--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hull, Thomas collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 8 published: 1900-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Thomas Hull, "Events of the Month," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 8 (June 1900): 636–640.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera38unse start_page: 636 end_page: 640 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera38unse publication_year: 1900 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Events of the Month EVENTS OF THE MONTR BY THOMAS HULL, SECRETARY OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF Y. M. M. I. A. April 14th: Census Supervisor Arthur Pratt appoints 157 censustakers, leaving 52 more to name, there being 209 districts in the 27 counties of Utah, the Uintah and Uncompahgre Reservations not included. The census in them will be taken by special Government agents. There were 951 applications for position of enumerator. * * Miss Rose Hartwell of Salt Lake City has had her art work accepted by the Paris Salon. * * * The Paris Exposition was formally opened by President Loubet. 15th: Winston Churchill asserts that 250,000 men will be required * in the Transvaal before the close of the war. President Richard Fry of Morgan Stake died. He was born April 15, 1831, and settled in Morgan, in 1860. 16th: Arbor Day was observed; the state officials planted trees. * * Bishop Thomas Maycock of the Third Ward, Salt Lake City, born in England in January 1832, died. He came to Utah in 1859, and was ordained bishop in 1895. * * * Three men of the 26th Infantry are reported burned at the stake by natives, Island of Panay. 17th: Charles Cooper, who was born in England in 1822, and came to Utah in 1861, and who was a veteran of the Black Hawk war, died in Salt Lake City. * * * The Trans-Mississippi Congress opened at Houston, Texas. * * * Diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey are threatened with rupture. * * Lord Roberts censures Generals Buller and Warren for the defeat at Spion Kop. 18th: Hon. George Q. Cannon was elected Fourth Vice-President of the Trans-Mississippi Congress. * * * It is reported that Generals Buller and Warren have been recalled. 19th: The census of Cuba, just completed under direction of Gen. EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 637 Sanger, shows the total population to be 1,572,797, including 815,205 males and 757,592 females. There are 447,372 white males and 462,- 926 white females of native birth. The foreign whites number 115,- 760 males and 26,458 females. There are 111,898 male negros and 122,- 740 female negroes. The mixed races number 125,500 males and 145,- 305 females. There are 14,694 male and 163 female Chinese. * * The conference of governors of Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Washington, Colorado and Arizona, relating to arid lands, opened in Salt Lake City. Resolutions were adopted against any change in the land system. * * * The base ball season opened in the East between the National and the American leagues. * * The reports of the condition of famine-stricken India are appalling. 20th: The vote of the special Congressional election was canvassed. Total vote cast: 59,354; for King, 31,446; for Hammand, 27,199; for Hamlin, 627. King's majority over all 3,616; plurality over Hammond, 4,247. * * The Trans-Mississippi Congress concludes its 11th session, and adjourns to meet in Cripple Creek, Colorado, in 1901. * * The Burlington Railway engineers completed the survey of that road to Devil's Gate, Weber Canyon. 21st: The delegates to the Ecumenical Council are welcomed by President McKinley, at Carnegie Hall, New York, in behalf of the nation. * The attendance at the Paris exposition averages about one hundred thousand daily, and exhibits are being rapidly arranged, thousands of workmen being employed. 22nd: An indictment was returned against Governor Taylor by the Franklin County, Kentucky, grand jury. * * Advices from Manila report 378 Filipinos killed, 12 officers and 244 men captured during the past week which was next to the bloodiest of the Philippine war. 23rd: Engineer William Konold was killed in a wreck on the Rio Grande Western, at the Salt Lake station. * * The Ogden City Council resolves to offer the Jarvis-Conkling Company $350,000 for the city water-works. * * The Senate Committee on Elections submit a scathing report declaring the election of Senator W. A. Clark, Montana, void. * * Advices from India relate that over a million cattle and numberless human beings have died from starvation. 24th: Charles A. Harper, a pioneer of 1847, and the oldest resident of Big Cottonwood, died at Holliday. * * By a vote of 33 to 32, the senators refused to admit Quay of Pennsylvania to a seat in the Senate, on the appointment of the state governor. 638 IMPROVEMENT ERA. 26th: The Supreme Court of Utah sustains the order of the Salt Lake Board of Education to exclude unvaccinated children from schooL * * A great fire rages in Ottawa and Hull, Canada, destroying fifteen millions of property, and rendering seven thousand people homeless. 27th: The Boers elude the British and succeed in getting out of Wepener. * * Waco, Texas, is visited by a terrific electrical storm, wind and cloudburst; much property and several lives are lost. 28th: The rains in Texas have done damage amounting to nearly five million dollars. Six inches fell in twenty-four hours. 29th: A strong east wind did great damage in Davis and Weber counties, in uprooting trees. * Nine people are killed and forty injured by the falling of a temporary bridge at the Paris Exposition. 30th: Abraham Day, a pioneer of 1847, born in 1817, died at Lawrence, Emery County, Utah. * * The Utah mining dividends paid in April, amount to $227,500. * * A franchise is granted by the City of Ogden to the Salt Lake Valley Railroad, * * Admiral Dewey arrived in Chicago and will be its guest for three days. May 1st: At 10:25 a. m. a most appalling calamity occurred at Winter Quarters, near Scofield, Utah, caused by an explosion in mine No. 4 of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company. Over two hundred lives were lost. * * Six hundred thousand people witnessed the great Dewey parade in Chicago. The Admiral was greeted by thousands. 