The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-03-21
UTAH STATE NEWS

Inc nrSt Otan state convention Oh
the Royal Neighbors of America was
held In Salt Lake last week.
The state experiment well in the
center of Cedar valley is now down
300 feet. and is making good progress.
The schools of West Weber have
been closed, owing to the develop
ment of a number of cases of smallpox
In that vicinity.
The dry farmers of Cedar valley re-
port their wheat sown last fall as be-
ing up and looking promising, aud
they expect a good yield.
Jerry Shaw, negro Jockey, was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
Buck Staten, another negro, during a
fight in negro dive in Salt Lake City.
The body of an unknown man was
found alongside the railroad track
north of ogden on the 14th in a hur.
ribly mutilated condition, as the re
suit OF being struck by train.
There seems to be very little likeli.
hood of a strike of the machinists
boilermakers and car repalIers in the
employ of the Rio Grande, as it Is
believed that all differences may De
amicably adjusted.
Mrs. Dan Whitbeck dropped dead
while dancing at Ephraim. She had
just made the remark to the gentle
man with whom she was dancing that
she had never felt better when she
fell backward and expired.
Lorenzo w. Cracroft, aged "a, en-
ployed as q driver for n meat market,
suicided in barn at the rear of his
home, in Salt Lake, shooting himself
through the heart. Cracroft was de-
spondent over financial troubles.
In drunken brawl at Lehi, David
McCandlass struck Moses Jones over
the head with beer bottle, fractur.
ing his skull. Jones condition Is con-
sldered serious, and McCandlass is be
ing held pending further develop.
ments.
Joseph Il. White, a painter, fell a
distance of sixty feet from a smoke
stack in Salt Lake City and escaped
with a broken collar bone and a dis
located hip. He landed in mud sew
eral inches deep, which broke the force
of the fall.
John Ellis, a German who had been
On a protracted spree, suicided In his
room in Salt Lake City by hanging
tying one end of strap to a horse
shoe above his door, the other end
around his neck, and strangling him
self to death.
Mace Cochran, the Waterman who
shot Matt Zoran while the latter was
picking up coal in the railroad yards
at Bingham Junction, February 2S, the
wounds causing the death Of Zorar
later. has been charged with volun
tary manslaughter.
The governor has announced the
reappointment of Drs. A. G. Wherry
and s. II. Clawson as members of the
state board of dental examiners. The
| governor also reappointed Perley A
Hill a member of the board of eX
aminers of BARRIERS.
The Salt Lake Commercial club will
raise $1,000 by popular subscription
with which to purchase an appropriate
souvenir for Admiral hobley ID
Evans, who was appointed to the
naval academy from Utah, when the
feet arrives at San Francisco.
A report issued by the weather blu
reau says that the snowfall during
February was slightly below the aver
age of former years, but prospective
water supply will be ample the com
| ing season and the residents of Utaf
need have no fear of water famine
Peter Tsangas, Greek, 20 years
old, was struck and instantly killed
by passenger train near Salt Lake
Tsangas was walking down the tract
and when he heard the train cominl
behind him, began running along II
front of the engine until 1t struck him
At the recent meeting OF the Dem
| ocratic state central committee, June
was selected as the date for the
state convention for the election o
delegates TO the national convention
at Denver, and Frank Nebeker of 10
gan was elected national committee
| man.
The annual inspection OF the Utal
National Guard will be held during
the third week In April, and MaJo
Willis T. May of the Fifteenth United
States infantry, stationed at For
Douglas, has been detailed by the wa
department to be the inspecting OF
| flcer
The constitutionality of the Law
passed by the last legislature impos
ing license tax on all corporation
doing business in the state in proper
| ton to the amount of their capita
stock has been upheld. This means
a revenue to the state of 100000 ;
| year.
The owners of private fish ponds IL
Utah may sell the fish from sucl
ponds to the public the year round
and restaurants purchasing such FISH
may dispose of them to their patron
without taking out any special license
is the decision of Attorney Genera