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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1909
Page
2
The Garland Globe lists subscription terms and rates including one year in advance for 1.50 six months 0.60 and three months 0.60 with advertising rates furnished on application. A Wixom is the editor and manager.
A raw Utah roundup reports blizzard damage to the Willard sugar beet crop, a large eighth grade class in Utah County, multiple deadly accidents in Lakeside Ogden and Logan, and a string of local developments. Notable items include a Swiss laborer killed by a train, a man crushed by a wagon wheel, injuries from an elevator fall, a drowning on Cottonwood Creek, and a plan for a Salt Lake City coal briquette plant.
Lisbon reports China refuses talks with Portugal over Macao dependencies. Portugal insists all dependencies and nearby islands were occupied legally, while China demands evacuation. The British government has intervened at China's request, supporting its position.
Four masked men robbed Union Pacific passenger train No. 2 near Omaha five miles west of the city just before midnight on May 22. They forced the engineer to stop, opened the mail car, seized seven registered pouches, and fled southward. Passengers were unmolested as police pursued the bandits.
In western Colorado near Carbinero and Chee two sheepmen were attacked as 3000 head of Taylor Brothers of Montrose sheep were slaughtered. Cowboys tied herders to trees then killed sheep and cut telephone wires to escape. Garfield and Mesa counties issued warrants for sixteen raiders amid long contested range disputes.
Washington reports wireless weather warnings as part of a major international project. A conference of leading meteorologists from principal nations will convene in London on June 21 to thrash out efforts such as global storm warning systems and equipping vessels with standardized communication. The United States will be represented by Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau.
Six workers were seriously injured by a blast at a Promontory Point rock quarry on the Southern Pacific cut-off line. The explosion occurred while a second shot was being prepared. all injured were within ten feet of the blast. Conductor Jenkins led a work train nearby as Blasting Foreman Gustafson oversaw the operation.
An elderly resident, 99-year-old Uncle Billy Gray, reportedly chose to end his life Saturday by ingesting poison from a tin dipper at his well. His wife found him and a physician was unable to save him.
Butte Montana Italian ranch hand Louis Ferris, aged 19, was declared sane after a trial for murder and acquittal and released. The case centered on a May 1, 1908 Burlington train wreck on Northern Pacific tracks in Mariana that killed three men. Ferris, once the police suspect, maintained innocence as theories spread about dynamite or boiler explosion.
In Los Angeles hundreds search Griffith Park and nearby cities for the brutal killer of schoolgirl Annie Poltera who was slain on May 17. Sheriff Hammill offers a $250 personal reward with expectations of state and county additions to the bounty.
In Poughkeepsie Harry K Thaw and his mother Mary C Thaw contest a Hart ridge affidavit alleging he spent about 40000 hush money to quiet potential threats. Hartridge, Thaw’s former counsel, sues for fees and issued his statement after Mrs Thaw sought a bill of particulars in the suits.
Mrs Clementine Morse wife of Charles W Morse former banker says in an interview that powerful figures long ago vowed to ruin her husband and have kept their vow against justice. She also alleges officials boasted they would cause his downfall though she doubted courts would join the scheme.
The Senate reaffirmed its stance to do no business while the tariff bill remains pending. Senator Burton urged adopting a resolution to authorize expenditures and balances for rivers and harbor work, with the commerce committee report backing action and an earnest plea for measures now.
Emma Goldman was blocked from addressing a Harlem hall crowd of several hundred when police intervened. The protest led to disorder with police using force to disperse attendees and two arrests reported as the event unfolded in New York.
Washington notes the congress total of appropriations for the last regular session at 1 044.40 and 57 pounds. Contracts authorized future appropriations amount to 26 080 875 dollars covering fortifications in the Philippines battleships colliers torpedo boats and river harbor improvements. The act adds 10 120 new offices and 6 243 abolished creating a net increase of 3 877 with annual salaries totaling 5 672 009 dollars.
Des Moines youths aged 12 and 14, while serving as gophers, placed a tie on railroad tracks near Knoxville Ta to watch splinters fly. A Rock Island passenger train struck the tie but no one was hurt. Authorities arrested the boys, and investigators suspected a train robbery plot.
