The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-04-18
UTAH STATE NEWS

be planted in the vicinity of Monti.
cello this year.
OF the state school fund, the city
Of Ogden will receive $lG,4SO.50 this
year, and Weber county will get S5,
2O2.
Twenty-Five members attended the
annual session Of the Titan Beekeep
ers' association held in Salt Lake
City last week.
A farmer living near Bingham
Junction, who is SO years of age, was
married recently, the bride giving
her age as 20.
The town of Mayfeld is suffering
from an epidemic of diphtheria, and
It may be necessary to close the
schools for a time.
II is estimated that about forty
thousand sheep will be shorn at
Thompson's, and twenty-five thousand
at Dewey, this year.
Ogden's tabernacle choir has en-
tered the contest for the $1,000 prize
offered at the eisteddfod in Salt
Lake City next October.
The county commissioners OF Sum
to the Denver Bridge company to
erect steel bridge at Hoytsville.
Albert Earl. the 1S.yearold Salt
Lake boy who was injured by an
Oregon Short Line engine at Poca.
tello, Idaho, died from his injuries.
In the future any one having a slot
machine in his place OF business in
Salt Lake must pay license of $40
per month for the operation of the
same.
A proposition to consolidate the
school districts in each county un-
der one control is being supported by
A. C. Nelson, superintendent Of pub
| lie instruction.
A Park City man, convicted of Sc
curing refreshments in restaurant
and refusing to pay for them, was
fined $25 and has appealed the case
to a higher court.
At an old folks dinner In Rich
mond, 500 persons Toasted. There
were number of old people present.
There was one over 80, four over 80,
81 over 20, and 80 over 60.
| Bertha Rhodes attempted suicide in
rooming house in Ogden, one day
last week, taking chloroform, but
was discovered in time by occupants
of the house to save her life.
While trying to pound a shell into
q gun, Harry Heed, an eight-year-olu
Fremont boy, was injured, the shell
exploding tearing the end off of one
finger and injuring the others badly.
The three-year-old child of II. G.
Hess, OF Ogden, was attacked by a
dog one day last week and so badly
bitten about the face that there Is
but little hope for the child's recov.
cry.
Mrs. Mary A. Pugmire, who has
been resident of Salt Lake for q
number of years, was overcome by
heart failure while walking along
the street, death resulting a few mo
ments later.
The Western Association of the
Blind is the title of an organization
formed in Salt Lake city last week
which has for its purpose the promo
ton of the welfare Of the blind in
the western states,
State Treasurer Christensen has
filed his report for March with the
state auditor. hTe report shows q
balance on hand March l of $685.
| nd N t,nnnth'C
ceipts, makes a total of $Sl6,777.39.
Alfred Howes, aged ~ years, the
son OF John Howes OF Marysvale, was
seriously injured by falling over an
embankment He. with two Other
boys, was hauling a load OF hay from
a farm near Marysvale. His skull
was fractured in two places.
A train was held up west of Ogden
one day last week, by a gang of no
boes, and a refrigerator car broken
into, large quantity Of ham, bacon
and considerable fresh meat appro
rriated. The leader OF the band
warned the train crew not to attempt
to interfere.
Harry Hoddles and Tom Davis
| were severely lnJuTcu as INC l'Sui
Of an explosion in the Ontario drair
tunnel at Park City. II is not known
Just how the accident happened, bu
the injured men think 1t was caused
by lighted candle falling into
box Of caps,
C. ]. Lindale, a railroad fireman
residing in Salt Lake, has invented
system of safety blocks which is de
signed to be utilized by single ant
double.track railroads, and, II PROVED
by use to be practicable, may sug
gest great changes in the presen
block signals.
While Mrs. Il. j. Flake lay unat
tended in a sick bed in Salt Lake
City, fire from defective electric ligh
wiring broke out and flames wer'
rapidly enveloping her home when {
passer.by discovered the fire, brok,
in the door and saved her from
horrible death.
| II - Killmar a mining man. sui