The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-08-22
UTAH STATE NEWS

HShi -th'o Scaooh tndn iOT several
years past.
The Lehi city council has raised the
city tax rate from to 10 mills for
city and street purposes.
Four hundred Black Hawk war vet.
Grams attended the encampment at
Spanish Fork last week.
The Salt Lake team of Eagles won
the first prize, $1,000 cash, in the
parade contest at Seattle last week.
The Willard cannery has now about
cmpleted its run on beans and has
commenced to can large quantities OF
apricots.
Petitions are being circulated at
Willard favoring a local option plank
in the platforms of all the political
parties this fall.
A piece OF glazed pottery, evidently
a relic Of prehistoric ages, was found
$50 feet from the surface OF the earth
by well diggers in Ogden last week.
Lehi will hold special election
September Ia to vote on s26,500 water
bonds. The result of the election will
determine whether Lehi Is to have
water system or not.
Salt Lake City will make a strong
effort to obtain the new 100000
plant which It is understood the Har-
riman interests will erect FOO the man
ufacture of motor cars.
A young man OF Mantua Box Elder
county. was last week fined 800 for
giving whisky to minors. He sue
ceeded in getting two girls, aged ~
and 10 years. intoxicated.
In connection with the movement
which has been started soi good roads
throughout the state, Salt Lake county
has started work and expects TO show
good results within q short time.
The amount due the state OF Utah
from the net receipts OF forest re-
serves for the fiscal year ending June
30. 1908. is $32. ISL, as compared with
s9,00S in 1906, and $i3,557 in 1907.
The Salt Lake Y. M. C. A. has re.
ceived the honor roll of the ten asso-
Citations that lead In the 1908 interna.
tional educational work contest for
boys, and It's name appears at tho
head.
Imprisoned in box car without
food or water for three long days, Jo-
seph Hartman was released when the
car reached Ogden, only to be imme-
diately arrested on the charge of tres.
pass.
nnuArnnr CtttInr will annnint
sportsman who wishes TO attend the
gathering OF the League OF American
Sportsmen at Lawton, Oklahoma, DC
tober IL and 10, a delegate from the
state.
The outing of the Utah National
guard In Wyoming cost $9,624.33. ex-
elusive OF transportation and subsist.
ence. or the total amount, the state
paid s4,29S.99 and the government S.
1854.
Contracts have been awarded for
the completion OF Springville's new
high school building The building,
when all the floors are completed.
which will be next year. will cost over
$4,000.
c. J, Christensen, penniless and
suffering from an incurable disease.
suicided In Salt Lake City by hanging
rather than return to the poor
house, where he had been for several
+. Bussmyer, an aged man OF Salt
Lake. who shot Thomas Wallace at
Salt Lake on July 81, will have to
face charge OF assault with intent
TO murder. Wallace Is recovering
from his injuries.
John A. Nelson, resident OF Og.
den, has invented a butter holder Ia
be used by merchants In the delivery
Of the product which will insure 1t
reaching the hands OF customers In
first-class condition during the hot
weather.
In a runaway on the dugway near
Mercm, William Bates OF Mercur re-
celved a fractured skull and collar
bone, Mable Greats OF Lehi and a
child were slightly injured. The neck
yoke broke, the team ran away, and
the wagon was overturned.
Mildred Smith, a resident OF Salt
Lake City, tried to commit suicide
by drinking carbolic acid last week
A messenger boy prevented her get.
ting the contents OF the bottle past
her lips, but enough of the acid was
spilled on her face to burn her badly.
A shocking death occurred about
four miles north of Fairview when
Frank Stewart OF Milburn was run
over by the special train which was
returning from Fort Russell with the
Utah National Guard. Mr.. Stewart
was about 80 years of age and leaves
a large family.
Property owners in Salt Lake coun-
ty win pay this year $954,S32.55 to.
ward tapcation, and s1,262,9 1853 toward
the support OF the city, county and
state governments, making a total II
2,227, 2S5.66. This means that there
s a per capita tax OF approximately
70 for education.