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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
2
The Garland Globe lists periodical details including publication frequency and subscription terms. It notes a yearly rate of 1.50 dollars and shorter terms of six and three months, with advertising rates available on application. Editor and manager is A. Wixom.
The Mine Operators' Association refuses the wage advance while Leasers agree to pay the Tonopah scale. Local 220 of the Western Federation of Miners voted 455 to 260 to end the strike for properties paying the Tonopah scale. Thirteen leases had already agreed to the lower rate, 50 cents below Goldfield, and 50 cents above the operators’ new scale. The association's big mines remain on strike. The miners elected a conservative president by a 4 to 1 margin.
Public opinion in Japan grows over China seizure of the steamer Tatsu at Macao on February 7. Reports say China offers to release the vessel and apologize but keep the cargo for investigation. Minister Hayashi rejects any conditional terms and insists unconditional restoration.
William R. Montgomery, former Hamilton bank president, filed an affidavit in police court accusing attorney Nathan Vidaver of accepting a $1,500 hush payment in November to halt newspaper attacks on the Hamilton bank. Vidaver faces an extortion charge stemming from the complaint.
The body of L. I. Watson, a hotel guest missing several days, was recovered noon Thursday by two guides from a lodge 1,200 feet below the cliff's top and 450 feet above the beach. The position suggests Wilson fell from the cliff face to the ledge where the body lay.
Lazarus Averbuch, the young Russian Jew who attempted to kill Chicago’s chief of police, was buried Thursday night in the potter’s field. His sister Olga, exhausted, consented to county burial, and in darkness and rain the unaccompanied funeral was held by lantern light.
Dr. H W Wiley head of the Agriculture Department Chemistry Bureau issues a vigorous denial of recent statements attributed to him about alcohol and whiskey. He says the remarks were made in an address before the University Club in Washington and are wholly unwarranted by facts.
A Saturday raid at Pedricktown and Bridgeport saw robbers blow open a post office safe, stealing 250 dollars and stamps amid a fire. A farmer ambush near Wenonah wounded two suspects, with one captured. a third fled. William McCoy suffered severe buckshot injuries.
Warry Charles a Boston leader and eight countr smugglers were convicted in a superior court of first degree murder on four counts for the August 2 shooting in Oxford Place Boston. One defendant died in custody during trial. Shoy Tong testified Charles, president of Hip Sin Tang, instigated the killings.
Warden Frank Conley was gravely wounded and Assistant Warden John Robinson killed as three life convicts led by George Rock and W. H. Hayes attempted a jail break at Deer Lodge Montana. Rock and Hayes were wounded. both are expected to survive.
Signs from the business world show slight improvements after a financial crisis. The Amalgamated Copper company resumes Montana mining, copper prices dip on expectations of higher output, freight-car surpluses shrink, but railroad earnings and fixed charges threaten future dividends. Wage adjustments add further concern.
New York Governor Charles B. Hughes was formally endorsed by the Republican state committee for the presidency. Resolutions were presented by former Congressman William H. Douglass and adopted unanimously. The committee set April 11 at Carnegie Hall for the state convention to elect at large delegates, nominate presidential electors, and select a new state committee.
Reno Nev Judge Farrington of the United States district court issues a broad injunction in the Merfora mines of Goldfield suit, granting an unqualified victory for the mine owners. The injunction covers nearly all relief sought by the Consolidated Mines company and bars the miners from any act that could be viewed as harmful to the mine owners interests.
President Roosevelt backs the Aldrich bill as the only workable measure this session and favors passage over inaction. He conferred Saturday with Northwestern senators Bourne Dixon Piles Borah Flint and others to relay his views on the bill.
Police at Walton's pavilion arrest Carl town son in law of Coxey of Coxey army fame and noted Bodalist for disturbing the peace after an alleged inflammatory speech before about a thousand people. Officers ordered to arrest anyone showing anarchistic tendencies or giving anarchistic public speeches.
A towboat Stella Moren and two passengers were lost when the vessel went over No. 2 dam on the Monongahela at Port Perry. The strong current swept the boat and its crew into twenty feet of water. One man died beneath the craft, and two others drowned.
Emma Goldman failed to address the public in Chicago as planned. Police issued orders to venue managers and owners, and officers monitored anarchist gatherings to prevent violations of a public speaking injunction. Goldman did not defy the injunction and avoided a meeting by authorities.
David Waldo, noted horseman and former owner of a local track, died in a runaway near Independence Missouri on Sunday night. His body was found late at night in the road beside a wrecked buggy. Waldo, a Washington and Lee University graduate, is survived by sons Jed and William, once famous jockeys.
