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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1909
Page
2
The Garland Globe lists subscription options: one year in advance 1.60, six months 0.76, and three months 0.60. Advertising rates are available on application. A. Wixom is editor and manager.
Salt Lake City reports 182 smallpox cases in 1908 with no deaths from the diavane. Alvin Henton faces trial in Richfield for the murder of Mary Stevens near Orderville. Taft and Sherman win Utah electors as 200 former Kanab residents form improvement society in Ogden. Frank J. Dinham dies after heart failure. Elks excursion trains to Los Angeles sponsor three special trains. Molten details cover railroad electrification, building grants, liquor abolition efforts, and a fatal streetcar accident.
A sensational breakthrough by Edward Fink at Gat Nel near Boston Consolidated mine enables copper smelting at high speed with minimal fuel. Samuel Newhouse predicts a global revolution in metallurgy and plans to form a company to exploit the process worldwide.
The Forty fourth annual convention of the National Woolgrowers Association ended in Ogden on Saturday night. Fred W. Gooding of Shoshone was reelected president and George Walker of Cheyenne was re chosen secretary. Lewis Penwell of Helena was treasurer. A J Knollin of Chicago becomes vice president succeeding Joseph B Wing of Mechanicsburg. J Dalfelter of Laramie Wyom g as western vice president succeeds Dr J M Wilson of Wyoming. Chicago will become a major wool storage center with Omaha as a possible auxiliary warehouse.
Seattle attorney W L Seeley his wife Kate M Seeley and daughter Mixa Rene Seeley were found dead in a Capital Hill bathroom. The three were last seen Thursday and died by blunt force and drowning with the women in night robes and Seeley believed chloroformed.
In a Sunday morning blizzard off the Long Island shore a schooner named Swallow of St. Johns New York foundered. Fire Island life savers searched the beach all day for the crew of ten but five or six men were unaccounted for amid debris along the coast.
Veterans engineer Guntav Olson misread his watch causing a collision between a passenger train and freight No. 66 near Glenwood Springs. Twenty one killed and at least 40 injured as two giant engines and multiple cars telescoped. Rescue crews battled flames amid wreckage. a second derailment east of Glenwood Springs hampered relief and raised death toll.
Salt Lake City police arrested Charles Slade, superintendent of city delivery at the Salt Lake post office, on a Saturday evening charged with rifling the mails. He confessed in writing after his arrest. Slade had served 28 years in the postal service and led delivery for 15 years amid prior mail losses investigated by inspectors.
The naval affairs committee reported 1910 maintenance needs at 146,062,888 dollars, up from 122,062,485. The bill also calls for expanding the fleet with two 26,000 ton battleships two torpedo destroyers four submarines and four fleet colliers.
After eighteen days the bodies of Arthur B. Cheney American consul and his wife were recovered at 2 PM January 15 by sailors from the battleship Illinois. They were found in what had been their bedroom, lying side by side. Cheney identified by a deformity, wife by locket and wedding ring.
A Colorado Senate bill would authorize $10,000 to fund a suit arguing national forestry reserves infringe state rights. The attorney general would sue if adopted, arguing forestry operations hinder Colorado’s agricultural, mining, and power interests and irrigation development. The bill allows hiring specialized counsel if needed.
Thornton J. Hains was acquitted in Flushing of first degree murder for the 1908 Bayside Yacht Club killing of William E. Annis. He guarded his brother Captain Peter C. Hains Jr who fired but did not shoot. brother faces trial. Hains had previous murder acquittal in 1891 for killing Edward A. Hannigan in Virginia, ruled self defense.
A man who gave the name George Lang of Minneapolis surrendered to Colton Constable Bagley in San Bernardino County after a brutal escape from arrest. He had married Elgina Hurst in 1905 in Minneapolis, separated a year prior, then wed Pearl Price six weeks before. Lang’s first wife’s mother appeared at a reception and threatened him, prompting his flight. He is jailed on the bigamy charge.
