The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1909-09-25
UTAH STATE NEWS

Otto Odama, Japanese eWployeu III
the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden,
was hit by the travelling crane and
severely injured.
Omer Call, who, with his brother,
built the first flour mill in northern
Utah. died at Willard, September Is,
at the age of rs.
The Logan city council has decided
to submit the question of prohibit
tiCn to the people, and special
election will be held on November 2.
within the next month the ship
ments of material for the new freight
depot to be constructed for the Har-
riinan roads at ogden will begin To
arrive.
Walter Moore, well known char
acter of Logan, was found dead in
the city Jail. where he hal been
placed the night previous for drunk
enness.
A school for the use Of the blind
IL being fitted up in Salt Lake City.
The necessary equipment has been
ordered and the school will be opened
as soon as possible.
The different towns in Utah county
will pay taxes this year totaling $685.
201, Provo alone paying $1O1 1896,
Lehi being second with S4l,093 to
contribute to the treasury.
Lehi will be dry" after January
/, 1910. The city council has passed
an ordinance making It an offense to
sell intoxicating beverages even for
medicinal or mechanical" purposes.
Resolutions looking to the protec'
ton of the health of the people OF
the state were discussed and finally
passed at the last days session of the
Utah State Federation of Labor held
in Ogden.
The opening session of the Utah
county teachers institute was held at
the Geneva resort Saturday, Septem-
Der IS. 1t was the first session for
this school year and was largely OF
n social nature.
The installation of the block sig
nal system on the Oregon Short Line
between Salt Lake City and Ogden
has been completed. The system Ia
also to be installed between Ogden
and Cache Junction.
Contracts were let last week for
portions of the work on the NAM
moth new hotel to be erected on the
ground formerly occupied by the old
Deseret News building in Salt Lake
City, the contracts totaling S1,247 900.
John Holiday, who took a
prominent part in breaking up the IA
nous gang of cattle thieves operat
ing in Utah county and further south
in the latter part of the seventies, died
at his home in Santaquin, September
16, at the age of so.
A rather gruesome find was un'
earthed by ID. b. Jones at Murray,
Mr.. Jones was blowing some ground
in the center of the street passing his
farm, when the skeleton of a man was
turned up. All the bones were in
good condition, and the teeth were
intact.
That the cement output in Utah in
1908 was almost double that OF the
previous year is shown in statistics
on the cement business compiled by
State Statistician Haines. The mum.
Der of barrels OF cement manufac.
tured in Utah last year was 469,427
as against only "a, 1928 in 1907.
The president of the Salt Lake &
Ogden Railroad company will prob.
ably petition the Ogden city council
for permission to run trains into the
city along Lincoln avenue, with
steam, temporarily, until the work
Of electrifying the road between Salt
Lake and Ogden Is completed.
Mrs. Savina S. Southwick was
found dead in her bed at Lehi. She
had evidently passed away some time
during the night previous from heart
failure, though the exact cause is not
definitely known. She had been a
resident OF Lehi for nearly fifty years.
The trial judge has refused to &C.
cept the recommendation OF the
prosecuting attorney that Nick Vacos,
who killed a Greek candy manufac.
turer at Ogden, be allowed to plead
guilty TO murder in the second de.
gree, and it is probable that Vacos
will now stand trial.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn temporarily from all
forms of selection, disposal or settle
ment, land in the Green river coun
- .fsEsSiEaati -GGl
acres. The land Withdrawn lies along
the Green river and within a quarter
OF a mile OF the stream.
A peculiar and unknown disease
that is so far as it has been dag
nosed, has broken out among the
horses in Morgan county. The dis
ease Is Drincipally confined IN Crov