The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-08-15
UTAH STATE NEWS

At the present time $500 tons Of
coal are being shipped out of SEQ
field every twenty-four hours.
Mrs. Mable Gustaveson of Salt Lake
City Is in a critical condition as the
result OF eating canned tomatoes.
As the result of the explosion of
gasoline stove, the home OF Peter
Engstrom of Ogden was destroyed by
| fire.
A banking institution backed by Og-
den capital will begin business in Hy.
rum, Utah, August Is, with a capital
stock of $25, 900.
The school census of Salt Lake
shows that there will be ia more
children attending the public schools
this fall than last year.
George Field, who years ago was
resident Of Salt Lake City, was struck
by a street car at Green Bay, Wis, on
July 20 and instantly killed.
Charles owen, a 15-year-old Salt
Lake boy. is dead as the result of at
tempting to dive in the shallow water
at Saltair. He struck stone, break
ing his neck.
Captain w. II. Glore, for many
years at the head of the fire depart
ment of Covington, KY, has been APP
pointed chief of the Salt Lake City
fire department.
Utahns interested in irrigation are
raising a fund by popular subscrip-
tion to insure a creditable exhibit
from Utah at the sixteenth national
irrigation congress.
As the result of quarrel, Emma
Branch, a negress, shot Mary Garrett,
also colored, at the home OF the latter
III Salt Lake. The injured woman Is
IN critical condition.
Superintendent Christensen of the
Salt Lake public schools has recon-
mended to the board of education that
bath rooms be installed In the school
buildings--one at each building.
Before the summer Of 1909 opens,
It Is highly probable that the Ogden
Rapid Transit company will have ex-
tended it's car line through the ogden
canyon as far as the Oaks resort.
Fifteen of the Austrians, Greeks and
Servians who participated In a riot at
Garfield, in which several shots were
fired and number injured, but no one
killed, have been lodged In the county
Jail
The state board Of land commission
ers has made a loan Of $4,000 to Car
bon county for the purpose OF build
ing a court house. The money will
be repaid when the taxes are collect
ed this fall.
MILFORD II. Osgood Of the National
Biological bureau is just now in the
district in the vicinity of the Sewer
mountains, where he will study Utah
animal life for the benefit of the bio
logical bureau.
An effort is being made to interest
the fruit growers of Weber county in
the advantages to be derived from a
membership in the Ogden Fruit Grow
ers' association and to increase the
membership roll.
According to the supreme court the
word street" means a highway In a
town or city used by the public for
travel by means OF vehicles or on
foot, and embraces all the area be-
tween the lots on either side.
Christopher Anderson. formerly of
Snowville, committed suicide at Twin
Falls, Idaho, on August s. shooting
himself through the brain with a rifle.
Anderson had been drinking heavily
and had threatened several times to
take his own life.
John Rollen, young man who re-
Gently came to Utah from Arkansas,
was drowned while bathing in the
reservoir of the Utah Copper COM
pany's mill at Garfield. In diving II
is thought he fell so hard that he was
stunned.
Harrell, the seven-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Young of NAM
moth, secured possession OF a giant
cap and proceeded to hit 1t with a
rock, causing It to explode, with the
result that he is minus the thumb and
two fingers OF his left hand.
Gerald Maxfeld. aged II, OF Butler
vile, was carrying bottle OF car
DOliC dCiu III Hls mp poShSt Whch 'hS
bottle broke, as he was STOPPING over,
and he was so badly burned about the
side and limbs that death resulted ar
ter few hours of horrible suffering.
Monday, August 3, was the biggest
day in the history OF the state board
of land commissioners, so far as the
virtual sale of lands was concerned,
During the day applications were
made for the purchase OF Approximate
ly 100000 acres OF land at $3.50 an
| acre.
Salt Lake City's chain gang OF about
twenty members is constructing an
excellent boulevard for automobiles
and carriages upon the county road
between Whites hill, at the Salt Lake
and Davis county line, and st. Marks
hospital, a distance of about foul
miles.
Members OF the Utah State Woo