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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
2
The Garland Globe offers weekly issues published Saturday. Subscriptions: one year in advance for $1.60, six months pricing noted. Advertising rates are available on request. Editor and Manager: J. A. Wixom.
Allan Anderson, a Vancouver fireman, lies dying with two colleagues badly wounded after a New Year confrontation with Japanese residents near a store. The attack, the worst in the city since September riots, left the trio brutalized on the sidewalk before police arrived and several arrests were made.
In St Petersburg the trial of 169 first duma signers of the Viborg manifesto ends with 167 convicted and three months imprisonment plus loss of political rights. Two are acquitted for signing under misapprehension. Ramisch will be freed after prior detention. If no appeal is filed, sentences take effect January 20 and the deputies remain at large until then.
Franklin residents sue Kenango Water Co alleging typhoid outbreak caused sickness. Filed Wednesday by Rev. Dr. Maurice P Fikes and James D. Borland. Damages unspecified but cover medical and mental distress. potential dozens more suits if precedent is set.
The torpedo boat flotilla ahead of the battleship fleet reached here from Port of Spain Trinidad on Tuesday after rough seas and a one day weather delay. The transports Arethusa and Sterling have arrived. The torpedo boats will depart January 4 for Pernambuco. They are five days behind schedule.
Wichita Eagle editor and postmaster Colonel M. M. Murdock died at 12 50 am Wednesday. A lifelong Kansan born in Virginia he arrived in Wichita in 1871 after editing a paper at Burlingame. His leadership during Wichita’s hard times made him a prominent regional figure.
Secretary Metcalf favors petroleum fuel where beneficial and plans for new torpedo destroyers will likely require oil burning capability. British oil burning destroyers reaching forty miles per hour influence the U S Navy to adopt liquid fuel.
George D. Pettibone is acquitted in the murder case linked to ex Governor Steunenberg. Charles Moyer is released and to return to Denver with Pettibone. Orchard and Simpkins' cases remain. Magee and Aller perjury charges are dismissed. Pettibone, ill, walked to the federation headquarters after verdict.
In Goldfield Nevada it is believed the strike is nearly won by mine operators and within ten days to two weeks every mine will resume. Some miners affiliated with the Western Federation last Saturday began work after renouncing that allegiance. A new independent miners union forming as a state affair is the most hopeful sign.
An explosion at the First National Bank in Kansas City Missouri injured ten people but caused no fatalities. The blast damaged the marble building with a pipe fragment found in the wrecked basement and damage estimated at ten thousand dollars confined to the basement.
Wing Ling a 45 year old Chinese storekeeper in Nogales was murdered Saturday night by two Mexican assailants. They struck him at the door with iron bars, cut his throat, dragged the body to a rear room, fractured a dresser drawer with an ax, and rifled a trunk.
The 22 year old Li lian Pratt who vanished on May 27 was found in a dense city outskirts thicket by a surveying crew. Decomposition hindered details, but her father identified the body and suspects homicide with the body dragged to a hollow and buried under leaves.
Marl Musselman aged 14 was killed and Clyde Damaske aged 18 months was fatally injured when a heavy shingle bolt struck them in the bolt flume at the Manley shingle mill five miles south of Bellingham on Saturday evening. A third boy was uninjured. The lads played in the fumes unaware timber was being sent down from the mountain above. Musselman’s back was broken and he lived several hours after the strike.
Incipient rent riots broke out on the East Side as landlord tenant tensions flared over Socialist flags and rent collection. Police used night sticks, five tenants arrested, several injured, ambulances called but strikers refused hospital care, and districts along East Eleventh and East Twelfth streets saw clashes and barricades.
President Roosevelt condemns Rear Admiral Brownson for resigning over hospital ship command and speaks on naval construction training defects. He notes disputes will persist but urges criticism without exaggeration or malice as Secretary Metcalf releases two letters.
In Kansas City on Sunday night William J. Bryan named trusts tariffs and railroad regulation as the three paramount issues for the 1908 campaign. He said it was impossible to determine a single paramount issue at that time.
Washington report shows First Assistant Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock released the annual post office revenue figures. The 1906 receipts reached about 168 million dollars, up over 15 million from the prior year, and 1907 continued the rise with a total around 181 million. Hitchcock urges larger appropriations to sustain bureau growth.
Vancouver Chief of Police Chamberlain refuses Asiatic Exclusion league request to search the Oriental quarter for frearma and other dangerous weapons. He cites the gravity of the situation but warns against harsh actions that could inflame the Japanese question.
About five hundred residents in Chicago's ghetto formed a tenants union on Sunday night to push landlords to cut rents by two dollars monthly. Leaders urged members to withhold payment and to compel landlords to sue and bear court costs if they refused the price reduction.
