The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-03-14
UTAH STATE NEWS

Senator Shoots dry farming bill
has received the approval of the sen.
ate.
Horsemen of Weber county are
planning for a horse fair in Ogden
next summer.
The Union Portland Cement com.
pany of Ogden has resumed opera
lions and is now turning out about
1000 barrels of cement daily.
There were 115 deaths and Ia?
births in Salt Lake during the month
of February, according to the monthly
report of the board of health.
There has been certified to Utah
lands selected by the state as indem.
nifty school lands aggregating 1896
acres in the Salt Lake City land dis
trict
Falrview is suffering from an cpl
demic of diphtheria. All public gath
erlngs have ceased and the schools
are closed pending the result of 3
rigid quarantine.
The people of Ephraim are discus
sing the installation of a waterworks
system, and a committee has been sc
lected to canvass the town in behalf
ct the proposition.
Owing to the increase from SIS to
500 for saloon licenses, 1t is reported
that a number of saloon men OF Ogden
will not make application for a renew
al after their present licenses expire.
The secretary of the interior has
modified his orders regarding the
Uintah grazing lands in the Uintah
reservation to permit settlers to cut
cedar fence posts from the grazing
lands.
Joe Sullivan, the alleged slayer Of
Policeman G. S. Ford, of Salt Lake,
fears he will not get fair trial in
the capital city, and has asked that
his case be transferred to some other
court.
Mrs II. NJ. Caruthers, one OF the
early residents of Salt Lake, and the
mother of William ID. Haywood, Sec
retary-treasurer of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, died on March 8,
at the age of 81.
A new power plant to cost approx
mately $4,000, win soon be erected
near Willard canyon to compete in
rates with the present lighting system
furnished Ogden by the Utah Light &
Railway company.
Owing to an epidemic OF scarlet
fever, measles and diphtheria, there
are now $50 children out of the pub
lie schools of Ogden, many parents
refusing to send their children, fearing
the danger of infection.
About 10000 head of sheep are now
being ranged near Cisco, in Grand
county, where shearing will commence
| April /. 1t Is estimated that 100000
head will be sheared at that point
this year, and 100000 at Modena.
Because his tongue is spotted
which is said to be some evidence OF
epilepsy, Harry Schubey, Dutch
man, will probably be excused fol
making an assault upon Mrs. Pantone
of Ogden, with knife some time ago
Lehi Pratt, a carpenter, rushed into
a burning building in the outskirts OF
Salt Lake, thinking that a child hat
been left in the building, and was ter
ribly burned. The child had been got
ten out, and Pratt was the only one
injured.
Frank T.. Davey, formerly popular
member of the general passenger de
partment of the Oregon Short Line, In
Salt Lake, shot and killed himself
while respondent over his wife's Ill
ness, in the Piedmont district of Oak
land, Cal.
The juvenile court Of Salt Lake is
attempting to break up the practice
of boys of tender years frequentine
pool rooms, and as result two pro
prietors Of pool rooms were last week
arrested on a charge OF encouraging
such practices.
Mrs. Alice Emma Oliver, wife OF
Willard oliver OF Golconda, New, died
II, Springville, on the 9Th. Her death
which was extremely sudden, was
caused by ptomaine poisoning. The
brother-in-law is also seriously i'll, due
TO the same cause.
w. II. Watts, OF the Utah Con
struction company, is authority 70,
the statement that any day orders are
expected from the Western Pacific
Railroad company to resume its con
struction work for which Mr.. Watts
company has a contract.
The state board of education is soor
to purchase textbooks for the schools
OF the state for the next fivo years
On May G textbook convention will
be held, which will be attended by al
county superintendent and by rep
resentatives Of all districts OF the
first-class.
Information from Cisco is to the ef
feet that sheep belonging to rancheri
Of Grand Junction, Colorado, but nov
being ranged in the vicinity of Cisco
are dying in great numbers. Owners
of fiocks charge that the grass on thu
range near Cisco has been poisoned
by cattlemen.
Ed FORE, arrested in Utah on thu