Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-03
t,roanization Effected in Ogden
tabernacle sunday--Names OF
Presidency and High Council.
suocKlNG RAILWAY ACCIDENT
r,,,gerald Loses Both Legs--Ncsro
e,,ns White NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
arrcsted--sunday Closing

- August S.--The North WEBER
zion was organized yesterday
.hs tabernacle in this city Inc ne"
is the northwest division OF inc
81 weber stake and is the second one
,nized within the past two weeks
erst one was the Ogden stake
a.bich is the northeast division oil inc
~. weber stake, and the last one VIII
tho Weber stake, which Will be Or
canized next Sunday.
rho new stake organized yesterday
,hot norton OF the old stake lying
~ Of Wilson lane and Twenty
,,r+b street, and west of washington
.,rue There was an unusually large
",,endance at both the morning anu
o.ternoon sessions, and at Whlch the
aSornecle choir under the direction or
prof Joseph Ballantyne ren1ereu spo.
i,aJ selections. Elders ID o. Mckay
'd George f.. Richards of the apostles
an. were present and made short
Rishop James Wotherspoon of the
rbird ward was chosen as president or
,be new stake. John V. Bluth, stake
clerk of the Weber stake. and Francis
" Stafford, bishop of the Wilson,
ward. were chosen as first and second
rmnselors, respectively, in the stake
Presidency.
Moroni $. Marriott, bishop of the
Marriott ward, was sustained as MEM
her Of the high council and as presi-
dent of the high priests quorum, but
ms he was absent from the state, ho
was not set apart, as were all the other
officers.
The following were sustained as high
councillors: Moroni S. Marriott, absent;
Samuel A. Blair, Harry E. Baker Will
liam D. Van Dyke, ST., William II.
Tolhurst, Israel G. Brown, George II.
Butler Emuel Bachman, Haskell H.
shurtliff, John F. Barton, Lawrene w.
sherner. Henry w. Nelson.
The following were sustained as al
ternate high councillors: John C. Neal,
Elias S. King, Nathan A. Hawkes.,
James M. Carlson, Moroni Chugg, Hen
~ A. Anderson.
David w. Evans was set apart as
stake clerk and recorder, stake tithing
clerk and clerk of the high council
The name adopted for the new stake
was North Weber Stake of Zion"
SHOCKING RAIL ACCIDENT.
Trainmen arriving in Ogden Satur-
No reported that fearful accident
happened in which Edward Fitzgerald
boilermaker residing in Portland, Or.
lost both his legs. When coming down
the incline from Sherman Hill the help
or engine broke loose from the train
and the brakes were instantly set. Nv
the sudden stop the unfortunate mans
legs We're caught between the brake
levers and trucks and crushed to a
pulp. The man was taken from the
traln and sent to Laramie. where both
legs We're amputated near the knees
CRICKETs IN IDAHO.
H. II. Spencer has returned from, 4,
business trip to Spencer, Ida whore
ne mas been looking after his interests
lie reports that while in the town a
great army of crickets passed through
which cleaned the gardens and fields fn
the roots. ~
STABBED BY NEGRO.
The police OF Ogden are searching
ior negro, named William Thomas
VINO stabbed young man named Lind,
say IL times in the breast and lungs. II
rs reported that when the negro made
lhe assault which was unwarranted
mat he had been drinking heavilv
from the reports young Lindsay's con-
diton is serious.
This morning Thomas was captured