| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION Felt who had served intermittent terms as USPApresident from 1897 through 1906 while associated with three different publications Jakeman first appeared on the Utah journalistic scene in Richfield where on August 15 1884 he founded the Sevier Valley Echo It survived until May 1885 Three days later Jakeman unveiled the Manti Home Sentinel which was la belled by contemporaries spicy sheet and which he published for four years The paper was alternately commended and chastized Editorially it is quitecreditable sheet said the Deseret News The Enquirer in Provo however referred to it as The Manti Snide Sheet Even while in Manti the busy Jakeman in 1887 launched the Nephi Ensign which he soldyear later Not long thereafter on June 1890 he began the County Register in Ephraim Though it drew alternating brickbats and bouquets from contemporaries it lasted onlyyear Nonplused Jakeman and his journalist-wife Ellen then began the Spanish Fork Index which within months was suspended the result neighboring editors averred of malnutrition After two years of obscurity perhaps to recover from the financial shock of his several unsuccessful ventures Jim Jakeman becamenewsmaker rather than reporter He was charged with disposing ofprinting plant which he had mortgaged without the knowledge of the mortgagee and jailed in Park City on counts of forgery and swindling But he evidently had the newsmanversion of the felinenine lives for he survived the bout with John Law and even began another Spanish Fork paper the short-lived Star in 1892 It was printed in neighboring Payson Almost simultaneously in 1895 he and Ellen became owners of the Southern Utonian at Beaver and the Mercur Miner and the Stockton Sentinel in geographically side-by-side gold camps on the west side of the Oquirrh mountain range The Utonian folded in 1896 the mining newspapers survived for many years though the Jakemans were involved in their publication for butmatter of months In 1899 Jakeman became co-publisher of the Sandy Senti 296 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
