The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1919-03-15
UTAH STATE NEWS


The third annual meeting of the
Utah chapter of the National Fraternal
Congress of America will be held mt
Salt Lake, April 4.
Helen Shaw, 6-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William w. Shaw of
Ogden, was seriously injured when
she fell from the second-story window
Of the home.
Charged with driving an auto while
intoxicated. A. Erickson was found
| guilty In the city police court at Salt
Lake and sentenced to pay fine OF
$40. or serve thirty days in jail
Organization of the Salt Lake coun-
| Gil of the Boy Scouts of America was
| perfected at n meeting March OF
more than $50 business and protes-
sional men ut the Commercial club.
Corporal George Adamson brand,
son of William and jeanette brand OF
Sandy, is dead of diphtherla in France
according to telegram received by
his parents from the war department.
Three hundred thousand dollars Is
lht IlbB'H'h ''SN w ~ '''''
ing which Salt Lake plans to erect In
honor of Utah men who have served
the United States in the great Euro
pean war.
The Uintah Independent Ditch com
pany of Hayden, Utah. has filed nm
application with the state engineer
for the use of seven and nine-tenths
second-feet Of water, for the. purpose
OF irrigatng $50 acres of farming land.
Shot with .22-callbre rifle In the
hands of u hoy companion while the
two were playing ut his father hooa
in Salt Lake, Edwin Black was SER
iously injured, the bullet penetrating
the left temple and lodging In the
child's head.
Employees OF the American Smelling
& Refining company, who quit their
Jobs at Garfield, February 20, return
ed to work March s. The decision to
resume work came after n slx-day con
ference between members Of the union
and officials OF the company.
Randall Christensen, while unload
ing straw Mt Fountain Green with
his brother. met with II peculiar acci-
dent In which the sight Of his eye was
destroyed. While pitching straw "A
pitchfork In the hands Of Ralph struck
his brother In the eye. binding him.
IAN canned goods now held by the
government In factories throughout
Utah will be placed In storage In Utah
and not In the east" This was the
reply OF the qunrtermnster department
10 n wire sent by John y. Farley. sec
rotary Of the Utah Manufacturers as
ISOLATION.
An increase of S41. 1851 this year ove,-
1913 In the assessed valuation of min |
Ing machinery and improvements IN
Salt Lake county Is shown In u re-
port submitted To the state board ~ |
equalization. The grand total for this |
year IL given ms S2,73S,975 ny against
81, 096,044 for 1913.
A resolution of notice of Intention
20 hold bond election 10 vote for
bonds amounting to S5OOOO was
adopted at a meeting Of the board oI
the Weber county commissioners last
week. The election will be held on
April 3, the same date on which the
election Will be held In Ogden.
The 3-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leo Pickett, of Provo. was playing on
the bridge across II mill-rnce when he
fell In. He was carried three blocks
down the stream before he was res,
cued 10y william Gibby, who heard the
chlld's cries. II was with considerable
difficulty that he was revived.
Fulfilling his word to Warden Geo.
Storrs OF the state prison that he
would not seek TO escape, James Me
Pherson Shockley, serving n life term
in the penltentiary for murder re-
turned TO the institution last week
after two weeks absence ut the bed
side of his sick mother at Bell Mo.
Failure upon the part of the Ogden
city commission To provide funds for
the memorial as n tribute to the men
who have returned from the army and
navy, In the $4,000 bonds to he vot-
ed on ut the election on April 3, has
created much comment In many quar-
tiers. II has also caused dlsappOlnt
ment.
News has been received by Utah
officials that only soldiers are to APP
ply to the zone financial officer at
Washington for the 500 bonus award
ed by congress to men discharged from
service since April O, 1917, Men of
the navy or naval reserves are To apply
for the bonus 10 the naval bureau OF
supplies and accounting ut Washing
ton.
The bodies of John Smith, aged 80,
and hi wife, Mary Ann, aged ~,
were found at their home In Salt Lake
by neighbors. II is believed that Smith
had died from causes incident to old
age while his wife, apparently de
spondent because Of the death Of her
husband, swallowed quantity of
Observation-Disclosures which caused her
death.
An Incubator which holds 1900 eggs
at one time Is being used at the Utah