The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-05-07
UTAH STATE NEWS

are now closing their stores at 6
o'clock
The Auditorium at Saltair will be
used for the convention of sheriffs Of
the intermountain states at their CON
vention to open at Salt Lake on June
Is.
The March bulletin of the state
board Of health shows that there were
112 cases of smallpox in the state dur.
ing March, none Of which terminated
fatally.
Hugh A. McMillin, supervisor of the
census for Utah, has issued an APP
peal to the public to assist census emu
merators. Enumerators are meeting
with lot of obstacles
Salt Lake club women will make a
bid for the 1912 meeting Of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's clubs,
which this year meets in Cincinnati,
o., the dates being May 13 to 81.
The Sugar House Commercial club
was launched at meeting of boost
ers at Sugar House, Wednesday night.
or about thirty-ive present twenty
eight signed as prospective members.
Maria Ann Wood Slater, who rode
on the first transcontinental train
across the western prairies to Utah
in 1869, and who had lived in Ogden
since that time. died April rs, at her
home in Ogden.
Harry Williams, the young man
who threw cayenne pepper in the face
of Salt Lake jeweler in an attempt
at robbery, and who has since feigned
insanity, has been bound over to the
district court for trialv.
A gigantic scheme for the draining
Of many acres of land near the Jor.
dan river, between Salt Lake and the
Great Salt Lake, Is now being worked
up by owners of the land and members
Of the city administration.
The observation of Mothers Day on
May s will be state wide. Salt Lake,
Ogden, Park City, Manti and Brigham
City have organized movements in
operation and the interest is being
effectively stimulated in other dis
tricts.
Henry Smith, now held at Reno,
New, is to be returned to Box Elder
county to face the charge of abandon
ing his family. The requisition for
Smiths return to Utah was issued by
the governor on Tuesday. 1t is charged
that Smith left his wife and children
destitute.
The city council of Provo has grant
ed II. G. Blumenthal Of Provo, a
franchise to construct and maintain a
plant for the manufacture of gas
and the right to lay gas pipes through
the city streets. The franchise is for
fifty years, and work is to begin with.
in year.
Administering a large does Of lauda'
mum to alleviate suffering from neural.
gia, Mrs. Amelia Davis, of Salt Lake
City, became delrious and died I'm.
mediately after she had been seized
with commissions two physicians were
summoned, but their efforts proved
without avail.
The affairs of Huntsville City are
being wound up and the little town to
the east of Ogden will soon be shorn
of its municipal power and revert to
county government, pursuant to the
result of the election last November,
when a majority of the citizens voted
TO disincorporate the city.
Charles Phelps, who murdered John
Egan in Salt Lake fifteen years ago
and murderer of Heber, Wells at Pc
catello, Ida, for which he served com
paratively short terms in the Utah
penitentiary and that of Idaho, is un
der arrest at Hood River, Ore, for an
attack on John May, at Bull, Idaho
on March 90
During the past twelve months up
wards of 100 residences, most of them
ern, have been erected at Tooele, bust
ness blocks have been enlarged and
others have been built, including 9
three-story brick hotel
Construction was started last week
on the Postal Telegraph Cable com
pany's new line from Salt Lake tC
Reno, connecting with San Francisco
and various coast Offices at that point
This will compete the fourth great
overland circuit of the Postal, two OF
which are Salt Lake lines.
1t is cleaning up time in Ogder
City. This is the word which has
been passed out by the sanitary de
partment, and unless residents of the
city make arrangements for the re
moval of all rubbish and refuse from
their premises there will be crowd
ed docket in the police court.
George Petersen, an Austrian, con