Washington report states the fiscal year 1911 plan calls for two battleships of the dreadnought type, five torpedo destroyers, and one modern reply ship for the fleet, with a 31 million cut in appropriations by order of President Taft.
A New York report states a 2.6 million bond issue for the Butte and Helena electric railway has been underwritten by J G White & Co. Work will start at once along an existing railroad right of way, portions already graded, to link Helena and Butte.
Gladys Irish of Manhattan and Walter Goddard of Minneapolis were drowned early Sunday when a boat struck a snag on the river near Manhattan. The two KC A C students were returning from a country picnic with another couple. the prow lifted and they vanished beneath twenty feet of water.
Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit hunted at Jujo ranch in British East Africa. They collected sixty skins from twenty species including a waterbuck and buffalo antelope, saving examples whole. A female rhinoceros charged Roosevelt before his first shot.
An ore train derailed four miles west of Cascade Montana and plunged into the Missouri River as rising waters weakened the roadbed. Brakeman W. A. Rogers was trapped under wreckage while Engineer Charles Slehin died of injuries and three other crew members were injured. The river breached the track and softened the ground during days of rising flood.
Paris reports the curtain fell on a general strike amid blamed failures by leaders and a later move to resume work by a few hundred postal workers. The federation declared retreat, citing overconfidence and government manipulation, as other unions hesitated to join. Remaining strikers seek old positions while raising a fund to aid dismissed postal workers with $30 monthly until new work is found.
Washington reports a broken coalition among Democratic senators and progressive Republicans on income tax. Senators Bailey and Cummins will offer fiat rate amendments, differing on corporate tax and other features. An accord between the finance committee and lumber supporters limits dressed lumber duty to no more than 50 cents per thousand above the rough lumber rate.
London briefs report Admiral Lord Charles Beresford addressing Australasians on naval policy. He urged colonies to build cruisers to protect commerce and form their own naval nucleus, citing Japan as a model, and criticized the push for dreadnoughts as costly and provocative to Europe.
Boise Idaho aged report states Corey Brothers Construction of Ogden Utah has won the contract to build the Lost River irrigation system reclaiming 100000 acres across Blaine Fremint and Hingham counties. Project cost about 3 million dollars with water delivery required by April 1 1910 for the next irrigation season.
Washington reports Mrs Taft is recovering from a nervous breakdown but may abandon social duties for a period. If Congress adjourns after July, Mrs Taft will probably leave Washington for Merely in June, with the president joining later.
Ernest Hogan a leading New York comedian and writer known for Kylie Rastis and the Oyster Man musicals died from tuberculosis at his home. He penned hundreds of songs including All Coons Look Alike to Me which reportedly earned him about $40,000. Hogan helped shape the ragtime era of popular songs.
Detroit Michigan Judge Brown of Ball Lake City announced that the model boy city, staged at Winona Lake Indiana for two summers, will be held this year at Pine Lake near Charlevoix Michigan from July 22 to August 14. More than 1,000 boys from twenty states are expected to participate, printing a newspaper and running a bank and grocery, plus forming a political party system and courts with elections.
Cornelius Shea, said by police to have arrived from Chicago months ago to assist in directing labor actions, was arrested Friday night on charges of stabbing to death Alice Shaw at his West Thirteenth Street home. The victim suffered multiple wounds and both were found covered in blood. Shea made no statement.
Henry H. Rogers, vice president of Standard Oil and key figure in Amalgamated Copper, died at his New York home on May 14 from apoplexy at age 69. He rose from a newsboy and grocery cart driver to one of the nation’s wealthiest men, with a fortune cited between 60 and 75 million dollars. Survived by his widow, four children, and several siblings, Rogers had suffered strokes since 1907 but remained active in business until shortly before his death. He held leadership roles in railroads and the Standard Oil group, shaping major industrial ventures of his era.
Chicago financier Jamey A Patten told the Flour Men's club on Wednesday night that he foresees sustained high wheat prices for a year globally. He said red winter wheat in America will fetch as much next year as current levels, reflecting his outlook on the market.
Magon Villareal and Rivera were convicted in federal court of violating neutrality laws by detailing an armed expedition into Mexico. Judge Dean sentenced each to eighteen months in the territorial prison with no fine after the jury’s unanimous recommendation. An appeal to the supreme court will be pursued to secure a new trial.
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