The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-11-19
UTAH STATE NEWS


John Mentally, one of the first sa.
loonkeepers in Salt Lake City, died
on Thursday, from pneumonia.
While attempting to light an oil
stove, Mrs. Anna Johnson, aged 60,
Of Salt Lake City, was severely burn.
ed about the hands and arms.
J. A. Lieichter, aged 30, committed
suicide at his home in Salt Lake City,
in the presence of his wife, shooting
himself in the mouth. Dependency
led to the deed.
William Jeffress, who shot and
killed William Coslett in a Salt Lake
saloon last August, has been bound
over to the district court on a charge
Of murder in the first degree.
Preparations are being made by the
Oregon Short Line to send an exhibit
OF Utah's products to the irrigation ex'
position to be held in the Coliseum in
Chicago, November 10 to December 4,
An effort is to be made to put the
suit clubs in Salt Lake City out OF
business, on the ground that the
scheme conducted by several firms in
selling clothes to customers is lot
terry.
Despite the fact that the dairy
products of the state of Utah are in
creasing rapidly, they are still insult
ficient, 1t is claimed, to supply the de
mands of more rapidly growing pop
ulation.
AS result of the falling off in de
mand for repair work, reduction In
the hours of work has gone into eff
feet at the Southern Pacific car shops
at Ogden Win a proportionate reduc'
ton in pay.
John A. Jones, on trial in Salt Lake
City for the murder of Arthur F. Shep
ard, on July 10, was acquitted by q
Jury. Jones shot Shepard when he
found him registered at hotel with
Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. Tina Hamilton OF Salt Lake
City died four days after taking laud
anum with suicidal intent. Mrs.
Hamilton was 55 years of age and
widow. 1t is believed she was tenn
porarily insane.
That death from heart disease was
brought on by excessive cigarette
smoking was the verdict Of physi'
clans in the case of Charles Written
berg, aged 81, who dropped dead in
Salt Lake City.
Herbert Staggers and J. T. Single
ton, who found trunk check in Salt
Lake City, which had been lost by a
woman, went to the depot and claimed
the trunk, have been sentenced to
six months Imprisonment.
Ogden City has won in the first test
cases to decide the constitutionality
of the merchants license ordinance,
the court having decided that two
secondhand store men on trial must
pay the 500 special tax on this class
of business.
The engineer In charge OF the
Strawberry tunnel reports 492 feet OF
tunnel driven in October, which is the
greatest distance driven in any one
month since the work started. This
makes a total Of 300 feet Of tunnel
work done.
George Duquette, aged 80, an iron
worker who was injured at Trenton
Utah, has disappeared from Salt
Lake hospital, and so far all efforts
to locate him have proved futile. II
Is feared his injuries have resulted In
weakening his mind.
Because they applied shoe black
Ing mixture to the face of young
Floyd Shupe, Carl Ford and r. Halver'
son, of Ogden, were fined $50 each
by Judge Murphy of the police court
The polish used on the boys face con
tanned some kind of acid which caused
the lad considerable plain.
Dee Brackenbury, sentenced to life
Imprisonment for the murder of War
rem Richardson, at Clear Creek, Box
Elder county, on March %, 1910, is
dead. Grief over his conviction OF
the murder and self.starvation are
given as the causes for his death
Governor Spry has issued procla
nation to the people of the state OF
Utah, urging them to observe Thurs
day, November "a, as Thanksgiving
day, a day in which they shall turn
their thoughts to the Creator of al
things and the giver Of all god gifts
and return thanks for the blessings
received.
An S.year-old boy. playing with
matches, set fire to the strawstack Of
Levi Taylor. Jr., at Haysville, start
Ing a coniagration that for time
threatened the destruction of the barr
.nd odioinino outhuiIdinPa The straw