The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-03-07
UTAH STATE NEWS


soon.
George T. Smith has been appoint.
ed postmaster at Garrison, Willard
county.
s. b. McGovern, section hand,
was run over by train in the Ogden
yards and instantly killed.
Farmers of Mapleton and Spring.
vile will form a $4,000 corporation
and build a cannery this season
One of the free soup houses recently
opened in Sail Lake City has been
closed, as the demand for 1t had
ceased to exist.
An Ogden woman has sued the
owners of a gambling house in that
city for $500. which she claims her
husband lost while gambling.
The charity ball given at Park City
to provide a purse for miners out of
employment was a financial success,
the receipts being close to $1,000
Henry w. Naisbitt, known to the
older people of Utah as the pioneer
poet" died in Salt Lake City on the
26th, at the age of 81. Mr.. Naisbitt
came to Utah in 1854.
BY majority of 90 votes the prop.
osftion to issue 100000 bonds for the
purpose of building a new high school
building in Ogden was lost at spe.
cial election held last week.
The mayor of Ogden has ordered
all saloons to close at midnight, and,
while the order is being obeyed, the
saloon men declare they will test the
new ordinance, and are preparing for
legal battle.
The Utah Fuel company's boarding
fire recently, entailing a loss of $780,
000 and leaving the men without a
place to eat or sleep. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
Lille Stahl, aged 5, jumped from
moving wagon in Ogden and fell
under the wheel, which passed over
her face. crushing her jaw in two
places and almost tearing one Of her
ears from her head.
President Judd and Secretary Tay-
lor of the state board of horticulture
are endeavoring to secure an exhibit
ton of Utah products at the National
Irrigation congress to be held In AL
buquerque next fall.
The Weber club of Ogden has just
had an attractive booklet printed,
setting forth the advantages Of Og-
den and Weber county for prospective
settlers, and will distribute the book
lets all over the country.
Mrs. Emma Mason, of Los Angeles,
who recently married Thomas Mason,
formerly Salt Lake gambler, has
placed the officers on Mason's trail,
declaring that he has disappeared
with her purse containing 81 900.
Sending his brother for a doctor,
with the remark that he was going to
be- very Ill, Rastus Nielsen, 16 years
old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Soren
Nielsen, of Fountain Green, placed a
revolver in his mouth and blew out
his brains.
Al the old folks party in Mt Pleas
ant last week, of those present two
were 81 years old, four "a, two SO,
two so. one 81, three 80, thirty-five
between 20 and 80, fifty-nine between
GO and TO- There were seventy-nine
widows present.
II is believed that large number
of the contagious diseases, which
promise to become epidemic in the
city of Ogden, have been occasioned
by people dumping the carcasses of
hogs which had died from cholera In
the Weber river.
Edward Mangel young man, lost
his right arm In a revolving wringer
In a laundry in Salt Lake. In an un.
known manner he got his arm caught
In the wringer which revolves, with
terrific force, about 800 times a NM
ute, ana the member was torn OF in
stantly.
Mat Zoran, an Austrian smelter la
borer, was shot in the back and dan
gerously wounded in the Rio Grande
Western railroad yards at Bingham
Junction by Macy Cochran, watch
man employed by the railroad com
pany, who had caught Zoran in the
act OF stealing coal,
Mrs. Mary Mcleod OF Salt Lake
was found dead in bathroom In the
Sanitarium, one day last week. The
cause of death is not known, but II is
believed she was stricken with heart
failure while bathing. Her body was
found floating In the private pool
which she had rented.
William L. Baker, aged 70, a pho.
neer resident of Weber county, died
on the cath, of general debility. Mr..
Baker was the first settler of Hooper.
He was born in Hurley, England, and
came to Utah in 1862. His daughter
was the first white child to be born in
that part OF the country,
The report OF the secretary OF the
state board of dental examiners shows
that during the past year fifteen ap.
plications for licenses to practice in
the state were granted by the board,
Six prosecutions were instituted for
practicing without a license, and five
convictions were secured.
A nlnt IN hlom IN the Utah nant.