The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-12-21
UTAH STATE NEW 8

Park City schools will close on the
goth for the Christmas holidays and
will not reopen until January 9Th.
James Thurston. pioneer OF
Cache valley and well known through
out the state. died at Hyde Park on
the 18TH, at the age of IS.
The president has signed a procla
nation creating additions to the Mon
ticello national forest in southeastern
Utah, aggregating 10l,3 1898 acres.
For the first time in two years the
supply of commercial coal in the re.
tail yards of Salt Lake and through.
out Utah is ahead of the demand.
or the 121 patients committed to
the state mental hospital at Provo
during the year ending November 30,
sixty.two came from Salt Lake county.
Sikh Togo, Japanese student in
the Salt Lake High school, won the
title of best individual driller In the
battalion of cadets during contest
last week
The statement of tn, state treasurer
/ for the fiscal year ending November
30, 1907, shows balances in the vari-
GUS funds amounting in the total to
s195 1898.
Mike Musga, an Austrian, is in a
Salt Lake hospital in precarious
condition as a result of being assault
ed by three of his countrymen, who
contemplated robbery.
Plans are under way for a game OF
football to be played in Portland, Ore
gon. on New Years day between the
Multnomah Athletic club of that city
and an all.star team from Utah.
Walter Spicer, aged So, we'll
known farmer Of Granger, died sud
denly last week while caring for his
stock. death being due to the break.
Ing of blood vessel in his head.
At Bachelor Basin, about eight
miles from Castleton, in Grand county,
Alex Newton, miner in the employ
of the Rio Dolores Copper company,
was smothered to death in a snowslide.
Albert T. Day, the negro sentenced
to be executed on December 10 for the
murder of II. H. Voss, colored, had
his sentence committed to life impris.
onment on the 18th by the board Of
pardons.
Mrs. Anna Bradley will not leave
Washington for Salt Lake until after
the holidays. She is still too weak
to make the journey, and is at the
home Of Arthur Hays, solicitor Of in
ternal revenue.
Tillie r. Beers, the widow OF DR..
Earl s.. Beers, for whose murder In
Ogden a short time ago Fred Walker
is now on trial. was married last week
to William Hughes, a former Ogden
newspaper man.
Isaac Smith, president Of the Cache
stake. had narrow escape from
death by poisoning last week, getting
hold Of bottle containing poison, in.
stead OF preparation he was using
for kidney trouble.
Members of Baptist churches in
Salt Lake and throughout the state
are taking steps to have the annual
Baptist convention of 1909 held at
Salt Lake. The conference this year
will be held in the east.
John A. Anderson, who was severe.
ly mangled in a runaway at Grants
Vile. is on the way to recovery. The
wagon on which he was riding was
carrying heavy load OF lumber, and
two wheels ran over his body.
f. II. Clarke. supervisor of the Salt
Lake forestry reserve. has received
word from Washington that the de-
partment has made a rate of 25 cents
head for cattle and 40 cents for
horses between May and November.
Utah's representatives In congress
have been deluged with kilograms
from Utah for and against the bills to
relieve mining entrymen who have
been unable to meet the tax for 1907.
The bills have no chance OF becoming
laws.
The final payroll of the Amalgamat.
ed Sugar company has been COM
pleted. One hundred and forty.five
thousand dollars will be paid out In
the Ogden factory district. The COM
bined payroll at Logan and Lewiston
will be 100000.
Sam Pearce, a wellknown trapper
OF Colorado and Utah, holds the rec
ord for bear during 1907. On the We.
Der river a day or two ago he caught
his eighth bear for the season, all fall.
Ing victims to his trap within small
area along the Weber.
Charley" Song, who runs Chi.
nese gambling house on Plum alley,
Salt Lake, will have to face a murder
charge for killing Chung Chun 30,
Korean. The men quarreled while
gambling and Song struck 30 over the
mead with piece OF lead pipe.
Thomas Vance, the Salt Lake black.
smith charged with the murder of his
wife. in a conference with the county
attorney declared that Mrs. Vance
must have committed suicide. He de-
MED that he had beaten Mrs. Vance,
or that he had given her poison.
August Sindar, who came to Salt
Lake City about three weeks ago from
Minnesota, suicided last week. taking