bave have continued since in antho the winter they partially heal and tho the hand band can be used a little jn in the summer they break ou out t anew and the bead band becomes stiff and use leee A ST PAUL boy wae was recently rec catly sent from home to a boarding school ho he was homesick of course aad and after standing it just ae as long ae as bo be could wrote dear father i life ie Is very abort short let ue no ripe nd ad it together your be am to 3 u |