The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-30

the desert impossible and the route
was changed so that the riders We're
to come to Ogden and thence to Salt
Lake, then on east via Echo canyon.
According to agreement the Ogden
riders were to bring the packet
to Pennington where it was to
be delivered to the Salt Lake
men, but instead of abiding by
the agreement the Ogden riders car
ried it to Echo via Peterson and
Croydon, thus disappointing and
breaking faith with the Salt Lake
riders who were assembled ait Farm
ington to receive it and convey it to
Muller's bicycle emporium in Salt
Lake, where Mayor Glendinning, in the
absence of Governor Wells. was to
have signed it and sent it on it's way.
BAD FAITH. AND DECEPTION.
The act of bad faith and deception
was deliberately planned and the I'M
gentlemanIy trick was accounted a.
good joke by some Ogden people whose
sensibil5ties are too gross to make fine
distinctions. Among these it would APP
pear is acting Mayor Jones of the
Junction City, who is accredited with
the authorship of the following dis
patch TO Mayor Gaeudinning:
"If you want to sign the relay pack
skates and catch them somewhere be-
tween Ogden and Evanston. They
sneaked through Ogden, the Junction
City, and gave your poor old sleepy
village the go by"
1t appears that the Ogden men got
possession of the package at Terrace
after a gun play in which cowboys
took part and that the whole scheme
was without the knowledge of Man
ager Rishel. and it is more than likely
that somebody will get into serious
trouble for interfering with the
United States mails.
HOW THE BULLETINS CAME.
About 7:30 yesterday morning the
bulletin at Muilet's 8, where prepara-
tions were made for the reception of
the riders, announced that the riders
had left Ogden and were we'll on their
way south and would undoubtedly get
here about S:45.
Everything was ready to receive the
riders. except the officials who were to
sign the packets, and these would be
notified as soon as the men changed at
Pennington At $50 everybody was
on the qui vive for the first sight of
the packet About this time, the feel
ing of expectation changed to one OF
surprise as the following was posted !:
Have not reasched Ogden yet-Trace
lost-Expect report in a. few minutes.
After the surprise this report caused
had subsidized, the interest began to
wane.
In about fifteen minutes the following
startling report was on the bulletin
board:
passed Willard at 500 a. M"
Willard is only about fourteen miles
north of Ogden. and the assembled
crowd were puzzled to know why Og-
den had not been heard from
The surprise and wonder changed 10
| Indignation when Ogden was heard
from in these terms:
"All off-Message went through We
Der canyon-Salt Lake not in it.
At this an indignant crowd gathered
in the store to talk the matter over
One Of the clerks got word from Man
ager A C. SchraIn of the Ogden riders,
that he and Bill Rishel, the division
manager, would start out after the rid
ers right away, and get the packet.
At 1888 the last bulletin was posted
It was ais follows:
Message stolen by Ogden couriers-
Did not go through Ogden, but sent
around-Rishel leaves Ogden on train
to overtake and get message by force