Night riders about 100 strong attacked Russellville Logan county early Friday morning overpowering police and holding telephone girls and officers prisoner for three hours. Two tobacco firms were dynamited and burned while three men were wounded and local merchants shot. The raid appears organized with masked riders from Cave Springs aiming to pressure growers to hold crops for higher prices amidst western Kentucky unrest.
In Helena federal court Judge William H. Hunt found three of four Butte labor leaders guilty of contempt for violating the court injunction blocking interference with Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co. Joseph Shannon received 90 days in jail. William Cutts and A. E. Edwards each got 90 days plus fines of 250 and 100 dollars respectively. R. Scott was discharged. Shannon is a former legislator and Montana Western Federation of Miners official. Cutts is a carpenter's union business agent.
The Harden-Von Moltke libel trial closes with the editor of Die Zukunft jailed for four months and ordered to cover costs of both trials. The court states no proof against Prince Philip zu Bulbenberg and that his name remains untarnished.
In Grant Park in front of the Auditorium annex, eight year old Charles G. Brockett and Mrs Ruby Pishzaks were found unconscious with bullet wounds. Brockett died shortly after at a hospital while Mrs Pishzaks, wife of a water state bank examiner, remained in critical Condition. Notes in Brockett's clothing indicated the shooting was in pursuance of no death by own action pact.
In Lonnville Kentucky Clarence Sturgeon aged 19 was executed in the jail yard on Friday after murdering Ira Bruner James Blackerly and Wilfred McMichael a year earlier. He faced the scaffold with calm courage as relatives, including his parents and seven brothers and two sisters, bid farewell.
In an opinion by Justice White the Supreme Court ruled the Employers' Liability Act of June 11 1906 unconstitutional. The decision affirmed lower court rulings in two cases, the widow of Will Howard killed near Memphis and Mortis Brooks's mother, a fireman killed on the Southern Pacific in Nevada.
The U S Supreme Court ruled for former Congressman J N Williamson in a Crook county Oregon timber case, reversing a 500 fine and ten month prison sentence. The ruling affects many arid land prosecutions and aligns with a Colorado judge’s dismissal of timber and stone and coal land indictments.
In New York, after three court sessions on Monday, nine of fifty seven jurors were seated for Harry K. Thaw’s second murder trial of Stanford White. District Attorney Jerome and defense counsel Martin W. Littleton led the jury selection as insanity at the time of the tragedy becomes the sole defense.
The Nevada California Power Co. serving Goldfield Nevada adopts a new wage scale effective January 10. Electricians face a maximum of 6 dollars per day, one dollar below prior pay. the telephone firm matches this scale. Neither company bars non union workers. The Mine Owners' association rate sits one dollar higher.
Los Angeles reports Miss May Duffy resident with the Clark family was struck by a Hollywood street car at Prospect Park on Sunday and died Monday from compound leg fractures skull fracture and other injuries. The horse she rode, owned by W A Clark Jr, was killed.
In Goldfield Nevada the Miners union has imposed a ten percent monthly assessment on bartenders cooks waiters and related labor groups affiliated with the I W W to sustain the federation. Bartenders estimated at sixty members have held a meeting and voted against payment while workers earn from zero to eight dollars daily.
A St. Petersburg dispatch reports scurvy in Erivan province amid Caucasus famine from 1907 harvest failures. Food relief efforts accompany a push to use famine funds for this region, while European Russia faces a deteriorating crop outlook as cold persists.
In Paris at St. Pierre de Chaillot during a memorial service for Lady Stanley Errington, Count Boni de Castellane and Prince Helle de Sagan clashed. Boni spat on the prince, followed by a cane fight outside, with Counts Boni and Jean de Castellane overpowering the prince and observers noting heavy kicks before bystanders intervened.
Washington reports final drafts of a Franco American accord under the Dingley act section 3. French ambassador Jusserand visited the state department to discuss details expected to be published soon. The deal likely lowers American duties on French champagne by 20 percent while France reduces duties on American cottonseed oil machinery and other goods.
London reports the Bank of England reducing the discount rate to 6 percent from 7 percent as improved American finances and better German money conditions ease prior seven week trade and speculation constraints.
New York strikers announce no teamsters will handle dispossess goods on the East Side if no court orders are served. A local branch of the United Teamsters union passed a resolution to refuse all dispossess business. The antihigh rent league says it has organized over one thousand tenants and secured rent cuts for 260.
Report says a prominent Broadway restaurant allowed women to smoke in public dining rooms on New Year’s Eve and a second famous Broadway eating place quickly followed. It is expected several more will adopt the policy, though Fifth Avenue hotels and restaurants are not joining yet.
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