The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-08-06
UTAH STATE NEWS

show that Utah's wool crop will this
year amount to about 100000
pounds.
According to unofficial returns, Salt
Lake City's school population is at
present 24,490, an increase of 5000
over last year.
Fred Fournier, who tried to suicide
by throwing himself in front of a
train at Tucker, has been sent to the
State Mental hospital.
John Nelson was accidentally shot
in the leg by his son at the Nelson
home in North ogden. The boy was
unloading his rifle when the accident
occurred.
Jens c. Folster, one of the pioneer
residents of Ephraim, was killed
Wednesday afternoon in falling from
O tree while trimming the limbs from
the tree.
r. II. G. Parks, of Nephi, reports
that he has had better success at dry
farming this year than ever before.
Eighteen stacks of wheat will thresh
out about 1900 bushels.
Governor Spry has been asked by
relatives of Matthias GundcrsOn. who
was foully murdered at Santaquin, to
use his influence to bring about a
thorough investigation of the matter
William A. Williams, well known
rancher on the Uintah reserve and a
former resident OF Kamas, died at
his home near Ioka from dose OF
strychnine administered by his own
hand.
Bicycle thievery has become a COM
mon practice in Ogden, and scarcely
a day passes but that a half dozen
complaints of stolen wheels are reg
Istered with the desk sergeant at the
city Jail.
Charles A. Bauer, charged with
Sailing" the Golden Rule mine near
Ogden with high grade ore to deceive
persons who purchased stock from
him, has been bound over to the dis
trict court for trial
The first live stock shipment over
the Salt Lake Route since the wash.
out last winter, was moved on July
81. The train consisted of twenty.
four carloads of sheep from Lehi and
Milford for Los Angeles.
The assessed valuation of Utah
county for 1910, including the prop
erty assessed by the state board of
equalization, is $l6,2l3,4l0, an in.
crease over the assessment of 1909
of nearly two million dollars.
Investigation of the clogged sewers
in Ogden revealed a number of dead
dogs, cats and other domestic ami
mails that evidently had been emptied
into the sewer through street man
holes. The matter has been placed
in the hands of the police for inves-
tigation.
S. L. Chapman, of American Fork,
who has a big dry farm at Fairfield,
reports that, without drop of rain
since March, a crop of from fifteen to
twenty bushels to the acre of turkey
red wheat has been harvested. 1t is
ROW in the stack and will be threshed
next week.
Prof. L. A. Merrill, dry land expert,
declares that the reported heavy loss
of crops on the dry farms of the state
has been far overestimated. He
states that he has received a number
of letters from various representative
dry land farmers which prove the
truth of his declaration
Declaring that a precedent had
never been established in the police
court of Ogden by which a man could
be convicted of stealing anything
valued as low as 10 cents, Judge
Murphy dismissed the case of the city
against M. Henry, a negro Henry
was arrested for stealing twenty
pounds of ice from the railroad yards.
Ebert W. Gose, a railroad postal
clerk running between Salt Lake City
and Marysvale, has been placed un.
der arrest on the charges of theft and
rifing the mails. II is charged that
he has taken about $500 from the
mails.
Four months Imprisonment in the
county jail and fine Of $3.50 was the
sentence imposed on Hoken Olsen,
the blind tiger" king of Huntsville.
Olsen's attorney gave notice of an
appeal which will be taken to the su.
preme court in an effort to reverse
the judgment of the lower court.
Amateur cracksmen made bun.
Cling attempt to get into the safe in
the Berry brothers livery stable in
Park City. The dial of the safe was
knocked off by the marauders, but
they had evidently been frightened
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