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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1909
Page
2
The Garland Globe lists subscription terms of one year at 91.50 six months at 16 and three months at an unspecified rate. Advertising rates are available on application. A. Wixem is named editor and manager.
Multiple Utah items from Logan to Salt Lake City note a supreme court adjournment to March 22, a fatal apoplexy in Salt Lake, a March Logan meeting on a county road, and a high Great Salt Lake level. Other reports cover highway and railroad incidents, town resignations, a macaroni factory fire, land office activity, and planned theater and baseball league developments.
Web of circumstantial evidence tightens around Hugh Meyers the one legged suspect as detectives link a bloodstained crutch to the head wounds of John C Baynett. State chemist analysis finds blood on Meyers shoes crutch hat and handkerchief and a bloodstained shirt tied to the suspect.
Former Vice President Fairbanks returns to Indianapolis after twelve years in public life. He comments on the new administration noting early congress convening for tariff revision, business hesitancy, and the prospect that revision will stabilize industry and trade. He predicts gradual but certain improvements in business conditions.
In Rockwell Texas Anderson Ellie a Black man identified by Mrs. Arthur McKinney as her attacker was seized from Rockwell county jail tied to an iron stake and burned to death before about a thousand bystanders. Earlier Will Clark was shot dead when his father refused to let a posse search his home for Ellie. The burning occurred in the public square after Mrs. McKinney reported the assault.
President Taft's initial day in the White House saw cabinet nominations confirmed by the Senate. He and key Republicans shaped a tariff bill with an inheritance tax proposal while welcoming inaugural visitors and arranging staff appointments.
William Howard Taft's inauguration proceeded despite a Washington storm as Theodore Roosevelt accepted a private farewell in the Senate chamber. Chief Justice Fuller administered the oath, with Taft pledging to pursue Roosevelt era policies while the parade and ball followed in the freezing, snowy capital.
Chicago officials open probe into a suspected large evasion of customs on oriental rugs and tapestries. The case centers on a consignment owned by Vital Rengautt, a New York importer, initially valued at 2500 dollars and appraised at 7000 dollars by the customs office, with an appeal filed beyond the official valuation.
John C. Barnett a painter aged about years was slain and robbed between 12:30 and noon Thursday in a Judging House on Commercial street. Huch Meyers aged 19, a one‑legged man, was arrested on suspicion with bloodstains on clothing. Barnett was enticed to the lodging house by liquor and strangled and beaten to death in the city’s lowest dive. motive and weapon remain unknown.
In Columbus the state senate debated elevating jurisdiction over elevator men to the Ohio Supreme Court. Democratic members urged keeping elevator men under the adjutant general as proposed. The session included charges of alleged collusion between the court and the attorney general.
The Senate, in a closed session, presented Vice President Fairbanks with a costly ivory service valued at 1185 and a loving cup from Democratic members. Senator McCumber led the presentation praising his ability and devotion to work.
An elaborately carved stick, colored by Mexican decorators, was sent from the American colony in Chihuahua, Mexico to President Theodore Roosevelt. The gift, addressed to the retiring U S president, was forwarded to Washington with a wish that Roosevelt be recalled to office and use the stick.
The report covers union politics with P W Myon reelected as Socialist head, a Nevada mine foreman shot by a dismissed miner, a 15 year old boy’s escape from Canon City jail, a fatal Diamond mine blast killing two married men, and various regional incidents. It notes railway surveys in eastern Washington, Nevada Senate action on Seattle exhibit funding, a Denver note on Dry Farming HQ, and multiple local incidents across Idaho Nevada Montana and Wyoming.
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