| Show COLORFUL PUBLISHERS -THEN AND NOW Wild Ishmaelite His hand was soon turned against every man that he could not bulldoze but he sometimes met with severe retaliation In mid-summer of 1879 still roving reporter Freeman decided to re-establish the Frontier Index as travelling newspaper following the Northern Pacific Railroadcon struction across Montana He instructed Ada to close Ogden paper and move the equipment northward Enroute was badly injured whengun fell from the wagon and charged into her hip She died in Butte on August 22nd the she disbut the Western newspapering ventures of Legh Freeman continued for many years in Montana and Washington until his death in 1915 Thomson one of the originators of Utah Press Association when linked to the Brighton Star had tried and failed in other publications not unlike many other early territorial journalists clever writer known to fellow newsmen by the nom de plume Milo Zip hebeen the first to proposeHelper newspaper in 1891 though it never proceeded beyond the planning stages On March 1894 he published the first issue of the Box Elder Voice in Brigham City greeted by contemporaries as really fine newspaper vox populi It lasted until April 20 1895 when its passing was noted by the competing Brigham Bugler with the observation Asnewspaper graveyard Brigham City isclose second to Ogden Thomson would move on to other climes and in 1896 became corresponding secretary of the Western Editorial Federation headquartered in Denver There he also created its publication The Rocky Mountain Editor Andy Rosenbaum another of the founding group was also somewhat-travelled editor and like Thomson had by-lined many Brigham City news items He acquired the Brigham City Report in August 1892 but managed to keep it alive only until May 1893 ThenHeber City news colleague commented in the Wasatch Wave The Report is dead snuffed out Its last issue reached us last evening and from its tone we should Jjudge it died pretty hard Rosenbaum then moved to the Logan Nation which 179 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
