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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1909
Page
2
The Garland Globe lists subscription rates and advertising details. It notes one year for 51.50 six months for 15 and three months for a reduced term. The notice directs readers to see Editor and Manager J A Wixon for advertising rates.
A compilation of Utah items notes a Clarkston resident’s trouble and a Logan man’s broken collar bone in a runaway. Ogden may add a kindergarten to each grammar school. Murray held up a saloon for about 200 dollars. Park City sees the death of Thomas Moore after a long illness. Logan plans a sewer system and federal building work begins. Davis County’s value rises to 4,051,290.
In Constantinople military court at the war office condemned about 250 prisoners to death and executed them. Nadir Pasha was hanged at dawn on the Galata bridge. The national assembly, led by Said Pasha, urged the sultan to take the constitutional oath within a week and approved Abdul Hamid’s transfer to Saloniki. A Adana commission was authorized to try mutiny instigators. Alleged chief authors include Abdul Hamid’s son Mehmed Burhan Eddine and Savid Pasha. the former grand vizier’s son and Nadir Pasha were named as corrupting troops. The two fled.
Elmer Kivinen, 17, of Splonkop county, shot and killed his father Wall Kivinen after a dance when pursued with a knife. The mother and sister corroborate the self defense claim as neighbors described the father as dangerous and drinking. Coroner’s inquest leads to continued detention for investigation.
In Neosho Missouri the wealthy young woman nicknamed Johnny Davidson stands trial for the June 6 1908 killing of Roy Ramsour following a quarrel at the Davidson home Ramsour had applied an epithet to the defendant and Ramsour was a suitor to Miss Grice Davidson Ramsour allegedly refused to retract and Davidson claimed self defense after she fired a revolver Ramsour died in the confrontation with Davidson defending herself against his language and advances
Washington announces land allotments totaling 157 million acres under the new enlarged homestead law. Western states receive parcels including Oregon seven million, Washington three and a half million, California seven million, Nevada forty nine million, Arizona twenty six million, Colorado twenty million, Montana nineteen and a half million, New Mexico fourteen million, Wyoming pending, Utah seven million plus two million additional acres for nonresident entry.
New York The United States Steel corporation known as the steel trust said in its quarterly report issued April 27 that its net earnings for the first quarter of this year rose by almost five million dollars from a year earlier. The total reached 22,921,268, topping analysts’ estimates and boosting mood in financial and speculative circles.
In Kassim barracks behind the American embassy marines mutinied on Saturday night refusing to embark for distribution to ports. The deselected garrison, though nominally surrendered, were swayed by agitators to protest exile. General Schefker moved quickly to quell the revolt and ordered court martial after several battalions and artillery were deployed.
A blaze during a violent electric storm destroyed the Illinois Central elevator B in Chicago early Thursday. One fireman died, another missing, and eight were seriously injured as the fire, aided by gale winds, spread to Winds Central docks, train sheds, and freight cars. Estimated loss stands at $1,000,000.
Federal Judge Sanborn upheld the Pure Food and Drug Act in a ruling against Crescent Manufacturing of Seattle over Mapleline. The government argued misbranding because the product lists no maple juice while using maple flavor. The defense contended the name reflected flavor, not misrepresentation.
Secretary Meyer announced the Navy Department will assign the New York armored cruiser to the Mediterranean, docking for commission at Boston on May 15. This follows orders for North Carolina and Montana to same waters and Scorpion’s Mediterranean presence, signaling a renewed European squadron.
A H Demrick electrical engineer in charge of Hull Miver valley reclamation project drowned Sunday in a six hundred foot sluicing tunnel cut through a solid mountain at Roosevelt storage dam. A L Harris and Chief Tex tleilut to engineer Smith were swept into the tunnel but escaped unharmed. water was released into the tunnel during a tour of inspection.
Spokane Washington reports a new development in the fight for territory between the Hill lines and the Milwaukee Road. Northern Pacific awards a 170 mile branch line contract to Porter Brothers and Welch. The line will start at Minden North Dakota and extend south toward Milwaukee territory along the Missouri River. Work is to start at once.
Paris report states James Hazen Hyde of New York former Equitable Life vice-president and his chauffeur Ladwie were condemned by default on May 2. Hyde got one month in jail and a 100 dollar fine while Ladwie received one month and an 80 dollar fine for fleeing after a collision injuring a passenger at a public axiend last October.
Manuel Amador, the first president of Panama, died on May 2 after a lingering illness at 75. A key figure in the 1908 revolution against Colombia, he was born in Cartagena and later pursued business, medicine, and became a noted physician in the country.
