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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1907
Page
2
The Garland Globe published Saturdays in Garland Utah lists subscription terms at one year for 1.50 two issues per week? advertising rates available on application. Editor and manager listed as JA Wixom.
In Bellingham Washington eight men were buried by an avalanche at the Brittania mine on Howe Sound forty miles north of Vancouver. Four were rescued and four died or were presumed dead. Two Japanese workers were among those involved.
State Department notes from Shanghai indicate the ruling dynasty fears famine driven unrest as seditionary groups seek converts to oppose the government. Officials worry the government’s relief failure fuels public hardship and a propaganda drive to spread hysteria and spark a broader uprising.
The census bureau reports total national wealth in 1904 at 107.1 billion dollars, up 38.6 billion from 1900, with the rise described as unmatched since 1850 60. The gain largely reflects post‑depression price recovery and a wealth per family increase of 182 dollars from 1800 to 1904.
A train carrying peasants and reservists from Teleorman was halted at Alexandrian by locals who stoned the train and attacked Jewish and Greek shops. Rioters fled to a nearby wood as cavalry intervened. Authorities warn Jews to evacuate small towns and some deputies plan to declare a state of siege in affected districts.
The Panama canal commission investigates ownership of small rocky isles in Panama Harbor included in the transfer of property to the United States. Questions about titles date back over fifty years with Spain, while the Pacific Mail Steamship Co and Panama Railroad use the land. The goal is to determine sovereignty and potential quarantine station sites.
Joseph R. Burton, former U S senator from Kansas, was met with an enthusiastic reception in Abilene on his return from five months imprisonment in Ironton Missouri. At a packed theatre he spoke on Why Was Prosecuted and accused President Roosevelt of personal persecution for his independence and for aiding those who convicted him. His wife sat on stage as he fought tears during the address.
The San Francisco grand jury filed seventy five indictments after a six month probe into city affairs. Abraham Rae faces sixty five counts for bribing supervisors to grant franchises to United Railroads and others. T. V. Halsey and others are charged with bribery to influence franchise decisions. Names and exact counts withheld pending arrests.
Riots erupt in Roumanian towns as peasants clash with troops. Army reserves mobilized to quell agrarian unrest. Looting and violence reported in Vaastut and Jersey with multiple injuries and deaths. Jewish residents fleeing Moldavian towns describe participation by Russians. Troops rushed from central points to restore order.
Water swept Stockton California like a millrace on Wednesday flooding streets from one to six feet deep. All business suspended as floodwaters inundated cellars and first floors. Main Street remained highest with about a foot of water. Losses in the city run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In Goldfield Nevada miners vote 1120 to 768 to hold meetings separate from the Industrial Workers of the World. The split marks a step toward withdrawing from the I W W though a general strike settlement is not assured. Wages lost totaling about 100000 dollars have drained mine operations and the miners seek a return to work.
More than 1000 veterans at the National Soldiers' Home in Leavenworth Kansas suffer poisoning after eating meat hash at breakfast. No deaths reported. First symptoms appeared soon after breakfast. The home hospital filled as ambulances brought in the ill. all patients expected to recover.
A series of excise law raids were conducted Saturday under Charles B. Whitman the board of city magistrates president. Police seized the West Forty-seventh Street station in the upper Tenderloin and arrested several violators during a spurious court session.
Enquiries confirm a Washington telegram stating the consular agent John Main and local police received information that may aid in recovering the kidnapped four year old son of Dr. Horace Marvin of Kitts Hammock Delaware. A boy matching Maxim's description was seen here on March 10, and authorities remain hopeful.
Vienna reports a substantial increase in gendarmes along the Roumanian border to stop riotous peasants from crossing into Austria. Officials fear the Romanian agrarian unrest may escape control if not promptly suppressed. Russian agents are suspected of stirring antisemitic riots in northern provinces.
Leroy Parke, war department agent, has been in Europe soliciting foreign labor for the Panama canal. Since October he has shipped about 4,000 men, mostly Spaniards or Italians, now moving at 500 per month despite opposition from Spain and Italy to letting their subjects depart.
In St. Petersburg the Russian lower house began its session with committee work. A peasant deputy charged the government with stealing money intended for famine relief, while the ministerial policy declaration was left unreferenced.
Caracas reports General Juan Pablo Penalosa and 400 men who crossed from Colombia on March 17 were met by 4000 regulars under General Celestino Castro and defeated. Telegraph wires cut hinder details. another account says Castro engaged guerrillas instead.
