The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-11-23
UTAH STATE NEWS

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There were $50 teachers present at
the regular monthly institute Of the
Utah county teachers held in Lehi
last Saturday.
Il is announced that Representative
Joseph Howell has appointed his son
as his private secretary. at salary
of $1,000 year.
The sum of SO, 436 has been added to
the state treasury as u result of tho
sale of public lands during the year
ending June 30 last
The home of John Savage, at PARK
City. was destroyed by fire on the
18th, and loss of about $1,000 was
sustained by the owner. as there was
no insurance.
Governor Cutler has issued a proc
lamation designating Thursday No
vember 2S. as Thanksgiving day. and
declares that Utahns have abundant
reasons for thanksgiving.
The Ephraim Commercial club has
taken hold of the city waterworks
proposition and are figuring on the
cost OF installing new system OF
| waterworks for that town.
Claude Clark, the negro who shot
and killed Lewis Jones, another col
ored man, during a fight in Ogden .on
September s, has been found guilty
of voluntary manslaughter.
Joseph Manoney, an Ogden man
was last week convicted of stealing o
load of hay which a Hooper farmer
| left standing on the square, and was
sentenced to tent:days in Jail.
According to a statement prepared
by ]. A. Edwards, state auditor, the
total acreage of irrigated lands in
Utah is 2,135,9OO. No irrigated lands
are now available for settlement.
The taking of testimony in the case
of the United States, plaintiff, against
the Utah Fuel company, defendant. is
dragging along slowly before Master
In Chancery S. II. Lewis of Salt Lake
| City.
The Beaver National bank, Beaver
Utah, has applied for authority to
start business. Charles Woolfend OF
Beaver is the pricipal mover in the en-.
terprise. The capital stock is to be
S25, 900.
| David Eccles of Ogden has pur.
| chased the Grass Creek coal mines, In
| Summit county, and a company of Og'
den capitalists. with capitalization
Of $25O,OO will operate the mines In
the future.
| Under a new ruling recently made
| by the general land Office, registers
and receivers are prohibited from
certifying to copies of citizenship
papers, which heretofore has been
the practice.
| Salt Lake banks last week began
the issue of the new currency. This
new money is local bank circulation,
which Is adequately secured, and Is
expected to pass as freely as national
bank currency
Chris Barley, thirty-two years old,
employed as a switchman In the Union
stockyards at Ogden, was killed in
stantly by falling from one of the
cars, which passed over his body, mu'
lilating 1t horribly.
The management of the Utah Con
,struction company, who are han
ding the Western Pacific construc
ton work, have determined to reduce
their forces owing to the condition
of the money market.
There are three government
reclamation projects now under way
in Utah, by which 100000 acres OF
land will be made to yield crops
This land will cost $40 an acre, In
Guiding water rights.
II is probable that Arthur b. Hayes,
formerly of Ogden, may be appointed
assistant attorney general to succeed
j. A. Van Orsdel of Wyoming. who
was appointed judge of the court OF
appeals of the District Of Columbia.
It is announced that the Salt Lake
& Ogden railroad will be completed
within ninety days, and that work OF
extending the road up Ogden canyon
will be pushed. The project was
started by Mr.. Bamberger early In
1898.
Stanlsh Mesich, who shot and
killed Herman Obradoyich on June 10
1907, in Salt Lake City, because OBJ
I radovlch had eloped with Mrs. Mesich
has been committed to the asylum
having become a raving maniac since
the shooting,
A woman who attempted to pick the
pockets of young man on the streets
of Salt Lake was caught in the act
and in her endeavor to escape, she
attacked the young man with a ha
pin, stabbing him in several places
She was finally captured.
Minerva Hall, aged 20, threw car
bolic acid into the face OF Isaac Ryal
of Salt Lake City, as a result of whicl
the man will be dishgured for life. |
is claimed that Ryan betrayed the cir
and refused -o.Insrry her and she tool
this method of vengeance.
Edwin ID. crowther, of Salt Lake
who died at Miner, Idaho, last week
was one OF the pioneer actors of Utah