The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-06-11
UTAH STATE NEWS


All public gatherings have closed
Rt Gunnison as precaution against
the further spread of scarlet fever.
About 100 electrical workers OF
Salt Lake City are on strike for an
Increase in wages and better working
conditions.
1t cost the government s4,125 to
take the census of Salt Lake City,
while the cost for the entire state
will be about $4,000.
Brown Hail, a carpenter, fell from
the second story of building in Salt
Lake City, sustaining injuries winch
resulted in his death a few hours
later.
The plant of the Manti Light G.
Power company was burned on May
81. the loss being $4,000. The fire
was started by defective high-ten'
sion wire
Roldo Peacock, AZ years old, OF
Sterling. was instantly killed May 81,
as the result of runaway accident
his neck being broken and his body
badly mangled.
Hyrum Mcfarland, a well known
sheepman who lived in Ogden, while
attempting to board train at Carlin,
Nevada, fell beneath the wheels and
was horribly mangled.
Weber county last year shipped
100000 cases of fruit and vegetables.
This year 1t is believed the number
OF cases shipped to other markets
will be more than 100000.
Eureka city is now out of debt,
the last two bonds on the water sys.
TEN, amounting to $1,000 and $50 in
terest, being paid, and the city has
now in its treasury a neat sum.
Frank Jacobs, who was arrested at
Ogden on the charge of drunkenness
and who was released from the city
Jail later, attempted to drown him.
self in the Weber river, but was res.
cued by a passerby.
Two hundred union carpenters
gathered up their tools at the major
fly of the buildings in course of con-
struction in Ogden Thursday morning
and went on strike for an increase
OF wages from 81 to $3.50 a day.
Ralph Hogan, a stockyard employe,
was perhaps fatally injured at Ogden
while unloading hogs. He was in a
car trying to force the swine into the
shoots when they began milling and
Hogan was thrown off his feet and
under the hogs.
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topmost pinicale OF the Mormon TEN.
pie in Salt Lake City, on May 81, and
adjusted the trumpet to the lips of the
statute Moroni, which had been jerk
ed loose as the. result of a dynamite
explosion in the near vicinity.
From all over Utah and Idaho comes
reports of more victims of B. S. Bis
man, the fake commission man, who
seems to have swindled hundreds OF
farmers, by offering high prices for
their produce, and failing to pay them
after he had disposed of their ship
ments.
With 1000 acres of tomatoes plant
ed within short distance of the
twenty-five canning factories of We
Der county and the present indications
pointing to the largest crop in many
years, the canning industry promises
TO break all records during the ship
ping season.
State Statistician Haines has com.
piled a stateemnt Of the cement pro-
ducts Of the state for 1909. There
was a total of 501,5 500 barrels of ce.
ment, of the value of $647 900, manu-
featured in Utah in the year. The
cement plants paid out in wages in
the year $251,1l1.
Citizens of Willard have petitioned
the Ogden city council to make an
appropriation for the care of a dog
which, 1t is alleged, was injured by
being run over by an automobile in
which the mayor and members of the
city council of Ogden were riding,
George Cocheron, SO years old, a
resident of Salt Lake City. who has
been giving his relatives endless wor.
ry through his reapeted efforts at self.
destruction is to be sent to the state
mental hospital. Cocheron made four
unsuccessful attempts in one day to
end his life.
Willard Bringhurst, resident of
Salt Lake, has been arrested on the
charge of being implicated in the rob.
berry Of the Layton bank, the hold-up
of a gambling house in Salt Lake
City, the holdup of a saloon in Park
City, and numerous other crimes
which have baffled the officers.
One day last week Frank Steven