The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-12-11
UTAH STATE NEWS

seven years in the penitentiary.
Aleck Beck of Centerfield was
thrown from a fractions horse, the
fall breaking his leg and injuring his
spine.
State Treasurer Mattsons report
for November shows that there was
a balance on hand, November 80, of
$44O,912.9l
Roller skating Is on the wane in
Ogden, and it is rumored that the
skating rink is to be remodeled and
used as a theatre
A reclamation scheme has been
started at Monroe whereby 1900 ad'
ditional acres will be reclaimed on the
bench south of the town.
Salt Lakes bank clearings for the
month of November, 1909 reached the
highest point in the history of the
city, the sum being $33,2S2,O00
With the arrest of Earl Barber,
aged 10 years, the police believe they
have taken the leader of a gang of
youthful thieves, which has been OPP
Grating in North Salt Lake,
There are 1O4,S76 children attend
ing school in the state of Utah, as
compared with 1O2,056 in 1908, an in
crease of 1920. The total for the
counties is 10000; for the cities, 34,-
567
Morton J. Cheesman, prominent
business man of Salt Lake City,
dropped dead at his home Tuesday
morning He was interested in Wal
ker Bros bank and the Walker Dry
Goods company.
Reports on the national forest bust
ness for last year show that 4,449
cattle and horse permits and 1,449
sheep permits were issued, allowing
the grazing of 1868 head of cattle,
6,799 horses and 905,446 sheep in
Utah.
Ben Sparks, one of the prominent
young men of Ephraim, died at his
home, after suffering for several days
as result Of exposure during the re-
cent cold weather. He was thrown
from his horse and lay out in the
open all night
The constant danger to passengers
at the Ogden Union depot while fire.
quently crossing several tracks to get
TO their trains, Is to be partially obvi-
ated by the installation of subterran-
can passageways leading TO the tracks
from the depot.
Tex Richard, the Ely mining man,
has secured the handling of the JEFF.
ries-Johnson championship fight, and
will give Salt Lake the first chance.
II the capital city can guarantee the
fight can take place without interior
e ence, the championship may be settled
there.
With both arms fractured between
the elbow and the wrists, Lewis Mar
enelle, an Italian, was picked up in
Ogden, and when his injuries were
being attended TO 1t was found the
man was insane. He will be sent to
the State Mental hospital until he re-
covers.
George w. Reed, pioneer journal
list of the state, died at his home in
Salt Lake City on December l, at the
aged of II, as result OF injuries sus'
tanned in a collision with an automo-
mile on October 16. Mr.. Reed was
employed on the Deseret News In the
early days.
Free school wagons, for the pur-
pose of conveying the children living
on the outskirts of the town to school
every morning, are now in operation
at Sandy. The matter of wagons for
this purpose has been before the
school board for some time and at
last was agreed upon.
Clarence Ernst and Nick Vacos, in
the Weber county Jail on the charge
of murder, are to be tried early in
January Ernst, a negro, is accused
of killing another colored man, while
Vacos shot John Contos, a prominent
Greek business man, at Ogden.
Captain w. A. Johnson, formerly
associated with John Hays Hammond
the greatest mining engineers in the
world, committed suicide in Salt Lake
City by drinking a solution of cyanide
OF potassium. Worry over financial
matters had driven him insane.
D Applications for right of way from
Garfield west TO the Utah-Nevada
state line were filed by the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company,
and the Utah.I Idaho Nevada Telephone
company with the United States land
office last week These are the first
applications of the kind filed in Utah.
Edwin p. Condor, aged 6S, went to
a pasture at considerable distance
from his home at Willard to catch
horse. While he was putting the hal.