The California Supreme Court unanimously denied the prosecution’s bid for rehearing in the San Francisco bribery graft cases. The appellate court had ruled Schmitz’s 1906 conviction invalid due to a defective indictment and that he held mayoral power, with Huey also implicated, while the record did not prove unlawful threats to liquor licenses.
General d Amide and French forces routed the Mad rake s Mzoabe and Mir lal Hatid supporters near Morocco. The battle lasted from dawn to evening with heavy enemy losses and light French tolls given rough terrain and intense fighting.
Mayor Guthrie urged immediate authority to issue bonds for 750000 to fund street repaving as the city faced hardship. The council Monday night refused the bond issue, proposing the city hire its unemployed to carry out the work.
Senator Joseph M Bailey of Texas addressed the Senate in opposition to the Aldrich currency bill. His two hour speech drew crowded galleries and a warm reception with applause as supporters and opponents congratulated him afterward.
Physicians and medical students across the southwest watch Mrs Beulah Hawkins in Los Angeles as she remains in a 33 day stupor. At the county hospital visitors continually come during visiting hours to observe the sleeping patient.
A crowded North Collinwood Ohio public school fire trapped pupils as exits opened inward and the rear door possibly locked. About 170 children aged 6 to 15 died or were injured in the blaze and panic. teacher Catherine Weller perished while guiding her class.
Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont died at the Champlain in Washington on Wednesday after a brief illness following grip. His son Governor Fletcher Proctor was at his bedside. the 77 year old veteran had been confined to his room for about a week.
A committee appointed by the Speaker to consider ground for impeachment of Lebbeuw R. Willey, U S judge for China at Shanghai, heard arguments from Lorin S. Andrews and other Shanghai lawyers and took the matter under advisement with no report date set.
In San Francisco a compromise between counsel for the Southern Pacific and the Order of Railway Telegraphers, drawn from the United States Circuit Court case to the US Court of Appeals, is to take effect February 2 1908. The telegraphers claim victory on hours and wages.
Heavy rains drive rivers into floods across the region near Spencer West Virginia. The Great Kanawha and Poca rise, timber losses mount, a flour mill on MI creek is wrecked, and many homes are flooded with narrow escapes reported. The Ohio River stood at forty six feet on Monday after days of rain.
Tokyo believes Japan will not attempt to retake the Tatsu or send warships to Canton waters. The Sansebo naval base remains active as part of the first squadron plans to leave March 14. The armored cruiser Chiyoda departed port Sunday night and coaling continues rapidly with several torpedo boat destroyers already in readiness.
Royal commission report presented to Parliament cites design defects in the Quebec bridge collapse. It pinpoints failure to lower chords in the anchor arrangement near the main pier. The Phoenix Bridge Company supplied the failed cone and chords.
May Stop Mining coal in Des Moines Iowa threatens a complete mine shutdown. About 15 000 miners may be idled as the current contract between operators and miners expires March 31 with no likely renewal before that date following failures in eastern states.
Hartje and co defendants John L. Welshons and Clifford Hope were acquitted of conspiracy to blacken Mia. Mary Scott Hartje, their accuser, faces possible divorce action against her husband Hartje as the trial closed with binding jury instructions.
Cleveland mourns as funeral processions move through the streets bearing charred bodies of 167 Lake View school victims in Collinwood. Fifty burials occur Friday and Saturday with unidentified remains laid to rest on Monday. Coroner's inquest reveals teachers tried to open rear doors and that rescue after the first crash was impossible.
Thomas J. Callan, the Union officer who rode to summon reinforcements for Custer at the Little Bighorn, died at his Yonkers home. He later led a relief force toward the fatal site, received a congressional medal, and left the army 23 years ago to pursue business.
Rev. George A. Cooke of Brandon Vermont files charges against Rev. Dr. J. R. Day chancellor of Syracuse University alleging defamation of President Roosevelt. The matter is presented to presiding elder P. M. Watters of the New York conference.
New York police charged Mrs. Jeanette Newmann with stealing jewels valued at $20,000 from her friend, Mrs. Evelyn Bell, owner of the Central Park West collection. Newmann, said to confess, sought funds to sustain a private school and her social status, and was detained at police headquarters Friday.
Waterbury Connecticut Montrezza a well known local musician and his young son William died Friday after taking carbolic acid. A six year old daughter was found nearly dead from the same cause. The musician is believed to have administered the poison and then killed himself. A daughter returning from school found the two bodies. Mrs Montrones was at work in a local factory.
The Minnesota Democratic state committee adopted a resolution endorsing Governor Johnson for the presidential nomination and urging his nomination at the Denver national convention next July. The Johnson resolution passed 664 to 24 after Bryan supporters lost two test votes, in the largest committee meeting in party history.
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