New York Henry Stimson special attorney for the government says criminal prosecutions will target individual officers and employees behind the American Sugar Refining company after the suit. He notes $194000 penalties against the corporation and $2,000,000 restitution for false weighing, with prosecutions to begin once testimony is ready.
In Nairobi, four lions were killed by ex President Roosevelt and his son Kermit during a May Hills hunt. The American party celebrated with 200 native followers as Roosevelt praised fulfilling a long held goal. Lions had been plentiful, with Selous pursuing extinction plans and Friday’s chase delivering dramatic results.
Six hundred sailors and about 100 officers and cadets of the Japanese training squadron, arrived May 1, toured Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Lieutenant Poteet led as master of ceremonies while the group enjoyed a seven-mile car ride to the beach and a band concert. Thousands observed the visitors with interest, noting their uniforms and swords.
J F Parkhurst formerly assistant cashier of the First National bank was found guilty by a federal court jury for embezzling about 50000. The misappropriations spanned fifteen years and involved balance manipulations tied to San Francisco Chicago and New York records. Bank officers from those cities testified, confirming the scheme. Parkhurst stood high in banking circles.
Salt Lake City reports Eugene W Chain a Prohibition candidate asserts prohibition will sweep the southern states within two years. Chain predicts no bourbon in the south with Arkansas Florida Texas joining this year and the entire region going dry soon.
Amsterdam progress on the ship Halve Maan a reproduction of Hud son Weare s historic vessel aims to be a naval parade feature at the Fulton celebration. The sacking craft is a Netherland gift to America and will be rigged as an exact copy of the historic weasel sailed by Captain Hud centuries ago.
A despatch from Adana reports horrific scenes as Armenians suffer mass killings and abductions by Turks. Hospitals hold about 800 wounded, many women, with an average of four wounds per patient. Thousands homeless, supplies exhausted, bodies scattered, farms burned, and dysentery emerging.
London reports a deficit nearing 40 million pounds with no new revenue proposals forthcoming. Chancellor Lloyd George cites increased naval costs and old age pensions as primary deficit drivers, predicting another large naval spending rise amid Europe’s unsettled state.
John Kirschwing of Butte, an inventor of smelling apparatus, killed his wife and two children and then died by suicide on his mother's ranch near Ada, Montana. An escaped lunatic, he had broken from the Warm Springs asylum repeatedly, last six months ago, and was described as a giant in stature who defied ordinary bars. He claimed a patent was stolen, drove him to madness, though he had no prior record of violence.
Porter Smith of Chicago, a Dartmouth graduate, killed Misa Helen Ayer Marden, a Smith College senior, in Northampton after she broke their engagement and refused renewal. He had stalked her for days and then fatally shot her before taking his own life.
After court reasons, the attorney general ordered Tulsa US district attorney to seek a new grand jury and present the cases to it. The action targets Governor Haskell and others over alleged land irregularities, aiming for vigorous prosecution.
Nashville doctor H Chester of the Southern Presbyterian foreign mission board travels to Washington to urge U.S. government intervention for two Southern Presbyterian missionaries slated for trial in Leopoldville, Congo Free State. The accused are Dr Morrison of Virginia and famed Black missionary Dr Sheppard, charged with slandering the Belgian government.
A massive tornado outbreak swept the Deep South and Tennessee into Arkansas and Alabama, killing at least 100 people and wrecking towns along a wide path. Franklin, Centerville, Pulaski, Fayetteville, Cuba, Gilestown, Memphis area, and Huntsville suffered extensive damage with many fatalities. In Montgomery and nearby counties, homes, steeples, and churches were destroyed in a storm described as catastrophic.
The Hague Wilhelmina rose morning birth of a daughter. Her majesty’s condition satisfactory and infant princess doing well. Holland celebrates across the country with rare joy. The event secures an heir to the Dutch throne, enhancing independence prospects.
Constantinople reports the new sultan Mohammed V of Turkey, in khaki uniform, led by about six officials, toured from the Mosque of Episophia where he prayed for nearly an hour. Observers see the simplicity as evidence of democratic leanings. The sultan entered Sisoplta through the long-closed sultan door, last opened when Abdul Hamid escorted Rudolph, crown prince of Austria.
A Thursday night storm struck southern Illinois causing multiple deaths. William Garner and Edgar Overton and his wife and child perished when their house blew down. Daniel Stallings, an employee, also died. A girl named Carlisle, a resident with the Overtons, was fatally injured. At Wasson, mining camps were leveled, killing Jesse Mayon and injuring several others.
Senator McCumber, a thorough protectionist, argued for free lumber and opposed tariffs on exhausted resources such as coal, iron ore, lumber, and oil, sparking a sharp debate among tariff proponents. Senator Aldrich dissented from financial considerations on the bill.
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