2nd: Relief funds are being started for the afflicted of Scofield mine horror. Mayor Thompson of Salt Lake appoints a committee. * Twenty American soldiers are reported killed by Filipinos on the island of Samor. * Dewey's Chicago visit concludes with a sail down the big canal. * The General Methodist Conference, Chicago,, decided, after a fight of a hundred years among Methodists, to extend equal representation to the laity, which makes the Methodist Church a democratic body, and causes the rule of the preacher to pass with the century. 3rd: President jMcKinley and President Loubet of France wire messages of sympathy to Governor Wells condoling with the stricken people at Scofield. The school children and women of Salt Lake each sent a car-load of flowers. Governor Wells appointed the following central relief committee: J. T. Hammond, Ezra Thompson,E. W. Wilson, Salt Lake; Lafayette Holbrook, Provo; John Jones, Spanish Fork; 0. G. Kimball and T. J. Parmley, of Scofield. 4th: The Salt Lake City Council passes the franchise for the Salt EVENTS OF THE MONTH. 639 Lake Valley Railroad. * * The Scofield relief fund reaches nearly sixty thousand dollars; the R. G. Western and Pleasant Valley Company contribute $20,000. 5th: Two funeral trains carry victims from Scofield to various parts of the state. Governor Wells appeals to the country for aid for the Scofield afflicted. Funerals of the victims are held in Scofield and other places in the state. This will be known as "Burial Day." * * Gen. Otis sails from Manila; he is succeeded by General McArthur as commander of the division of the Philippines. * * Governor Leary, of Guam, reports the population of the island as 8,861, of which 1,853 are children under seven years. * * Thousands of school children welcome Admiral Dewey in Illinois. 6th: Apostles Grant, Smoot, and Teasdale held memorial services in the meeting house at Scofield. * * Wm. C. Endicott, secretary of war under President Cleveland, died in Boston, aged seventythree years. Lord Roberts is meeting with steady success in his march on Pretoria. 7th: Lead was reduced in price from $4.70 to $4.40 by the smelter trust. * * It is reported that Aguinaldo has joined General Tino in Northern Luzon, and they are preparing to fight. 8th: A naval officer of the United States is reported to have invented a shell which can pierce armor plate like a bullet does wood. * Four people are killed in a railway wreck near Rawlins, Wyo., owing to the fault of a brakeman. * * The street car system in St. Louis is tied up, owing to the strike of three thousand six hundred employees of the Transit Co. The Republican State Convention met in Salt Lake City and 10th. elected Arthur Brown, George Sutherland, Heber M. Wells, Thomas Kearns, of Salt Lake City, C. E. Loose, of Utah County, and Geo. M. Hanson of Weber, delegates to the National Presidential Nomination Convention at Philadelphia. * * The National Populist Convention was held at Sioux Falls, S. D., at which William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, was named for President of the U. S., and Charles A. Towne, of Minnesota, for Vice-President; the Middle-of-the-Road Populists met in Cincinnati and nominated Wharton Barker, Penn., for Presi- dent, and Ignatius Donnelly, Minn., Vice-president. 11th: The Church appropriated $2,500 to the Scofield relief fund which now amounts to $105,836.40 * * Samuel L. Sprague, born Lowell, Mass., March 23, 1843, a conspicuous figure in the 50's and 60's in Utah, died in Salt Lake City. 13th: The British believe that the South African war is practically over. 640 IMPROVEMENT ERA. 14th: Representative King introduces a resolution, providing for the payment to Hon. B. H. Roberts, the sum of $2000. * * General Buller routed the Boers in a severe engagement at Biggarsberg. * * The Methodist General Conference Temperance Committee adopted a resolution deploring the stand taken by President McKinley on the anti-canteen law. 15th: A concert was given in the Tabernacle by musicians of Salt Lake City this evening, attended by over seven thousand people, for the benefit of the Scofield fund, which has now reached $118,397.22. * * Senator W. [A. Clark of Montana resigned his seat in the Senate just as that body was to pass upon his case, and he was immediately appointed by acting Governor A. E. Spriggs to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation. * * Severe fighting is reported from Mafeking, and a Pretoria dispatch reports that it has fallen. General Roberts advance entered Ladybrand. 16th: The Salt Lake City Council passed the Salt Lake Valley Railway franchise, over the mayor's veto. * * Cyrus Sandford, born in Bristol, Vt., December 16, 1813, died in Springville, Utah County, of which place he was a pioneer; John Kienke, born in Germany, April 26, 1831, died in Nephi where he settled in 1852. * * Postmaster Thompson, of Havana, charged with misuse of postal funds, was arrested, and Senator Bacon advocates investigation into management of Cuban affairs. 17th: The Boer peace envoys, who arrived in New York on the 15th, were officially welcomed at the City Hall, by the mayor. * * Geo. Halliday, an early settler of Utah, died in Santaquin aged 77 years. 18th: The third annual gathering of the Utah Mothers Congress opened in the Assmbly Hall, presided over by President Nellie Little. * * W. J. Borem, Sr., born in Illinois, November 30, 1837, a pioneer of Wallsburg, died. * * British forces enter Mafeking, and there is great rejoicing in England over the relief. * * Governor Smith notified Senator Clark that his appointment to the Senate by Lieutenant-Governor Spriggs was tainted by fraud, and hence revoked. The Governor appointed Martin Maginnis.