The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-01-11
UTAH STATE NEWS

assisting the poor during the yeai
1907.
Between fifty and sixty divorces
we're granted during the year in We
Der county.
TIE grand jury called to investigate
the alleged Salt Lake food trust was
discharged last week.
over one hundred homes in Leh
are uuarantined with the measles
| There have been no fatalities.
At the close of the year the West
ern Pacific is completed from Salt
Lake City west to Wells, Nevada.
The total value OF the manufactured
articles in the state, including smelt
ing, will exceed $70,000,00O for the
year.
All the business houses of Park City
have reduced their forces consider
ably as q result Of the mines closing
| down.
Railroad construction In Utah dur.
ing the year 1907 dropped off to one
fifth of the number of miles OF road
built In l9O6.
The value of the sheep, cattle,
horses and hogs In the state OF Utah
is conservatively estimated at $685.
600, 900 for 1907.
Pneumonia seems to be running riot
in Ogden. Since November l fifteen
deaths have occurred in that city
from this dreaded malady.
An effort is being made to interest
the city council of Ogden in prop
osition 70 install lighting system to
be owned by the municipality.
Thomas Vance, the Salt Lake man
accused of fatally injuring his wife
by beating her, has been held to the
district court on charge of murder.
William Gibson of Salt Lake City, a
quarryman, was killed in the. United
States Limestone quarry at Topliff,
Rush valley, by being run over by q
car.
In Box Elder county, many of the
frult-growers are realizing $1,000 an
acre each season from their orchards,
the apples being particularly produc'
tive.
A two-year-old child being cared for
at the Crittenden home in Ogden got
hold of some strychnine pills few
days ago, and died before medical aid
arrived.
An indoor baseball association has
been organized In Ogden, and a sched-
ule of thirty games have been ar
ranged between six clubs OF the
league
The new law, passed by the last
legislature. forbidding the sale Of CO.
caine, except on prescription of a
reputable physician, went into effect
on January 1.
There are twenty-eight canning fac
tories In the state, twenty-five being
located in Davis, Box Elder and We
Der counties, eighteen being located
In Weber county alone.
The largest reservoir in the state Is
being constructed in Willard county
ten miles south of Juab. It has a
capacity of 10000 acre feet of water
This will irrigate 10000 acres of land.
Senator Smoot has announced the
appointment of his son as clerk OF his
new committee, the senate committee
on patents, at salary of $500. Sen
ator Smoot Is chairman OF the com
mittee.
For the year 1907 there were issued
$40 marriage licenses in Ogden. The
revenue derived from the usual fees
paid by the happy males reached ST.
1880, which goes into the Golfers OF
the county.
Mrs. Minnie J. Snow, widow OF the
late President Lorenzo Snow, died at
her home in Salt Lake City on Jan
uary 2. Mrs. Snow had long been
sufferer from cancer. She was
born in 1854.
The Utah canneries, during their
run the past season, used 16,442, 40C
cans, or 2S5 carloads of cans and five
cars of labels. Two hundred cars Of
coal, 30 cars Of sugar. and 100 cars Of
box materials was used.
Edward Green. junk dealer, who
with M. Globenfelt, was murderously
assaulted with robbery intent by Art
Bowen and Richard A. Baker, Salt
Lake youths turned highwaymen, IL
beyond danger from his wounds
Green's skull was fractured In five
places.
At the conclusion of the hearing OF
Charley Song, on the charge of muir
der for the alleged killing OF Chur
Chung 30 in a quarrel over a gamb
ling game In Salt Lake. Song was
held for trial In the third distric,
court, on the charge of voluntary man
slaughter.
The little child OF Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence Peterson OF Ephraim wal
badly injured about the hands anC
face by falling against the stove. I'll,
mother, who was busily engaged II
her household duties, did not motto,
what the child was doing until sh,
heard It scream.
Androll Kolopulos, the Greek la
borer who received three bulle
wounds and a knife thrust In the bod,
during fight with l9-year-ol,
Greek lad at Bingham Junction, ma,
die from his injuries. His assailan
hna a