Dispatches from Freeport Courtland Walnut Grove and Franklin report the Sacramento River at its highest level in history with floodwaters reaching sixty miles south to Stockton. Levees are breached across thousands of acres of prime farmland as residents and cattle seek refuge on improvised high ground. Authorities warn of possible disaster if waters do not recede promptly.
In Pretoria Transvaal the first parliament of the colony met in the hall where Kruger once presided. Earl of Selborne opening speech addressed the key issue of Chinese labor and the new constitutional legislature.
Pittsburg The Chicago Limited from New York to Chicago on the Pennsylvania railroad derailed at Stewart seventeen miles east of here while about thirty five miles an hour. The engine and first five cars left the rails but no one was hurt. Railroad officials found fah pistols removed at the rail joint and bolts taken out with rails bent inward. The derailment occurred on a straight track and passengers escaped serious injury.
The United States now ranks third among world exporters of manufactures. Exports exceed 700 million dollars annually and have doubled in value in a decade. Factory-made goods rose from 15 percent of exports in 1880 to 40 percent in 1905, with a 108 percent rise in that decade. Germany UK and France shows varied growth.
Premier Stolypin announced the government fully supported the constitutional Democrats famine relief commission proposal after a long lower house debate in St. Petersburg. He admitted past mistakes and pledged full assistance to the commission's work.
Brussels reports that the International Forestry Company with Guggenheim and Ryan interests will send a mineral prospecting expedition to the Congo. Explorer RK Dorsey Mohum is appointed to lead. The team, comprising Americans and Belgians, plans to depart about May 15.
In a letter from President Roosevelt the governor said there will be no conference of governors or state railroad commissions to discuss railroad invasions. The governor called the letter personal and declined further comments on the proposed meeting.
Elizabeth City North Carolina Former State Senator Beasly, whose son Kenneth was kidnapped and murdered, learned from an Arkansas lawyer of a possible clue. Beasly left for Arkansas to pursue the report, expressing confidence the right track has been found. Joshua Harrison was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary by Pasquotank County Court on Friday.
In Hammond Indiana 3500 Inland Steel workers walked out on Wednesday after demanding a 25 cent per day raise. Earlier 600 at Interstate Steel and 1200 at Republic Iron and Steel joined in, bringing total strikers to over 6000.
Cairo officials adopt a plan to raise the Assouan dam by about twenty feet. The increased capacity would furnish water to irrigate roughly another million acres in northern Egypt, boosting the cotton harvest by an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars annually. Project duration is six years with a total cost of 7.6 million dollars.
Ironton Missouri reports Joseph Tt Burton once United States senator from Kansas was released from county jail after serving the months imposed for violating a federal statute by appearing before a government department as the paid representative of a get rich quick concert in St Louis. He began serving the sentence on October 22 1901.
Premier Stolypin read a government program in the lower house, avoiding references to drumhead trials and other contentious issues. Prince Zverev proclaimed democracy and called for rights promised in the October 1905 manifesto, while Stolypin’s list included free speech, press, faith, habeas corpus, local self government, zemstvo reform, official accountability, agrarian reform, freer Vladivostok trade, Siberian railroad completion, and popular education.
A walkout by twelve track and repair workers shuts down the street railway system at midnight in Hutte Mont The Butte. No settlement talks have occurred as 150 motormen and conductors are laid off. The union demands rise from 4 to 5 60 a day for eight hours. Other utilities have granted similar raises while the city gas company and rail line refuse.
A Vienna telegram reports anti Jewish riots near Tuzkani and fuczawa on the Roumania frontier. Peasants plunder Jews at Hurduahent as about 2000 refugees, mostly women and children, flee across the border. Further disturbances are claimed at Botoralal where Jewish homes were burned. The Hebrew Alliance of Vienna plans to aid Romanian fugitives.
The war department informs the state department that the transport Luford, now at San Francisco, is at the disposal of the Red Cross for immediate famine relief shipment to China. It will stop at Honolulu en route to Shanghai and likely carry a group of congressmen visiting Honolulu as guests of the Hawaiian Islands.
Trainmen and conductors on all railroad lines west of Chicago have rejected the general managers offer for higher wages. They have voted to strike if demands are not met, risking a walkout by about 69 000 workers unless concessions are offered.
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