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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1907
Page
2
Peking reports the Manchu succession as the paramount topic at the summer palace. Analysts deem an heir apparent crucial for dynasty security amid the dowager empress’s influence, illness of the emperor, and fears of anarchist disruption.
The Times reports only four of the eighteen battle line captains will command ships on the Atlantic to Pacific voyage. The Navy plans push younger officers to the fighting line while older captains stay on shore duty. Fourteen of eighteen captains slated for the mission are younger than present commanders.
The first cholera death in Yokohama was a Japanese super cargo aboard the Takasago Maru. The illness likely originated en route between this port and Newchwang. Passengers on the vessel were landed before discovery and the ship and crew are quarantined.
The court denied motions by counsel for Patrick Calhoun and co defendants to set aside and quash bribery indictments. Judges ruled the indictments stand and all defendants excepted. thirty days were given to file a loi of exceptions.
In St Paul district court Judge William Loch opened hearings Tuesday on a temporary injunction sought by Minnesota railroad stockholders. They challenge state efforts to enforce a winter passed commodity rate law and a two cent passenger rate law along with merchandise rates set by the railroad commission last year.
In Goldfield Nevada the Mohawk and Combination mines resume operations after a pact between the Consolidated company and the union. The agreement provides dual lockers for workers, shift clothing changes, and neutral timekeepers and watchmen. It also requires contractors to pay standard wages and hire only regular union members.
Venice official Kamarovsky a Russian colonel and state councilor was shot at his residence on September 5 by Nichol as Naumoff. Naumoff confessed, saying he aimed to settle a dispute with Madame Taxnavoska, who allegedly arranged the murder to obtain the count's $100,000 life insurance.
The Cliff House in San Francisco, a famed tourist attraction, burned Saturday evening. Built about thirty years ago by Adolph Sutro, it was owned by the Sutro estate and valued at 40000 dollars with insured loss pegged at 35000 dollars.
Customs inspectors intercept thirty trunks of French gowns laces and lingerie worth 20000 on the arrival of Mner La Savoie. Most trunks belonged to dressmakers returning from Europe and bore forged or stolen inspection labels.
Edward Barnes died when lightning struck as he rode in a wagon near Hot Springs during a wedding day. A boy companion was found unconscious, and the team of horses lay dead on the road. Guests awaited the groom at the appointed home when Barnes failed to appear and a search led to the tragedy.
A mob of soldiers from the Port Riley farmers school gathered at Junction City Sunday morning to release a comrade jailed locally. Sheriff and city police fired from jail windows, dispersing the crowd. Fort Riley guards helped, two arrests made.
Vancouver rioters attacked Chinktown in the Japanese quarter injuring several and sacking shops. 60 Japanese aboard a steamship faced mob violence as 4,000 laborers surged to the waterfront. Police restored order after many arrests. indemnity discussions with Ottawa followed.
Professor W H Reed of the University of Wyoming reports extensive fossil discoveries in the Eheli'a Hale Acre district Natrona county thirty five miles southwest of Casper. A perfect skull of Utanothelum the extinct calf is among the largest finds. Nearby a beaver skull matches a modern mouse in size, and a complete horse skeleton the size of a fox suggests the equine lineage originated in Wyoming.
Alfred Harrison arrived on the steamer Midnight Sun with news from the Duchess of Bedford Arctic expedition led by Ernest Stefansson. Three members Captain Mikkelson Dane Ernest Leffingwell Chicago J Marks left February with sixty days of provisions for the north land and were missing after seventy days with fears they perished. The Duchess of Bedford likely sunk and a dog team returned informing no further contact.
San Francisco leaders from the board of supervisors and the board of entities plus physicians met Friday to address the plague. They voted to evacuate inmates from the city and county hospital and shelter them elsewhere while contagious cases are moved to other facilities. The board of health and federal representatives will finalize arrangements before deciding the hospital’s future.
Acting Secretary Newberry of the Navy says there is no truth to Shanghai rumors that the United States leased a five year coaling station in Narvik bay. He also dismisses claims of leasing a floating dry dock at Vladivostok as equally absurd, likening it to a canal on Mars.
Washington reports a Newfoundland fishing accord between the United States and Britain. An exchange of notes on the modus vivendi was publicized by Acting Secretary Atlee following Britain's September reply. The terms renew last year’s arrangements and were agreed in London.
