The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1906-04-21

WOOL shearlnS ls In Iull piasi ~
Milford and Faust.
o. f. Lyons, postmaster of Peoa,
charged with having broken the postal
laws, was found not guilty.
Fire insurance on nearly all classes
of risks in Salt Lake City will within
short time be reduced greatly.
II Is regarded as possible that the
Provo wooden mills will be reopened
for business in the near future.
The Denver & Rio Grande will spend
in the neighborhood of S2,5OO,OOO for
new equipment in the near future.
The state council of the Knights OF
Columbus, comprising Utah. Idaho and
Nevada. will meet in session at Ogden
on May /.
A general strike of different trades
in Salt Lake Is threatened this spring
II some of the different trades persist
in their demands for increased wages.
The senate has passed without OBJ
lection the bill ceding the tract of land
lying on the west side of Fort Douglas
Military reservation to the University
OF Utah.
Home seekers are going into the
Green river valley of Utah in large
numbers this spring, and land Is said
to be selling there at from $50 to $500
an acre,
Senator Smoot has secured from the
pension committee favorable report
of his bill to grant service pensions to
Utah veterans OF the Blackhawk In
dian war.
The 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Bridgford of Salt Lake
City fell down the cellar stairs ana
fractured her skull The child is in
critical condition.
The special election at Price for the
bonding of the town for $4,000 for the
further extension of the waterworks
system resulted in victory for those
in favor of the bonds.
VIII Moore, convicted of grand lar
ceny at Moab last week, is the only
man ever convicted of grand larceny
in Grand county Moore was convict
ed Of stealing six burros.
Eugene sadey, 80 years of age and
married, was killed by cave-in at the
Overland NINE near Cedar Fort, q
huge rock crushing his skull. His
three fellow workmen escaped injury.
A girl named PETERSON was badly
scalded at Logan. She was boiling
some soup In tight kettle and the
steam generated, blew the lid of and
threw soup into the face of the unfor'
tunate girl.
Mrs Mary Ann Meas McFerson, who
has been resident of Kaysville since
1851, is dead at the age Of 50. She
was one of the Oldest members of the
Mormon church and knew personally
the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Mrs. Lizzie Hickman, who conducts
fruit stand in Salt Lake, was bitten
by tarantula while she was cutting
some bananas from large bunch. The
tarantula had probably been concealed
in the bunch when shipped.
Albert Rohn, aged 40, junk dealer
of Salt Lake City, suicided in saloon
10
sat at a table for some time before
any one knew he was dead, the bar
tender surprising he was asleep.
When about to be arrested by or
ficers S. T. Vickery, Of Salt Lake, S
Murakama, Jap, slashed the Officer
across the back of the hand with
knife inflictHg a wound that will
probably render the hand crippled TO-
life.
Il. G. Porter, W. p. Crozier and NJ. b
Hart, the advance guard for the com
pany OF twenty-five gentle families
from northeastern Utah, have closed
a deal whereby they secured 240 acre.
OF land from the California Irrigation
Land company at Gridley, CAL
Plans are laid by the bosrd of gov
ernors of the Commercial club for thu
holding OF a Get Together" dinner 4
be given during the early part of May
Invitations for the dinner will be ex
tended to all the officers of the various
....,,a.t,al orpa m zations I'm the state
C. o. Harris. local agent of the De
forest Wireless Telegraph company, i
authority for the statement that IN
Salt Lake station of the company viii
be completed and in operation by Jun
is, and the stations in other parts Q
Utah will be constructed Immediately
thereafter.