Plllsburg J B F Rinehart former cashier and president of Farmers and Drovers National Bank of Waynesburg Pa bank failed over two years ago for 2 000 000. He was found guilty of wrecking the bank and sentenced by United States Judge James S Young to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Rinehart was present when verdict read and was then brought before the judge and sentenced.
Washington reports that after years of waiting the United States has no prospect for a satisfactory settlement with Venezuela. After Venezuela refused arbitration relations were broken. W W Buchanan, in Venezuela, has reached a basis for settlement and a protocol is being drawn up.
The United States and Austria-Hungary signed an arbitration treaty at the State Department on Friday afternoon. The pact now goes to the Senate for ratification. Secretary Root also arranged an extradition treaty with Honduras. Officials declined to say if the treaty is retroactive.
New York Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, famed as a social leader, spoke before socially active women and suffrage advocates. Elected president of the Kruoss Franchise League, she urged granting women the vote saying the half cannot express the whole.
Matilda Ecklund 47 was shot dead in Sandy while reading the Bible with Mrs. Pahlquiet. Axel Carlson, about 10, a Salt Lake worker, committed the crime in a spree of madness and was found beside the corpse when authorities arrived. He later confessed after drinking whiskey.
At the National Wool Growers convention in Pocatello Idaho President Fred W Gooding of Shoshone urged Congress to appoint western committee to reform federal forestry and reclamation rules. He contrasted Carey act success with reclamation service failures and highlighted the arid west. The forenoon featured a mid winter sheep show with over 600 sheep entered.
Topeka Kansas Copeland Hotel burned early Thursday trapping guests. The body of I B Lambert former United States district attorney for Kansas was found with severe burn injuries in the northeast corner on the fourth floor above his room. About a dozen of the 150 guests were injured though Lambert was the only fatal casualty. Several sensational escapes occurred as guests jumped from windows.
An explosion of firedamp followed by a dust explosion and fire at the Ruska coal mine in Vesseporim Hungary entombed 240 workers. Sixteen survivors and 45 bodies have been recovered. The fire is confined to one area and rescue efforts continue.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, commander of the Russian fleet at the 1905 Sea of Japan battle, died in St Petersburg at about age 60. He spent most of his life in naval service, graduating from the Michael Artillery Academy and rising to chief of the naval headquarters staff and head of the intelligence department.
Sacramento reports that three bills by Grove L. Johnson and a bill by A M Drew aim to bar Japanese from land ownership and limit their living areas. Proposals also seek to exclude Japanese from corporate boards to curb competition with Americans. Roosevelt objected to similar measures last season.
President Roosevelt completed a ninety eight mile horseback journey to the White House, arriving after more than seventeen hours in the saddle. He said the long ride was to defend a recent order mandating physical training for army and navy officers and to show a president can ride long distances without fatigue.
The steam schooner Sybl Marston, Captain Schillingsky, from Grays Harbor loaded with lumber for Redondo, was driven ashore off Surf late Tuesday night and broken up in the breakers a mile below. The crew tried to reach shore in small boats at dawn. two boats capsized. One body was recovered. the other crewman remains missing.
Senator Weldon Heyburn was returned to his Idaho Senate seat by a unanimous Republican caucus vote of 57 members. Democrats offered J. H. McClear as a leading challenger, but Heyburn led the ballot with 57 votes to 19 for McClear.
Two major proceedings will unfold in Chicago starting next week over Standard Oil. Judge Anderson will hear the $20,000,000 rebate case re hearing at 10 o'clock Monday with government and trust attorneys summoned. Tuesday Special Examiner Franklin Ferrin from St Louis will start hearings on Missouri’s dissolution suit against the corporation.
After twenty ballots in the Indiana legislature Democratic caucus in Indianapolis selected former Congressman Benjamin F. Shivley of South Bend as United States senator. Vote tally on final ballot: Shivley 42, Kern 35, Lamb 4, Menzies 1, Miers 1. John W. Kern led early but failed to secure the majority.
La Junta Colorado E J Smith former cashier of the Bank of Rocky Ford has been sentenced to three to four years in the penitentiary on a charge of receiving deposits after viewing the bank as insolvent. He will join John B Godwin president of the United Bank already serving a term for wrecking the bank.
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