In Topeka seven brewing companies agreed Friday to leave Kansas and pay all court costs. They must cover about 400 dollars plus 10 000 dollars to be shared among three receivers. Initially sixteen big firms operated in Kansas, with only four remaining after the action.
Three pocket-pickers aboard the Rock Inland line in Lincoln fought Conductor Henry Duval on the Rocky Mountain limited near Alve station at about 1 AM Friday. After a knife confrontation they jumped from a moving train, fleeing eight miles west of Alve into darkness.
Robert Campbell former general manager of the Utah Ident and Railway company at Salt Lake attempted to cut his throat in a fit of temporary dementia Sunday afternoon. His wife and son Leo stopped him and he is in a precarious condition in the local hospital with doctors hopeful for recovery.
The race between Mayor Tom L. Johnson and Congressman Theodore Burton grows tense with Roosevelt backing Burton rumored to trigger a speech in Cleveland. The Democratic executive committee sets a city convention for September 16 to name a candidate.
A mob in Bellingham Washington drives out Hindu workers amid widespread violence. About seven hundred headed toward Canada and four hundred seek jail protection under guard. Six Hindus hospitalized, 400 frightened Sikhs confined, and police overwhelmed as authorities struggle to restore order overnight.
Sacramento Luther Burbank spoke at the National Irrigation congress about his thornless cactus experiments. He aims to produce a highly nutritious feed with about 200 tons per acre, overcoming nutrition as the only obstacle. He said no secret to plant life and offered to help others.
A 1:45 a m fire destroyed the Hotel Webb three story frame building in Shelton Washington with annex, saloon and shops. Eleven dead with more expected, seventeen injured and several missing as neighbors aided rescues in a town lacking a formal fire department. Loss estimated at 35000 with only 3500 insured.
The Globe reports ongoing discord between King Alfonso and Premier Maura over Morocco policy. Maura plans to push the King aside if the ministry loses confidence, risking a ministerial crisis and a shift to liberal rule. He would deploy 4,000 troops and several warships if intervention sentiment strengthens in Spain.
On Friday the river steamer Trudeau reached New Orleans reporting a mutilated body found at Jamestown, Louisiana. The corpse matches the Lamana boy's description, and Jamestown witnesses saw a large box drift downstream, later hauled ashore containing the dark complexioned man, suggesting foul play.
In Reno a conference among George Wingfield Senator Nixon and Attorney Bryant for Consolidated Mines Co and McKinnon Vice and Hamilton for the Goldfield Miners union reached an agreement to end the Mohawk and Combination mine strike. Both sides expect union ratification and reported good relations at the meeting.
In San Francisco Louis Glass former Pacific Telephone VP was sentenced to five years in San Quentin for bribery involving a $5000 bid to oppose a Home Telephone franchise. The judge cited the defendant’s advanced age and the crime’s effect on institutions as factors. An appeal and bail pending post-judgment motions were noted.
The World reports 400 New York telegraph operators begin seeking dry goods store work as summer ends. Twenty men found other positions and, with the eight hour law starting October 1, 600 rail telegraphers will be hired in 22 states, potentially reducing skilled operators by a third.
Developments in the John J. Phillips murder investigation surged forward as Mrs. Phillips widow of the coal operator broker banker and clubman was taken into custody by Rust Cleveland Chief Stamberger. She had been in a highly nervous state since the tragedy early Monday morning when it was announced her husband had been shot by a burglar.
Franklin Ohio fire chief BO OH Miller shot and killed J H Little after Little eloped with Miller's wife and was returned for trial. Miller then fired twice at Little in the cell, and is now considered a raving maniac under guard.
Fire in a Havemeyer Street tenement cellar injures five firemen, two fatally. While flood water was sprayed from the cellar, a tank of gasoline stored with paint and oils exploded, knocking Kennedy and Smith to the floor.
The Prussian railroad administration offers a reward for the identity of those who wrecked the St Petersburg Berlin express near Strambourg and Reb feldt close to midnight on Wednesday. Eleven people were injured. Suspected to be anarchists or Russian revolutionists hoping to kill a member of the Imperial family aboard the train. The derailment caused several cars to telescope and catch fire.
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