Wire Cloth and Harness Fittings at L. D. WILSON & CO'S. X- -=■ ~ 2ft 82 Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. until the latter part of 1869. (He died in January, 1870.) During the above-named periods the postoffice in Ogden was only fourth-class, and the first postmaster only received from eight dollars to twelve dollars per annum. On the retirement of Mr. West, Mr. Isaac Moore was appointed postmaster, and the institution became a third- class office and the appointment was by the President of the United States. In 1872, the office was reduced to that of fourth-class, with, ot course, a corresponding decrease in salary. In the summer of that year Mr. Moore resigned, and on the 10th of August Mr. Joseph Hall was appointed postmaster, by the Postmaster General. His assistant was his daughter, Miss Thirza A.Hall. Hon.Lorin Farr and Charles Woodmansee, Esq., became Mr. Hall's sureties. By October of the same year the business and patronage of the office had increased so rapidly and to such an amount that Mr. Hall obtained a special re-adjustment, (the office was again laised to that of third- class)and in December he was re-appointed by President U. S. Grant and confirmed by the Senate to be the incumbent of the new office. At the next regular biennial adjustment the office was raised to second-class. Then commenced the fight ot politicians for appointment as postmaster in Ogden City. They fought Mr. Hall for about one year, being assisted by the Congressional delegations of Nebraska and Iowa. All sorts of complaints were trumped up against him which can best be explained by the following article on the subject which was published, some time after, in the Omaha Bee: That doctors do not like to take their own medicine holds good with the members of the Gopher Ring of Nebraska. They do not want Newman punished for holding back funds belonging to the Government. Look at another case, one Sharp was a postal clerk on the Union Pacific, and he wanted to be postmaster of Ogden. He was unlit to hold any office, and a fit tool and associate for the mem- ie | Boy's Clothing in Latest Styles at A. KUHN & BRO'S, ft Stovels, Spades, aad Steel ^kf &t L S. WILSON k m> ^ Directory of Ogden City and Weber County. 88 So bers of the ring* «Jo»Sj3_ ITall was then the best postmaster this city ever before or since had. Sharp secured names to his petition through misrepresentatio j and sent to the notorious Belknap who worked in harmony witli ILtehcock and company for the appointment. Some charges must be brought against Hall to get him out of place. Three different special agents were sent here to trap and report against him but each failed. A chief head clerk came and partook of the hospitalities of the postmaster and his excellent family, that lie might blacken their character in a report to Washington, but on investigation his report fell, and Mr. Hall stood solid with the Department. Bitter Creek got on a high, three years ago, and stopped traffic over the road for some ten or fifteen days. This office deposited surplus funds at the Omaha office, remittances being made almost daily by registered letter. Registers were unsafe in the postal car at Green River, and the one running between here and there; so Mr. Hall deemed it best to keep them in his safe, and sent them forward just as soon as the road was open. Here was a chance that Yost took advantage of, and the remittances simply reported for the month of April, with the days blank, and a very large remittance, on one day made a bad showing, and Hall was retired and Sharp given the office. Hall did just what the Department would expect him to do under the circumstances, but Hitchcock and Yost took advantage of the situation to make it appear that he was using .funds of the Department, and thus accomplished their object. The ring art1 ever ready to take such advantage of honest men, but when one of their number is fairly caught it is altogether a different matter, and they refuse to take such medicine. On the 22nd of iNovember, 1875, Mr. Hall retired and Neal J. Sharp entered on his duties as postmaster. He continued in office until the spring of 1877, when he was removed and Major L. B. Stephens was appointed in his stead. Miss Cora B. Stephens, his daughter, remained in the office as his assistant during his incumbency. In September, 1879, he was removed and General IsTathan Kimball was appointed postmaster, with Mr. Hall as deputy, Miss T. A. Hall, John S. Corlew, and J. K Kimball as clerks. The mail service had now become vastly extended, and the mails received at the Ogden office were immense. The registered matter was distributed here A. KUHN & BRO. are the LEADING Dry^dTTiTmT ~y