The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-04-24
UTAH STATE NEW s

suicide In Seattle last week.
supreme court decision rendered
last week holds that school property,
whether personal or real, is exempt
from taxation.
Free lunches In saloons In Salt Lake
City are to be done away with, &C.
cording to an order issued by the
chief Of police.
The Boosters club of Logan is TAX.
Ing up the question of the building Of
a macadam road from Main street to
the mouth OF Logan canyon.
The scarlet fever epidemic, which
mas been prevalent In Murray for the
past two months has now subsidized
and the quarantine has been raised
One of the Oldest residents Of Park
City. John Wyckoff, died last week,
after short Illness. He had been a
resident OF Park City for over twenty
years.
The people Of Bingham Junction are
determined to incorporate. There is
not known to be single voter in
Bingham Junction against its incor-
poration.
Utah will spend more this year for
the education Of its youth than in
any other year since 1t became
state. The appropriation last year
was $5.12 per capita; this year 1t will
be 1915.
An unknown man, about 30 years
of age. suicided at Kaysville, April
16, hanging himself, using a wire in
stead of a rope. Everything points
to an unbalanced mind as the cause
for the deed.
A strike of the painters, decora-
tors and paper hangers of Salt Lake
City has been averted, the men decid-
Ing to accept verbal agreement with
their employers that the new scale
Of wages will be paid.
A big conclave Of the Knights
Templar will be held in Salt Lake City
on May IL. One OF the features of the
conclave will be several competitive
drills between teams from Salt Lake,
Ogden, Reno and other Communicates.
A sheepherder found the body OF
Frank White, laborer, about 80 years
of age, in the foothills east of Ogden,
one day last week. White had sui
cided, taking carbolic acid. grief over
the death OF his mother being given
as the reason.
At the preliminary hearing in Og
den. Nick Vacos, who shot and killed
John Contos, a prosperous Greek mer.
chant of that city, declared he shot in
self defense. that Contos had reached
for his pocket as II to draw weapon
when he fired
The gold crowns valued at 800.
which were stolen from display case
in front Of dental office in Ogden.
have been recovered, lad claiming
to have found the property behind
bill board and was trying to dispose
Of at when arrested.
William Bernard Dougall, pioneer
telegrapher of Utah, and the organizer
of the school which ultimately devel.
oped into the l.. ID. s. university, died
ut his home In Salt Lake City, April
~. He came to Utah In 1853, and
learned telegraphy In 1866.
The report comes from Ogden that
plot to kidnap one of the children
of Joseph Scowcroft, leading citizen,
was probably frustrated last week by
a warning sent to the Scowcroft fam
lily by a negress, who claimed that
she had overheard the plot.
Loren l.. Dibble. aged 20, died In a
Salt Lake hospital Sunday, the esult
of internal injuries sustained from a
fall of eighty feet in the Apex mine
above Bingham Canyon. Alva p.
Dbble, aged 23 years. was probably
fatally injured at the same time.
strike of gold assaying $3.50 to
the ton has been made In Ogden can
yon, at the edge of the city, and a
stampede has started OF those who
are stalking out claims. From a con-
glomerate mass next TO the vein mat
ter proper free gold has been PANIED |
The frequent storms which occur |
on the Great Salt Lake, and especial. |
ly those of late, have brought South |
ern Pacific officials to the belief that !
something must be done to protect its |
trackage on the cutoff. A breakwater |
will probably be built near the road |
way.
Barney Foley, who was SO terribly |
Injured by the explosion OF potion |
condenser in Salt Lake City, died |
after nearly twenty hours Of terrible
suffering. His eyes were so badly |
burned by ammonia that had he lived
he would have lost his sight com
pletely,
John II. Nelson, a shoemaker who
came to Utah in 1875, suicided at
Ephraim, April IA, hanging himself.
Mr.. Nelson had always been regarded
as /6ne of the most respected citizens
OF the town, and no cause for the deed
Is known, unless II was on account of
poor health.
Mistaking bottle OF csrbolic acid
for bottle OF tonic which he was
taking, DR.. II. j. Powers, d prominent
physician of ogden. and a member OF
the city council, swallowed several